Real Women Don't Wear Dresses/Theatre

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Examples of Real Women Don't Wear Dresses in Theatre include:

  • In-story, Lady Macbeth has this opinion of herself. She even calls on evil spirits to make her less feminine and able to kill Duncan.
  • At first, Wicked seems to be following this trope; it seems to suggest that the pink-clad Glinda is an Alpha Bitch who betrayed the more hard-working and Tomboy-ish main character. The two actually become best friends, and learn from one-another to overcome their respective faults.

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