Battle of the Sexes

Values: Social Justice

Materials needed: Laptop with PowerPoint to attach to a projector. Note cards. Cost: n/a Publicity: One huge poster that has a blue face facing a pink face (imagine the
picture that is a vase or two faces illusion) This huge poster can go in the lobby to display for the event. Closer to the event put on doors the flyers that are a half sheet of paper which have the random facts/assumptions about the different genders. Additional paper size flyers can be displayed along the resident hall. Below are the additional paper sized flyer, as well as the random fact sheet. Fact sheets: Print these out on blue and pink paper. One per residents door. Below is the facts/assumptions that can be edited or changed to appeal to your floor.

Lets Get to the Truth! Battle of The Sexes Which Sex is truly better? What is really going on in their minds? Did he/she really just say that? Wednesday September 14th 8pm Rex Classroom 1. According to Playboy, more women talk dirty during sex than men. 2. Women do NOT want an honest answer to the question, How do I look? 3. A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesnt give her coffee. 4. It is illegal to be a prostitute in Siena, Italy, if your name is Mary. 5. Women do NOT want an honest answer to the question, Is that girl good looking? 6. The two highest IQs ever recorded (on a standard test) both belong to women. 7. Sex is more physical for men and more emotional for women. 8. Its okay for women to dance with each other and not be gay, You dont see straight men dancing together. 9. The first naked man women see is Ken. 10. Women are never wrong. Apologizing is the mans responsibility. 11. When a woman answers, Im fine, after a few seconds, she is not fine. 12. The average number of items in a typical womans bathroom is 437. A man would not be able to identify most of these items.

13. If a man goes on a seven-day trip, hell pack five days worth of clothes and will wear some things twice; if a woman goes on a seven-day trip shell pack 21 outfits because she doesnt know what shell feel like wearing each day. 14. Its cool to be a daddys girl. Its sad to be a mommys boy. 15. Women can have partners that are years younger without being called dirty old perverts.

Posters for Hall: Make an additional large creative advertisement for the main lobby.

Intentionality: Residents go head to head in a battle of the sexes styled

jeopardy game. The game is set up as male vs. female. Residents will learn the difference between sex and gender. The entire game is framed, as a battle between the sexes, however, there is no winner to the actual competition because all of the questions and activities were based upon gender. In the discussion that follows the event, you can discuss that sex is the biological difference between male and female, and how gender is how a person performs masculinity and femininity and how a person identifies themselves. It is important to emphasize that gender is a social construct. Residents can submit questions they may have prior to the event and incorporate them into the PowerPoint game.

How to: Begin the program with the first PowerPoint file, which has just some
quirky differences between males and females. These are just conversation starters. Have the PowerPoint on loop while residents begin coming to the event. This PowerPoint is simply background information and entertainment. Once all residents are in attendance, begin with the Jeopardy PowerPoint. There are five categories. Dialogues are different scenes that each team has to act out. Definitions are simply that, definitions of words the other gender uses. Questions are about the opposite gender. They said what are phrases that the opposite gender uses. These four categories are answered about the other gender. The etiquette category is behaviors used by a certain gender, and that gender must explain them. For example, the male team picks a male m$100. They then must explain the why men behave the way they do with regards to that specific etiquette question. The boxes are labeled with a money amount, as well as M,F,or Q. M boxes are for males only to select. F boxes are

for the females to select. Q boxes are questions that both sexes can select. Once all the boxes have been used up, then go to the final jeopardy section and begin the explanation of what the game was truly about: the difference between sex and gender. Feel free to go into discussion about any other questions the residents may have. To access the program, have the residents answer the question what is the difference between sex and gender. Also, have the residents answer the question what did you learn about he opposite gender, or even your own gender. These can be put on a note card for the residents to answer and turn in.