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* ''[[Percy Jackson and The Olympians]]'' gives us Circe, who believes that all men are pigs, and...considering [[Baleful Polymorph|her powers]], and [[Odyssey|the work in which she originally appeared]], you can pretty much see where she's going with that (though for the sake of convenience, she currently uses guinea pigs). She believes that women are so oppressed that they can only achieve power through magic (a belief later expressed by her niece Medea in the sequel series ''[[The Heroes of Olympus]]''). She's so bad that even [[Soapbox Sadie|Annabeth]] thinks she's a misandrist bitch.

** The Hunters of Artemis are actually ''heroic'' versions of this. They still [[Does Not Like Men|don't like men]], and have sworn off any romantic relationships with them, but unlike Circe, they don't ''harm'' guys unless provoked. (Which isn't very reassuring, considering that Greek deities like Artemis are infamous for [[Disproportionate Retribution]] and often consider small, harmless, and usually unintentional actions to be legitimate "provocation." Artemis claims to have turned guys into jackalopes and other animals just for ''stumbling upon their camp.'') Zoe Nightshade, the lieutenant of the Hunters, hates guys at first, but Percy's actions gradually cause her to respect them.

* Katie from "The Fabulous Five" series shows hints of this. She sanctimoniously declares that she would never be a cheerleader, as she find it degrading to women (and doesn't give a crap that she's essentially insulting her two friends who are joining the cheerleading squad). When another friend gushes about her boyfriend, she haughtily insists that the boy's gentlemanly gestures (holding the door for her, etc) are in fact sexist and patronizing, but she later ends up with the most macho guy in school as her boyfriend.

* ''[[Haunted 2005]]'' has [[Only Known by Their Nickname|Comrade Snarky]], her feminist group, and possibly her mother. The mother caused her [[Freudian Excuse]]; as revenge against Snarky's father for getting joint custody, she described to Snarky in graphic detail all the horrible forms of sexual abuse her father might inflict on her. He never did and had never been going to, but it left Snarky unable to trust men at all. When she grew up and joined a feminist support group, {{spoiler|the group somehow became convinced that a new recruit named Miranda was a [[Transsexualism]] - it's never made entirely clear whether she was or not, but the evidence suggests not. They demand she "prove" she's a "real woman", and it escalates until Miranda is effectively raped.}}