Stereotyping the whole human population, I’m going to go ahead and throw this out there: Boys and girls enjoy different things.  Girls like to shop, talk, and follow pop culture.  Guys like action, sports, and games.  There isn’t all that much overlap and since the dawn of time, guys and girls have been searching for ways to do things together where one side or the other isn’t going to die of boredom.  

No, Christina, I don’t care who <insert random athlete here> is engaged to.  But you don’t care about that amazing play he made last week either so why don’t we agree not to discuss either one?  

– if only it was that easy…

One of the areas where we have been able to come to some sort of agreement is on our regular board game nights.   I feel board games are usually more suited toward guys who appreciate “defeating” his opponent in a match of sorts but the games we tend to settle on are more crowd-pleasing, party-oriented games than the ones I would have otherwise chosen.   I think this perpetual effort to get girls involved in board games, and thus something guys will enjoy as well, is what led to the creation of Battle of the Sexes.

If the goal of any game was to put guys “in their place” and pump up girls interest in gaming, this was the game.  Battle of the Sexes is the most ridiculously unbalanced game I’ve ever come across.   The nature of the game is simply that guys must answer questions about “girlie” things while girls answer questions about “guy” things.  However the disparity between the difficulty and details of the questions is absurd.  Guys simply do not stand a chance but if they’re looking for something to play that will make their significant other feel better, this is the game.