What do you call it?  Male Chauvanism? Guns N Roses?

In Wayanad, in Kerala; I have a problem with monkeys destroying my crops which forced me eventually to take some action.

It was then that I decided to buy an air gun that made a lot of noise to frighten the monkeys away, but not really harm them in any way.

So, off I went to Calicut in Kerala to buy an air gun.
As I entered the shop, there was this group of men, most of them bearded and severe looking. They looked at me, and then looked away. I was surprised. No greeting.
Why greet a woman? She has come to the wrong place.
I gently, coughed to make my presence felt. Only, then, one of the men stared at me arrogantly and asked whether I had lost my way or something.
"No," I said rather timidly. "I have come to buy an air gun".
One of the men said: "I bet she has never held a gun in her life!" rather rudely in Malayalam.
I let it go.
Quietly, I pointed at a rather nice looking gun kept in the show case. He took it out and told me it's one of his best and the costliest. I said: "Ok"
He took it out and and placed a pellet in it. Then, rather grandly, he kept another pellet a few feet away on the ground and shot it accurately. "boom"
He beamed, I beamed at him. I said: Good, good.
Then he said: if you can hit a pellet on the ground like I did, i will give this gun free.
I laughed, he laughed and we said nothing.
Now, the men in the shop were very interested. All of them crowded around me and kept watching me.
The shop owner placed a pellet on the ground and gave the gun to me.
With no expression on my face, I took the gun, inserted a pellet and shot the pellet on the ground. "boom"
There was pin drop silence and next all the men were clapping their hands.
The owner of the shop came up to me and shook my hand and apolgized.
To wind up the story, no he did not give the gun free but sold it to me at a reasonable price.
So much for male chauvinism!
boom! boom!