Girly?

So I'm planning a bridal shower and trying to come up with games. Let me first of all tell you that I absolutely HATE shower games! They are the most ridiculous mix of awkward and cutesy... its just sickening. That much being said... I found a couple that seem more random instead of awkward and more clever than cutesy... hopefully I am not a disappointment to the whole world of women out there. (then again... like I really care!!)

But interestingly enough, my family and I were in the kitchen at my parents house the other day (where all good discussions happen. No really, they do. Brain food in easy access, lounging against, or on counters or chairs, or doing dishes. The philosophy just flows). Anywho...
My dad made the interesting observation that when ladies get together in formal groups they play games. Strangely it seems that guys don't do this. With the exclusion of a sport game, it seems that they are hardcore and just plunge into whatever it is that they are supposed to be doing. I, of course, did not know that was what they did, having never been invited to a men's retreat (I can't imagine why! sexist little people!).
What it is it about ladies that makes us feel that we must have some sort of social ice-breaker type thing before we get down to business? Are we ladies really that guarded that we have to break down and feel comfortable by being silly before we can be real?
Anyway, I thought it was a strangely interesting and slightly bemusing factoid.

Guess I had better go get busy planning my stupid (newly discovered "girly") bridal shower games. *sigh*