I Was Beaten by a Girl/Playing With
Basic Trope: A man is offended when a woman beats him at something.
- Straight: Bob is upset when Alice beats him at arm wrestling
- Exaggerated: Bob is upset when Alice beats him at every sport and game they play together.
- Downplayed: Bob is upset when Alice beats him, but still acts like a good sport and congratulates her.
- Justified: Alice is more skilled or more experienced than Bob at the games they play.
- Bob isn't as physically fit as Alice.
- Inverted: Bob beats Alice at cooking and sewing.
- Alice, member of an Amazon Brigade, is upset when Bob beats her at arm wrestling.
- Subverted: Alice comes close to beating Bob, but Bob comes out on top in the end.
- Double Subverted: Alice reveals that she let Bob win.
- Parodied: Bob is upset that all women can beat him at any sport.
- Zig Zagged: Alice wins some games but Bob wins others, some of which Alice lets him when, but at times Bob lets Alice win, and times where Bob wins on skill alone.
- Averted: A female and a male never compete together.
- A male and female compete together, but the issue of gender is never brought up.
- Enforced: "We need to teach An Aesop that some girls can be good at sports."
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: Charlie always places bets on Alice winning the competitions.
- Defied: Bob trains extra hard so that no one can beat him at anything.
- Or Bob decides there's no reason to be upset just because he was beaten by a girl.
- Discussed: "You ever notice how some guys get so upset over a girl beating them at something?"
- Conversed: "This is the part where Alice humiliates Bob."
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