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== Specific Examples ==
=== [[Film]] ===
* The reality tv show ''[[Survivor]]'' generally has this during the course of a season, with women often just laying around in bikinis looking pretty while the men of the tribe are often shown chopping wood or helping out around camp. There are of course exceptions to this too. ▼
* A common criticism of the movie ''[[Scott Pilgrim vs. the World]]'' is Ramona's blandness, especially compared to other female characters in the story. Incredibly, she can ''rollerblade through dreams'', but plot-wise this is only significant as the way Scott [[Boy Meets Girl|first sees her]]. For the rest of the movie, her most impressive powers are her [[Action Girl|fighting skills]] (which [[World of Badass|aren't unique]] by any means) and her [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|frequent hair-dyeing]]. The audience is simply supposed to accept that she is worthy of [[Engagement Challenge|all the trouble Scott goes through to date her]]. This [[Deconstructed Trope|could be a commentary]] on how both [[Not So Different|Scott
** Played straight and subverted with Russell's "Dumb Girl Alliance" - Russell used the women purely to pad out his numbers, assuming they would see him as a protecter and let him do all the strategizing. Of course, [[Lady Macbeth|Parvati]] eventually took advantage of that and outwitted him. ▼
* ''[[The Phantom Menace]]'' is an inversion of this, but by the time ''[[Star Wars]]'' gets to ''[[Revenge of the Sith]]'' it's all about how Anakin turns into Darth Vader while Padme is merely his pregnant wife who dies of a broken heart.▼
** It's worth noting that he used this exact same strategy to get to the final Tribal Council. ''Twice.'' And that most of the women in his alliance (and his tribe in general) were [[Too Dumb to Live]].▼
* At the end of of the movie, ''[[Hancock]]'' is saving the world while {{spoiler|his superhero wife Mary is content to live as a mortal with a mortal husband.}}▼
* ''[[Sleeping Beauty (Disney film)|Sleeping Beauty]]'' has Prince Phillip who faces a fire breathing dragon to save Princess Aurora while she lies asleep looking beautiful. A number of other [[Disney]] movies have the genders reversed but this is the one with most [[Fairy Tale Motifs]], knight, princess, castle, dragon, and king.▼
** Also interestingly inverted in that Prince Phillip is technically the hero, but the fairies do most of the work.▼
=== [[Literature]] ===
* A common criticism of ''[[The Railway Series]]'' was that most of the female characters were coaches, while all of the male characters were engines (meaning that the females were incapable of doing anything unless they were being towed along by a male.)
=== [[Live-Action TV]] ===
▲* The reality tv show ''[[Survivor]]'' generally has this during the course of a season, with women often just laying around in bikinis looking pretty while the men of the tribe are often shown chopping wood or helping out around camp. There are of course exceptions to this too.
▲** Played straight and subverted with Russell's "Dumb Girl Alliance" - Russell used the women purely to pad out his numbers, assuming they would see him as a
▲** It's worth noting that he used this exact same strategy to get to the final Tribal Council. ''Twice.'' And that most of the women in his alliance (and his tribe in general) were [[Too Dumb to Live]].
* River Tam from ''[[Firefly]]'' is is the prime example of a [[MacGuffin Girl]], while her older, slightly less genius brother is charged with [[Big Brother Instinct|protecting]], [[The Caretaker|care taking]], and [[Butt Monkey|enduring most of Mal's flack]]. River is said to be a super genius with infinite potential, but because of some rather unsavory experiments performed [[Mind Rape|against her will]], she's more sought after as a weapon than an outlaw.▼
* In ''[[Law
=== Toys ===
* An interesting example is the latest{{when}} release of ''[[Halo: Combat Evolved]]'' action figures. The Master Chief figure has twenty-six points of articulation. The Cortana action figure released in the same wave? ''Zero''. She's got that cocked-hip thing going on, though (see the page pic).▼
** This is fairly common with action figures, because the articulation messes up the lines of the body. Frequently, the non-sexy characters ([[Male Gaze|read - male characters]]) in a figure line have plenty of articulation, but the sexy characters ([[Men Are Strong, Women Are Pretty|read - female characters]]) will have significantly fewer points of articulation, often only having a few arm joints and nothing else, or outright being a statue.▼
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* In-universe example in ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]''. Rocko, Filbert, and Heiffer put together an animated cartoon called "Wacky Delly", and each one makes a character. Rocko's contribution is Betty Baloney, whose character concept is "She's a girl!"▼
=== [[Real Life]] ===
* In the 2008 US presidential election, Hilary Clinton's clothing and appearance got a ''lot'' more attention than that of the male candidates.
** Conversely [[A Real Man Is a Killer|a male politician's military service record receives a great deal more attention than a female politician's]].
*** Now that disabled veteran Tammy Duckworth is running against famously handsome incumbent Joe Walsh in the Illinois 8th, it should be fun to see how this works out.
** [[Sarah Palin]] also had some controversy surrounding her wardrobe, but people were actually worried she looked ''too'' good and some said she was spending too much money on her clothes.
▲* River Tam from ''[[Firefly]]'' is is the prime example of a [[MacGuffin Girl]], while her older, slightly less genius brother is charged with [[Big Brother Instinct|protecting]], [[The Caretaker|care taking]], and [[Butt Monkey|enduring most of Mal's flack]]. River is said to be a super genius with infinite potential, but because of some rather unsavory experiments performed [[Mind Rape|against her will]], she's more sought after as a weapon than an outlaw.
▲* A common criticism of the movie ''[[Scott Pilgrim vs. the World]]'' is Ramona's blandness, especially compared to other female characters in the story. Incredibly, she can ''rollerblade through dreams'', but plot-wise this is only significant as the way Scott [[Boy Meets Girl|first sees her]]. For the rest of the movie, her most impressive powers are her [[Action Girl|fighting skills]] (which [[World of Badass|aren't unique]] by any means) and her [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|frequent hair-dyeing]]. The audience is simply supposed to accept that she is worthy of [[Engagement Challenge|all the trouble Scott goes through to date her]]. This [[Deconstructed Trope|could be a commentary]] on how both [[Not So Different|Scott]] ''[[Not So Different|and]]'' [[Not So Different|Ramona]] [[Casanova|treat the opposite sex as objects]].
▲* An interesting example is the latest release of ''[[Halo: Combat Evolved]]'' action figures. The Master Chief figure has twenty-six points of articulation. The Cortana action figure released in the same wave? ''Zero''. She's got that cocked-hip thing going on, though (see the page pic).
▲** This is fairly common with action figures, because the articulation messes up the lines of the body. Frequently, the non-sexy characters ([[Male Gaze|read - male characters]]) in a figure line have plenty of articulation, but the sexy characters ([[Men Are Strong, Women Are Pretty|read - female characters]]) will have significantly fewer points of articulation, often only having a few arm joints and nothing else, or outright being a statue.
▲* In ''[[Law and Order Special Victims Unit]]'', Det. Elliot Stabler is a devoted father of four and his partner Det. Olivia Benson is the product of rape. On the job he has rage for the perp and she has empathy for the victims.
▲* ''[[The Phantom Menace]]'' is an inversion of this, but by the time ''[[Star Wars]]'' gets to ''[[Revenge of the Sith]]'' it's all about how Anakin turns into Darth Vader while Padme is merely his pregnant wife who dies of a broken heart.
▲* At the end of of the movie, ''[[Hancock]]'' is saving the world while {{spoiler|his superhero wife Mary is content to live as a mortal with a mortal husband.}}
▲* In-universe example in ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]''. Rocko, Filbert, and Heiffer put together an animated cartoon called "Wacky Delly", and each one makes a character. Rocko's contribution is Betty Baloney, whose character concept is "She's a girl!"
▲* ''[[Sleeping Beauty (Disney film)|Sleeping Beauty]]'' has Prince Phillip who faces a fire breathing dragon to save Princess Aurora while she lies asleep looking beautiful. A number of other [[Disney]] movies have the genders reversed but this is the one with most [[Fairy Tale Motifs]], knight, princess, castle, dragon, and king.
▲** Also interestingly inverted in that Prince Phillip is technically the hero, but the fairies do most of the work.
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