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[[File:grant bored at the ballet.jpg|link=An Affair to Remember|frame|Any surprise who in this couple is bored?]]
{{quote|''Don't send flowers''▼
''Or take showers''▼
''But I'll be there to pull your weeds, oh yeah''▼
''I don't read books''▼
''I don't French cook''▼
''Or stroll around in galleries''▼
''I hate [[opera]]''▼
''[[Take That|I hate]] [[The Oprah Winfrey Show|Oprah]]''
|'''[[Alice Cooper]]''', "Fantasy Man"}}
You've [[Seen It a Million Times]], primarily in [[Sitcom
▲{{quote|''Don't send flowers
▲Or take showers
▲But I'll be there to pull your weeds, oh yeah
▲I don't read books
▲I don't French cook
▲Or stroll around in galleries
▲I hate opera
▲Don't fill my head with poetry''|[[Alice Cooper]], ''Fantasy Man''}}
▲You've [[Seen It a Million Times]], primarily in [[Sitcom|Sit Coms]]: Men absolutely [[At the Opera Tonight|loathe opera, classical music, visual arts, and books]]. But they LOOOOOVE sports. If they don't act in this manner, there's either something wrong with them or they're [[Camp Gay]]. Never mind that virtually all [[Opera]] and classical music - and most literary books - [[Most Writers Are Male|were written by men]] specifically as manly diversions, those things aren't manly!
This is one of the many ways that the [[Grande Dame]] will make life an utter ''Damnation de Faust'' for her [[Henpecked Husband]].
Compare [[Men Don't Cry]], [[Women Are Wiser]], [[Mars and Venus Gender Contrast]]. Contrast [[Real Men Wear Pink]]. When [[Guys Are Slobs|the man is a slob]], this trope is almost always included also, but the opposite isn't always true.
{{examples}}
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Protagonist Train Heartnet from ''[[Black Cat (manga)|Black Cat]]''. He pretty much only lives for fighting and bounties. He's unable to get through even the index page of a book, and ''hates'' fancy [[Dances and Balls]]. He is, of course, the complete opposite of [[Big Bad]] Creed, who is [[Wicked Cultured]]. And [[Ambiguously Gay]].
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Subverted in a story in the furry ''Beatrix Farmer'' series. When Beatrix, a cute bunny femme, is moving into her cat friend's apartment, she is surprised when her coquettish friend enlists the aid of several handsome males to help them. Although Beatrix doesn't care for the idea of being suddenly surrounded by strange men apparently being old fashioned chivalrous, things improve when she breaks out her massive book collection and finds to her delight that all the men are even more intrigued with her sophisticated taste in literature and they spend just as much time browsing through her books as they put them away.
* [[Donald Duck]] constantly has to prove his cultural capital to impress Daisy.
* [[Tintin]]: [[Tintin/Recap/The Calculus Affair|The Calculus Affair]] has Tintin and Captain Haddock hiding in the Klow opera. Tintin wakes the Captain up at the end with a disapproving [[Grande Dame]] looking on.
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** [http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=24542 It goes beyond music]: he was also disappointed with ''[[There Will Be Blood]]'': "There was ''hardly any'' fuckin' blood! It's a fucking great title - you couldn't have a better title for a film, except maybe ''There Will Be Tits''."
* In ''Repli-Kate'', a journalist who comes to interview two scientists is [[Applied Phlebotinum|accidently cloned]]. The clone is a blank slate, and the lead's wacky friend decides to educate her to prefer football and beer and other blokey things. He ends up as the [[Henpecked Husband|henpecked boyfriend]] to a boorish [[Ladette]] who doesn't care about his feelings. (The lead and the real Kate are much happier together.)
* More or less a basic assumption in ''[[The Hangover]]'', but the opening shows a jarring dissonance between the immaculately-preened bride preparing in a large and extravagantly decorated mansion, and the groomsmen on the other end of a cellphone, dishevelled and confused somewhere in the desert.
* Touched on in ''[[Batman Begins]]'', where when Bruce asks his father to leave the opera because of his fear of bats, Thomas turns to Martha and says it's ''him'' that wants to leave because "a little opera goes a long way."
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Oscar Madison on ''[[The Odd Couple]]''. And Felix is the opposite, obviously.
* Tim Taylor of ''[[Home Improvement (TV series)|Home Improvement]]'' is the patron saint of this trope. He often teases his more [[Sensitive Guy and Manly Man|sensitive assistant Al]]. Subverted in one episode where it turns out he actually did read and understand the copy of ''The Feminine Mystique'' that Jill gave him (though he refers to it as ''The Feminine Mistake'').
* ''[[Married... with Children]]'', though most of the women aren't any better.
* Doug in ''[[The King of Queens]]'' resists as much as he can when Carrie tries to take him to classical music concerts or ballet. The trope was at least played with a bit when Carrie, upon actually going to a classical music concert, wound up being so bored she fell asleep.
* A variant in ''[[Noah's Arc]]'': Masculine guy Wade invites the artsy, feminine Noah to watch the movie he worked on. Its turns out to be a cheesy, low-brow [[Buddy Cop Show]] film, during which Noah quickly falls asleep.
* Subverted in ''[[Angel]]'':
** When Gunn, who had fought from moment one against going to a ballet ends up [[I Do Not Like Green Eggs and Ham|going and loving it]]. The seemingly more cultured Cordelia sleeps through it. And snores. LOUDLY. Classy lady.
** For being a badass, leather jacket wearing vampire, Angel was pretty psyched. A badass, leather jacket wearing vampire who has been known to do karaoke versions of Barry Manilow because he "thinks it's pretty".
*** Awful, mangled versions of "Mandy".
** Angel gives an impromptu lesson about Baudelaire to a bunch of museum tourists while tracking a humanoid demon (who had told a security guard that Angel was stalking her—meaning he also had to evade the guard). It was an impressive [[Establishing Character Moment]] in the otherwise execrable episode ''She.''
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== Mythology ==
* Inverted in [[Norse Mythology]] by Odin, who, aside from being god of war, prophecy and death, is also the god of poetry.
* Played straight in
== Video Games ==
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Inverted in [http://xkcd.com/586/
== Web Original ==
* A March 2015 [https://twitter.com/1followernodad/status/579815524739076096 tweet] by Sophia Benoit mocked men's taste for movies:
{{quote|'''Sophia Benoit''':
[[Top Ten List|Top Movies]] Your Boyfriend Wants to Watch:
-[[Idiot Hero|An Idiot]] Saves [[Our Presidents Are Different|the President]]
-[[Rich Idiot With No Day Job|Rich Boy Hero]] [[Sequelitis|4]]
-Silent Hero Journey Boy
-Fight Fight Fight
-Boats}}
:* An April 2018 thread on [[4chan]]'s /tv/ ([https://www.reddit.com/r/4chan/comments/8962xu/tv_likes_boats/ via] [[Reddit]]) made fun of that tweet:
{{quote|'''Anonymous 1''': [[Literalist Snarking|What are some movies about boats?]]
'''Anonymous 2''':
Top movies your girlfriend wants to watch:
- [[Jump Scare|boo!]] Got ya
- [[Romantic Comedy|love but also funny]]
- trending on [[tumblr]]
- dance dance dance
- movie with her favorite actor in it
'''Anonymous 3''':
- [[Love Triangle]]
- Being Taken Seriously At Work
- [[All Girls Want Bad Boys|Mysterious Handsome Bad Boy]]
- Career [[Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice|v]] Romance: Dawn of Middle Age
- Outfits}}
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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