Not meaning to offend[B][/B]

[bendyfoot]

Here's an interesting exercise for people who think it would be easy to keep your sexual orientation out of an average everyday conversation.

For the purposes of the exercise, if you are female, pretend you are in a live-together, long-term relationship with another female, whose name is, say, Elizabeth.

Now, answer the following questions (which would come up in a normal conversation), without giving away the fact that your partner is a female.

1. So what did you on the weekend?

2. What does your partner do for a living?


You MIGHT be able to get away with the first question, by being really vague (or if your partner was out of town or you don't spend any time together ) vague, but if you can answer the second question without playing the "Pronoun Game", I'll be impressed.

Any number of off-shooting questions from the first two could make it even harder. The Pronoun Game is a hard one to win.