The Chicago Tribune has a remarkably neutral article about women taking up shooting for self-defense and sport.  They do however, open with this statement:

When 18-year-old Sara Garbarz walks into a shooting range, she often gets mistaken for a spectator. When she begins to load her 12-gauge shotgun, she is sometimes taunted by men who don't expect to see a woman with a firearm.

Most articles about women and guns go out of their way to try to paint men incumbent in the sport as misanthropic rednecks and misogynists.  In this article, the woman her self is quoted about comments she has received at the range.  In my experience though, those kinds of comments are the rare exception and most men in the gun community are very supportive of and encouraging to women who take up shooting for whatever reason.  The only occasion I have seen such comments, they were offered in a good natured, friendly ribbing sort of way much like guys tend to give one another.

Women in the community focus on the positive support and encouragement they have received and realize that reporters who ask such leading questions are just looking for ammo to paint men in the community as a bunch of good old boys' in the he-man-woman-hater-club.