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{{quote|''"No I won't calm down. [[Hypocritical Humor|Women are allowed to get angrier than men about double standards]]."''
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* [[Abuse Is Okay When It Is Female On Male]], [[Armor-Piercing Slap]]: In fictionland, women are weak and ineffectual. Consequently, women can inflict physical violence to men all they want, it [[Played for Laughs|can't be that serious]]. And if it is, it's "justified" since women are morally superior, hence use violence more wisely than men. As for psychological abuse, it doesn't count since it's [[What Measure Is a Non-Badass?|Unmanly]] for a man to have feelings aside from fury and [[A Real Man Is a Killer|urges to kill]].
* [[All Abusers Are Male]]: Companion to [[Double Standard Rape (Female on Male)]], [[Abuse Is Okay When It Is Female On Male]], and [[Double Standard Rape (Female on Female)]]. This trope specifically refers to shows that deal with or address abuse (or even try to educate people about it) and either imply or openly state that only men are capable of committing this act. Sometimes this carries the implication that all men are abusers, but other times it simply implies that women are above reproach and men have to work much harder to avoid default [[Complete Monster]] status.
* [[All Gays Are Promiscuous]]: The homosexual version of [[All Men Are Perverts]]. But while female sexuality in the absence of men is a [[Selective Squick|beautiful, chaste thing]] and lesbians are portrayed as [[Women Are Wiser|loving]] and [[All Lesbians Want Kids|maternal]], male sexuality in the absence of women is [[All Men Are Perverts|sexually predatory and insatiable]]. Add in some AIDS and the story becomes a metaphor for how male sexuality in the absence of women is not only dirty and filthy but [[Bury Your Gays|lethal]]. One disturbing [[Unfortunate Implications|Unfortunate Implication]] of this trope is that [[Double Standard Rape (Male on Male)|gay men can't be raped by other men]].
* [[All Men Are Perverts]]: No man is able to keep it in his pants. Male sexuality is often portrayed as "dirty", "stupid" and "demeaning to women". In contrast, female sexuality is "beautiful," "exciting," and she's "exploring her femininity," "taking charge of her fulfillment," "asserting her sexual power against male repression" etc.-- unless it's benefiting a man, in which case it's "exploitative and objectifying of women;" some feminists even go so far as to claim that men only ''want'' sex with women, solely in order to degrade and control them. (And likewise, this isn't considered "hate-speech.")
** Statutory Rape is perhaps the most infamous example of this type of double-standard; when a female teacher or other older woman seduces a student or other under-age male, it's typically trivialized, dismissed or laughed at; but if the genders are reversed, he's typically called a "child-rapist" or "pedophile" even if the girl is old enough to ''marry'' him under state law (which would make it ''hebephilia or ephebophilia'' at worst-- ''not'' pedophilia).
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* [[Wouldn't Hit a Girl]]: Women can hit men but men can't hit women. Women are too weak to be hit; [[Men Are the Expendable Gender]]. [[Abuse Is Okay When It Is Female On Male]] while a Woman hitting a Man is rarely ever seen this way.
== Sexist against
* [[Abduction Is Love]]: An [[Always Female]] kidnapping is love scenario.
* [[All Amazons Want Hercules]], [[Best Her to Bed Her]], [[No Guy Wants an Amazon]]: Strong women can only find their fulfillment with stronger men.
* [[All Lesbians Want Kids]]: A so-called [[Truth in Television]] that is, in many or even most cases, just not true at all. But enforced many times and often focusing mainly on [[Did Not Do the Research|the difficulty of finding a semen donor]], who invariably turns out to be a straight man. Usually stems from the fact that [[Most Writers Are Male|Most Writers Are Straight Males]] and have only a limited understanding (sometimes coloured by [[Fetish Fuel|unrealistic]] [[Girl-On-Girl Is Hot|fantasy]]) of how [[
* [[All Women Are Lustful]]: Should normally be the [[Distaff Counterpart]] to [[All Men Are Perverts]] but is currently a [[Forgotten Trope]] that is almost never used, almost never played straight and almost never treated as negatively as the male version. Since women have no sexual potency, today's female wantonness is either seen as good service for males, or as a positive emancipation.
* [[All Women Are Prudes]]: Replaces [[All Women Are Lustful]] in all modern fiction. Women have absolutely no sex drive and do not want, desire, or even ''enjoy'' sex whatsoever. They only have sex with men to get men to marry them, do/buy stuff for them, or to [[Babies Make Everything Better|get pregnant]]. Having no sex drive also means pulling off a [[Lysistrata Gambit]] is cakewalk to them.
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* [[Faux Action Girl]]: She supposedly kicks ass but we never get to see her doing it. Similar ''in theory'' to [[Miles Gloriosus]], but in practice the latter boasts of his own prowess and his shortcomings are entirely due to his ego and cowardice, while the former is shilled by her compatriots and her inadequacy in combat carries the implicit message that a woman is too weak and too emotional to fight.
* [[Feminine Women Can Cook]]: Home cooking is the quintessence of femininity. In the real world, however, professional cooking had only very recently began to open its doors to women. That women are by and large considered to be too weak, both mentally and physically, to handle the professional kitchen is still shockingly prevalent despite the recent emergence of female celebrity chefs. Nevertheless, especially in anime, a feminine woman who can't cook is regularly treated as though there is something seriously wrong with her (although in [[Lethal Chef|some cases]] this can be probably true) and often ''entire episodes'' are dedicated to her learning to do so, usually so she can make something nice for her [[Love Interest]].
* [[Fille Fatale]] and [[Kidanova]]: Both tropes are about underage characters who seduce others, but one is generally seen as bad while the other isn't. To quote [[User:Looney Toons]] in [[Topic:Wj3jclzpasz0mj6h|this discussion]], "a precocious girl is damaged or a danger, a precocious boy is to be celebrated."
* [[GIRL]]: How many males get this much scrutiny over their gender?
* [[Girl of the Week]]: An [[Always Female]] [[Shallow Love Interest]] that often ends up [[Stuffed in The Fridge]].
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* [[God Save Us From the Queen]]: Women in positions of power are usually portrayed as shrill, PMS-ing, [[Manipulative Bitch]]es or all-along incompetent rulers.
* [[Heir Club for Men]]: Justified by historical accuracy in period dramas, but still completely [[Truth in Television]] in many places.
* [[Hollywood Pudgy]] + [[Hollywood Homely]]: In Hollywood, women - especially White women - have to fit in a very strict standard of beauty. Merely ordinary looks, never mind actual ugliness, are the ultimate no-no and women who don't fit these patterns '''that almost always need plastic surgery to exist''' will have a limited career and elicit a less than positive reaction from the (male) audience. Hence, most actresses in Hollywood look strangely the same. Unattractive men, on the other hand, have virtually no limitations in these regards and can have a successful career, no matter what they look like. Honestly, how many female equivalents of Woody Allen, Mike Myers, Jack Black, Edward James Olmos, Joe Pesci or Danny De Vito can you think of? (On the other hand, most of the above male actors are pigeonholed into comedic roles. Basically, ugly men are funny and ugly women don't exist.) All of which constitutes an [[Unfortunate Implications|Unfortunate Implication]] that there is nothing more important to a woman than physical appearance and that men are allowed to be much shallower about their standards than women.
* [[Hysterical Woman]]: Holds that women must be more temperamental and neurotic than men, and therefore less capable, simply because they are women.
* [[Kavorka Man]]: The female equivalent doesn't exist in the media. In [[Real Life]], ugly or plain-looking women who manage to score are viewed with suspicion at best, with disgust most times.
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* [[Double Standard Rape (Female on Female)]]: An extremely insulting one—a) Women are so weak they just '''''can't''''' harm anyone seriously, NOT EVEN OTHER WOMEN b) Lesbian sex is [[Girl-On-Girl Is Hot|sexy]] but doesn't count as "true" sex because [[Anatomically-Impossible Sex|all sex is penetrative]] else [[Unfortunate Implications|it's just foreplay thus nothing to complain about]]. c) Dismissing this trope as unappealing passes off as [[Selective Squick]].
* [[Really Gets Around]]: As usual with sexual activity, if it's a man, he's expected to be promiscuous and admired if he is. If it's a woman, she's just a slut.
* [[Real Women Don't Wear Dresses]]: To many fans, it's '''''impossible''''' to be strong/[[
** Note that the trope deals with women displaying femininity always being negative characters, not with the fact of ''wearing a dress/skirt to fight'' which is another matter.
* [[Ryona]]: Fan-made videos that fetishize violence dealt to women in fighting and survival games. The phenomenon carries many [[Unfortunate Implications]] and marks a particularly sadistic brand of [[He-Man Woman Hater|misogyny]]. Related to [[Stuffed Into the Fridge]] and [[Monster Misogyny]].
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* [[All Guys Want Cheerleaders]]: Cheerleaders are dumb, cruel and shallow by default, and if you like one of them, you'll never appreciate real good women. Implies that men think only with their [[All Men Are Perverts|penises]] and therefore would choose an attractive, but abusive woman over a less attractive but sweet one. .
* [[Amusing Injuries]]: Women are free to inflict comedic violence with impunity, especially against men, but injuries inflicted by men are rarely comedic, ''especially'' if they're inflicted on women. This is sexist against men in that it limits the roles male characters are allowed to take, but it's also sexist against women in that it carries a subtext that women are weak, and incapable of inflicting serious injuries.
* [[Bastard Boyfriend]]: And related tropes. Women are depicted being abused by their boyfriends to titillate the audience. Even more disturbing, this trope shows up mostly in media made ''by'' women ''for'' women and is very popular in the [[Boys Love]]. Not only does it carry the [[Unfortunate Implications|Unfortunate Implication]] that women, and by extension homosexual men, are inherently masochistic and if they're not they should be, but it also raises other questions such as: why do women think so poorly of men? or Is [[Love Martyr]]dom the sole way to greatness for women and gay men?
** Be it this trope, or Bitch Girlfriend, there is also the danger of [[Misaimed Fandom|unittingly encouraging]] people to blow slight relationship problems way out of proportion and treat them as cases of the significant other displaying consciously hurtful, controlling or neglectful behavior.
* [[Be a Whore to Get Your Man]]: Modest, decent women never get the guy unless they start dressing and acting like wanton skanks. Because [[All Men Are Perverts]].
* [[Beast and Beauty]]: ...and many other subtropes thereof, having a woman that must be hot and a man hat must be fugly.
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* [[Girl-On-Girl Is Hot]]: But boy on boy is [[Squick]] (though [[Ho Yay]] can occasionally] [[Guy-On-Guy Is Hot|result]]) and an actual lesbian relationship is likely to be viewed with contempt, as a woman is only supposed to be happy with a man in her life.
* [[Girl Show Ghetto]]: Implies that shows made for girls are inferior and should only be watched by girls. This also has a little homophobia in the implication that any men who watch said shows are gay, and that is bad.
* [[High Heel Face Turn]]: Due to the [[Women Are Wiser]] rule, evil women are usually portrayed as more redeemable than evil men. Or as just too naïve, indecisive and emotional to choose their path by themselves and thus need to follow a man. And this possibility of redemption is almost always [[Beauty Equals Goodness|proportional to the woman's attractiveness]]; ie if she's unattractive she's
* [[Hormone-Addled Teenager]]: One of the worst offenders of this section. Upon entering adolescence, nevermind the typical uneasiness that most teenagers experience with their changing bodies, girls will automatically turn into shallow skanks, whose major goal is to look like sluts and be with a boy so they can be complete. Boys automatically turn into lecherous perverts whose main purpose will be to prove their masculinity by losing their virginity and acting boorish. And if they don't fit in these two categories, something is wrong with them.
* [[Hot for Student]]: It is acceptable for an authoritative adult, be male or female, to desire sex with minors; the minors should thank their luck instead of even thinking they were taken advantage of, as long as said authoritative adult is attractive. This applies more to female teacher/male student than vice versa.
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* [[House Husband]]: A woman who chooses to stay at home and raise the kids is making a noble choice to be there for her family. A man who ''chooses'' to do this is merely a loser who can't find work.
* [[The Ingenue]] and [[Man Child]]: Both describe adults with a childlike demeanor, but the former (female) has been considered a wholesome archetype for much of literature; and the latter (male) usually has negative connotations and is probably on its own less famous than [[Psychopathic Manchild|its villainous subtrope]] (and although the [[Psychopathic Manchild]] trope is in practice gender-neutral, said characters are most likely to be male as can be seen from its mere ''name...''). Because it's okay or even desirable for women to be [[Moe Moe|naive, childish, and in need of protection]], but men are fully expected to be mature and take care of themselves or there's something seriously wrong with them!
* [[Love Martyr]]: Almost [[Always Female]] and insidiously related to [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]] and [[Sexy Sadist]]. Carries the [[Unfortunate Implications|Unfortunate Implication]] that women's only acceptable way to greatness and character depth is to remain faithful to an [[Jerkass|assholish]] and violent boyfriend and endure the abuse quietly, no matter how horrible it may be, so as to become the ultimate [[Woobie]]. And the rare men who apply to [[Love Martyr]]dom are almost always seen as deluded, weak-willed and pathetic [[What Measure Is a Non-Badass?|pansies]].
* [[Male Gaze]]: Focusing the camera on a woman's body, sometimes to the literal exclusion of her face, to define her by her physical appeal first and foremost. Comparable shots for men are likely to cause [[Selective Squick|much whining]] from male viewers. However, note that [[Male Gaze]] is only sexist if it's meant to be the audience's view. If it is a POV shot, it's characterization.
* [[Mary Sue]]: The threshold for
* [[Measuring the Marigolds]]: Not in itself but most examples of soulless scientists who wish to deconstruct beautiful things so as to suck the beauty out of them are male. Why? Because [[Women Are Wiser]] thus [[Mother Nature, Father Science|only they can properly appreciate the simple joys of life and the spirit of nature]], whereas men are much too assholish to see beauty in anything.
* [[Millionaire Playboy]] and [[Rich Bitch]]: Both are filthy rich and fear not to display it. But the latter has much more negative connotations associated with it than the former and, obviously, is much more likely to be female, whereas the former is always male. (Unless the guy is also a [[Jerk Jock]]. Then he'll be the type to flaunt his cash and be completely stupid, but his dad will buy off the authorities whenever he does anything horrible.)
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* [[Yamato Nadeshiko]]: If the story makes a point of treating this as the ''only'' ideal behavior for a woman, it's sexist.
* [[Yandere]]: Relates to [[Stalker with a Crush]] above, and goes two ways: female Yandere are more common than male ones, but the female ones are less likely to be taken completely seriously, and are more often found in works with a semi-comedic tone, whereas male Yandere are nearly always found in serious drama. It is perhaps interesting to note that according to theory, the [[Yandere]] (or Yanderekko) may have started as a [[Deconstructed Trope|Deconstruction]] of some of the more stereotypical and impractical aspects of the [[Yamato Nadeshiko]] archetype (i.e., that women must always put their love first, etc.)
* [[Yaoi Fangirl]]: Media and viewers often depict them as [[Squee|shrill, brainless teenagers]] [[Draco in Leather Pants|drooling over the villains]] [[Ho Yay|and seeing subtext where there probably isn't any]]. If said "girls" are actually adult women enjoying man-on-man action, they are seen as utterly abnormal. Guys who think [[Girl-On-Girl Is Hot]] are considered much more "normal," [[All Men Are Perverts|though that in itself says something about perceived social norms]].
== Non-Gender related / Other ==
* [[Accentuate the Negative]]: Cynicism is seen as "intelligent" or "mature", whereas being positive all the time is seen as "stupid", "immature", or "gay". Negativity is also funny to watch.
* [[Acceptable Targets]]: Those that are considered to be an "Acceptable Target" are more vilified if they do something wrong than those that aren't if they do something wrong...even if those that aren't Acceptable Targets [[Not So Different|were/are just as bad...if not worse]]. While this definitely applies to Gender roles, it also apply to all sorts of other issues as well such as Race, Religion, Nationality, to even things such as fanbases and more. One could go on forever, but it's best to just check that article and/or this article for examples and explanations.
* [[Acceptable Hobby Targets]]: Just about any given die hard fandom of anything are often stereotyped as anti-social losers... unless it involves sports. [[Terry Pratchett]]
* There are some exceptions though, such as those who play fantasy sports, fans of "[[Americans Hate Soccer|That Other Football]]" (ex. an American Football fan in Britain or a Soccer fan in America), and teams that have a really long championship drought; such as Chicago Cubs fans, but even they aren't as lambasted as other [[Acceptable Hobby Targets|fandoms]].
* [[Animation Age Ghetto]]: Teenagers and Adults who admit to watching animation tend to be looked down upon in society from those that don't. While there are exceptions, animation titles are usually "supposed to be" avoided like the plague.
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* [[Mega Corp]]: Related to [[Hypocritical Fandom]] above, corporations are perceived differently largely due to how long we've been using their products and what we're ''told'' to think of them by others. In the [[Computer Wars]] and the [[Console Wars]] for example, [[Microsoft]] is the evil empire, and Bill Gates is [[Satan]] incarnate, while other corporations -- [[Sony]], [[Nintendo]], [[Apple]], [[Google]] etc. -- can be just as shifty and underhanded in their quest for your money without being subjected to such vehement opposition and criticism.
* On a different note; but still related to [[Mega Corp]], political views of Mega Corporations. Since a lot of people (Primarily right-winged libertarians) seem to think that only governments can screw you over; ignoring of course that [[Mega Corp]]s can screw you over ''just as much'' for yours and other peoples' money if given the shot.
* [[Me Love You Long Time]] and [[Where Da White Women At?]]: Interracial relationships are
* [[Missing White Woman Syndrome]]: Obviously.
* [[New Media Are Evil]]: If someone does something stupid/rash, blame is often placed on the "New Media" they enjoyed or the new communication method, whereas any mention of how they used any old media (like the telephone) to plot a murder or cyberbully someone into suicide is given a nice [[Hand Wave]].
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