Gender and Sexuality Tropes

''All about gender and sexual identity. For romance, see Love Tropes. For eroticism and sexual behavior, see Sex Tropes.'' For tropes that bend gender lines, see Gender Blending Tropes.

Tropes
Categories:
 * Always Female
 * Always Male
 * Bisexuality Tropes
 * Boys Love Tropes
 * Gender Dynamics Index
 * Double Standard
 * Kissing Tropes
 * Love Tropes
 * Queer As Tropes
 * Sex Tropes
 * Gender Blending Tropes
 * Unisex Tropes


 * Adaptational Sexuality
 * Acceptable Feminine Goals
 * Affirmative Action Girl
 * All Abusers Are Male
 * All Lesbians Want Kids
 * All the Good Men Are Gay
 * All Women are Doms, All Men are Subs
 * All Women Are Lustful
 * All Women Are Prudes
 * Anything That Moves
 * Asexuality
 * Badass Gay
 * The Beard
 * Beauty Is Never Tarnished
 * Best Woman
 * Big Beautiful Man
 * Big Beautiful Woman
 * Bi the Way
 * Body Sushi
 * Boyfriend Bluff
 * The Bro Code
 * Bros Before Hoes
 * Bury Your Gays
 * But Not Too Bi
 * But Not Too Gay
 * Cast Full of Pretty Boys
 * Category Traitor (The Gender Traitor variant)
 * The Chick
 * Chickification
 * Coming Out Story
 * Coming Straight Story
 * Common Hollywood Sex Traits
 * Crotch Grab Sex Check
 * Cure Your Gays
 * Date My Avatar
 * Discount Lesbians
 * Dismissed Gender
 * Does Not Like Men
 * Double Standard Abuse (Female On Male)
 * Dude Looks Like a Lady
 * Lady Looks Like a Dude
 * Effeminate Misogynistic Guy
 * Entitled to Have You
 * Ephebophile
 * Eternal Sexual Freedom
 * The European Carry All
 * Even the Girls Want Her
 * Even the Guys Want Him
 * Everyone Is Bi
 * Everyone Is Gay
 * Everybody Is Single
 * Everybody Wants the Hermaphrodite
 * Experimented in College
 * Extra Y, Extra Violent
 * Extreme Omnisexual
 * Fag Hag
 * Fairy Sexy
 * Fan Yay
 * Faux Yay
 * Faux Action Girl
 * Favors for The Sexy
 * Female Gaze
 * FemBot
 * Femininity Failure
 * Never a Self-Made Woman
 * Feminist Fantasy
 * Females Are More Innocent
 * Fetish Fuel
 * Flamboyant Gay
 * Final Girl
 * Game Favored Gender
 * Gayborhood
 * Gayngster
 * Gay Option
 * Gay Panic
 * Gender Equal Ensemble
 * Gender Equals Breed
 * Gender Incompetence
 * Gender Is No Object
 * Gender Rarity Value
 * Gender Restricted Ability
 * Gender Reveal
 * Gender Scoff
 * Gendercide
 * Get Back in The Closet
 * Girls Are Really Scared of Horror Movies
 * Girls Have Cooties
 * Girls Need Role Models
 * Girliness Upgrade
 * Girl Powered
 * Guys Are Slobs
 * Harmless Lady Disguise
 * Has Two Mommies
 * Have I Mentioned I Am Gay?
 * Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?
 * He-Man Woman Hater
 * Heteronormative Crusader
 * Hide Your Lesbians
 * High Heel Face Turn
 * Ho Yay
 * Foe Yay
 * Homosexual Reproduction
 * If It's You It's Okay
 * I Have Boobs - You Must Obey!
 * I'm a Man, I Can't Help It
 * Improbably-Female Cast
 * Incest Subtext
 * Incompatible Orientation
 * The Ladette
 * Lady Land
 * Last Het Romance
 * Les Yay
 * Lesbian Cop
 * Lesbian Jock
 * Lesbian Vampire
 * Licensed Sexist
 * Madonna-Whore Complex
 * Magical Queer
 * Male Gaze
 * Male-to-Female Universal Adaptor
 * A Man Is Always Eager
 * A Man Is Not a Virgin
 * Mars and Venus Gender Contrast
 * Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy
 * Masculine Lines Feminine Curves
 * Matriarchy
 * Matriarchy in Name Only
 * Men Act, Women Are
 * Men Are Better Than Women
 * Men Are Generic, Women Are Special
 * Men Are Strong, Women Are Pretty
 * Men Are the Expendable Gender
 * Men Are Uncultured
 * Menstrual Menace
 * Mistaken for Gay
 * Mono-Gender Monsters
 * More Deadly Than the Male
 * Most Fanfic Writers Are Girls
 * Most Gamers Are Male
 * Most Writers Are Male
 * Mother Nature, Father Science
 * Moustache De Plume
 * My Girl Is Not a Slut
 * Nature Adores a Virgin
 * Never a Self-Made Woman
 * Nipple-and-Dimed
 * No Biological Sex
 * No Bisexuals
 * Nobody Over 50 Is Gay
 * No Heterosexual Sex Allowed
 * No Periods, Period
 * No Woman's Land
 * Not That There's Anything Wrong With That
 * One-Gender Race
 * Pale Females, Dark Males
 * Paralyzing Fear of Sexuality
 * Pass Fail
 * Pet Homosexual
 * Pink Girl, Blue Boy
 * Pride Parade
 * Property of Love
 * Psycho Lesbian
 * Purely Aesthetic Gender
 * Queer People Are Funny
 * Questionable Consent
 * Quickly-Demoted Woman
 * Race Fetish
 * Raging Stiffie
 * Raised As the Opposite Gender
 * Raised By Dudes
 * Rape and Switch
 * A Real Man Is a Killer
 * Real Men Eat Meat
 * Real Men Hate Affection
 * Real Men Hate Sugar
 * Real Women Don't Wear Dresses
 * Real Women Have Curves
 * Secondary Sexual Characteristics
 * Sensual Slavs
 * Settled for Gay
 * Sex Bot
 * Sexist Used Car Salesman
 * Sissy Villain
 * Sitch Sexuality
 * Single-Target Sexuality
 * Sliding Scale of Gender Inequality
 * Slut Shaming
 * The Smurfette Principle
 * Some of My Best Friends Are X
 * Something's Different About You Now
 * Sour Prudes
 * Stay in The Kitchen
 * Stereotype Reaction Gag
 * Stop Being Stereotypical
 * Suddenly Sexuality
 * Sweeps Week Lesbian Kiss
 * Sympathetic Adulterer
 * Tampon Run
 * Ten With a Two
 * Territorial Smurfette
 * Tertiary Sexual Characteristics
 * There Are No Girls On the Internet
 * Threesome Subtext
 * Token Lesbian
 * Totally Eighteen
 * Transparent Closet
 * The Unfair Sex
 * Two Girls to A Team
 * Urban Legend Love Life
 * Vanity Is Feminine
 * Where Everybody Knows Your Flame
 * Which Restroom Dilemma
 * White Male Lead
 * Women Are Delicate
 * Women Are Wiser
 * Women's Mysteries
 * Wondrous Ladies' Room
 * Wrong Genetic Sex
 * Xenafication
 * Your Normal Is Our Taboo