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[[File:real-women-dont-wear-dresses_silent-hill_5621.png|link=Silent Hill (film)|frame| Guess which of these women is the tough, competent one.]]

*Miaka from ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]'' gets hit with this a lot. Okay, so ''can'' she can be quite [[The Ditz]], she isn't the best in her class, [[Distress Ball|she ''does'' have to be rescued by others occasionally ]], and she is a [[Big Eater]]; but according to her haters, she is "extremely stupid", "very weak", "always has to be rescued" and "has every guy in love with her", despite the fact that only four or five guys at ''most'' feel that way about her, and certainly not the entirety of the Suzaku Seven. Meanwhile, her [[Plucky Girl]] qualities get completely ignored for the sake of the aforementioned bashing. There's a reason why she is used as the icon for the "Hated Characters" group from [[Live Journal]], you know.

**And before ''that'', there were fans who called Kagome "weak" and "useless" because she didn't ''immediately'' begin kicking ass when she first dropped into [[Jidai Geki|Feudal Japan]] like Sango did in her first appearance, and - le gasp! - [[Neutral Female|needed to be rescued from some monsters]] by [[The Hero|Inuyasha]]. Never mind that Kagome was an [[Ordinary High School Student]] who most likely wouldn't have prior monster-slaying experience, unlike Sango, who was ''specifically trained'' for it, or that Inuyasha [[Sealed Badass in a Can|wouldn't even have been released from the tree]] were it not for her, or that she ''did'' develop into a true [[Action Girl]] over the course of the series; she's not the [[Action Girl]] paragon that Sango (who, incidentally, is constantly seen [[Silk Hiding Steel| wearing very feminine kimonos outside of combat]] ''and'' [[Hime Cut|has extremely long and femininely-worn hair]]) is! She's also been derided as "emo" and "whiny" by fans who take offense to her actually being ''affected'' by the fact that her past self Kikyo has been resurrected and has proven herself to be better than Kagome in many things, even though she pretty much stopped angsting after the volume where Inuyasha told her that he didn't think of her as Kikyo's replacement; or even as a "slut/whore" by those who accuse her of flirting with every guy that crosses her path, even though she never showed anything more than friendly respect to any guy who wasn't Inuyasha.

***[[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|And for that matter, girls young enough to need role models ''probably'' shouldn't be watching]] ''[[What Do You Mean It's Not for Kids?| Madoka Magica]]'' [[Captain Obvious|in the first place]].

*In-universe: Kanae, AKA Moko, on ''[[Skip Beat|Skip Beat!]]'' deliberately calls out Kyouko when they meet, only because she perceives Kyouko as a [[Yamato Nadeshiko|"housewife" type of woman] who [[Stay in the Kitchen|shouldn't stay near the show business]]. Even later in the manga, when both have a kind-of-friendship and Kyouko has shown [[Plucky Girl|how scarily competent she can be when acting]], Kanae still feels uncomfortable with Kyouko due her own perceived contradiction between being able of do any domestic chores and being an reputed actress and entertainer. There is a twist though, Kanae also acts as a housewife for her own very large family, as her parents are always traveling and her older brothers are no help, [[Not So Different|seeing Kyoko reminded her of herself]]. Kanae's type of housewifing is more like an extreme sport, and it's kind of easy to understand why is she is so annoyed by it.

* Subverted in the [[Furry Fandom|furry]] comic, ''[[Albedo: Erma Felna EDF]] '', where the title character, a scrupulously professional female military officer who has had to deal with sexist opposition at work, is convinced by her [[Genki Girl|vivacious]] friend, Toki, to go shopping. In doing so, Erma finds that occasionally engaging such feminine activities like getting and wearing a sexy dress to attract the attentions of males is fun to do sometimes on her off time. However, she and Toki are no less [[Badass|Badasses]] for their fun considering the second they spot a potential terrorist, they instantly have him covered with their own guns.

* Averted utterly in-canon of ''[[Phantasy Star]] IV'', regarding Alys and Rika in particular. Alys is a beautiful, talented cook, who is ''openly and famously'' admired for being attractive and assymetrical-hemline-dress-and-jewelry-wearing feminine as well as the most [[Badass]] Hunter on the planet (although finding out that she can cook is a surprise to some of her fellow adventurers). Rika is a pink-haired [[Cute Monster Girl]] who only has healing techniques-- but is only second in damage output to the main character, thanks to her short but extremely effective list of melee combat Skills and ability to wear the heaviest armors in the game, which means she also gets to be a frontline fighter.

* Debated between skirt-hating [[Straw Feminist]] Susan and skirt-loving [[Action Girl]] Nanase in ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2006-02-27 here] (although though both were [[Gender Bender|transformed into boys]] at the time) with Susan naturally taking the [[Real Women Don't Wear Dresses]] side of the argument.

* Averted in ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'': we've got two [[tomboy]]s of different flavors (one athlete and one workaholic), we've got three [[The Chick|girly girls]] - a [[Shrinking Violet]], a [[Genki Girl]] and [[The Fashionista]] - and we got [[Adorkable|Twilight Sparkle]] who can serve as counterpart for both groups. Neither are Applejack and Rainbow Dash permanently superior nor are Rarity, Fluttershy, Pinkie or Twilight weaker or stupid. They all have different approaches to something and it depends on the problem what will work (In Rarity's case the approach is passive-aggressive [[Cute but Cacophonic|whining]], proving that you don't have to be on the physical side to take action). Not to mention their [[Physical God|Physical Godess]] [[Every Thing Is Better With Princesses|Princess Celestia]] is very, very feminine. And, well, several thousand years old, lifts the sun every day and is noone to mess with in general.

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