Also, in the select a side screen, when you hover over the men's side a mouse runs around the woman's feet and she goes into hysterics. Because small fuzzy animals are TERRIFYING.

I love/hate how this is written up on their website as an "experiment" rather than a "marketing gimmick."

When playing (as a woman at least), your answer is followed by a youtube video showing either a man or a woman doing something supposedly hilariously stupid, depending on whether your anwer was correct or incorrect, usually something car-related. The idea is, of course, that each incorrect answer is a set-back for the person's sex as a whole. Go team! Or something...

TP is a boring game anyway.

The idea of a war between the sexes in the context of a competitive game brings up a pet peeve of mine. Think about it - who has more to lose? If a man loses, he still has all of history (and our current society's male-dominated professions like science and politics) behind him to prove that his failure doesn't signify any real failure of men, as a group. If a woman loses, she's only reinforcing the commonly held belief that while a woman may succeed on an individual level, on a group level women just aren't as smart or interested in knowledge. A man's victory proves the rule; a woman's victory proves that she's an exception.

I believe there's a lot of pressure on a woman in a competitive game of this type to be exceptional, if she's to compete at all, because losing carries greater consequences.

Is it horrible that my first reaction was that the grammar was off in the title of the "game"? It should be "Who's smarter than whom?"

/grammar freak

Upon answering a question correctly, your selected gender's avatar strikes the other with a giant mallet.

It's also interesting to look at the characters themselves, I think: the woman is clearly (maybe even irrationally?!) anxious to win, as evidenced by the number of giant panic triangles emanating from her head.

And, even though this is a battle of wits, they are both positioned in fighting stances. With the man's disproportionately sized shoulders (suggesting upper body strength), and the woman's disproportionately sized ass (suggesting, well, something else), it seems that he's positioned to win the fight.

So, women want it more, but will never get it.

Someone help me figure this out?
I feel like the positioning of the figures is the EXACT same, but somehow, the woman looks fretful while the man looks aggressive (as JT said). They both have stress-triangles emanating from / attacking their heads, they both are lunging forward on one foot, and they both have their arm stumps raised in a fighting stance - but the woman figure looks (to my eyes) as though her arms are raised in a defensive stance.

Upon super close examination, I feel like it might be the square shapes on the man, which include the flatter bottoms of his feet, implying stability. The woman has all round shapes, including the slightly rounded bottoms of her feet, implying instability. Plus, the line of the dress leads backwards to the woman's head, which implies a leaning-back body stance, while the man's body angles forward to the head, implying a leaning-forward stance.

Thoughts on the use of these shapes? Do you think they're just following the traditional men's room/women's room symbols, or do you think the exaggeration of the dress shape and the man's super-shouldered torso imply more?

And just on a trivial level (no pun intended!) I totally decimated the questions in this game... :D

The questions are not particularly well researched to boot. They asked "What did Otto Titzling invent" with the correct answer being the brassiere. I think they should try some basic googling with that one.