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'''4: [[Take That]] [[Decade Dissonance|'50s]] [[Housewife]]'''
In modern sitcoms it's part of a [[Positive Discrimination|bigger discrediting]] of the more sexist characteristics of the 50's Sitcom Wife. The stereotypical '90s Sitcom wife is blunt, closer-to-Earth, [[Maternally Challenged]], and Can't Cook, a complete subversion of the stereotypical '50s Sitcom Wife, who is endearing, motherly, always in the kitchen, and essentially seems to only be there to complement her equally stereotypical Sitcom Dad husband. The subversion works in some places but has eventually [[You Say Girl Like a Bad Thing|become a stereotype in itself]].
'''5: The [[Brainless Beauty]]'''
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== Anime ==
* In ''[[Ranma ½|[[Ranma
** It's also hinted that Nabiki Tendo can't cook, and can't be bothered to try, preferring extremely expensive takeout instead. Since she is described as lacking a maiden's heart, the [[Unfortunate Implications]] of the first version of this trope seem to be out in the open.
** And of course, Ranma is also able to cook at least basic meals, despite being a boy who hates being cursed to turn into a girl. His mother (unaware that the redheaded girl is the same person as her son) once compliments "her" cooking and immediately follows up with "You'll make a wonderful wife!" simply because of this skill. Needless to say, Ranma was not amused.
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** Could be due to their personality. Riku is more hardworking and responsible, Risa is more spoiled and childish (she gets better in the manga though).
* Aoba in ''[[Cross Game]]'' is the Tomboy category, while her feminine sister Wakaba can cook quite well
* Inverted in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]''. Nanoha, Fate, and Hayate, who are independent, [[Person of Mass Destruction|highly destructive]] [[Action Girl|Action Girls]] [[Good
** Justified since Nanoha's parents own a bakery and she's been helping around household chores from season 1, while Hayate used to be a [[Social Services Does Not Exist|crippled girl living on her own]], and the first episodes of A's shows her cooking, ''while in wheelchairs''. Fate, meanwhile, is revealed in [[Comic Book Adaptation|one of the manga chapters]] to have been taught how to cook by Linith, Precia's [[Catgirl]] familiar who raised her before the events of ''Nanoha''.
** Shamal often helps Hayate with the cooking, and in the first A's Sound Stage, Hayate notes that she's getting better at it.
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* Film ''Always''. Air-traffic controller Dorinda Durston wants to have a man over for dinner. She has to buy a pre-cooked meal and pretends that she prepared it herself.
* Lara Croft in ''[[Lara Croft: Tomb Raider|Tomb Raider]]'' (the movie) even screws up reheating a ready meal in a microwave.
* Eowyn in Peter Jackson's ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|Lord of the Rings]]'' is shown to be a horrible cook by Aragorn's wordless expression when she attempts to make stew for him (matching at least two trope variants, since Eowyn is not at all happy in a medieval woman's role ''and'' she has an unrequited crush on Aragorn). It probably helps that she's highborn, so she probably has servants for cooking, and she's traveling with minimal equipment.
== Literature ==
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== Webcomics ==
* Marsha from ''[[College Roomies from Hell]]'' massively subverts this. While she can have some pretty big [[Yandere (disambiguation)]] qualities, she's generally considered the most cute and feminine of the female cast. Her cuteness even borders on supernatural levels, with her "manga eyes" able to entrance almost any male, and small furry animals constantly following her due to her Snow White Syndrome. She also comes from a family of chefs and wants to be one herself. Despite all this, her cooking is considered slightly more toxic than toxic waste itself.
** Yanderes can usually cook well (since they're often subversions of the [[Yamato Nadeshiko]] type), so I think that makes this even more of a subversion.
* Tedd in ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' can cook -- but only when [[Gender Bender|he's a woman]]. His explanation is initially "because I'm hot" (and the comment on this background is "She's so hot, it helps her cook!"). [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2006-07-28 Later] he reasons that he only has to cook for himself when his dad isn't around, which is also when he turns himself into a girl, so he has accidently conditioned himself to feel more confident cooking in female form.
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