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** ''[[Real Women Don't Wear Dresses/Axis Powers Hetalia|Axis Powers Hetalia]]''
** ''[[Real Women Don't Wear Dresses/Gundam|Gundam]]''
** ''[[Real Women Don't Wear Dresses/Hellsing|Hellsing]]''
** ''[[Real Women Don't Wear Dresses/Pokémon|Pokémon]]''
** ''[[Real Women Don't Wear Dresses/Sailor Moon|Sailor Moon]]''
* [[Real Women Don't Wear Dresses/Comic Books|Comic Books]]
* [[Real Women Don't Wear Dresses/Live Action Television|Live-Action TV]]
* [[Real Women Don't Wear Dresses/Real Life|Real Life]]
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== Literature ==
* If you want to recognize this trope in romantic novels and/or novels set in other historical periods, look at the female
* Rachel and Cassie are inversions of this trope in the ''[[Animorphs]]'' series. Easily the toughest, most blood-thirsty, aggressive warrior of the entire group, but between her and Cassie, Rachel is by far the more womanly. At the beginning of the series (until it stops mattering), Rachel is described as a leggy, well-dressed, beautiful blonde who loves to go shopping and cares a great deal about outward appearances and often insists on improving Cassie's wardrobe and goes shopping for the entire group when clothes are needed on the fly. Cassie on the other hand is the more feminine in nature, broken-hearted for everything that ''breathes'', is the most hesitant to do battle and yet is the one who can't dress.
* A common complaint stemming from ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]'' is how Susan Pevensie becomes "no longer a friend of Narnia" and the only mention of why is a line saying she's only interested in "lipstick, nylons and invitations". Many readers take this as criticism of female sexuality though CS Lewis said of Susan "The books don't tell us what happened to Susan. She is left alive in this world at the end, having by then turned into a rather silly, conceited young woman. But there's plenty of time for her to mend and perhaps she will get to Aslan's country in the end... in her own way" which, coupled with things other characters say suggest her fault is trying too hard to grow up and forgetting her childhood. The other female characters Lucy, Jill and Polly aren't said to be any less feminine than Susan either.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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* [[Veronica Mars]] likes to avert this trope. Veronica's a [[Badass]] investigator who will destroy the lives of anyone who dares to cross her - but also bakes "spirit cookies" for her friend Wallace (snickerdoodles!), and hopes to receive a pony as a gift someday.
* Totally averted by Delenn on [[Babylon 5]] who wears gorgeous clothes, looks and acts unmistakably feminine, and is the most unambiguously good, kind, and even maternal character on the show, but is so [[Badass]] that the Shadows probably have dark, ancient legends about ''her''.
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