It's a longtime stereotype that the men control the remotes...but is it real? Do people actual "fight" over the remote?

My husband can't see the numbers well, his fingers are farmer-big, and he has an aversion to all things electronic...BUT! He has discovered the mute button (what we call the shutter-upper). He holds the remote because he mutes the commercials!

When it's time to change the channel, either he hands me the remote or, if I'm out of the room, he gets up and changes channels on the satellite receiver. No biggie.

He gets to choose what we watch. That's because I like everything he likes (as opposed to the other way around) so whatever he selects is fine with me. Once in a while we go back and forth: "I don't care, what do YOU want to watch?"

How does it work at your house?