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* '''Straight''': The [[Wrench Wench]] and the [[Action Girl]] are presented as more admirable than the [[Feminine Women Can Cook|cook]].
* '''Exaggerated''': A [[Jerkass Sue]] never wears dresses or [[Princesses Prefer Pink|pink]], is solely interested in machinery and guns, would starve to death in a fully equipped kitchen, physically attacks men who express attraction toward her, and is treated as admirable, while a woman who wears dresses or cooks is treated as utterly contemptible (perhaps with any traits meriting contempt being an [[Informed Attribute]], perhaps with no traits other than femininity to warrant it).
* '''Justified''': The [[Action Girl]] was [[Raised
* '''Inverted''': Femininity in women is treated as a positive.
* '''Subverted''': Sally, the cook, is shown taking decisive command after some trouble.
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* '''Parodied''': When Sally's gun jams from all the accumulated dirt, she explains that cleaning is something she refuses to be stereotyped into doing.
** [[Cute Bruiser|Ki]][[Girlish Pigtails|mi]][[Mini-Dress of Power|ko]] wants to join Scarlett's [[Amazon Brigade]], but they refuse because she's too girly. Then at a later point, Scarlett finds out to her horror that Xandra knows how to cook, and promptly kicks her out. Soon afterwards the team chucks out Alice because she's not a lesbian, then Maxine because they find out she wore a dress to a formal event once... Finally, Scarlett is the only one left. She goes to fight the [[Big Bad]] alone, only to find out he's already been single-handedly defeated by - you've guessed it - Kimiko. Scarlett [[Driven to Suicide|doesn't react well]].
** The only people who are treated as "real women" are, in fact, [[
* '''Deconstructed''': The non-feminine women wear down the feminine ones and persuade them to give femininity up. Leading to their going hungry in a filthy house until the teams breaks up because everyone refuses to be considerate of each other.
** By treating any traditionally 'feminine' actions as [[Stop Being Stereotypical|stereotypical and demeaning]], the supposedly [[Badass]] and 'hardcore' women are reinforcing the same negative stereotypes they claim to be rallying against as feminists.
* '''Reconstructed''': The team only agrees to work together when household chores are handed out as official assignments. The [[Action Girl]] will gladly do the laundry if it's an ''order'' as opposed to ''female obligation'' that carries a "girlish" stigma. Whereupon everyone complains about the shoddy housekeeping and they have to crack down and ensure that they are done well.
* '''Zig Zagged''': The [[Action Girl]], Alice, is treated badly by the men because she's very feminist. [[All of the Other Reindeer|The ladies treat her badly for the same reason too.]] A [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] leads the men to treat her better, but the ladies still aren't convinced. Later, one of these ladies, Diane, must defeat the [[Big Bad]] in a test to prove her [[Badass|badassery]]. She learns that Alice defeated him with no trouble. Diane initially wants to commit suicide, but Alice convinces her to embrace her feminism. Then Alice goes into a nearby bathroom and blows herself up with a grenade. Why? Because she was actually ashamed to be a feminist.
* '''Averted''': Strength of character and feminine traits have no relationship to each other in the female characters.
* '''Enforced''': [[Girls Need Role Models]].
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** Carla, a [[Lady of War]], is given [[All of the Other Reindeer]] treatment for her femininity, even though she's just as competent as the men and the tomboyish women.
** [[The Woman Wearing the Queenly Mask]]
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