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== [[Theater]] ==
* Beatrice and Katherine, in ''[[Much Ado About Nothing]]'' and ''[[The Taming of the Shrew]]'' respectively, are notorious man-haters. Although Beatrice is not so much a "Man Hater" as a "Benedick Hater."
** Katherine, the titular shrew in [[Shakespeare]]'s ''Taming of the Shrew'' (and Kat in its update, ''[[
*** In ''[[Kiss Me Kate]]'', the character even gets a musical number called "I Hate Men".
*** Of course, how ''much'' Katherine hates men depends on the adaptation. The play itself implies that Katherine is actually a bit jealous of Bianca for having so many suitors, at one point accusing her father of favoring Bianca by having her marry first (and tying Bianca up and whipping her for not choosing a favorite suitor). In the Richard Burton adaptation, this is reinforced by having Katherine roll in a bale of cotton while happily laughing after Petruchio shows interest in her.
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