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== Anime ==

* Benio and the Zuka Club from ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'' are a troupe of [[Schoolgirl Lesbians|lesbian actresses]] (parody of the real-life [[Takarazuka]] Revue) who advocate female superiority and at one point (pictured above) perform a [[Those Wacky Nazis|Nazi salute]] against a backdrop of a red flag with the Japanese character 女 (''onna'' meaning "woman") instead of a Swastika -- ''literal'' feminazis. Their radicalism is probably just a result of being headstrong teenagers who are just as silly as the Host Club, though, and at the end of the episode Haruhi, whom they'd been trying to recruit, tells them that she finds their viewpoint "interesting and unique" but doesn't feel like leaving her friends in the Host Club. In the original manga, the conflict is eventually resolved with the Host Club's apologetic invitation to one of the Zuka Club's performances, which everyone found very enjoyable. For some reason, probably because of the differences in the story this ending was replaced with [[Banana Peel|banana peel jokes]] in Bones' anime adaptation.

** The original Amazon tribe is still around, as seen in ''The Son of Neptune''. They appear to be this at first, but it's later shown {{spoiler| that they like men just fine — they're just very matriarchal. Their boyfriends and husbands tend to be the ones in charge of the unskilled labor for the company they founded: Amazon.com.}} One of them even {{spoiler|flirts with Percy at the end of the book.}}

* 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.

* Val from ''The Women's Room'' could be said to be one of these by the end of the book - particularly given the "all men are rapists, and that's all they are" quote - and although she's not written as an object of ridicule, judging by Mira's horrified reaction, it's clear she's gone too far. However, she's not without her reasons, having become thoroughly disillusioned with the patriarchal establishment after the rape of her daughter Chris, and Chris's subsequent treatment at the hands of police and lawyers. It [[It Got Worse|doesn't end well for her.]]

* The title character of ''[[The Postman]]'' is caught between the Scouts (basically this trope) and the Holnists ([[Proud Warrior Race Guy|straw masculists]].) The Scouts come off better, but they're still slightly crazy.