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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Siwash, post: 697498, member: 18091&quot;]Male, 46.</p><p><br /></p><p>I used to run tennis tournaments, and while we could find enough men to compete in the various categories, we always had a hard time finding women, since, as we learned:</p><p><br /></p><p>(a) they don&#039;t like their competition to be publicly visible (gave them distant courts);</p><p>(b) there needed to be some sociable aspect (so we gave out chocolate M&amp;Ms);</p><p>(c) didn&#039;t seem to like the definitiveness of it, the definite &quot;Shirley-is-a-better-player-than-Mary&quot; thing that results from competition.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mixers and roundrobins worked much better. In my book, sometimes the genders prefer different things, not that that&#039;s bad or one is better than the other. So it goes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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