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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* A ''[[Ranma ½]]'' installment had Kasumi confront Ranma after he'd once again insulted [[Tsundere|Akane]] on her appearance, saying he needed to apologize and cheer her up. When he needs to know why, she replies that while Akane may be stubborn, awkward and tomboyish... "she's still a girl."
** Heck, [[Gender Bender|Ranma]] himself is an excellent example. Though he believes himself handsome in either form, insulting his looks as a man will merely annoy him. Insulting his looks as a ''woman'' will send him into an absolute berserker rage.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In the ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (comics)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' issue where Sally [[Important Haircut|cuts her hair]] and coyly asks Sonic if he likes it, he responds that he'd never known her to be "so... girly." (Ironically this was intended as a sign of her '''de'''-[[Chickification]], which had had her mooning and crying and generally being passive and ineffective.)
== [[Film]] ==
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How I started to cry
`cause I wanted to be dressed just the same. }}
== [[Literature]] ==
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* ''[[The Belgariad]]'' makes some use of this as well. Certainly no female is established as neglecting her physical appearance when she had any other option available. While 7000-year-old Belgarath appears as an old man (and in fact takes care to look like a vagabond), his 3000-year-old daughter Polgara appears eternally 20—by choice, since while an elderly ''male'' sorcerer may appear learned and formidable an elderly female sorceress would be seen as a crone. Though as a child she kept herself filthy and unkempt, after her sister's marriage she came out of her shell and went to the opposite extreme entirely, constantly bathing, preening, and dressing flatteringly.
▲== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* The hosts of ''[[What Not to Wear]]'' take clients (mostly female), who don't wear flattering clothes or apply makeup and then do their very best to assert that this lack of vanity is due to some very serious psychological issues and that the only cure is to make them dress up 24/7. Men are given the treatment too, but without the psychological aspect. Men not caring about their appearance is just slovenly. Women not caring is a denial of their very gender.
* ''[[Queer Eye For The Straight Guy]]'' seems to be built around this. Straight, "masculine" men are not expected to know about matters of style and taste, but ''gay'' men can be their tutors.
* Played with in ''[[Frasier]]'', where not only Frasier and Niles' excessive vanity about their clothes and grooming, but simply the fact that they have good taste and style, is seen as effeminate and therefore undesirable. This is despite the fact that they [[Sharp-Dressed Man|always look good]] because of this—oh no, men are supposed to just ''accidentally'' throw on random clothes that they happen to look dashing in.
* In ''[[Star Trek: The Original
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Cue the chorus: You're so gay and you don't even like boys. }}
▲== [[Tabletop RPG]] ==
* ''[[Paranoia (game)|Paranoia]]'' adventure "Send in the Clones". The Teela O'Malley clones in the final battle are dangerous opponents. However, they can be neutralized just by giving them a small mirror, which causes them to primp and fuss with their hair and check their eyeliner and complexion.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Chrono Cross]]'''s Pierre is first met admiring himself in the mirror, and joins your party stating they will be the thorns decorating his lovely rose. He turns out to be quite the [[Miles Gloriosus]], a phony and all but useless in combat.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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