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** Not to mention the mentality of some fangirls that all the female countries are [[Did Not Do the Research|THIRD WORLD]] or insignificant and not historically relevant as the male "First World" countries. Trying to call them on the "Third World" generalization can be almost futile.

** Some female fans are notorious for suggesting that Hungary cannot be masculine in any way or tough because she [[Hair Decorations|wears silly FLOWERS in her long hair]] and [[Girliness Upgrade|is usually depicted in a maid dress as an adult]], going as far as to suggest that she only was ever "strong" [[Bokukko|because she thought she was a boy.]] Never mind that her strength has been shown as a so-called dependent housewife too (with her biggest demonstraction of physical strength happening ''when she still was the cute maid at Austria's manse''), that as a "boy" she wasn't portrayed as completely invincible either (she's lost at least twice to [[Precision F-Strike|"the Ottobastard Empire"]] and is shown either complaining for it or in the aftermath of having been defeated), ''and'' that she's still more than capable to keep people like France or Prussia at bay long ''after'' her [[Curb Stomp Battle]] against Prussia's army.

**** When China's drama track was released, some "fandom feminists" began screaming that Taiwan was "just a useless [[Satellite Character]]" and "China's stupid baby sister" instead of "a woman with her own agenda who doesn't submit herself to China". When confronted, they started spitting "[[The Bechdel Test]], Hetalia would never pass it" and expressing all kinds of hate for the Hetalia females. It's even more stupid when we consider that the drama track was the main source of Taiwan's character until the fourth manga volume, which showed a rather similar characterization -- and she wasn't exactly shown as "submissive" and "useless" in either of them. Or that Hong Kong ''and'' South Korea have consistently been shown at China's side too, the former being under China's rule in real life and the latter fawning over China to almost ridiculous degrees, and yet nobody calls ''[[Double Standard|them]]'' useless or submissive to China.

** Addressed here: [http://accioharo.tumblr.com/post/4436294874/clearly-women-having-a-personality-is-a-problem Clearly, women having a personality is a PROBLEM!]

** Some people are really, really '''OFFENDED''' by the mere possibility that Portugal ''may'' [http://himaruya.blog61.fc2.com/blog-entry-939.html be given a female nation-tan.] We wonder what's their reason... ah yeah, this one. Bet it's because either: they think that [[wikipedia:Portuguese Empire|Portuguese Empire]] would somehow be less awesome and badass if a woman represents it; they won't be able to portray [[wikipedia:Anglo-Portuguese Alliance|the Anglo Portuguese Alliance]] as hot [[Ho Yay]] with England; or the [[wikipedia:Portuguese Empire#Iberian Union and rivalry with the Dutch .281580.E2.80.931663.29|Iberian Union]] days with Spain will immediately mean for them that "Portugal was an oppressed wife to Spain, OMG".

** What makes all of this wank about the gender ratio really interesting is that Himaruya once stated that the reason there were so many more males than females was that he found it harder to draw females than males at first. Considering that he's drawn a lot of sketches for the female and nyotalia nations recently, it's more than likely that the skewed gender ratio was simply a product of initial art limitations rather than any intended sexism.