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'''Old Amazon''': They love war! Them, and worse, [[All Men Are Perverts|their women!]] And worst of all...<br />
'''Wonder Woman''' ''([[Thought Caption]])'': Please don't say it, please don't say it.<br />
'''Old Amazon''': [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|They leave the toilet seat up!]] <br />
'''Amazons''': Kill the men! Kill the men!<br />
'''Wonder Woman''' ''([[Thought Caption]])'': Urgh. Kill the scriptwriter. }}
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== Film ==
* In ''100 Girls'', the main character takes a Women's Studies class. Every time we see him in this class, the camera zooms in to the teacher's underarm hair with a dramatic sound effect. Towards the end of the movie, there's an [[Anvilicious]] scene where he tells the teacher that inequality doesn't exist and it's all just a case of men and women misunderstanding each other. The teacher replies by painting men as evil, but the entire class full of females breaks into applause for him.
* Katherine Watson ([[Julia Roberts]]) from ''[[Mona Lisa Smile]]''. She encourages female independence, which ''is'' admirable, but not only are she and Elizabeth (Kirsten Dunst, who ''[[Anvilicious|of course]]'' believes marriage is the ''only'' way to go) are quite the unlikeable bitches, at one point Katherine is an absolute bitch to her pet student Joan (Julia Stiles) and rudely lectures her for preferring marriage over graduate school (and at Stanford, no less)... '''[[Kick the Dog|during Joan's own wedding party]]'''. Thankfully, Joan gets a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] when she [[Shut UP, Hannibal|turns the tables on Katherine and tells her she's full of shit]] - because if women can choose to go to school and do as they wish, then certainly Katherine is an hypocrite for throwing a tantrum because she doesn't like what Joan herself decided to do with ''her'' life, huh?
* ''Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death'': Played for every last laugh the scriptwriters can wring from it.
* The [[Incredibly Lame Pun|campy]] and stereotype-heavy Disney film ''Follow Me, Boys!'' has one named Vera Miles. She rants that men "are all alike, puffed-up lords of the universe". After the [[Marty Stu|cheerful scoutmaster]] wins her heart, though, she has no quarrel with becoming a [[Housewife]].
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* ''Edge of Apocalypse'' has the vice president.
* Akasha in ''[[The Vampire Chronicles|Queen of the Damned]]'' by [[Anne Rice]]. Though she does not use politically correct terms, since she's supposed to be an [[Ancient Egypt|ancient Egyptian]], she believes all violence on Earth is caused by men. Her plan is to use her near-omnipotent powers as mother of all [[Our Vampires Are Different|vampires]] to [[Gendercide|destroy almost all the world's males]] and create a utopia run by women, with herself as benevolent queen and goddess. In the end {{spoiler|she is destroyed by female twin vampires Mekare and Maharet, for personal reasons as much as to stop her plot.}} She may or may not really be a straw feminist since it's unclear whether or not the author agrees with her (persistent [[Author Avatar]] Lestat seems very ambivalent).
* Sisera Catheter in ''Postmodern Pooh'', who dissects ''Winnie the Pooh'' from the standpoint of "gynocritical discourse". Though the book is an obvious exaggeration, the footnotes quoting [[Real Life]] academic feminists suggest that [[
* In [[Haruki Murakami]]'s ''[[Kafka On the Shore]]'', two such beings visit the library where Oshima works, explicitly to find how the organization of the library is unfriendly to female patrons. They are shocked into silence when Oshima gives them an interesting [[The Reveal|heart-to-heart]].
* The title character in Tess Gerrittsen's "Rizzoli" series shows traits of this. She dislikes beautiful women (partly because she isn't) and is all too eager to assign a negative characteristic to them, and she often expresses disgust and contempt for the men who have fallen in love with them, dismissing them all as shallow and foolish. She also has a chip on her shoulder about being the only female detective in the homicide department and is quick to interpret all criticism--and praise, for that matter--as sexist. And in a scene where she visits a bar, she views nearly every man there as a potential rapist and every woman as an idiot willing to put herself in danger.
* Subverted in J. Courtney Sullivan's ''Commencement'' with a ''sympathetic'' portrayal of a radical feminist: April, one of the main characters, is a self-described MacKinnonite who sees organizations like NOW as "not doing enough." However, she's shown to be more of a [[Well
* In [[Half Moon Investigations]], the third most crucial group to the plot is a group of pre-pubescent aged elementary schoolgoing midgets who worship some important woman and try to get as many boys as they can expelled from their school. They also are violent and not afraid to do illegal things, like locking the main characters up.
* [[Wife Basher Basher|Niklas]] from Jens Lapidus' ''Aldrig Fucka Up'' (translated "never fuck up") is a rare male [[Straw Feminist]]. He beats up his neighbours boyfriend for hitting her, stalks several men whose names he stole form a women's shelter, shooting one, and torturing another to death, and at the finale, blows up a [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] who organizes orgies for the upper class. And this is only one of the [[Third Line, Some Waiting]].
* ''[[Percy Jackson and The Olympians]]'' gives us Circe, who believes that all men are pigs, and...considering [[Baleful Polymorph|her powers]], and [[The Odyssey (Literature)|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.
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** The worst case came during the season she was apparently pregnant, Al had turned his garage into a rec room for himself, only for Marcy and other pregnant women to take it over under the name W.O.M.B (Women Owe Men Bupkiss) by this point implying that simply being a women gave her the right to do whatever she wanted without any regard to men.
* There's a particularly dreadful example in the ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' story "The Time Monster": Dr. Ruth Ingram spends most of her time complaining about men just for the sake of it, and being a hypocrite about it as well. A classic example of feminists being portrayed as just misandrists.
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* ''[[The West Wing]]'':
** If she's not written well, C.J Cregg in can sometimes border on this trope; fortunately, most of the time, she's written very well. Of note, however, is the episode 'The Women Of Qumar', in which C.J reacts very poorly the news of a US arms deal made to a [[Qurac]]-style country which has a poor record on women's rights; whilst the point the episode was making as a valid one, it unfortunately chose to make it by having C.J act in a very unprofessional, out-of-character and borderline [[Straw Feminist]] fashion.
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** In "Battle of the Hexes," [[The Scrappy|Billie]] all of a sudden cops this attitude. When she inadvertently puts on the Girdle of Hippolyta, this attitude gets turned [[Up to Eleven]].
* Often parodied on ''[[Community]]'' with Britta Perry, who has a tendency to deliver [[Straw Feminist]] pronouncements along with her general [[Granola Girl]] attitude. It usually involves her getting outraged at the flip of a coin, exposed as a bit of [[Hypocrite]] and generally ends up with her making herself look foolish.
* Rare male example with Georg in ''[[Naeturvaktin (TV)|Naeturvaktin]]'', who passionately insists he is a radical feminist despite having [[Know
* Samantha Carter had some shades of this during the [[Early Installment Weirdness|first couple of episodes]] of ''[[Stargate SG 1]]'', the crowning moment of which came during the pilot (her infamous "reproductive organs" speech). [[Word of God|Amanda Tapping]] actually complained to the writers that "women don't talk like that". The speech was later cut from the pilot's re-release as a DVD movie, and Carter proceeded to spend the rest of the show kicking ass and taking names without making a fuss over her gender.
* Jessie Spano in ''[[Saved By the Bell]]''
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** {{spoiler|Edwin}} briefly becomes one of these thanks to some [[Applied Phlebotinum]] that he [[Be Careful What You Wish For|covets]].
** Shar-teel from the first game is a defining example of this trope.
* One radio transmission in ''[[The Conduit]]'' has a feminist blaming the countless civilians deaths and mass destruction on an oppressive, male-run government instead of the invading aliens, who she insists "[[We Come in Peace, Shoot To Kill|come in peace]]".
* In ''[[Comic Jumper]]'', the boss of the Silver Age "Improbable Paper Pals" stage is feminist super-villain Mistress Ropes, who is sick of being talked down to all the time. Smiley tries to be sympathetic at first, but eventually gets fed up with her over-sensitivity to sexist (or even ''remotely'' sexist) remarks and decides to beat the crap out of her.
* ''[[Tachyon the Fringe]]'' has Lakita Ramos, a wingman from the [[Mega Corp|GalSpan]] plotline that you can hire after defeating her in a competition. She treats you like an idiot in dialog because the [[Player Character]] is male. The flavor text attempts to justify it by saying she got tired of being hit on in spacer bars.
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** Ms. Barch is actually less extreme than a ''lot'' of fictional examples on here, and the show took care to contrast her attitudes with other forms of feminism. This was a show watched by high school students: [[Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped]].
* ''[[Futurama (Animation)|Futurama]]'' gets in a quick shot in one episode; after Old Man Waterfall (a [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|bisexual Satanic polygamist hillbilly lawyer]]) dies under the foot of the [[Humongous Mecha|MobileOppression Palace]], his granddaughter loudly proclaims him (in a [[Cross Dressing Voices|fake female voice]]) "another victim of the malecentric male-ocracy!" She returned for the fourth movie and lead the other female characters in an (oddly more environmental than feminist) crusade against the Wong family. She's killed off by a [[Running Gag]] about the Waterfall family.
* ''[[The Powerpuff Girls (Animation)|The Powerpuff Girls]]'' had [[Femme Fatale]], a man-hating criminal who only stole Susan B. Anthony coins and convinced the girls to not help men and not arrest her because she was a woman. Her flawed logic was countered by the more mainstream equality-based feminism of Sara Bellum and Miss Keane who convinced them otherwise. Not helping Femme Fatale was the fact that women were also hurt by her actions and that she didn't even know who Susan B. Anthony was (though it did lead to a very good [[Shut UP, Hannibal]] and subsequent beatdown by the girls).
* ''[[Yin Yang Yo (Animation)|Yin Yang Yo]]'' has Saranoia, who is an unstable misandrist sorceress and wants to exterminate Yang but likes Yin. Her hatred seems to be based on her feelings towards her own brother, Mark, she indicates she was [[The Unfavourite]] growing up. She has a tendency to call Yang Mark.
* Parodied in ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'' when a parody of the Scooby Gang ([[Scooby Doo|the originals]], not [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Buffy and pals]]) show up in the episode "Viva Los Muertos!" Parody-Velma (a Valerie Solanas [[Expy]]) is constantly spouting this talk, going so far as to actually tell Parody-Daphne that men are "walking abortions". Of course, Parody-Fred is a sociopathic gang leader in the Manson mold, Parody-Daphne was kidnapped 30 years ago and is so stupid she still thinks Parody-Fred is going to take her to visit her parents, and Parody-Shaggy is a murderous lunatic who needs to take his "Groovy Treats" to make the dog stop telling him to kill everyone.
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** Also, IIRC ''[[Super Friends]]'' had a one-time villainess who [[Hypnotize the Princess|brainwashes all the women in the world]] (including [[Wonder Woman]] and Jaina of the Wonder Twins) to turn against males.
* ''[[Family Guy (Animation)|Family Guy]]'':
** In an episode where Peter is forced into sensitivity training... He was so trained that he himself did a feminism equivalent of the [[Heel Face Turn]] and became an extremely fluffy combination of this and a cookie baking, bridge playing young biddy that blames all the ills on men. He ends up falling in with one-shot [[Straw Feminist]] character Gloria Ironbox, who implies that Lois' choice to be a wife and stay-at-home mother is the reason Peter doesn't respect women and that her children are screwed. And what does Lois do? [[Shut UP, Hannibal|After shutting down her arguments,]] [[Mama Bear|she beats the shit out of her.]] The [[Cat Fight]] [[Girl On Girl Is Hot|manages to]] [[Snap Back|return Peter to normal.]]
** Peter once accuses Lois of being a feminist, however he considers that a sexy part of her.
* ''[[The Simpsons (Animation)|The Simpsons]]'':
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