Real Women Don't Wear Dresses: Difference between revisions

*''[[Monster]]'' is a series that brutally deconstructs many, many shonen/seinen tropes. Nina Fortner/Anna Liebert is a [[Deconstruction]] of [[Action Girl]], showing that just because a woman has ass-kicking physical abilities does NOT mean she's automatically immune to [[Break the Cutie|the horrifying trauma]] that Johan (himself a [[Deconstruction]] of the [[Complete Monster]] and [[Magnificent Bastard]] tropes) puts her through. The fandom, however? They refuse to stop think of it and immediately start the wails of [[Chickification]] on sight. One thing is not being satisfied with Nina's [[Character Development]] and thinking it could've handled and/or Deconstructed her trope better, but another is simply pegging her as weak and idiotic for not killing Johan in cold blood when she has the chance.

*Mikan from ''[[Gakuen Alice]]'' gets shit for similar reasons to the previously-mentioned Lucy from ''[[Fairy Tail]]''. So instead of beating up Natsume, Hotaru and others for their treatment of her, she decided to apparently take it, while resolving to start strenghtening herself so they would stop calling her weak? [[Sarcasm Mode|Urgh, what a stupid]] [[Extreme Doormat]] [[Sarcasm Mode|bitch and ''bad'' role model for little girls she is,]] ''[http://caithyra.insanejournal.com/31553.html indeed]''.

**It gets worse. Fans of the prequel series ''[[Fushigi Yuugi Genbu Kaiden]]'' love to crow on about how Takiko is superior to Miaka in every way for being a "strong" and "mature" [[Action Girl]] who can take care of herself. This would be annoying enough by itself (for starters, the fans forget that Takiko is both older than Miaka ''and'' [[The Roaring Twenties|from an earlier]] [[Imperial Japan|time period]], so she'll naturally be more mature because of the culture she grew up in) but a few people have gone as far as to say they'd be ''personally offended'' if Takiko dies at the end of ''Genbu Kaiden'' while Miaka got to live and be with Tamahome... even though that's a [[Foregone Conclusion]] ''as indicated in the original manga''! That's right, there are fans who want to see a [[Retcon]] ''solely'' because they hate Miaka and love Takiko so much. [[Fan Dumb|Make of that what you will.]]

*Kaoru Kamiya of ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'', full stop. [[Faux Action Girl|Sure, she's not the top fighter in the ''RK'' world]], but the utter crap she gets for being emotional and not having nerves of steel...eugh. And for worse, those who bash Kaoru the most often call themselves "feminists who protest for how anime/manga craps on women!" [[Fan Dumb|Ah, fans...]]

*Sanae Nakazawa of ''[[Captain Tsubasa]]''. Her pluckiness and cheerful disposition is often ignored or handwaved by "feminist" fangirls/fanboys, who bash her by falsely accusing her of being "weak", "a stalker", "a whore" and "a bad example for girls" because she's less tomboyish as time passes. Blame the [[Values Dissonance]] of the 80's shonen manga, [[Skewed Priorities|not her]]!

*Maka Albarn from ''[[Soul Eater]]'' went through rather emotionally-hard experiences in the Envy and Sloth chapters of the Book of Eibon, needing Soul's help (''[[Justified Trope|as any person in her position would]]'') to both pull through it and also to defeat an ultra [[Ax Crazy]] Giriko in full [[Yandere|Yandere-for-Arachne]] mode. According to fandom, though? Aknowledging that bravery isn't the only thing needed to overcome difficulties and that punching evils with the Fist Of Courage isn't the magical key to victory is "''[[Fan Dumb|OMFG SEXIST!!!!]]''". Bet that [[Double Standard|if Soul had been though exactly the same thing]], these "feminists" would cream themselves and call him the biggest [[Woobie]] ever, instead.

*Aoi Sakuraba of ''[[Ai Yori Aoshi]]'', natch. She's a slut, she's an [[Extreme Doormat]], she's a stupid bitch, she is less worthy of Kaoru's love than "super strong girl" Tina...any kind of sexist insult, Aoi has had it thrown at her, [[Values Dissonance|all for being a]] [[Yamato Nadeshiko]].

*''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'': Poor Keiko Yukimura. Not only she is being assaulted by the [[Yaoi Fangirls]], she is also being accused by "anime feminists" for not being an [[Action Girl]].

**There hasn't been ''much'' backlash against the scene in the [[Grand Finale]] during which Pao-Lin/Dragon Kid puts on a cute sundress before an outing with her parents. This is probably because it's easy to interpret it as her reaching a compromise with them about acting a little girlier instead of rebelling all the time, rather than as a sign of her relinquishing her determined boyishness.

**In contrast, many people complain about Karina/Blue Rose's role as a [[Smitten Teenage Girl]] where Kotetsu is concerned, under the notion that it has become "her only character trait", whining about how she "never gets any character development". Note that Karina is ''not'' a main character, and yet is the only member of the supporting cast to get anything resembling a proper backstory; her role as an [[Ordinary High School Student]] is intentionally played to provide grounds for her doubts about full-time superheroing and her eventual developement of confidence as a superhero — despite how her sponsors are specifically marketing her as HeroTV's [[Ms. Fanservice]] + [[Faux Action Girl]].

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* The creation of ''[[Wonder Woman]]'' was William Moulton Marston's attempt to address this in society: