Save me from baby shower hell!

Our family is throwing a baby shower for my brother and sister-in-law on Sunday and my mom keeps calling me with yet another mind-numbingly infantilizing game she’s found with names like “guess that baby food,” “the poopy diaper game” or (god forbid) “pin the binky on the baby.”  I haven’t been to many baby showers, but my “I’m not a feminist!” mother has schooled me in the fine art of such nauseating estrogen fests.  Apparently the men — assuming there are any — will retire to the basement whereupon they will commence drinking beer, playing pool, talking smack and watching the Bengals lose on my brother’s 60-inch flat screen HDTV while the women will gush over hegemonic genderizing gifts and play ridiculous shower games all in the guise of some universally shared matriarchal longing.

I despise football, but it’s enough to make even me a fan.

So, dear readers, please lend your help in saving me from baby shower hell this weekend.  Does anyone have any feminist-friendly baby shower games or activities to suggest?  Know of any ways to keep the alkaline estrogen on the down low and methods to encourage the guys to emerge from the man cave?  And in regards to the larger picture, are all-women baby showers empowering or do they just reinforce traditional gender roles?