Margaret, I think it goes deeper than that. It may be an assertion of dominence! It comes from the evolutionary processes we are trying to overcome in our civilized society. Males dominate and females submit. Remember it has not been very long since we started to realize that is the wrong attitude. We have millions of years of evolution fighting against a few decades of human rights.

So, as I see it, when they ask for your guitar, the fore part of their thinking is just that they want to borrow a guitar. Deeper down, without thinking about it, it just seems right to take one from a woman.

That is the thing we have to fight. It is the non-thinking decisions we all have to be aware of and try to avoid. I am just as guilty as most of us. It takes constant vigilance. Not easy but necessary.