[Vampyr]

gnasher, on 2012-June-05, 09:49, said:

None of us actually care

"Caring" might be putting too fine a point on it, but as a woman, you do notice things like this. Another example is always asking the male half of a mixed partnership what the auction meant.

[mycroft]

I do notice that while not all the people who "care" are female, all the people that state this "isn't important", "don't care",... are male.

"I have no idea what that means", said Tom, in privileged communication.

[FrancesHinden]

Vampyr, on 2012-June-05, 20:17, said:

"Caring" might be putting too fine a point on it, but as a woman, you do notice things like this. Another example is always asking the male half of a mixed partnership what the auction meant.

I hadn't noticed anything like this (nor your other example) until seeing this thread.
Mind you, when I was at university it took my supervision partner (male) to point out to me that our supervisor (teacher) never asked me a question but only ever spoke to him.
I'm with gnasher: I really don't care. But I do find it somewhat amusing.

[barmar]

Over the weekend a couple I normally only see at NABCs was visiting town, and I was giving them a driving tour of my town. They saw a church with "All are welcome here" on its sign, and they (a gay couple) were impressed, while I'd never realized its significance until they remarked on it.

And now this has me wondering what happens at gay tournaments -- are scorers biased towards handing the BM to the "top"?

[bluejak]

FrancesHinden, on 2012-June-04, 15:35, said:

The man never gave it to the woman to check except for when we played Bluejak, who has also been reading this thread, and insisted his female partner should do it.

Nothing to do with the thread, of course. My female partner likes to do the checking, so of course I see no reason why I should.

When I played against Frances but was North first I had to wrest the BM away from her to do the scoring and then I gave it to her to check - but with the obvious grin!