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This rather vague phrase leads to tricky interpretation that's sometimes actively milked by the writers usually of romance fiction. Usually the assumption is that the character doesn't like machismo, or she has bad luck with men in her life, like her father or other relatives. That is, traits associated with men manifest into a dislike of men as a whole. This can pose a problem for any male lead trying to woo her, meaning it takes much longer than suspected to win her over. As with all dislike tropes, the degree to which a particular character [[Does Not Like Men]] varies, from simple dislike to outright hatred.
Generally, the author portrays the [[Women Are Wiser|woman in question sympathetically]], and [[The Unfair Sex|vilifies whatever man]] drove her to hate the rest of his gender. The Spear Counterpart likewise is most commonly seen in romance fiction, where the male hero has had some bad past experience with women (either [[Mommy Issues|his]] [[My Beloved Smother|mother]] or a [[The First Cut Is the Deepest|faithless lover]]) and blames the entire gender - until the heroine comes along to change his worldview. Outside of a romance, an adult male who does not like women can be painted [[He
Other times it's just [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshading]] to explain why a character isn't even seen with guys ([[Improbably Female Cast|not even offscreen]]), to entice shippers, or just to extend the possibilities of romantic entanglement you can put into a story. It's frequent that eventually one character comments on this and takes it in its [[Schoolgirl Lesbians|most literal interpretation]]. Conversely, [[Bifauxnen]] and 'mundane' lesbian characters never seem to use this trope.
Compare [[Celibate Hero]], [[Licensed Sexist]] and [[Straw Feminist]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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** One of the [[Omake|DVD extras]] makes fun of this, when the neighboring boys' school is allowed to do a version of the show's opening credits until Sachiko arrives in a conniption fit and the girls scramble to change the scenery.
** [[Huge Schoolgirl|Kanako]] is also the same way. If anything, her fear of men is even worse than Sachiko's.
* Akane Tendo from ''[[Ranma
{{quote| '''Nabiki:''' "Well... you hate boys, don't you?"<br />
'''Kasumi:''' "So you're in luck! [[Gender Bender|He's half girl!]]" }}
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** Unlike most examples on the page, Kaede's situation is played entirely for laughs, and when Hata asks her how many men have wronged her in her life, she claims no such things ever happened to her.
* Soi Fon from [[Bleach]] seems to dislike men. Given her outspoken distaste for Urahara, her abuse and blatant irritability towards her lieutenant Omaeda, and the fact that the only person in the universe that she isn't unpleasant towards is a woman, she may very well be uninterested in them.
** Tia Halibel also exemplifies this, although in her case it's justified. The only men she knows well are [[Magnificent Bastard|Aizen]], [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder|Gin]], [[Knight Templar|Tousen]], [[A God Am I|Barragan]], [[Four Is Death|Ulquiorra]], [[He
* Mariko Shinobu of ''[[Oniisama E]]'' really, ''really'' distrusts and dislikes men. {{spoiler|Blame it on her parents's... really screwed-up relationship and later divorce.}}
* The protagonist of ''Houou Gakuen Misoragumi'' is a [[Butch Lesbian]] who [[Does Not Like Men]].. Which is bad new since her mom sent her to an All-Boys school full of [[Bishonen]] boys, to see if she would become straight (or at least Bisexual).
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Dr. Luisa Mercedes "Lu" Delgado from ''Strong Medicine''. She often treats the men in her life (no matter if they're her love interests or not) ''real'' bad whether they're jerks or not, and that turns even worse after [[Rape As Drama|she's raped by a colleague]] and becomes a borderline [[Straw Feminist]].
* Emma Kennedy, Stacie's [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]] in season 5 of ''[[Hustle]]'', tells Mickey she doesn't date, due to some bad experiences with men. Which doesn't stop there being a [[Will They or Won't They?]] ''by the end of that episode''.
* The part about this being more sympathetic than men who hate women was brutally deconstructed in an episode of ''[[Law and Order (TV)|Law and Order]]''. A clearly sociopathic eleven-year-old girl (Doctor Skoda, the on-hand criminal psychologist, describes her as "a serial killer that you caught before she really got going") gets off on torturing and murdering boys younger than she is. The judge lets her off easy anyway because of this trope and the episode ends with the girl very creepily staring at another boy, clearly imagining torturing and murdering him.
* Played with in an episode of ''[[Law and Order Special Victims Unit]]''. A lesbian rights (not gay rights, but ''lesbian rights'') activist is initially this trope in all its hateful, bitchy glory. Later on we find that this is partially to cover for her being secretly bisexual. She gets a lot better once accepting her attraction to men and women.
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== [[Mythology]] ==
* [[Classical Mythology|Artemis]] ''really'' [[Does Not Like Men]]. As in, the idea of ''meeting'' a man (''non''-sexually) repels her. There were other virgin goddesses in Classical Myth, most notably Athena and Hestia, but none quite so extreme as this (Athena in fact has several ''male'' favourites like Odysseus making her a straight forward aversion.)
** [[Depending On the Writer|Depending on the myth,]] this is very variable. She was, after all, either very close friends or even in love with Orion, the mighty hunter, though that didn't end well. Also, Artemis was very close with her twin brother, Apollo, and she was also [[
** Actually, most of the time you come across one of these characters in Greek mythology she will either be under Artemis' protection or Aphrodite will help some enterprising young hero [[Defrosting Ice Queen|teach her otherwise]].
** The Amazons are a [[Planet of Hats|whole race]] of misandrists.
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** Susan seemed fairly open to befriending men. Before she accepts the opportunity to turn herself into a man, she writes in her journal that she's at odds between her father's behavior (which she was raised being told by her mother that was normal for men) and the knowledge that Elliot and Tedd were decent people in their own ways.
* One of the initial defining traits of Kate on ''[[Misfile (Webcomic)|Misfile]]'' is that she can't stand to have any guy claim to be the best on any track she races. She's raced and beat every man to make such a claim ever since her sister was killed in a racing accident caused by chauvinistic male drivers.
* In ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'', Gwynn tends to be like this. She's turned the [[Groin Attack]] into an art form and puts jerk guys into headlocks as a conditioned response. In fact, this trope is the one thing both [[Good Angel, Bad Angel|her good side and her evil side]] can agree on.
* Yuki appears to be like this in ''[[Ménage à 3]]''. Admittedly she has some good reason to dislike Gary personally, but even before he got handcuffed to her she responded with attempted violence to something he was doing which was technically her fault. (She had knocked him to the floor and accidentally ended up straddling his head, and her response was to accuse him of "violating me with his nasty nasal boy parts".)
** After seeing his drawings and discovering that he liked the non tentacle-rape-hentai manga of her father, she became MUCH more friendly... Though she's only just stopped referring to him as "Violator-san".
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