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* A more concrete example comes with the [[New World of Darkness]] ''[[Vampire: The Requiem]]''. The Circle of the Crone is a covenant that is rather feminist in its leanings, but not to the point of straw—except for one faction within the covenant, the Daughters of the Goddess, who use for public example of their valuing men and not being misandrist a ritual where they sacrifice a male vampire, ritualistically called the Oak King. This is the only ritual where male vampires are allowed any sort of prominence, and they may only be the Oak King. Needless to say, the other covenants, and indeed most other factions within the Circle, ain't buyin' it.
* The third-party [[Dungeons and Dragons|''D&D'' 3e book]] ''The Slayer's Guide to Amazons''. Quite-literal [[Hot Amazon]]s who view men as only good for [[Lady Land|siring daughters]] {{spoiler|(and for [[Black Widow|sacrificing to their goddess after the fact]])}}, [[Offing the Offspring|bash in the skulls of any unlucky sons]], have estrus cycles like [[Incredibly Lame Pun|bitches]], and are classified as [[Neutral Evil]] [[Evil Is Sexy]]? Not even the fact that they're portrayed [[Straw Man Has a Point|relatively]] [[Villain Protagonist|sympathetically]] [[Even Evil Has Standards|compared]] to a [[Straw Misogynist]] [[Aristocrats Are Evil|nobleman]] really redeems this culture from [[Unfortunate Implications|coming off rather]] like a [[Matriarchy|sexist matriarchy]]. And their canonically [[Stripperiffic]] outfits, and the phrase "hell hath no fury" on the back cover, ''really'' don't help.
* Mainstream ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'', drow society is a [[Matriarchy]] that is a cross between this and [[A Nazi by Any Other Name]]. Male drow are second-class citizens at most, their status depending fully on that of his wife or lover. The only true reason for this is the madness of their demon goddess whose dogma of [[Social Darwinist|social Darwinism]] has created a degenerated and near-universally despised race. [[Toggle the table of contents [[Unpopular Popular Character| (Well...]][[Evil Is Sexy| mostly.)]]
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