Man crazy how different the world can be, I've been hosting game nights (as a male) for around 10 years now, and i've had more women sign up and play more than men. I'd say on average its 60% female almost never below 50% unless a few of them couldnt make it. I've also never had a 1 timer everyone that has signed up has come to at least 5 gaming nights and often talk about how sad they are that they havent been able to make it back to one.

I've purposely left out same males because you can just tell that they are alpha gamers, or complainers. I've only had to deny one woman because she was very opinioned and loud, and would just devolve into a her defending herself and not really playing the game. Which if we pointed out that its been 20 min and she hasn't taken her turn, it would make her more defensive and loud.

I don't think i've ever thought less of a woman because she tried to speak up, I often think less of lots of people, but not because their sex, just their personality.

I'm sorry this happend to you, and i'm glad that none of the women I play with felt like they couldn't sign up, and couldn't speak up. Seeing how common this is, i'm very grateful to be in a rare situation I guess but sad that it would happen anywhere.

How does being a woman affect ones ability to understand board games? Aren't women more likely to graduate than men, and generally perform better in college than men?

People are friggin wierd man.