The Unfair Sex: Difference between revisions

== Anime and Manga ==

* In ''[[Ranma ½]]'', [[Arranged Marriage|Akane]], [[Accidental Marriage|Shampoo]], [[Childhood Marriage Promise|Ukyo]] and even [[Stalker with a Crush|Kodachi]] are ''incredibly quick'' to administer violent "justice" upon Ranma whenever ''they'' think he's interested in another girl. But past the manga's turning point, when Ranma sincerely believed that Akane loved the newcomer Shinnosuke, he took his grievances with ''the new guy'' and was incredibly polite and submissive towards Akane, only screaming his frustration when he was alone in the forest. And even when Ranma outright asked her "Why?" [[Cannot Spit It Out|Akane never bothered explaining]] [[I Owe You My Life|that she was]] [[Chronic Hero Syndrome|helping]] [[Incurable Cough of Death|Shinnosuke]]; meanwhile, no one ever lets ''Ranma'' [[I Can Explain|explain]] [[Not What It Looks Like|his unfortunate]] [[Accidental Pervert|accidents]], let alone ''ask'' him.

{{quote|'''Akane:''' You should have told me.

'''Ranma:''' [[Lampshade Hanging|And just how often is it that you listen to me before clobbering me?]] }}

* In another Rumiko Takahashi work, ''[[Maison Ikkoku]]'', Kyoko's reluctance to choose between perpetual ronin Godai and suave, well-off tennis instructor Mitaka drives a large amount of the plot, and it becomes Godai and Mitaka's responsibility to win her over. However, this doesn't stop Kyoko from criticizing Godai over his own inability to tell the truth to his not-quite-girlfriend Kozue, and formalize a relationship with Kyoko herself. The manga agrees with her point of view.

* And in ''[[Rule of Three|another]]'' Rumiko Takahashi work, she used it frequently in ''[[Inuyasha]]'' as well. When the title character showed any sort of interest in his old flame Kikyo, not only would he later be subjected to physical punishment by a jealous Kagome he'd ''also'' get chastised by his companions for making Kagome feel bad. Yet, somehow when he shows jealously over Miroku (before meeting Sango) and Koga flirting with Kagome, not only does he still get physically punished by Kagome he ''still'' gets criticized by the others for acting ''stupid.''

** Slighty justified in that Koga (and Miroku too at first) is really just some guy they met, but Kikyo is Inuyasha's ex; they have history together, they were in love, [[Fool for Love|he was willing to become human for her]]. In fact; Kikyo was still a contender for Inuyasha's heart 50 years later. However it's no secret that Kagome doesn't like Koga the way he likes her. Kagome ''did'' have a reason to be worried

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* Writer [[Geoff Johns]] reinvented the [[Green Lantern Corps]] so that now there are seven Corps, each representing a different emotion. The Violet Corps represents love. ALL its members are female. When asked why, Johns just said, "most men are not worthy". Let's ''hope'' he meant that the all-female Zamarons<ref>who made the Star Sapphires like the all-male Oans made the Green Lantern rings</ref> didn't consider men worthy. Since the Sapphires run on every kind of love, people like crazy stalkers can (and one was recently posessed by Predator, the embodiment of the sapphire) become sort of Sapphires, if not official members.

** And Gambit, and Fantomex. Lets not leave her lusting after them out of the way.

** However, inverted in ''[[X-Men: Evolution]]'', where for some reason, Jean is apparently a dirt whore for dating Duncan and being attracted to then-Best friend Scott, but when Pietro Maximoff dated four girls at the same time, no one had any complaint.

*** Well, Pietro IS one of the bad guys, one figures calling out bad guys for being bad is a waste of time.

* Karen Page became a drug-addicted porn actress, sold [[Daredevil|Daredevil's]] secret identity to the Kingpin and slept with god knows how many guys. Matt forgave her. Matt had an affair with a supervillain. Once. Guess who got dumped. THREE. TIMES.

== Film ==

* Averted in ''[[Along Came Polly]]'' where the wife is considered shallow for doing the hunky nudist scuba instructor on their honeymoon, and the husband is portrayed sympathetically and {{spoiler|refuses to take her back.}}

* ''[[Intolerable Cruelty]]'' dances this trope all over the place. First, sleazy lawyer George Clooney helps an unfaithful wife to divorce her husband out of all his money. Then he helps an unfaithful husband to keep all his money in his divorce. Then there's a far more complicated plot where he falls in love with [[The Chessmaster]] serial divorcer from the second divorce. It's all treated with [[Rule of Funny]], you can discuss what the moral message of it is one your own time.

* [[Defied Trope|Defied]] in another George Clooney movie, [[The Descendants (film)|The Descendants]]. His wife has an accident and ends up in a coma with no possibility of recovery and to add insult to injury he finds out she was cheating on him as well. When her family tries to justify her actions by saying she was lonely Clooney's character becomes agitated and delivers one of the best lines in the film:

{{quote|"So what, you're gonna go spouting cliches about women now? Nothing's ever a woman's fault, is it?"}}

* Used ''[[Your Mileage May Vary|far]]'' too often in ''[[Scrubs]]''.

** Best exemplified in JDs Anvilicous closing narration in My Tormented Mentor: "There will always be a battle for power between the sexes, sometimes a man just has to give in, other times he just has to take a positive step, and once in a while a man just has to be there for her." The subtext being that women can't be wrong because they have it hard on account of being women(!?), while in the same episode the chief complaint a female surgeon has against Turk is that he assumes women in their profession have it hard (which is true, at least in universe) and then punishes him for being perfectly nice to her. The female surgeon who is in charge of Turk constantly insults everyone around her and then prevents him from operating indefinitely because she overheard him defending her in front of the resident [[Memetic Molester]] and he told her he doesn't share the prejudices of the other male surgeons. Hint: You're not supposed to be supportive of women, it's demeaning. All instances of female surgeons in the show basically illustrate one point: cocky men are assholes, cocky women are professionals who fight the good fight for women all over the world and it's completely justified if they lash out and misuse their authority form time to time (or all the time.)

** That episode has another example with Dr. Cox and Jordan. After Jordan's brother dies (who was also best friends with Perry), Dr. Cox is extremely upset but finds it difficult to move on with Jordan's friends staying with them. Said friends openly insult and demean Perry at every opportunity and even lash out at him when he tries to get close to Jordan for emotional support. In the end, rather than getting an aesop that the two of them need to work together to overcome the loss, Perry learns he's meant to comfort and support Jordan at all times, even letting her cheerily keep her friends at the apartment knowing how much they upset him. His emotional needs are all but ignored.

** Elliot sleeps with JD then immediately dumps him the day after because her old boyfriend came back; JD's jealousy is depicted as petty and he's advised to "be a good friend". Later, JD convinces Elliot to leave her boyfriend but realises that he doesn't love her. After struggling over his dilemma, he admits this to her; she physically assaults him and carries a grudge for the entire next season.

* ''[[Sex and the City]]'' runs on this trope, though through an [[Unreliable Narrator]] and her female friends, who generally complain a lot about men. Some instances show Carrie in a negative light, like when she tore through a boyfriend's personal locked belongings in a fit of jealous needy snooping, or when she cheated on Aidan with the married Big. Or when Charlotte freaked out on Harry for waiting too long to "set a date", or Samantha cheating on Smith. But about 90% of the time, the women are portrayed more sympathetic or funny in any given situation, and the men are pigs. However this arguably down to the fact they are the [[Protagonist Centred Morality|protagonists]] than their gender.

* In the nurse drama ''[[Mercy]]'', the [[Jerkass]] lead Veronica claims it's alright that she cheated on her husband with an attractive male doctor in Iraq because 'it was Iraq and she could've died' and because 'he cheated first'. She gets called out on both of them, though.

** Blasting Eric for daring to make plans with his friends without asking her permission first. At the end of the episode Eric has to promise to always check with her first before seeing his friends. He then asks her if she needs to ask his permission to see her friends, to which she replies "No." and skips off to meet up with a friend.

*** Yelling at Eric for having two dates with another girl when Donna and Eric were broken up, conveniently forgetting the fact that she herself dated and ''slept with'' Casey Kelso in that same time frame.

* ''[[Grey's Anatomy]]'' just... ''[[Grey's Anatomy]]''

** Not always. Sometimes it's inverted, too! Men cheating (Alex with syph nurse, [[Mc Dreamy]] with Meredith, George with Izzy) is forgiven much, much faster than when Meredith (single person) has a one-night-stand with George (single person) and is blamed by everyone else for being heartless, using him, and just not loving him.

** Sammi’s role in her abusive relationship with Ronnie is generally downplayed. He’s cheated, screamed at her, and smashed her things in anger. Sammi is vindictive, emotionally abusive, and a spoiled brat, but that's rarely pointed out.

*** Months after finding out that Ronnie cheated, Sammi would follow Ronnie around the house demanding to know if he was with any girls and would not get out of his face; it appeared that she wouldn’t leave Ronnie alone until he admitted that he was cheating (at the time, he wasn’t). She won’t allow him to be friends with Jenni, and when she finds out that he is, [[Double Standard Abuse (Female on Male)|she punches him in the face]]. When Ronnie refuses to get out of Sammi’s face after she’s suspected of cheating (she actually did) [http://community.mtv.com/Discussion-Thread/Sammy-is-being-abused/0D3FCFFFF0228928E000901379E58 it’s abusive.]

* In the sitcom ''[[My Wife and Kids]]'', the infamous Sweethearts Day episode. To summarize, the women (egged on by wife Jay) invent a holiday for the express purpose of forcing their men to buy them diamond jewelry. Michael buys Jay pearls instead when she displays a bad attitude, and she reacts like he did something terrible and responds by doing such things as refusing to make him breakfast (and putting raw bacon on his head). Jay is presented unflinchingly as the right one in the conflict, and at the end of the episode Michael is the one apologizing.

** In another episode, Michael wants a quiet evening at home so he can watch the basketball game, but Jay drags him to a fancy Japanese restaurant instead. The restaurant's staff openly rips him off and treats him like garbage, up to and including the waitress stealing sips from his drink and lying about it when he complains. Jay's response is to chastise him for being a baby.

** In yet another episode, the girls decide to play a Newlywed Game-style parlor game where the men have to guess their responses to questions like "When was our first kiss?" The men miss all the questions and end up in the doghouse, but turn it back around on the women and prove that they don't know anything either. All of the women admit their mistake, apologize and make up...except for Jay, meaning Michael has to go the extra mile to get back in her good graces.

* Possibly subverted on ''[[Malcolm in the Middle]]'' where Lois says she has no problem with Hal looking at other Women. Hal insists he never does. When Lois mentions that she looks at other Men, Hal is crushed. It's very much played for laughs and eventually it's revealed that Lois is more devastated than Hal. This is {{spoiler|because it means that he is even more in love with her than she is with him. Considering Lois' obsession with always being the better partner, its a hard hit to take}}.

* ''[[Law and Order Special Victims Unit]]'' had a case involving a murdered lesbian who was in an abusive relationship. The said abusive lover was portrayed much more sympathetically then any other on SVU. While most male abusers are treated like a [[Complete Monster]] she was treated like a nice girl with an unfortunate bad temper. In the writers' defense, they may have been trying to avoid [[Unfortunate Implications]] of the [[Psycho Lesbian]] variety.

** Hell, whenever there is a female suspect or perpetrator, there will usually be something to throw the blame on a man, or a man actually did it, or something will happen to rob the man of his sympathy.

* In ''[[Glee]]'' Will's wife Terri admits that she did everything she could to prevent him from feeling good about himself in order to trap him in a loveless marriage and support her financially. What really horrified fans was that in the same scene Will got angry and grabbed her wrist hard enough to make her cry out.

** That may have been contributed to the fact that Will was always mellow and passive to his wife, and that little confession kind of sent him over the deep end, a kind of shocking [[Beware the Nice Ones]] in a rather upbeat show.

** Even though Brittany cheated on Artie, the show presents their breakup as Artie's fault for calling her stupid.

* An ID channel documentary called ''Women Murderers''. The subjects were child murderers, black widows, angels of death, or went on violent rampages with their boyfriends where they participated in the bloodshed. However, the show was sympathetic toward all their subjects, consistently going to great lengths to portray them as victims driven to their crimes by past child abuse or stress in life. The one lone dissenting voice, who was also the only female interviewed, was a female profiler who put it all into perspective: Many people, men and women, suffered horrible abuse as children, yet they didn't go out and commit murder.

** This is the basic premise of ''Snapped'' as well. Apparently all female killers are somehow driven to their horrific acts by men. But considering the [[Oxygen|channel it's on]]... this attitude isn't shocking.

* The later seasons of ''[[Everybody Loves Raymond]]'' basically ''run'' on this trope. The [[Mary Sue]]-ish wife, [[Jerk Sue|Debra]], acts like a total bitch and still gets instant forgiveness (in fact, the show usually acts like nothing she does is ever wrong), while Ray gets browbeaten and screamed at for the most minor of offenses.

** Considering the show's premise, this sounds more like the producers showing the brides' hypocrisy rather than an example of this trope.

* On ''[[Everybody Hates Chris]]'', Julius is forced to go on strike and stay at home (not his fault nor his choice), forcing Rochelle to have to get a job again. Instead of just sitting around all day doing nothing, Julius cleans the whole house AND makes dinner with dessert. You would think Rochelle would be appreciative or at least show a sign of gratitude like the kids do, but no... she gets all bitchy at him and complains about every little thing (and by every little thing, I mean she likely makes stuff up to irritate him). Then when he justifiably snaps and says he does a better job and doesn't find it difficult, she yells at him saying he's only been doing it one day and has no idea how difficult it is for her. However it makes absolutely no sense for her to say something like this, as narrator Chris explains just seconds prior that Julius was the oldest of eleven children and had to do the cooking and cleaning for them, something you would think his wife would know. Then to add to the stupidity of it, he has TWO jobs at once, so of course he wouldn't find it difficult if he's already a hard worker. He then is guilted into 'fixing' the horrible crime of being a good, hardworking husband at the end. They try to play the whole "she just feels underappreciated" card, but that kind of fails since she starts getting irritated before the kids even say much, and there still isn't any logical reason to feel jealous, seeing as how the strike just started a day prior and showed no signs of lasting a long time. You know it's bad when the narrator says that the man is in the right, yet is STILL wrong.

* This played out over a two part episode of ''[[The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air]]''. It starts when Phil decides to go into politics instead of retiring as was his original plan and Vivian gets upset at him, fair enough. But then her motive quickly shifts into "You know how I feel about politics" with no further elaboration on it. It came out of nowhere too and we never find out what her big problem is. This culminates in her [[Disproportionate Retribution|threatening to divorce her husband]] for pursuing something that clearly makes him happy, no compromise, it's either stop pursuing politics and stay at home or divorce her. The show completely plays this on her side and in the end, Phil gives up his dreams for... the wife who threatened to leave him for no real good reason.

** The show does give a reason. He promised he would spend more time with his family but was taking a job that would give him even more time away from his family.

* Subverted in ''[[Peep Show]]''. While Mark and Jeremy often commit heinous acts,the women are just as complicit and likely to be viewed as bad,such as Elena cheating on Her girlfriend with Jeremy.In a season two episode,the show even portrays Jeremy sympathetically when He cheats on His girlfriend while showing Toni as the bad one for exploiting His unhappiness in His relationship because of her jealousy of his wife Nancy.

* Averted in a season one episode of ''[[Frasier]]'' in which Frasier discovers that one of his parents had an affair. His father, whom he had a very difficult relationship with at this point, says it was his fault. Later however Frasier discovers that his late mother, whom he was very close to, had been the guilty party and Marty was trying to protect her legacy. Frasier is more surprised about his mother. While Marty does accept a degree of responsibility, both must admit that Hester was the one at fault. This trope is also averted in other respects, for at no point does anyone suggest that Lilith was justified in cheating on Frasier and Maris is portrayed as wildly unreasonable while divorcing Niles.

** It even went so far as to do what few other aversions have done... it would occasionally have women ''admit their own culpability'' in the matter. While many other aversion examples are simply examples of other characters or the work as a whole not playing up this trope, Frasier's one of the few where the woman herself was known to say "Yes, it was my fault."

** The overall attitude to gender can perhaps be best seen in the fact that when the characters do stand up to Their wives and call Them out on their crap (e.g' Niles standing up to Maris after years of mistreatment or Frasier's truly epic chewing out of Diane when she comes back) it is treated as Moment of awesome and is quite glorious to watch.

* [[Lampshaded]] on ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' with Anya, a vengeance demon who punished unfaithful men, when she finally muses out loud that in all her years granting wishes to [[Woman Scorned|scorned women]] they were often just as much to blame for the messes they found themselves in.

* ''[[Community]]'' has an in-universe example. After Britta publicly declares her love for Jeff, he turns her down because he doesn't feel the same way. Everyone views her as brave for this, ignoring that she put him in an impossible situation and views him as a heartless jerkass. The show makes a clear point that Jeff does not deserve to be treated in such a manner.

** An interesting case happened with Dev and Tara. The whole "we were on a break" thing from ''Friends'' actually happened only it was a friend of Tara's though Dev didn't know this. A barmaid told Tara about it and Tara plotted her revenge, eventually revealing a nude picture of Dev on a billboard in the middle of the street. Of course if it had been Dev doing that to Tara, reaction would have been a lot different. But she was still treated as vindictive for doing it and Dev's daughter Amber gave her a [[Reason You Suck Speech]].

** Averted with Tracey and Steve in regards to their parenting of their daughter Amy. He refuses to see or even contribute financially to her but is depicted sympathetically because his wife insists on it (albeit due to Traceys terrible behavior announcing he is the father on their wedding day but that isn't Amys fault) but when she stops seeing her daughter because her boyfriend wants it she is depicted as the mother from hell. Although considering that Tracey is clearly a [[Manipulative Bitch|manipulative self-centred sociopath]] who has selfishly upset and ruined Steve's life more than once, it's not incredibly difficult to sympathise with Steve on this one, to some degree at least.

** Later averted with Ziva, who is treated like any other member of Team Gibbs, including receiving the trademark [[Dope Slap|Gibbs slap]] when she messes up. And while she has occasionally hit Tony without retaliation, that's less sexism than the fact she's a genuinely scary Mossad [[Action Girl]], and Tony's more than happy to annoy her into submission instead.

* Played straight and subverted in [[Coupling]] In the last episode of the second series 'The End of The Line' both Steve and Susan flirt with random strangers in a pub, however it is only Steve who gets called out on it (though only because he doesn't find out about her flirting, while his was exposed in the worst possible fashion). However, in the first episode of the third series, Susan is shown to complain that the worst thing about finding out that her boyfriend flirted with a stranger in a bar is that she did exactly the same thing and so can't complain.

** Simon "fumbled a compliment" by ''turning it into a classist insult'', and since Simon doesn't do anything to return Kaylee's affections until [[The Movie]] anyway, it hardly matters what Kaylee does with her sex life.

** Kaylee is a little too quick to see 'classist insults' probably because she's insecure about the difference in their backgrounds.

* Surprisingly averted on ''[[The L Word]]'' which had an almost all female cast. Jenny cheats on Tim in Season one and spends most of the season lying and manipulating both parties. Both are treated sympathetically but it is never suggested that Tim was at fault in any way. When he does act like a jerk, it is viewed as nothing more than should be expected and he is allowed to leave the series as a good guy who simply got caught in a messy relationship.

* Averted and Inverted in ''[[Friday Night Lights]]''. Tim and Lyla have an affair while Jason, who was his best friend and her boyfriend, is in hospital and dealing with paralysis. Jason finds out and is understandably infuriated with both of Them and every other character is disgusted. The inversion is that Lyla, who was there for Him every day, is treated far worse for her infidelity than Tim (Who couldn't even visit Jason in hospital) by the school to the point where hate sites are dedicated to bashing Her. While She is treated sympathetically, the overall view is that She screwed up and had to accept responsibility for her actions while the majority of sympathy is definitely with Jason.

** Ironically, despite the book's point, a good deal of the fanbase blamed the whole shebang entirely on either Ron or Hermione. Usually Ron.

* Played with all the time in most [[Danielle Steel]]'s novels. It is played straight whenever there is a [[May-December Romance]]. A villain (usually male, of course), is said to look ridiculous dating/marrying a younger woman, and the woman in question is always made out to be a gold-digging, airheaded tramp. Meanwhile, her heroines, can easily date or marry someone up to ''40'' years older with no one batting an eye. (In all fairness, her male protagonists are often granted this privilege too). But this trope is usually averted in the case of adultery. Usually no matter what, a protagonist and his/her True Love's adulterous relationships will be portrayed as good, while their cuckolded spouses will be portrayed as horrible excuses for human beings.

{{quote|In a family argument, if it turns out you are right--apologize at once! }}

** [http://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/relationship-advice/how-to-tell-if-a-guy-is-cheating This] article offers some signs that the reader should note to tell whether their partner is cheating. They range from more-or-less reasonable to being rather paranoid, but all could have potentially innocuous explanations outside of infidelity. Take note, however, that number five on this particular list is "[[Hypocritical Humor|he becomes suspicious of you]]". While it is [[Truth in Television]] that one of the signs of being in an abusive or unhealthy relationship is irrational jealousy, the author apparently doesn't notice the [[Double Standard]] of suggesting that a man being suspicious of his partner's fidelity is itself suspicious in a list which is practically encouraging women to suspiciously micro-observe their male partner's behaviour.

*** Number 4. Wow, just wow. He is now happy because he is getting sex and attention. If you are ignoring your partner to the point where (s)he is depressed then I think you may be a touch to blame.

** A really interesting element of it is the contradictions involved. One article said that ''both'' being more affectionate ''and'' less affectionate (more because he's guilty, less because he's "busy") are signs he's cheating (both of which had the aforementioned abuse and assault as his "punishment.") I would be willing to guess that if all of those "Signs he's cheating" lists were combined, there would literally be nothing a man can do that isn't a sign of infidelity.

** And, of course, [http://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/relationship-advice/revenge-ideas-ex-boyfriend-1108 it's fine] for a women to sleep with her ex-boyfriend's best friend, just to screw with said ex<ref>This carries an [[All Men Are Lustful]] subtext; apparently all you need to do is show up wearing nothing but a trenchcoat.</ref>. Along with hacking into his Facebook profile, defacing his car with a sticker, ruining his next date, stealing his remotes, make him think he got you pregnant, and burning your names (inside a big heart) onto his lawn.

** In the former video, that's kind of the ''point.'' He's trying to do a ''[[Edgar Allen Poe|Cask of Amontillado]]'' on her the whole time. {{spoiler|It becomes a comedy at the end when it turns out he bricked ''himself'' in}}

* Refreshingly averted by [[Taylor Swift]], who seems to blame the boy (e.g. "Picture to Burn"), the other girl (e.g. "Better than Revenge"), or herself (e.g. "Back to December") according to the situation.

* This trope is averted with "Close My Eyes Forever", a duet by [[Ozzy Osbourne]] and [[Lita Ford]]. The lyrics concern a woman who has been unfaithful to her man, and she begs him to forgive her for her infidelity. The man, however, feels that he cannot trust her anymore and tells her to "close your eyes for me" (i.e. forget about him).

== Video Games ==

** Note that that might have less to do with the double standard, and more because of gameplay changes. In ''[[Persona 4]]'', even though the same warning message appears, there are ''no'' negative consequences if you pursue more than one girl romantically at the same time. ''Persona 3 Portable'', which inherited many of [[Persona 4]]'s gameplay tweaks, likely inherited this feature.

* ''[[Dragon Age]]'' (specifically, Leliana's romance) plays this for laughs.

* Lois from ''[[Family Guy]]'' is incredibly guilty of this.

** In one episode, Lois forcefully and lustfully tongue kisses [[Family Feud|Richard Dawson]], but later when Peter under amnesia is going to have sex with another woman Lois is hurt.

** Lois ''raped'' Peter when he took up abstinence [[All Women Are Lustful|because she has 'needs']] and was "proving" Peter wrong about abstinence.

** And another occasion she became an [[Abusive Spouse]] and raped him ''again'', upon which she blamed him for belittling her and not giving her a say in the household (granted Peter ''is'' a [[Jerkass]] but it's still [[Disproportionate Retribution]]). Later on, after slugging Peter hard and then ''outright gloating about it''. Peter finally snaps and slugs her back, upon which Lois immediately whines [[Double Standard]]. Peter however hands it back to her and ''both'' of them end beating each other into an equally bloody pulp. Peter negating Lois' attempt at a [[Double Standard]] also doubles as a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] as well.

* Averted in ''[[Futurama]]''. In the first episode, Fry's girlfriend Michelle cheats on him and throws him out. In a later episode, Michelle ends up in the 31st Century the same way that Fry did, and insists that she and Fry get frozen and thawed out in a future time she is more comfortable with. Even then, she still contunues to treat Fry like dirt, and eventually leaves him again. Throughout, Fry is portrayed as a [[Dogged Nice Guy]], while she is portrayed as selfish and unreasonable.

* Averted in ''[[The Simpsons]]'' episode "Dangerous Curves". When Homer and Marge learn that they both nearly had affairs on the same night five years ago, Marge gets mad at Homer for nearly cheating on her. He proceeds to call her out on her hypocrisy, pointing out that she is just as guilty as he is.

* ''[[Daria]]'' [[Averted Trope|averts]] or even [[Inverted Trope|inverts]] this--[[Cool Loser|Jane]] is ticked at both her boyfriend [[Tall, Dark and Snarky|Tom]] and her best friend [[The Snark Knight|Daria]] when they kiss, but forgives Tom fairly quickly, accepting his apology and the fact that their relationship was on the rocks anyway. She is considerably more hurt by Daria's betrayal, though, which takes most of a TV movie to repair.