We had an adults party last night and played this. Its a kind of trivia game but based on gender things. For the ladies the categories were usually around shopping, makeup, clothes, cooking, exercise, womens health, chick movies, and popular womens authors. For the men it was sports, guns, cars, guy flicks, and surprisingly alot of military history questions.
You can go to this site for some preview questions.
The game is fun and really opens ones eyes up to what interests the other gender has. I honestly didnt know women did not know the most popular size of shotgun, names of popular WW2 German tanks, or what 1980’s basketball team was called “The Express”. for guys, I had no idea what a LBD was, what popular names of womens clothes were, or what movies Meryl Streep was in.
Anyone else ever tried it?
Only problem is you can quickly run out of questions.
I got 5/5 on that test, and got You’re both a man’s man and a woman’s man: mainly, a manly womanly man. Probably should have taken a dive on a couple questions…
In my defense, I have no idea what an LBD was. ETA: OK, neither does my wife. What is it?
Exactly. And apparently at a very pop-culture, superficial level.
Sports, TV, clothing, fashion, personal grooming vernacular. Meh.
Superficial AND sexist. Yay!
I cant remember exactly how it was worded but something along the lines of "Name a popular line of women leather items where the logo is centered around the letter “C”? Hint - its normally associated with high end purses.
The WW2 tank question: Which of the following doesnt belong?
a. Blitzkreig
b. Panther
c. Tiger
d. Panzer
Another war related:
Which of the following doesnt belong?
a. Chancelorville
b. Cowpens
c. Spotselvania
d. Vicksburg
Another war related:
Which of the following doesnt belong?
a. Coral Sea
b. Leyte Gulf
c. El Alemain
d. Wake Island
I picked “cuff” because cuffs usually refer to the folded cloth on the wrist of a long sleeved dressy shirt, and the others were generally made of metal.
Apparently a “cuff” is a type of ear accessory, and the correct answer was “bangle” because it goes on the wrist. Would your average heavily stereotyped woman really jump to “cuff” in the sense of an earring before thinking of the part of a shirt? I honestly am having trouble even searching for cuff in the jewelry sense without explicitly putting “earring” to narrow down the search. Hell, “cuff bracelets” are a thing, y’know?
Granted, unless you’re on Sesame Street, “one of these things is not like the others” questions are almost universally terrible. Because, y’know, maybe the answer should have been “stud” because that’s a type of male horse used for breeding!
My first thought was Lizzie Bennet’s Diary which is often abbreviated LBD, but then I figured it would be little black dress.
I’ve played Battle of the Sexes before and it’s a fine cocktail sort of board game – low stress and easy to set up and play, especially if people there resist something a bit less gimmicky like Trivial Pursuit, but it’s horribly boring for anyone who’s at all outside standard gender norms.
4/5 for the men->woman quiz.
1/5 for the woman->man quiz.
I call bullshit on the woman one I got wrong (posted above), and I kind of made an educated guess on the guy one I got right (it was a question about what part of an airplane controls the roll, and I got by knowing what “roll” meant from the context of 3D math, and guessing which part of the plane PROBABLY caused that rotation).
