He Got Game, She Got Defense

Over the weekend, I found a copy of Silicon Valley DeBug lying around my sister's room (it's a 'zine that's written for and by young folks in San Jose). There was an article called He Got Game, She Got Defense about the author's experiences with men and the tactics they use to hit on her and her friends. She got to the point in which she says "I try to do my rejections clean, with male egos intact", and that sparked my interest and I thought she was going to go on and lay it out and say FUCK THAT, I'm sick of male egos!

But she never made that leap or any type of analysis with that, other than telling the funny stories from the "game". After discussing and processing this idea with Mary, I want to explore this for my final video project. Expanding on Ghose's idea of the "game" and "conquest" to how men and women play the game in heterosexual and queer relationships because women play the game just as well too, but in different ways (I certainly played it). The game is fun, but are we all just playing the game because males were the ones that took the lead in it (overtly that is), and thus we all played the game too because it's all part of the "norm" now? Is the "game" just another "mating ritual", a mating game that's played by all other animals in the kingdom? A game that monkeys play just to mate?

I want to explore this with males, females, in heterosexual and queer relationships. So I just need to develop questions and a direction for my video, since it's only really 10-12 minutes.