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'''Dr. Sattler:''' We can discuss 'sexism in survival situations' when I get back.
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A form of [[Lawful Stupid]], where a character insists that girls should be protected, not involved in the fight
▲{{quote|'''[[Cool Old Guy|Hammond]]:''' But you know, I should really be the one going.<br />
▲'''[[Action Girl|Dr. Sattler]]:''' Why?<br />
▲'''Hammond:''' Well, because you're a... I'm a...<br />
▲'''Dr. Sattler:''' We can discuss 'sexism in survival situations' when I get back.|''[[Jurassic Park]]''}}
▲A form of [[Lawful Stupid]], where a character insists that girls should be protected, not involved in the fight -- that they should just [[Title Drop|Stay In The Kitchen]]! Never mind if the girl might be far more capable than the guy in question, they're girls, and that's what counts!
Usually, when this trope is invoked, this character isn't treated sympathetically for his opinion. He may get himself killed when his "protection" does more harm than good, get [[An Aesop]] from seeing the girls fight (if it's a [[Very Special Episode|one-episode affair]]), or have the women he's holding back label him as [[The Load]] and decide that they should [[Just Eat Gilligan]]. Occasionally, the chivalry will be played as sweet and more or less well-intentioned, but still comes off as misguided.
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This attitude is prevalent in [[Real Life|the real world]], for reasons ranging from cultural bias against females to males having higher upper-body strength on average (whether or not this is grounds for treating all women differently is... debatable). Or perhaps people subconsciously believe that [[Men Are the Expendable Gender|men are simply more expendable]]. The US army, for example, avoids putting female combat personnel in aggressive combat scenarios, and didn't allow women soldiers in combat zones ''at all'' until the 1990s. Whether or not this is justifiable is also debated.
When it comes to cultural bias, things are less pretty and there is no chivalry involved, especially if this stance comes from [[He
Even with the plethora of [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] series with [[Action Girl|physically strong female leads]], this trope is still seen in Japan, [[Values Dissonance|as old gender roles still linger]]. In the west, the prevalence of more conservative, [[Moral Guardians|old-fashioned]] social mores keep the amount of strong females low, although that is changing. The prevalence of the [[Girl Show Ghetto]] also has its influences.
It should be noted that "Stay In The Kitchen" is a [[Non
Often a form of [[Innocent Bigot
{{examples|Examples}}▼
== Anime and Manga ==
* In ''[[Fate/stay
* ''[[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]]'' by Syaoran of all people. Chunyan is left behind with Sakura, despite both having extremely powerful latent magic in a land where the three heroes have virtually none. Chunyan then gets this not once, but ''twice'', the second time from Sakura herself.
** Somewhat subverted, as Syaoran wasn't leaving them behind because they were girls. Sakura has had no experience in fighting or using her magic offensively or at all. Besides that, she's also kind of out of it as she had only retrieved two feathers at this time. Kurogane puts it best when he says, "You never know when she's rowing the boat or asleep at the oar."
* ''[[Saikano]]'', where the girl in question is a [[Person of Mass Destruction]]. This cannot end well. To be fair, she wants to stay in the kitchen as well, due to the whole [[Painful Transformation]] thing. Though if anything, the problem is exactly the opposite in this series: Chise is a normal schoolgirl forced to become a weapon of mass destruction against her will - arguably just as bad.
* FBI agent Raye Penber chides his fiancee (who used to be an agent as well) for getting too interested in his case in ''[[
** To say the least. In a book that detailed a previous case she was involved in, she was so good she impressed L. Which makes her couple chapter appearance all the more annoying.
** This is thankfully removed in the live action movie adaptation, where Naomi warns him to be careful and not be reckless, and he merely playfully teases her about sounding hypocritical, as she used to go on dangerous missions with L a lot, but otherwise he doesn't seem to object to her interest in the case. [[Word of God]] is that she was [[Too Cool to Live]]- that she was "an obstacle that Light couldn't overcome at that time"- and was therefore grief-stricken with absolutely ''no'' luck.
* In the original ''[[
** ''[[
** ''[[
* The {{spoiler|Jovian colonists}} in ''[[Martian Successor Nadesico]]'' have an all-male military, and while few of their women are shown it's heavily implied they follow this trope. The reason is because they based their society around ''Gekiganger 3'', an old-school anime where the only major female character was [[The Chick]].
** In what could be considered a hilarious inversion of this trope, male lead Akito really, ''really'' wants to
* In ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'', the beach episode has Tamaki lecture Haruhi about not trying to take on guys who are obviously stronger than her after a pitiful fight against bullies. She spurns his advice, but {{spoiler|Kyouya jumps her in the infamous bedroom scene}} to prove to her that sometimes guys really are capable of physical harm. Of course, {{spoiler|he won't do anything to her and she knows it}}, but the point is effectively (if uncomfortably) made. Tamaki is also dealing with a bruised ego because Haruhi seems to be completely independent without a way for him to take care of her as he'd like to; he's not so much "vindicated" as shown that she is like everyone else, and happens to be [[Fear of Thunder|scared of thunder]].
* Inverted in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'', as Asuna seems to have trouble seeing Negi as anything other the sweet little brother she has to protect. Even after getting taken down in a few ''seconds'' by him in a sparring match, she still worries about him far too much. Early on Negi sort of had this attitude toward his students, although it's less sexism and more the fact that he believes it's his fault that they're in dangerous situations to begin with, which makes it his responsibility to protect them.
** Nagi however, seemingly played this straight. Princess Arika [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v25/c231/07.html refused], [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v25/c231/08.html and], he took her refusal on stride... {{spoiler|[[Battle Couple|and they both went to annihilate an enemy base]]}}.
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* One of the more off-putting moments in ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'' comes in a conversation between Rei and his lover Mamiya. Rei orders Mamiya to stay out of battle, as that isn't a woman's purpose. Her response is that she's gone through enough trouble that she isn't a woman anymore. The counterargument from Rei? ''He [[Defeat
* Guts from ''[[Berserk]]'' gives this speech to pre-Eclipse Casca once. At the time, she was having her period which got her to faint from exhaustion and got both of them to fall off a cliff as he tried to rescue her. Right after, he berates her by saying that a woman has nothing to do in war since it only took her PMS-ing to become incapacitated and that women's weaker and less enduring body was unsuitable for warfare. [[Plucky Girl|Casca being who she is]], it doesn't work. Their ensuing [[Back
* Simplar, in the ''[[S-Cry-ed]]'' manga Akira Mijyou leader of [[La Résistance]] gets something the same with her lover Hannish Lightning, despite the fact we have seen her take down dozens of HOLY solders and save the main character. Lightning then gets his ass kicked by a woman, and has to be saved by Mijyou.
* Not a straight example, as it was more 'let's all kill [[Jerk
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'''[[Action Girl|Himiko]]:''' What do you mean 'after all,' you cross-dresser?! }}
* [[Brilliant but Lazy|Shikamaru Nara]] of ''[[Naruto]]'' displays these tendencies at the beginning of the series, only bothering to fight in the final round of the Chuunin exams against Temari because Naruto literally shoved him into the arena with an encouraging slap to the back, and ends up forfeiting the match [[Wouldn't Hit a Girl|even thought he knows he could win]]. [[Paper Fan of Doom|Temari]] later has to [[Embarrassing Rescue|rescue]] him from yet another girl. He drops the attitude when Shippuden starts and seems to respect women more now. The implication is that he's actually afraid of women because of [[Henpecked Husband|his parents]]. Ironically this has led to the fandom belief he will marry a girl like his [[Tsundere|mother]].
* In the ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' anime, Jadeite (in the Japanese version) makes a sexist remark directed at Sailors Moon, Mercury, and Mars, that girls are useless and can only run, scream, and cry. They make a rather [[Anvilicious]] speech about showing him [[You Go, Girl!|what women can do]] and proceed to run him over with several [[Car Fu|airplanes]] that he had originally [[Hoist
** Also a [[Hoist
* Orihime of ''[[Bleach]]'' falls into this on occasion. Despite having immense [[Reality Warper]] powers, everybody except for Rukia and Chad is convinced that she should stay out of fights because she's not suited for battle. Which is true on one hand as she has a naturally gentle disposition and hates hurting even her enemies, but on the other hand she's very good at defense when properly motivated (the strength of her powers depend on her willpower and state of mind). However, the one time she decided to interfere a fight and saved Ichigo's life, Ichigo told her "Thank you, but never do this again." Not that she listens, since in the X-Cution arc, Chad is more convinced than ever that Orihime needs to fight alongside him and Ichigo, so he brings her to the {{spoiler|X-Cution HQ}} fully knowing that others would object.
* In [[Letter Bee]], Lag Seeing is initially unwilling to have Niche as his dingo partner, claiming that it's too dangerous for a girl her age, even if 1) having a dingo is necessary to take the exam and Lag has no alternatives in sight, 2) she fights well against the armor bugs, 3) he's only 12 himself while she {{spoiler|is [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|really two hundred years old]] and only looks like a child because she didn't experience the tremor of emotion that her sister did}}. He drops the attitude at the end of the arc in which he first expresses it, after recognizing that he couldn't have managed without her help.
* ''[[Ranma
** While more frequent in the Anime, The manga plays down this trope sometimes, leaving Ranma frustrated enough with Akane to try and leave her to her own devices against the Dojo destroyer, until his worry eventually makes him eat his words and come back to save her.
* Surprisingly, ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'''s portrayal of women is quite often this (especially weird considering that the series' target audience has [[Genre Shift|changed to become women]]). Kyoko, Haru, and I-Pin are shown to mainly just stay in the kitchen cooking and cleaning and doing the laundry for the men while the men go off to train and fight. And just when they get sick and tired of being lied to, and refuse to
** Can't forget Tsuna's mom who is rarely seen outside of the kitchen. Chrome too doesn't seem to be very strong despite being a guardian...Arguably, since the primary fanbase is women, they all want to see the cute boys act [[Yaoi Fangirl|slashy with each other]] rather than the girl.
* ''[[Gundam Wing]]'' has Wufei who, thanks to the combination of a strict, traditional Chinese upbringing and a [[Freudian Excuse]] ({{spoiler|his wife got killed in battle}}), is dismissive of female soldiers. It should be noted, however, that this tends to get [[Never Live It Down|exaggerated]] in the fandom, and he does [[Character Development|grow out of it]] relatively early on.
** [[Zeta Gundam|Yazan]] and his comments of not liking to see women on the battlefield for some unknown reason. This gets [[Flanderization|REALLY exaggerated]] in EU non-canon non-bandai games like Gundam Musou or SRW. All his in-battle quotes vs female pilots involve referring to them as schoolmarms, nurses, homemakers, or other such female-centric professions. Even against the heavy hitters like Haman, Puru Two, Roux, and Lunamaria, once beaten he derisively dismisses them and will occasionally quote the trope title at them. No [[Freudian Excuse]] though, he's just a hilariously over-the-top chauvanistic bully. Ah, if only Yazan could be in the same SRW as [[Full Metal Panic!|Gauron and Gates.]]
* In the ''[[Sorcerer Hunters]]'' manga, Gateau takes this stance with his younger sister, Eclair, telling her that girls are cuter when they're being protected; this is more than a little jarring, considering that Eclair is (and has always been) the more talented and stronger of the two. On some occasions she tries to accompany the team on missions, but Gateau refuses to allow it every time, even going as far as ''slapping her'' to make his point. Nobody comments on this, even though ''every woman in the manga'' is an [[Action Girl]] (with the possible exception of Salad). His attitude would be justified by the fact that she was kidnapped by series' main villain when they were younger, but the reason he kidnapped ''her'' and left him to die was ''because'' she was the stronger sibling and he wanted her to fight for his cause. Which she later did, willingly.
** On top of that, he had this attitude long before she ever went missing; a flashback shows him bringing her home after she beat the crap out of a guy who called her weak. He tells her she went too far and that if she doesn't act more feminine, no one will want to marry her. When she says it's too much trouble to depend on someone else and that she wants to be strong to protect her loved ones, he laughs at her.
* [[Gender Flip|Gender flipped]] in the ''[[Yozakura Quartet]]'' manga. As Hime and Kyousuke are trying to convince Akina to [[Non
* Fumio's boss tells Kenta that he personally thinks mothers should stay at home in the first volume of ''[[Chibi Vampire]]''.
* Following his Face Heel Turn and coming out of nowhere in a series with no shortage of [[The Hero|prominent]] and very [[Action Girl|capable]] female characters, [[Soul Eater|Justin]] tells Marie that although they're both Death Scythes hers is only "a woman's power" and therefore weaker. She quickly proves him wrong on that assumption by punching him into the air. Stein reasons that she might need his assistance on the basis that, unlike Marie, Justin became a Death Scythe without a meister but doesn't mention her sex at all.
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* [[Brave Series]], full stop. While the guys have awesome adventures with their [[Humongous Mecha]] (who are also all men), girls are either [[The Chick]] or their mother. Only time we had a female Brave was in [[Gao Gai Gar Final]], which was an OVA for an older crowd.
* The protagonist of ''[[Nagasarete Airantou]]'', Ikuto, ends up cast away on an inescapable paradise island inhabited only by women. He refuses to adapt to circumstance and insists that it's the man's job to protect the women from the island's dangers, despite being significantly outnumbered and less strong, competent, and knowledgeable about the island than anyone else. As a result he's constantly putting his own life in danger and consequently jeopardizing the colony's long-term survival prospects. Amusingly, he constantly gets the shit beaten out of him for this attitude. He can't seem to get over it, though, despite repeatedly being thrown all the way across the island because he took a blow for a girl.
* Taken to [[No
* In ''[[One Piece]]'', one Marine officer suggests that Tsuru stay out of the battle with Whitebeard's forces. She indignantly responds that he's in no position to order her around and there's nowhere safe for her to go, and later is shown hanging some of Whitebeard's men out to dry like laundry. [[Visual Pun|Literally]]. [[Never Mess
** This is a questionable example, though, considering there were a number of other female marines present, and one of the more powerful Warlords fighting on their side was also a woman. It seems more likely that the comment towards Tsuru is due more to either age(The only other Marines we see there who might match her in that regard are Garp and Sengoku, who are both [[Living Legend
== Comic Books ==
* This is one of the main character flaws of Jesse Custer in ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)|Preacher]]'', and a large source of friction between him and his capable, gun-toting girlfriend. To be fair, this started when he saw her {{spoiler|get shot in the head. She got better}}. It's portrayed more because he loves her, not because she's a girl.
** Herr Starr subverts the trope hard in the beginning, when he exhorts German Special Forces to always shoot female terrorists first, because any woman who gets picked for that kind of work in the sexist, male-dominated world of international terrorism will always be far tougher, stronger and more fanatical than her male counterparts. Interestingly he doesn't seem to be the only one...check out who dies first in those 80's terrorism movies! (The only exceptions are [[Knife Nut]] terrorists. They stick around to challenge the hero right before they get to the [[Big Bad]], if they aren't the [[Big Bad]] themselves.)
* In the graphic novel ''[[Bone]]'', Fone Bone tries to allocate chores as: Thorn (the girl) does dishes, Fone Bone chops wood. Because, after all, chopping wood is a "manly" job. Unfortunately, he's not tall enough or heavy enough to even get the axe out of the chopping block, and as he's hanging from it, realizing this:
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'''Fone Bone:''' '''''Chin-ups!''''' Go do th' dishes! }}
*
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'''Dewshine:''' What? Why not?
''Leetah can't come up with a good answer.''
'''Dewshine:''' Don't you know your own mind about ''anything''? }}
** The Wolfriders themselves had a policy of employing males-only war parties under Bearclaw's leadership, which wasn't sexism in action, but their chieftain's pragmatic realization that his tribe was so diminished, [[Men Are the Expendable Gender|it couldn't afford to lose any more "life-bearers" for fear of extinction]].
* In ''[[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Fantastic Four]]'', Reed Richards was like this with Sue for a while after their son Franklin was born. He would insist that she stay behind on more dangerous missions, on the grounds that she was "the mother of my child". This didn't last long (Sue put her foot down), and it was specific to
** To say nothing of his infamous "Wives should be kissed, and not heard" line. That caused a stir, lemme tell you!
** An episode of the 1967 [[Animated Adaptation]] had [[Dr. Doom]] plot to have lizard people enslave the Fantastic Four. He told the heroes that the lizard people would force Reed to do research, Johnny to help burn cities, Ben to work in the mines, and Sue to...cook everyone's meals. [[Sarcasm Mode|An invisible girl would have no use in helping defeat the enemies, not even]] ''[[Sarcasm Mode|after]]'' [[Sarcasm Mode|she learned how to make invisible force fields.]]
* ''[[The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck]]'', Chapter 5 "The Laird of Castle McDuck:" Scrooge is called home to help his family protect their ancestral castle from their rivals, the Whiskervilles. He arrives just as his [[Fiery Redhead]] sister Hortense is singlehandedly sending the would-be intruders running for their lives. Cue his father, with no commentary on the idiocy of this plan, telling his uncle to take the women home for their safety... ''including'' Hortense! Most likely a combination of [[Deliberate Values Dissonance]] and [[Rule of Funny]].
* In ''[[Asterix]] and Son'', Impedimenta is told to 'get back to your pots and pans, woman'. She promptly smashes the offending Roman over the head with a pan.
* ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes (
* In her earliest stories, [[Ms. Marvel
* This was the motivation for the "Dumpster Killer(s)" who [[Batman]] dealt with in several issues from the 1980's. They felt that feminism was making women act above their station in life, so they killed and mutilated them to send them a message. Or they were just jerks.
* A [[
* ''[[Avatar:
▲== Fan Fiction ==
▲* ''[[Avatar the Abridged Series]]'': Said almost word for word by Master Pakku to Katara (in a hilarious Scottish accent) "Now either learn to heal, or get in the kitchen and MAKE SOME BABIES!"
** Later, as she obviously wants to be involved in the fighting, he explains that in RPG conventions, [[Final Fantasy|girls are always healers]], so he tells her to "Get in the back row and cast some bloody cure spells!"" She doesn't take that kindly.
* An accusation once leveled at ''[[Undocumented Features]]'' is that, regardless of their status in their canon series, women are almost always pushed into secondary roles while the men do all the fighting. "Justice and Mercy", in particular, is notorious for opening with [[Dirty Pair
== Film ==
* This happens in 70s martial arts/blaxploitation flick ''[[Black Belt Jones]]'', when the title character is called for help during a dinner date and love interest Sydney asks to go with him. He refuses, suggesting that she should stay and "do the dishes" instead. Sydney responds by picking up a revolver, and "doing the dishes" with hot lead, convincing Jones to let her help.
* Played straight in, of all things, ''[[Plan 9
* Turns up in [[The Film of the Book]] of ''[[Jurassic Park]]'', as per the page quote, especially Hammond is an 80 year old fragile old man, while Ellie is a young, fit woman who lives in the Montana Bad Lands digging up Dinosaur bones. This is also a case of Hammond having a bit of [[Values Dissonance]] than being an asshole, at least in the movie.
* [[Subverted Trope]] with Mina Harker from ''[[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (
** Mina was also clearly disgusted at being left behind during the fight with Mr. Hyde, mockingly repeating Quatermain's words "It's far too dangerous for a woman, even one such as yourself!"
* Inverted in the classic 1954 monster movie ''
* ''[[Clash of the Titans]]'': Perseus has decided to travel to the Stygian Witches to obtain information so he can save Princess Andromeda.
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'''Perseus:''' It is a perilous journey. Too perilous for a princess.
'''Andromeda:''' You are not yet my lord and husband. In the queen's absence, it is I who command. Herald?
'''Herald:''' Your Highness.
'''Andromeda:''' Inform the queen we are riding as escort to Prince Perseus. }}
* In ''[[Robot Monster]]'', Ro-Man wants to see the daughter of the family to negotiate. She's actually ''tied up'' to prevent her from leaving.
* In ''[[Airplane
== Literature ==
* In the ''[[Wheel of Time]]'' series, Rand repeatedly goes out of his way to avoid getting any women
** Nynaeve and Elayne go on numerous adventures together and constantly grumble about the men wanting them to stay out of danger. However, they do have a point since they are under trained apprentices with no combat skills and get kidnapped often.
* [[Action Girl]] Brienne from ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' is frequently reminded by minor characters that "a woman's war is in the birthing bed," even though she'd really have no problem mopping the floor with all of them. It's ''very'' worth pointing out the society of Westeros is incredibly sexist, [[Deliberate Values Dissonance|being based on medieval Europe]], and Lord Randyll Tarly is not only against women being anything but wives and mothers he is also against noblemen being anything other than warriors. His merciless and brutal attempts to 'make a man' out of his book loving, song singing, home and hearth inclined son Samwell are wonderful evidence. Lord Tarly takes gender roles very seriously...
* In the ''[[Star Trek]]'' novel ''Ishmael'' by [[
* In Jim Butcher's ''[[The Dresden Files]]'', Harry has a chauvinistic sort of chivalry about him that firmly believes women shouldn't be in trouble, or hit, or anything like that. Subverted in that he recognizes that it's a limitation and that as often as not the people gunning for him are women themselves, it's just one he has to be ''really'' under pressure to start working around. Also subverted in that every woman he knows that's an ''ally'' is a straight [[Badass]], and the one he teams with most consistently is Karrin Murphy, who is a [[Badass]], but also a [[Badass Normal]], who only after several books came to understand the limitations of the 'normal' part. She [[Action Girl|loathes]] it, but she understands it. And never let it be said Harry doesn't respect the hell out of her.
* In ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', everybody tries to keep Éowyn away from the battlefield, and King Theoden wants her to stay in Meduseld and rule Rohan in his absence, thereby giving her another "man's job" instead. Of course, Éowyn disguises herself and goes to battle anyway (though it's never made clear who ''she'' deputized to stay and rule Rohan). And while she's at it, she brings [[Gender Blender Name|Merry]] with her, when he has also been excluded from the troops on account of being too short. And, of course, she and Merry {{spoiler|kill the Witch King of Angmar, a.k.a the guy who killed King Theoden}}. Who, we should point out, is {{spoiler|thousands of years old and mighty enough to give Gandalf serious pause, and there's a prophecy claiming that [[No Man of Woman Born|no man]] can kill him}}. Isn't irony great?
* Spenser and Susan Silverman in the ''[[Spenser]]'' series often discuss this, with Spenser often doing his best to protect Susan. It annoys the hell out of her, but since he's an ex-cop and private detective and she's a psychiatrist she grudginly defers to his judgments on matters that could get them both killed.
* [[
* In ''[[The Lion, the Witch
* ''[[Star Wars]]'': Luke Skywalker is very protective of [[Battle Couple|his wife]], [[Tsundere|Mara Jade]]. And it [[Action Girl|annoys the Hell out of her]].
** Tenel Ka goes through this with Jacen Solo. But she's less snide about it than Mara is.
* ''[[Harry Potter]]'' has the bizarre case is Tonks. Once she becomes a mother, Lupin and others are mostly concerned with keeping her safe. She's a fully-trained Auror, and probably the second best fighter left in the order. Once she shows up, though, she heads to the front lines immediately.
** Harry even notes this in ''[[
*** But of course, this is right before she finds out Tonks is pregnant. When Tonks shows up to fight later in the book, it's after her son has already been born.
* ''[[Discworld]]'':
** The entire nation of Borogravia is like this in ''[[
** Parodied in ''[[
** Also
** Lancre, despite being a very rural and generally "backward" place, has a reputation for producing very tough women who can handle themselves well. Of course the presence of witches has a lot to do with it. Invoked in ''[[Carpe Jugulum]]'' when a (not local) priest demands to know why the townspeople have no problem with [[Badass|Granny Weatherwax]] going out to face monsters alone. They respond "Why should we care what happens to monsters?"
** ''Brutally subverted'' in ''[[Men at Arms]]'', where the Watch is forced to get some new, "minority" recruits. They get a dwarf, a troll, and a [[Running Gag|w]]{{spoiler|erewolf}}. Vimes in particular is unhappy about this (he doesn't like w{{spoiler|everwolves}}), and so the others keep trying to explain that Angua's been taken on as a "minority recruit" because she's a "w--" and then looking horribly embarrassed and having Angua herself call their attitudes old-fashioned. At one point, Colon even says that "The Watch is a job for ''men''." All of this sets up this trope magnificently. It then turns out her status as a female has nothing to do with their misgivings, and if anything, they're worried she'll be a little ''too good'' at fighting for comfort.
* The Kzin of [[Known Space]] are what happens when a bronze culture gets genetic engineering. The Men are warriors and all violent. The women are modified into being non-sentient.
* Played for laughs in ''[[The Alphabet of Manliness]]'', especially in the ''[[Crosses the Line Twice|Obedience]]'' section.
* Despite [[
** At least in some of the early books it was more even-handed, discussing that all women want BOTH freedom and slavery in different amounts at different times, and the same being true for men. [[It Got Worse]].
* The well-intentioned but misguided variety shows up in ''[[Dracula (
* Exists to a lesser degree in the ''[[Antares]]'' novels - female spacers are a rarity on Alta. It is explained as a cultural holdover from when they needed to populate their world, women were expected to produce many children, and therefore avoided dangerous occupations. That said, nobody voices any objections to female spacers, especially when they need to expand their navy to defend against the Ryall.
* ''[[Able Team]]''. This backfires badly on team leader Carl Lyons when he deliberately leaves behind his [[Action Girlfriend]], DEA agent Flor Trujillo, as they're about to bust a convoy of drug smugglers. The smugglers start shooting at them with an RPG-7 and Flor, who's commandeered a helicopter to catch up with them, flies right into it.
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* In ''[[The Inverted World]]'', Helward's wife Victoria complains that the Guild system encourages this kind of attitude: women aren't allowed to become Guild members and are expected to devote all their time to producing children. The root of the problem is actually the skewed gender ratio of births in the City: the live birth of females is so rare that, even with mandatory marriage at a young age, it is becoming difficult to keep the population up.
* In Harry Harrison's "Star Smashers Of The Galaxy Rangers", it's invoked, subverted, averted, reverted, and generally twisted into pretzel-shapes.
* A variant in the [[Star Trek: Voyager Relaunch]] novels. Tillum Drafar has the view that mothers should not be working outside the home. Among his people, biological necessity compels women with young children to dedicate their time entirely to the infant. When confronted with B'Elanna Torres, who balances her work with her motherhood, he implies she is a poor mother for doing so and initially treats her dismissively. B'Elanna, once she understands the reason for his prejudice, manages to challenge it in a non-confrontational but effective manner.
* ''[[In Death]]'': Commander Skinner explicitly states this attitude to Eve Dallas in ''Interlude In Death''. She quickly demonstrates that she just does not fit in his view of the world.
* Oddly, Esme in [[Twilight]]. Rosalie and Alice are formidable fighters always in the thick of conflict, but there is never any question of whether or not Esme will take part. In fact, it is stated at one point that Esme is not a fighter. Presumably this is related to her role as "mother" in the family (and her conscious decision to refrain from violence), but it's still pretty strange since she must be just as strong and capable as any other vampire and they could always use the help.
* In ''The Cat Ate My Gymsuit,'' Marcy's father expresses this attitude toward her and her mother.
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* Invoked by Septimus in ''[[Septimus Heap
* In ''[[
** When Visser Four creates an alternate timeline on Earth with America as a fascist dictatorship, one of the changes is that [[Dark Action Girl|Rachel]] is not part of the Animorphs anymore. [[Played for Laughs|In a rather funny scene]]:
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'''[[Reality Warper|Drode]]:''' You? A [[Blood Knight|violent-prone sociopath]] like you, Rachel? ''(laughs)'' You were in a reeducation camp. This world has little room for bold, aggressive females. You were being taught your place.
'''Rachel:''' [[Berserk Button|Say what? My]] ''[[Berserk Button|what?]]'' }}
* [[Played With]] in ''[[Everworld]]''--[[Heroic Wannabe|David]] and the other guys often try to convince [[The Smurfette Principle|April]] to stay out of the fighting (even against [[Nightmare Fuel|Hel]], whose powers mainly affect men). She always refuses and acts offended, but in her narration is ashamed to admit that she really, ''really'' wants to take those offers.
* In the ''[[Belisarius Series]]'', Lady Sanga (wife of one of the greatest warriors in India and mother of another), spends most of her time cooking in the kitchen. In a way this is a subversion. She pretty much has her husband wrapped around her finger (in a nice way of course) and if she wanted to get involved in war and politics she would and she shows herself [[Silk Hiding Steel|handy enough at it]] when forced to. She simply likes sensible things like being a mother and a cook. Also she has no need to be a cook, being one of the bluest of blue bloods and fully capable of hiring. She just cooks as a hobby.
== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[
* Inspector [[Sledge Hammer!]] doesn't approve of his partner being a woman, which at one point leads to the following exchange:
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'''Hammer:''' No, I encourage women to wear shoes. }}
* ''[[
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'''Buffy:''' Oh, did you ever think maybe I'm gonna take you home, huh? What? You think that boys can take care of themselves and girls need help?
'''Riley:''' Yeah.
'''Buffy:''' That is so Teutonic. }}
** Merely suggesting this is a good way to get Buffy to punch you in the face.
* Averted hilariously in ''[[
* Artie Kendall, the ghost of an old-fashioned lounge singer who occasionally appeared on ''Late Night with
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And never fed until they've done their chores
But men should all roam free
To commit adultery
With an endless string of sleazy German whores'' }}
* Used among the villains of ''[[Power Rangers RPM]]''. A general thought lost in the war on humanity reappears, and spends most of his introduction being condescending towards [[Dark Action Girl]] Tenaya 7. Although it did have equally as much to do with the fact she looked, and was programmed to think, feel, and act like a human.
** ''[[Power Rangers]]'' has had a few of these in it's history. In a lot of cases, the Pink Ranger will be the one helping the innocent bystanders get to safety while the others are defeating the actual monster. This was subverted when ''[[Super Sentai]]'' was brought over from Japan however, since they turned one of the male rangers into a female. This left one of the women in the fight while the other was helping victims. In general, the American ''[[Power Rangers]]'' franchise tries to promote more active female combatants where possible.
** This was completely subverted in ''[[Mirai Sentai Timeranger]]'', in which the Pink Ranger was the leader of the team, though the always male Red Ranger was the actual field commander (despite far less experience). This carried over into its American equivalent, ''Power Rangers Time Force''.
*** This is actually somewhat justified. The Pink Ranger is a policewoman, and was 'not' her team's
** Sentai has had other female team leaders with [[Ninja Sentai Kakuranger|Ninja White]] and [[Juken Sentai Gekiranger|Geki Yellow]], although in both cases the male Red Ranger was still the main character.
** ''[[Samurai Sentai Shinkenger]]'' toyed with this in the role of the Red Ranger. {{spoiler|For most of the series, Takeru is the Shinken Red, thus maintaining the [[Always Male]] role. However, near the series conclusion, it is revelaed that Kaoru, a girl, is the true 18th head of the Shiba house and the real Shinken Red. She finally takes the position for herself, becoming the franchise's first Red Ranger...for a grand total of five episodes at the end of the series. She relinquishes her position back to Takeru by adopting him as her son and successor, thus making him the 19th head of the Shiba house. It's explicitly stated this is more because the team was loyal to Takeru first and worked better with him than with Kaoru. In the epilog she's told to marry - which she flatly refuses to do. She also takes up the Shinken Red banner again in some of the subsequent crossovers afterwards.}} It's up in the air how ''[[Power Rangers Samurai]]'' will handle this arc, though as a woman has been cast to play a similar character, it's expected this trope will appear again.
* ''[[I Love Lucy]]'' usually revolves around Lucy's desire to circumvent her husband's wishes and get into show business because Ricky "wants a wife who's just a [[Housewife|wife]]."
* Non-[[Super Sentai]] [[Tokusatsu]] has women staying away from the [[Transformation Trinket]]. Those that kept women from the trinkets managed to do well...leading to [[Unfortunate Implications]].
** An example would be ''[[Kamen Rider]]''; most entries in the franchise have the women away from belts and so far, these series were very well received. The others? Not so much.
** A [[Running Gag]] in the fandom was that every female [[Kamen Rider]] was doomed to a [[Stuffed in The Fridge|very quick death]], though there are exceptions.
*** ''[[Kamen Rider Decade]]'''s second movie, where {{spoiler|Kamen Rider Kiva-la}} actually ''survived'' the movie she was featured in.
*** ''[[Kamen Rider Kiva|Kiva]]'' has two women who temporarily use Rider powers; one dies off-camera, apparently nothing to do with being a Rider, while the other (her daughter) survives the whole series. ''[[Kamen Rider Hibiki|Hibiki]]'' had a female villain who made it most of the way through the series.
*** ''[[Kamen Rider Faiz|Faiz]]'' had a few girls use Rider powers, some of whom survived the show, but ''Faiz'' [[Kill
*** A particularly odd example is ''[[Kamen Rider Den-O]]'', where female lead Hana is a [[Badass]], take-no-crap [[Action Girl]]
* ''[[The X-Files]]'' episode "2shy" features a local detective who has this way of thinking towards Scully. Never mind that she's an FBI agent. With a medical degree. And a gun, which she can handle quite well.
* Melinda Culea left ''[[
* Speaking of Dirk Benedict, witness his [https://web.archive.org/web/20131220100737/http://www.dirkbenedictcentral.com/home/articles-readarticle.php?nid=5 infamous rant] about the new ''[[Battlestar Galactica
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** Subsequently, the remake of ''Battlestar Galactica'' saw far more commercial and critical success than the original did, with the female Starbuck often praised as a well-developed character.
* On ''[[The Cosby Show]]'', Sondra's boyfriend Elvin acts rather sexist towards Claire. [[The Cosby Show
* Completely inverted in ''[[
* In ''[[Only Fools and Horses]]'', this is a source of conflict between Rodney and [[Uptown Girl|Cassandra]]; early in their marriage Rodney is annoyed to find that Cassandra wants to devote time to her career, rather than staying at home as he'd planned. They eventually resolve their differences.
* Played straight to the point of lampshading with [[Saturday Night Live]] 's Herb Welch, a senile, bumbling, elderly reporter incapable of covering a story or carrying out an interview. In one skit, a female anchor asks him a question. When Herb pointedly ignores her and is admonished for this by the male anchor, Herb snaps, "Well, she can go back to her kitchen." In another skit, this time he responds by sarcastically asking if she's finished cleaning her living room.
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* ''[[CSI: NY]]'' seems to have this with Russ, who'd rather Jo be a stay at home mom than have her career, that's why they divorced.
== Newspaper Comics ==
* In ''[[Blondie]]'', Dagwood at first objected furiously to Blondie starting her own catering business, as he was opposed to her working; he changed his mind quickly once she told him her predicted profit margin and realized [[Through His Stomach| he could help inspect]] what she made for her inventory.
== Professional Wrestling ==
* Because of this mentality, the [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] rules as they currently stand indicate that any male wrestler who even attempts to attack a female wrestler during a fight is disqualified. Naturally, no such rule exists in reverse, nor does this prevent women and men from being in an altercation where [[Unfortunate Implications|the man isn't allowed to fight back, or he's an asshole]].
** This gets even more creepy in the video games, the later versions of which have gone to extreme lengths to enforce this. The prime example? Not only is the instant-DQ rule in Mixed Tag matches strictly enforced, but they are the ''only type of match in the game'' that cannot be set as no-disqualifications. Additionally, certain Create A Storyline scenes are gender-restricted, including ''any scene that shows violence between a male and a female''.
* Several female wrestlers throughout the history of the [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]], such as [[Chyna]] or [[Beth Phoenix]], have attempted to fight this attitude, which is pervasive in both the company and the fanbase. Success was rare, but [[You Go, Girl!|it did exist]].
== Real Life ==▼
* What female forumgoer ''hasn't'' come across this line at least once, either used ironically as an intentionally out-dated insult, by a not-very-subtle [[Troll]], or, on occasion, as an actual sincere put-down.▼
* The aforementioned American policy of not putting female military personnel in aggressive combat situations. This is very, very slowly changing - women now serve on US Navy submarines, and despite technically being in a support role, more women see open combat in Iraq and Afghanistan as a matter of course. There have been studies put forward to suggest that male soldiers will go out of their way to protect women and put themselves in greater danger. Similarly, for some time, it was suggested that women could not fly in combat missions as they would be more likely to black out in increased g-forces (in fact, women are ''less'' likely to experience this). Despite changing attitudes worldwide, there is actually a non-profit organization, the Center for Military Readiness, that openly advocates against the inclusion of women in the US military, seeing them as physically unfit. The same organization fought and eventually lost the battle to oppose homosexuals for similar reasons.▼
* This is still largely practiced in sports - men and women's sports are segregated by sex, with the men's team considered the "real" sport. This can be seen in the case of Mina Johnson, a student of Southampton Academy that is also a JV starting defensive tackle. While the school had no problems letting her play, she chose to sit out a game against a rival academy that threatened to forfeit if they had to play against her. To further extend this trope, the treatment of Johnson led to her [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|team wearing pink socks and armbands as a show of unity for her]] and [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|trouncing the opposing team 60-0.]]▼
** The case of Ms. Johnson is hardly a refutation of this trope, as there is a huge difference between the size and strength differential between junior varsity (usually 12-14 years old, for non-U.S. readers) *boys and girls* and fully adult men and women. While there are many, many sports in which women can compete against men, there is a reason why there are no women in the National Football League of American football; and, for that matter, why there are no female players in World Cup football (soccer, for U.S. readers).▼
* In Brazil, the most common phrase for this attitude is "Go back to the washboard!" (even though with the advent of washing machines, hardly anyone does manual laundry).▼
** "Go back to piloting stoves!" is arguably more popular, especially when driving since the stereotype that "All women [[Drives Like Crazy|Drive Like Crazy]]" is still strong there. ▼
* Similar to the above military examples, in Greece conscription is mandatory. For men. Women who want a career in the Army can join a military school (and not waste about a year of their life).▼
** Is the same in Colombia.▼
** And Cyprus (which is not part of Greece).▼
* Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn famously told a female colleague: "Woman, go ''cook''". It wasn't meant as a friendly joke.▼
* Curiously, where actual cooking is involved, only domestic cooking is considered feminine. In professional cooking, women are ''still'' expected to [[Stay in The Kitchen]]--or rather, stay in the ''other'' kitchen. ''This'' kitchen is a ''man's'' world, since allegedly "Only a man can be a chef. A cooking woman is merely a cook." ▼
** And on '[[Iron Chef]] America'', only one of the chefs is a woman (Cat Cora.)▼
* Ghost, from ''[[True Capitalist (Radio)|True Capitalist]]'', invokes this trope whenever a woman disagrees with him.▼
* The Chinese character (安) (also used in Japanese) for "safe and secure" represents a woman inside a house.▼
* Sadly, many of the conservative sects of mainstream religions [[Moral Guardians|still advocate this]].▼
== Tabletop Games ==
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** Baseline Imperial Culture from which most PCs will come is theoretically indifferent to gender roles both legally and socially. However non-starfaring Imperial citizens from self-governing planets (usually NPCs) will naturally be more inclined to their world's culture then the generic interstellar one and local culture can vary. If appropriate this discrepancy can be demonstrated in the [[GURPS]] version by giving a PC "Intolerance (uppity women) as a disadvantage.
▲== Theater ==
* In one of the few examples where the trope is actually [[An Aesop]], Shakespeare's ''[[The Taming of the Shrew]]'' involves a man verbally abusing [[Tsundere|his rebellious wife]] to the point that she becomes docile and obedient. The Crowning Moment of Squick comes at the end when [[Character Filibuster|she pleads with women in the audience to follow her example]] and act like reverent homemakers. An otherwise good play, the ending ''really'' [[Values Dissonance|hasn't aged well]], and in many modern adaptations gets removed entirely, and there's an oft-cut prologue which [[Framing Device|sets up the rest of the play]] as the ''dream'' of a man married to a shrew, so it might count as a 'fantasy of a henpecked husband'.
== Video Games ==
* It's never mentioned in the games, but there were times in other media where ''[[Mega Man (
* Godot, in the third game in the ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]]'' series, spends most of the game hating Phoenix for not protecting {{spoiler|Mia, with whom Godot had been in love}}, never mind that she was stronger and more capable than Phoenix was at that point, and there probably wasn't much that Phoenix could have done about the situation. In the end, he forgives
** A more blatant example would be him telling Franziska to go away during the investigation, his justification being that "This is men's work." Note that no one else in the series thinks that law or detective work is "men's work". Yet nobody will ever call out Godot on this, likely due to [[Values Dissonance]] between Japan and the rest of the world.
* Cloud of ''[[
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'''Aerith:''' I'm used to it.
'''Cloud:''' Used to it!? ......Well, don't know... getting help from a girl...
'''Aerith:''' A girl!! What do you mean by that!? You expect me to just sit by and listen, after hearing you say something like that!? (to Elmyra) Mom! I'm taking Cloud to Sector 7. I'll be back in a while. }}
** If Aerith hadn't gone with Cloud, she couldn't have saved the World at the very end of the game, and then ''everybody'' would have died.
** Strangely, he never talks to Tifa like this. Although it could have something to do with the fact that [[Action Girl|Tifa has a black belt in martial arts]], is a licensed outdoor survival guide, AND a key member of a high-profile eco-terrorist group, whereas Aerith sold flowers and didn't seem to have any real fighting experience. Also, [[Cute Bruiser|Tifa]] ''[[Power Fist|punches tanks with her fist]]''. And at one point while he's lecturing Aerith, she even calls him out about his double-standard between her and Tifa - "So it's alright for Tifa to be in danger?", to which he weakly responds, "No, I don't want Tifa in...". Mind you, Tifa, who made Cloud promise to protect her if she was ever in trouble and has fixated upon this idea, seems to want to be protected more than Aerith, who makes Cloud her bodyguard but otherwise acts autonomously (at one point even telling Cloud "Don't tell me to go home.")
* In ''[[
** Earlier in the same game, the king of Fabul insists that Rydia and Rosa stay behind to care for the wounded while the men go off to defend the castle. Ostensibly, this is because they were the only ones present with healing magic and they would be needed elsewhere. As the men fail at protecting the castle alone, one would think Cecil would later remember the value of keeping the two of them close in the battle party.
** Interestingly, based upon game mechanics, some players feel better putting Rydia to the front as opposed to Edge, as most of his abilities aside from straight attacking aren't affected by row, while Rydia's whips and rods need all the help they can get. (and you can just swap them for spell-heavy fights.) So Edge goes in the back and hurls everything while Rydia goes in front and plays cackling dominatrix. Since money is no factor by the end as with most [[RPG
* In ''[[
** Some fans speculate this is also the case with Male [[Catgirl|Mithra]] in ''[[
* In ''[[Fire Emblem|Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones]]'', around Chapter 10 (Eirika's path), if you rescue Innes [[The Archer]] with his Pegasus Knight sister Tana, Innes almost immediately tells her to "stop playing soldier and go home". This is explained later in their supports as being a part of Innes' [[Big Brother Instinct]]: he thinks Tana is too innocent and inexperienced (and she has just finished her Peg Knight training), therefore he wants to spare her from the horrors of war but handles it so bad that Tana resents him. Innes' attitude is similar with [[Lady of War]] Eirika, and slightly towards [[White Mage]] L'Arachel, especially in their support
** This doesn't come up as much in his supports with the Pegasus Knight Vanessa, whom he often praises for her skill and her maturity. As much, Innes says that she was [[Just a Kid]] when they met, but she's grown up into a great knight and suggests that they are unstoppable as a team. This might have something to do with Vanessa's lifelong status as a Pegasus Knight in his charge - Pegasus Knights are ''always'' female (because Pegasi don't trust men enough to fly on them) and are expected to guard his entire family.
* In ''[[Fire Emblem|Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance]]'', Ike ''constantly'' keeps Mist and Elincia off the battlefield, and was able to do so with Mist until Chapter 9 (or so) and Elincia until near the end. In the case of both, it's a concern over their level of combat experience and Ike expresses a similar concern for Rolf, a boy Mist's age. Elincia's retainers, which include a female Swordmaster, express more concern than Ike and it's somewhat justified as she is a higher profile target. The numerous women that serve in the army are never objected to.
** In ''Radiant Dawn'', Ike still tries to get Mist to stay behind, but at least respects that she can pull her own weight in the mercenary group as a warrior-cleric (with a bit of subterfuge in Chapter 3-1, helping Lethe and Lyre drug the guards and sneak the Greil Mercenaries in the fort). He doesn't have this attitude with Elincia any longer; besides, purely statwise, it was at that point when she could have [[Took a Level
** Also in ''Radiant Dawn'', you can try to have {{spoiler|the Black Knight}} "rescue" Micaiah from safety, most notably in Chapter 1-9. She will refuse and tell him she is confident she doesn't need his
** [
* Sora did this with Kairi in ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'', claiming coming with him to the final world was "too dangerous" and that she "would kinda be in his way". Thankfully in ''[[
** This does get awkward in the Port Royal stage. Though Sora does tell Will to leave early on, it's rather strange that he would tell Elizabeth to do the same later in the stage when she actually played an active role in combat in the portion of the movie the game is covering. He also doesn't brush off Will.
** {{spoiler|Despite the ending of the last numbered title, in the secret ending for ''[[Birth By Sleep]]'', Kairi has to stay behind while Sora and Riku leave again for the Mark of Mastery exam. At least this time there's still the justification that someone has to stay behind and keep the island safe.}}
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** In the run-up to what everyone believes will be the [[Final Battle]], Maxim actually tells the girls ''why'' he wants them out of the fight: they're the only ones who can coordinate an urgent evacuation effort. It works.
** Then, after Maxim and Selan marry and have a child, it's time to fight again. Maxim tries this, but Selan won't have it.
* Matheld, a female character from ''[[Mount
* In ''<nowiki>
* In ''[[Romancing
* Possible unintentional use in ''[[Dead or Alive]] 4''. In his pre-fight cinematic, [[Ninja Gaiden|Ryu Hyabusa]] finds Kasumi about to face her evil clone [[SNK Boss|Alpha 152]]. He does a "Stand back, I'll handle this!" and moves forward to protect her. Made unintentionally hilarious by how difficult the boss is. Presumably, Kasumi is just offscreen facepalming.
** Depending on the character you're playing. As Ryu, he says it's because [[This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself|it's his duty]]. As Kasumi, she has to do it, as it's her clone.
* [[The Big Guy|Sten]] from ''[[Dragon Age]]: Origins'' has a very comprehensive list of the professions of women (priests, shopkeepers, farmers), as the [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|qunari]] believe these are the jobs meant for them - [[Values Dissonance|choice has no factor in it]]. Note that this [[Subverted Trope|also applies to men]] (laborers, soldiers, officers). If you're using a [[Action Girl|female]] [[Player Character]], he says that either she isn't a woman or isn't a warrior. The former seems more likely to him.
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** He'll also mention that women are administrators. Everything, ''and I do mean everything'', about the qunari is run by one.
** Arl Howe's rant towards a human noble Grey Warden late in the game is extra-dismissive if said heavily armed warrior or rogue who slaughtered her way through his guards is a woman, laughing at her acting like a man. Note that outside of the Qunari, female soldiers are ''extremely'' common, so this is just more of him being a jerk than an accepted attitude.
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* ''[[Pokémon Black and White]]'''s Bianca (one of two friendly rivals) is told to stay behind in several high-risk incidences throughout the game, despite being fairly capable (if somewhat easy to defeat) as a Pokémon trainer. Of course, the trope is averted just as well if you choose the female player character at the beginning.
* ''[[Jak and Daxter|Jak X]]'' has Samos telling his daughter [[Wrench Wench|Keira]] that "a woman's place is in the garage fixing cars!" This is in response to her wanting to get out into the [[Vehicular Combat]] action, and is partially justified as he doesn't want to lose his little girl. Regardless, he's lucky he didn't say that while [[Action Girl|Ashelin]] was within earshot.
* [[Quest for Glory|Elsa von Speilburg]] received this treatment a lot. When she managed to learn sword fighting by watching the castle guard training, the [[Jerkass|swordsmaster]] refused to formally train her because she was a girl. When the hero finally reaches her, she (now the Brigand Leader thanks to being [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]) is so skilled she can kill him in one blow... and right after being rescued, her asshole of a brother tries to keep her from being a warrior. By the time QFG5 begins, she has already proven herself a hero in her own right, and spends most of the game in second or first place in the Rites of Rulership. And yet, everyone still thinks she's incapable of fighting (despite being the best fighter in the series), is incapable of ruling a kingdom (despite running a massively successful bandit gang), and should just leave the contest to the men (despite two dying very quickly, one being a
* Face from ''[[Battle Fantasia]]'' has this attitude toward Princess Olivia. Even though [[Royals Who Actually Do Something|she's actually]] [[Action Girl|quite capable of taking care of herself]], he insists that women should stay as far away from fighting as possible.
* Ward in ''[[
* In ''[[
* Pretty much the whole point of [[Lost in Blue]]. Upon meeting the female lead, the male lead steps on her glasses, thus confining her to a cave and making her responsible for cooking, cleaning, and handicrafts. [[The Load|She also can't do anything outside the cave by herself]] [[Too Dumb to Live|and is likely to starve to death no matter how much food and water you leave for her.]]
* Justified in ''[[Dragon Quest V]]'', your wife forces herself on your travel while she's carrying your unborn babies up until you reach the castle of Gotha, where she ends up collasping and has to stay there. {{spoiler|Unfortunately, [[
* The female Gender Role Doll advertized in ''[[Grand Theft Auto IV:
=== Visual Novels ===▼
* Shirou of ''[[Fate/stay
▲== Visual Novels ==
▲* Shirou of ''[[Fate Stay Night]]'' has shades of this, which are unfortunately severely [[Flanderized]] via [[Memetic Mutation]], especially among his [[Hatedom]]. In the ''Fate'' route (the first route of the game, on which [[The Anime of the Game]] is mostly based), he expresses such sentiments toward Saber, whom he knows to be exponentially more powerful and combat-capable than he is. However, she is also his [[Love Interest]] in that route, and he explicitly falls in [[Love At First Sight]] with her, which unsurprisingly leads to a desire to protect her. Furthermore, except for the [[Doomed Hometown|fire ten years ago]], there is no [[Flash Back]] Shirou has more often in that route than that of Saber cleaved nearly in half by Berserker, implying that both events inflicted a similar level of trauma upon him. (The trauma that injury inflicts upon her is not negligible either; she spends most of the rest of that route slowly recovering from it, with the barest dregs of her power). Finally, the only way to survive the final battle is for Shirou to place complete trust in Saber, to the extent of {{spoiler|returning her sheath to her, which deprives him of the [[Healing Factor]] that has kept him alive through most of the route}}. In a different route, when Saber kicks ass and takes names rather than suffering a near-fatal wound, Shirou expresses so much faith in Saber's abilities that she herself is surprised. It probably also doesn't help that Mirror Moon's English translation of the game frequently has him referring to "girls," even though the spoken dialogue of ''[[Video Game Remake|Realta Nua]]'' clearly has him saying "onna," or "women."
** Also worth noting is Shirou's [[Real Men Wear Pink|readiness to take domestic duties upon himself]]; he's a [[Supreme Chef|highly-skilled]] chef, and occasionally tells Rin and Sakura to get ''out'' of the kitchen for various reasons, not the least of which is that he feels guilty about having them do all the cooking.
== Web Comics ==
* Mocked in [http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=252 this] [[VG Cats]] strip; in a reference to ''[[Cooking Mama]]'', Mama [[Girls Need Role Models|offers alternatives to this attitude]]. [[Straw Misogynist|Shigeru Miyamoto responds poorly.]]
* Angel from [[Domain Tnemrot]] doesn't see as much action as Dae in the arena, but is shown to be a much more capable fighter than him. The main reason she doesn't fight in Tnemrot is because she's recovering from abuse and still has some suicidal tendencies.
* Played with in ''[[Megatokyo]]'' with Erika, who is often offended by Largo and Junpei's attempts to "protect" her against her
* Averted hard in [[Dominic Deegan]] with [https://web.archive.org/web/20140911183803/http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2002-10-10 Luna and Stunt.]
* Comes up twice in ''[[
** First, [[
** Second, Sarah and Susan are discussing the implications of a [[The Legend of Zelda|Zelda]]-expy's [[
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''([[Beat Panel|beat]])''
'''Sarah:''' [[Supernatural Martial Arts|Nanase]], [[Action Girl|Ellen]], [[Tyke Bomb|Grace]], and my boyfriend [[Super Gender Bender|literally turns into a girl to get stronger]].
'''Susan:''' Yes, yes, I realized it was stupid as soon as I said it. }}
== Web Original ==
* ''[[Tasakeru]]'': Zero does the sweet-and-misguided version of this to Hanami, ostensibly because his [[Samurai]] training has drilled the concept of chivalry into him since birth, {{spoiler|and also because [[Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other|he really does care about Hanami]]}}.
* Mans1ay3r's ''Gamer Poop'' series has a few jokes about this, most notably the sketch from [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsIS17jJH7A Oblivion] with a scam artist.
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'''Guard:''' Well, you got all of them back to cooking and cleaning! }}
== Western Animation ==
* Portrayed semi-sympathetically while being deconstructed in ''[[The Incredibles]]'', just before the final battle with the
* Hudson in ''[[
* One ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' episode had the Sultan tell Jasmine it was too dangerous and she should stay behind. Never mind that she'd already [[Took a Level
** A later episode had Sultan upset because Aladdin was telling him to stay behind from rescuing Jasmine because he was too old. [[Double Standard]] much, Sultan?
* Parodied in a ''[[Justice League]]'' episode in which the team ended up stuck in a reality based on a comic book from the fifties. It therefore wasn't considered at all awkward for the only female member of the 50's-esque team to suggest to ''[[Action Girl|Hawkgirl]]'' that they go get cookies while the "men" talked out the whole dangerous supervillain issue. Flash is amused. Hawkgirl... isn't.
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* ''
** Additionally, Pakku himself gets some karmic retribution, as he realizes that {{spoiler|his chauvinism cost him the love of his life: Kanna, Katara and Sokka's grandmother and his [[Runaway Bride]], who fled to the Southern Water Tribe (literally the opposite pole of the world) to escape the strict gender rules. Since Pakku ''did'' genuinely love Kanna, and one of the reasons he was so bitter against women was her rejection of him, this counts ''doubly'' and is vital to his [[Character Development]] and acceptance of Katara}}. And in the [[Grand Finale]], {{spoiler|Pakku gets Kanna's forgiveness and they tie the knot. Awwwww}}.
** The Southern Water Tribe is more progressive in it's attitudes towards women, since female waterbenders are seen fighting in flashbacks, but Sokka plays it straight at first, then gets character development after meeting [[Hot Amazon|Suki]]. The next time he meets her, he now has a overly-protective attitude, since his last girlfriend [[Ascended to A Higher Plane of Existence|turned into the moon]]. As it turns out, the only reason she came along in the first place was because she had the same attitude towards ''him''. D'awww...
** The Fire Nation averts this, since women are at every level of authority - you see female Yu Yan Archers, female guards, and no one is gonna tell Princess Azula, Ty Lee, or Mai to stay behind unless they want to be chi-blocked into paralysis, skewered, or roasted. The only exception was in the finale, when Azula was told to stay home by her father, but that was more due to her father seeing ''both'' of his children as rather disposable and not her gender. [[Freak
** The heroes have quite a lot of trouble convincing Toph's parents to let her help them save the world, because even though she's unambiguously an excessively powerful [[Little Miss Badass]], her parents refuse to see her as anything but a helpless blind girl who has to be protected. {{spoiler|She eventually just sneaks away to join the "Gaang."}}
* Used in an episode of ''[[Batman Beyond]]'', where a man tells his wife to literally "Get back in the kitchen!" It's rather out of place in a [[Drugs Are Bad|Drug Aesop]] episode. See [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeHUQAnzpF0 here] for the scene. And yes, it has gone under [[Memetic Mutation]].
* Played with in ''[[The Simpsons]]'' episode "She Used To Be My Girl". At a conference for women, Homer tells Marge to stay there whilst he goes to rescue Lisa, whereupon he's booed by the women. He then says that ''he'll'' stay there, and Marge can go and rescue Lisa, to which he's booed at again. Homer then asks the women what they want (and both he and Marge end up going).
** In the ''[[King Kong]]'' parody segment in the third [[Halloween Episode]], Smithers avers that "women and seamen don't mix" while the crew is sailing to Ape Island with Marge in tow. Of course, given what we [[
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* ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'' had exactly 2 episodes in its entire six season run about sexism. One was a [[Take That]] at [[Straw Feminism]], but the other involved the girls meeting this trope when they tried to join a [[Justice League]] [[Expy]]. A lot of [[Freud Was Right|Freudian innuendo]] ensued.
* In Disney's ''[[Beauty and
* This is the entire driving force behind ''[[Mulan]]''. First, Mulan is considered a complete screw-up because she fails at her session with the matchmaker and thus seems unlikely to be married. Then she is nearly killed for disguising herself as a boy and fighting in the army. She wins the respect of everyone by the film's end and the sequel has her serving as a warrior for the Emperor again, this time openly as a woman.
* Played for one-off jokes in ''[[The Amazing Chan and The Chan Clan]]''. Anne the tomboy has to put up with "just a girl" comments from her brothers now and then, but it's clear they're just busting her chops and at the end of the day think of her as their equal.
* Master Fnog in ''[[Futurama]]'' refused to send Leela, his best student, to the Junior Karate Championships, instead sending the two students she ''defeated'' in the qualifiers, because he claimed she did not have the Will of the Warrior - which according to him, only men can possess. Later, Leela encounters him during Bender's final bout in the Ultimate Robot Fighting League as the trainer of a new star, Destructor. She eventually uncovers Fnog was cheating and even though he still taunts her for being a woman, she gets to beat the crap out of him.
** Also shows up in the episode where Leela meets a surviving man of her species, who seems nice at first but acts increasingly sexist towards her. It turns out he wants women to stay at home because {{spoiler|if they wandered too far from their mansions, they might discover the ''other'' mansions containing the other women he's seduced.}}
* Touched in an episode of ''[[Batman:
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* Self-inflicted variation in ''[[The Penguins of Madagascar]]'': a faulty DNA test convinces Skipper he's actually female, and so he intentionally starts acting in a way he considers feminine, e.g. by [[Tertiary Sexual Characteristics|wearing a pink bow]], refusing to get into "dangerous" situations, and (horror of horrors) ''asking for directions.''
* A variation of this occurs in ''[[Ben 10: Ultimate Alien]]'' after Kevin's [[Heel Face Turn]]. After Kevin suffers [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]], Ben insists that he's too far gone and it's time to [[Shoot the Dog]]. Gwen continues argue they should find another way with Ben, and later Max, both state that she should just stay out of the way.
** More because [[Action Girl|Gwen]] is Kevin's girlfriend then anything else, she would try and stop them.
* Happened in the ''[[Mega Man (
* This is Cotton Hill's from ''[[King of the Hill]]'' general attitude toward women, he gets called out on it several times especially from Peggy, especially during the episode where Bobby started imitating him.
* The ''[[Biker Mice From Mars]]'' occasionally treat Charlene like
* Inverted in ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy
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▲== Real Life ==
▲* What female forumgoer ''hasn't'' come across this line at least once, either used ironically as an intentionally out-dated insult, by a not-very-subtle [[Troll]], or, on occasion, as an actual sincere put-down.
▲* The aforementioned American policy of not putting female military personnel in aggressive combat situations. This is very, very slowly changing - women now serve on US Navy submarines, and despite technically being in a support role, more women see open combat in Iraq and Afghanistan as a matter of course. There have been studies put forward to suggest that male soldiers will go out of their way to protect women and put themselves in greater danger. Similarly, for some time, it was suggested that women could not fly in combat missions as they would be more likely to black out in increased g-forces (in fact, women are ''less'' likely to experience this). Despite changing attitudes worldwide, there is actually a non-profit organization, the Center for Military Readiness, that openly advocates against the inclusion of women in the US military, seeing them as physically unfit. The same organization fought and eventually lost the battle to oppose homosexuals for similar reasons.
▲* This is still largely practiced in sports - men and women's sports are segregated by sex, with the men's team considered the "real" sport. This can be seen in the case of Mina Johnson, a student of Southampton Academy that is also a JV starting defensive tackle. While the school had no problems letting her play, she chose to sit out a game against a rival academy that threatened to forfeit if they had to play against her. To further extend this trope, the treatment of Johnson led to her [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|team wearing pink socks and armbands as a show of unity for her]] and [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|trouncing the opposing team 60-0.]]
▲** The case of Ms. Johnson is hardly a refutation of this trope, as there is a huge difference between the size and strength differential between junior varsity (usually
▲* In Brazil, the most common phrase for this attitude is "Go back to the washboard!" (even though with the advent of washing machines, hardly anyone does manual laundry).
▲** "Go back to piloting stoves!" is arguably more popular, especially when driving since the stereotype that "All women [[Drives Like Crazy|Drive Like Crazy]]" is still strong there.
▲* Similar to the above military examples, in Greece conscription is mandatory. For men. Women who want a career in the Army can join a military school (and not waste about a year of their life).
▲** Is the same in Colombia.
▲** And Cyprus (which is not part of Greece).
▲* Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn famously told a female colleague: "Woman, go ''cook''". It wasn't meant as a friendly joke.
▲* Curiously, where actual cooking is involved, only domestic cooking is considered feminine. In professional cooking, women are ''still'' expected to
▲** And on '[[Iron Chef]] America'', only one of the chefs is a woman (Cat Cora.)
▲* Ghost, from ''[[
▲* The Chinese character (安) (also used in Japanese) for "safe and secure" represents a woman inside a house.
▲* Sadly, many of the conservative sects of mainstream religions [[Moral Guardians|still advocate this]].
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