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Author Carrie Butler: A Girl With a Gun

8/25/2014

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We are continuing our Squishing Gender-Stereotypes Program with a guest post by author Carrie Butler. As you may know, my novel Fierce released on 8/14/14. Fierce is a contemporary sports fiction with romance elements, focused on mixed martial arts (MMA). You can read more on Fierce HERE
To celebrate the release, I'm hosting some awesome interviews and guests posts that look at women in male-dominated areas, gender-stereotypes, and, truly, people with passion.


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My name is Carrie, and I’m addicted to targets.

No, no... not Target. I like the big box retailer as much as the next girl, but I’m talking about the things you aim projectiles at. (What can I say? I’m goal-oriented.)

Targets give us what life doesn’t—clarity. There’s no second-guessing as to whether or not you’re getting better, and success is easy to identify. It’s all laid out in colorful rings before you. Plus, they act as great stress relievers. Had a bad day at work? Go drill a zombie cut-out for an hour. You’ll feel better! ;)

But seriously, there’s a reason I don’t broadcast my interests very often. Being a woman in a male-dominated activity comes with unique challenges and assumptions. Here are five of the most ugh-worthy:

5. Now that The Hunger Games is popular, doing archery automatically gets you accused of playing Katniss—even if you’ve been shooting for years.

4. Telling someone you like to throw knives earns you a suggestion to dress up like <insert objectified lady assassin character here>, because “it would be hot”.

3. You can’t say, “I like to blow darts” without someone raising a suggestive eyebrow.

2. When a guy walks into a gun store, he’s treated like a buddy—an equal; when you walk into a gun store, you’re shown small caliber revolvers with pink grips and warned not to point them at anyone.

1. Guys can go pee while concealed carrying with no problem; you have to hold your gun(s) whilst on the toilet and pray no one glances through the stall crack!

Yeah, that last one is gross, but true. Think about it the next time you’re at the mall and have to pee. LOL

Anyway, at the end of the day, I like what I like. I’m not going to let people’s comments keep me from enjoying it. How about you? :)

Question:

What’s something you do that’s dominated by the opposite sex?


Carrie Butler is the author of the Mark Of Nexus Series (paranormal NA!), Co-founder of NA Alley and owner of Forward Authority (Design Services).

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Note from LG: Thanks, Carrie, for stopping by and helping celebrate Fierce's release!
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21 Comments
Carrie Butler link
8/25/2014 03:03:36 am

Thanks for having me over! It was fun. :)

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Melissa Neff link
8/25/2014 07:23:05 am

LOL Love it! :D

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S. J. Pajonas link
8/25/2014 10:02:16 am

I'm trying to think about what I do that's dominated by men. Watching English soccer? Hmmm. And I don't even think of myself as a girly girl. Carrie, I really want to learn to shoot a gun! Lol. You're my hero.

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Carrie Butler link
8/25/2014 02:12:37 pm

Sounds like a great excuse for a writing/shooting retreat! :D

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jen greyson
8/25/2014 10:17:37 am

My absolutely favorite birthday was when we spent the entire day in the mountains shooting weapons. My personal fav is my Mossberg shotgun with a pistol grip.

Gurlz rule!

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Carrie Butler link
8/25/2014 02:30:20 pm

Now that is my kind of birthday, Jen! :D

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L.G. Kelso
8/25/2014 11:18:11 am

Ooh! Glad to see we have some gun-shooting ladies around here!

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L.G. Kelso
8/25/2014 11:19:10 am

I bet Carrie would teach you! You know, if you ever get to her neck of the woods

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L.G. Kelso
8/25/2014 11:19:35 am

Thanks for reading! :)

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L.G. Kelso
8/25/2014 11:19:46 am

<3

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LK Lewis
8/25/2014 01:55:21 pm

I love to shoot! We have an awesome gun club in our little northern michigan town, where I like to take my 20 gauge (yes, I own my own shot gun) and do the sporting clay range. I've taken a few girlfriends over the years, but have found that the boys are more likely to come when I extend the invite to join.

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Carrie Butler link
8/26/2014 05:01:23 am

If only we could flip Michigan and Ohio around so our two corners were closer!

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Kelly link
8/25/2014 11:05:52 pm

Bwahahaha, loved it!!!

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L.G. Kelso
8/25/2014 11:09:00 pm

:) thanks for reading!

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L.G. Kelso
8/25/2014 11:09:27 pm

Heck yes! Let's do it!

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L.G. Kelso
8/25/2014 11:09:59 pm

That's awesome!

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PK Hrezo link
8/26/2014 12:56:08 am

LOL! Too funny, Carrie. I love that weapons are your thing. I can imagine it's a huge stress reliever to fire one. I've never been into using weapons (altho I have some fancy knives for show) but I've always been a tomboy and grew up with 2 brothers so I was usually the only girl playing survival games in the hood. For me now, I'd have to say writing sci-fi. It's a male dominated genre for the most part, altho there have been some very successful women authors too, not nearly as many as men, and women authors seem to be more prevalent in the YA sci-fi cat.

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Carrie Butler link
8/26/2014 05:44:50 pm

I hadn't thought about sci-fi, either! That's a great addition, PK. :) Maybe we'll convince you to give target-based recreation a try someday. We can start with the blow darts and work our way up!

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L.G. Kelso
8/26/2014 01:21:21 am

PK, that is an excellent point about Sci-fi. I hadn't thought of that!
I'm a tomboy as well, and grew up with brothers also.

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Andrew Patterson link
9/11/2014 05:11:12 am

LOVE this list. I totally understand how frustrating that can be. Know a lot of women who are gamers who get grief like this.

I'm librarian. Librarians are like 80% women. Granted, women are not stupid like men are when dealing with someone in their "territory". Although, I did work with a woman who hated men and therefore me for no reason. That was frustrating at times.

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Carrie Butler link
9/15/2014 01:53:00 pm

Oh yes. I always get asked if I'm a real woman on games. Sometimes I tell them I'm a 300 lb. male prisoner as punishment. :P

How could someone possibly hate Andrew Patterson? Nonsense!

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