"The Logic of Women"

There’s a television show called “The Logic of Women” (translated…). Six men play in teams of two. Six girls have been placed in teams of two and asked questions. Their reasoning and answers to the questions have been taped. The men are then asked the questions…but they don’t win by answering. They win points by trying to guess how the women answered. Inevitably, the men are slightly older (and generally misogynistic) traditional Georgian men, while the women are young, beautiful, short-dress wearing, cocktail-sipping dolls. Sometimes one of the women has a brain…but usually they aren’t the brightest. The questions are usually things like “Is this a president, actor or clown?” [shown a picture of the Venezuelan president] or “What is this?” [shown a coffee filter]. The teachers at my school don’t like the show because it makes women look stupid. I shouldn’t need to say any more.

But let’s have a bit of fun and think of the variations of the show that could be popular here: city people being asked about village people, young people being asked about old people, old people being asked about old people, Georgians being asked about Turks/Armenians/Azeris, Georgians being asked about Ukrainian and Russian women, maybe Western Europeans being asked about Georgia (or being asked what they know about Georgia…which would be funny for about two episodes and then it would get cancelled for not being nationalistic enough)…

Variations of the show that could be popular in the US? Maybe siblings being asked about siblings or parents about children. Anything else, I’m pretty sure, would draw protest. I hope it would. As interesting as this kind of situation is for someone like me, studying the nature of one group’s stereotypes about another, as public entertainment it comes across as rather offending (and stereotype re-affirming, in this case) (anti-women) propaganda.