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* '''Straight''': Alice cheats on her husband Bob with Charles, while Bob cheats with Diane. Alice's cheating is just portrayed as a "moment of weakness", while Bob is made to look like a vile scumbag.
* '''Exaggerated''': Alice has increasingly torrid affairs with more and more men and receives no retribution; Bob looks at another woman for more than a few seconds and faces [[The Scourge of God]].
* '''Justified''': Alice has [[Good Adultery, Bad Adultery|a relatively sympathetic reason for her cheating]], while Bob just wanted an easy lay.
* '''Inverted''': Bob's affair (the result of Alice not touching him once ''ever'') is portrayed sympathetically. Alice's affair (which happened because Bob wasn't big enough) isn't.
* '''Subverted''': It seems like Bob's about to be in the doghouse - but wait, it turns out he's got a pretty sympathetic reason as well.
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* '''Parodied''': Alice holds a ball, and is seen as only doing what she had to in that situation. Bob holds the ball, and gets beaten up by Alice's family and forced to leave town.
* '''Deconstructed''': Bob is [[Never Live It Down|never able to live down]] his affair with Diane, and he is subsequently kicked out of his house and loses his wife. Alice takes this as carte blanche to have as many affairs as she wants with no retribution.
* '''Reconstructed''': Alice's affairs are justified by being a part of her [[Heroic BSOD|emotional breakdown]] from Bob's betrayal and the subsequent divorce. Meanwhile, [[I'm a Man, I Can't Help It|Bob is now cheating on Diane with another mistress]].
* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob had a pretty sympathetic reason too - but he just made it up. Then it turns out Alice was making her excuse up as well...
* '''Averted''': Alice is making excuses as to why she was justified in cheating, only to be told by her friend Elizabeth that there really is no excuse.
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