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Compare [[Men Don't Cry]], [[Women Are Wiser]], [[Mars and Venus Gender Contrast]]. Contrast [[Real Men Wear Pink]]. When [[Guys Are Slobs|the man is a slob]], this trope is almost always included also, but the opposite isn't always true.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Protagonist Train Heartnet from ''[[Black Cat (Manga)|Black Cat]]''. He pretty much only lives for fighting and bounties. He's unable to get through even the index page of a book, and ''hates'' fancy [[
* Inverted in [[Sailor Moon]], Mamoru is ''far'' more cultured than Usagi.
** But then again, [[Idiot Hero|Usagi isn't exactly the most cultured of the women]].
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* Subverted in a story in the furry ''Beatrix Farmer'' series. When Beatrix, a cute bunny femme, is moving into her cat friend's apartment, she is surprised when her coquettish friend enlists the aid of several handsome males to help them. Although Beatrix doesn't care for the idea of being suddenly surrounded by strange men apparently being old fashioned chivalrous, things improve when she breaks out her massive book collection and finds to her delight that all the men are even more intrigued with her sophisticated taste in literature and they spend just as much time browsing through her books as they put them away.
* [[Donald Duck]] constantly has to prove his cultural capital to impress Daisy.
* [[Tintin (Comic Book)]]: [[Tintin (Comic Book)/Recap/The Calculus Affair|The Calculus Affair]] has Tintin and Captain Haddock hiding in the Klow opera. Tintin wakes the Captain up at the end with a disapproving [[Grande Dame]] looking on.
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* ''[[Married With Children]]'', though most of the women aren't any better.
* Doug in ''[[The King of Queens]]'' resists as much as he can when Carrie tries to take him to classical music concerts or ballet. The trope was at least played with a bit when Carrie, upon actually going to a classical music concert, wound up being so bored she fell asleep.
* A variant in ''[[
* Subverted in ''[[Angel (TV)|Angel]]'':
** When Gunn, who had fought from moment one against going to a ballet ends up [[I Do Not Like Green Eggs and Ham|going and loving it]]. The seemingly more cultured Cordelia sleeps through it. And snores. LOUDLY. Classy lady.
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* Completely averted in ''[[Frasier]]'', where Frasier and Niles are both very, very cultured. Their father Martin, less so. Daphne also finds opera boring. But subverted behind the scenes where John Mahoney (Martin) is a very cultured man, and in fact introduced David Hyde Pierce (Niles) to opera.
* Put through the wringer in ''[[The Red Green Show]]'', in which in later episodes the Possum Lodge members recited the Man's Prayer at the end of every episode-- "I am a man / But I can change / If I have to / I guess." Many of the men, including Red himself, were uncultured to varying extents. The only exception was Red's nephew Harold, who was [[Proud to Be A Geek]].
* Virtually all the male detectives and lawyers on the ''[[Law and Order]]'' franchise, save Det. Goren of ''Criminal Intent.'' Expect copious Lenny [[One
* Often highlighted with Diane and Sam in ''[[Cheers]]'', but in particular, the episode where Sam convinces the bar regulars to go with Diane to the opera. In a genre-savvy moment, Woody is assigned to be the "keep everyone awake" guy, having drunk lots of coffee and wearing his extra-tight shoes. Cut to the viewing box at the opera, and everyone is sound asleep and snoring, including Woody ''and'' Diane.
** Sam attempts to subvert this in one episode where he has to hang out with a bunch of Diane's cultured friends, so he prepares for it by reading ''[[War and Peace]]''. He becomes understandably furious when they all dismiss the book as overrated. And also when he finds out there was a [[Film of the Book|movie version]] he could have watched instead.
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