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* ''[[Maken-ki!]]'' The main character has this philosophy. He also feels that women shouldn't even fight amongst themselves for any reason.

* Used brilliantly in the ''[[Hellsing]]'' manga and OVA. After assisting Integra in a fight against [[Those Wacky Nazis|Nazi]] vampires, some Iscariot members insist on her coming along as their prisoner. She refuses to do so, and, baffled about what to do, they propose knocking her out or tying her up. Integra points out that attempting this would be unfair because they outnumber her, and implies that there would be something thuggish and perverse about them attempting it because she's a woman. Anderson agrees, and instead the group settles on escorting her wherever she wants to go.

* ''[[Ranma ½]]'' has the titular character, who [[Fanon]] usually considers averse to fighting women no matter what the cause is. In canon, not so much; while there are one or two times he expresses the sentiment that he doesn't particularly like to fight girls, it mostly seems to be fans reading too much into the fact that Akane and his [[Love Dodecahedron|unwanted girlfriends]] can all give him the "total beatdown" version of the [[Armor-Piercing Slap]] despite being inferior martial artists. [[Overshadowed by Awesome|Compared]] to [[Can't Catch Up|him]]. Perhaps fuelled by heresay about a comment Ranma makes to Akane the first time in the series that the two of them are sentenced to [[Standing in the Hall]], where he mildly suggests that the reason Akane always beats Kuno is because when a guy is fighting a girl he likes, he might decide to let her win. The reality is that Ranma is [[Would Hit a Girl|quite willing to fight women]], will leap into battle with them without thinking, and only fights them on a relatively "low level" because:

* ''[[Guilty Crown]]'': Dan Eagleman is ''disgusted'' when Segai points a gun at Haruka Ouma. {{spoiler|Even when hindered by the cancerous crystals caused by the Apocalypse Virus}}, he throws himself at Segai and punches him in the face, giving Haruka a chance to escape.

* ''[[Inuyasha]]'' Jakotsu, the flamboyantly gay villain with a crush on Inuyasha, was originally supposed to be female. The author changed him to male because she didn't want Inuyasha to kill a girl. The numerous minor female villains always either transform into monster form(Looking at you Mistress Centipede) during the fight or are dispatched by the female cast, like when Kagome killed Yura of the Hair by destroying the red skull that was her true form. Similarly, the two major female villains (Kagura and Kanna) get hit by the heroes' combined weapons only a handful of times despite being introduced very early in the series, and being dispatched very late in the storyline. In the end {{spoiler|Kagura is murdered by Naraku for betraying him, and Kanna is killed by taking the damage from the monster she was controlling while the heroes were pleading with her to not die for Naraku. Both deaths are treated as an example of what an abomination that Naraku was}}.

* ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'' Kuwabara is revealed to have "don't fight girls" as part of his personal moral code. He even refuses to fight the demon Miyuki during the Rescue Yukina arc, despite the fact that she is both deliberately challenging him and quite offended by this attitude. Yusuke, meanwhile, promptly steps up and reveals that [[Would Hit a Girl|he has no problems with fighting girls]], declaring that he doesn't understand what the problem is with refusing to fight somebody who wants to fight you just because they're a different sex and proceeding to brutally finish her off. In the unedited dub, after beating her senseless, Kuwabara starts to protest Yusuke's actions in outrage, for which Yusuke reluctantly explains that Miyuki isn't a woman at all. She's female-dressed and [[Transgender]] (presumably male to female, though comments made could be taken as making her to be a female to male) with breasts and male sexual organs, leading to the following amusing quote:

{{quote|'''Yusuke''': The family jewels have ''not'' been stolen.}}

** In essence, the scene manages to play the trope straight, avert it, and then subvert it in rapid succession.

* ''[[One Piece]]'' Sanji chivalrously refuses to fight women, or in one case a Shapeshifter taking the form of a woman (Nami, although that was partially because he couldn't stop swooning over how cute "she" was) even if it means his death, and was once severely beaten as a result, with Nami being sure to let him know how stupid he's being. He does point a gun at Nico Robin on one occasion, but admits that it was a reflex to protect Vivi.

*** This gets [[Deconstructed Trope|deconstructed]] in his fight with Kalifa, who beats him up, [["The Reason You Suck" Speech|and then lectures Sanji on how idiotic his moral code is.]]

** Sanji actually has to continually trick Mr 2 Bon Clay into touching his face with his left hand to keep the opponent from averting Sanji's attack because he takes Nami's form. Even mid-kick.

** Notable occurrence in Usopp's fight with Perona. Usopp never actually hit Perona, instead using his various tricks and gadgets to frighten her into unconsciousness. Well, he did hit her with an inflatable hammer, but it didn't actually hurt her.

*** He tried to hurt her though at the start of the fight. Then, till the very end, she was not even tangible.

** This was nearly averted by Ryoma in the anime, though. When an [[Alpha Bitch]] from Jyousei Shonan and her [[Girl Posse]] were harassing Sakuno and Tomoka (and said [[Alpha Bitch]] [[Kick the Dog|pushed poor Sakuno to the ground and threatened to do the same to Tomoka when she stood up for her friend]]), he does ''not'' hit them... but throws balls ''dangerously'' close to them to scare them off. The [[Alpha Bitch]] has to dodge one of the balls, and had she not done so she ''would'' have been hit.

** In his backstory, a young Nanjiroh Echizen is ''extremely'' upset when he finds out that Rinko Takeuchi, the girl he fancies ([[Love At First Punch|in a rather sui-generis way]], has been physically abused [[Sadist Teacher|by her tennis coach]] (and for extra [[Kick the Dog]] points, she took a beating to protect a little child whom he has been mistreating) and settles things with a tennis match in which [[Curb Stomp Battle|he completely crushes him.]]

* ''[[Eyeshield 21]]'' The Deimon Devil Bats go up against the Teikoku Alexanders, whose quarterback is female. Hiruma senses misplaced chivalrous intent in his team and cuts the problem off at the knees by making up a story to them about Karin, the female quarterback—her name's really Karinrou and she's a man, so you'd better go all out on her. It works.

* ''[[Bleach]]'': Aramaki feels guilty about knocking Orihime out when she tries to bite him in order to go back and assist Uryu. Mayuri suggests that part of the "honor of the Quincy" involves protecting women- even enemies- after Uryu protests his mistreating his female lieutenant and "daughter," Nemu.

** During his training with Uruhara, Ichigo shows a lot of reluctance to spar with Ururu, which overlaps with [[Wouldn't Hurt a Child]] because Ururu looks like a young girl. He quickly changes his mind when he finds out she's a lot stronger than she looks.

* When Hime-chan from ''[[Hime-chan no Ribon|Himechan no Ribon]]'' asked Daichi to hit her (because she hit him earlier and she felt guilty) he refused to hit a girl. So she grabbed his fist and punched herself with it.

* ''[[Kongoh Bancho]]'' Partially averted, where the protagonist Akira Kongoh has no problem fighting a girl, but often either underestimates them or intentionally holds back because of their gender. Although in both cases shown so far it's proven to be a rather bad idea, and he doesn't actually win until he goes all out.

** Aizawa plays this trope straight. Although he is a [[Japanese Delinquents|"Yankee" Delinquent]] who fights very ungentlemanly against guys, he is unwilling to hit a girl, even if a girl (usually unintentionally) offenses him. The only exception is when he deals with the tomboyish Ginga, whose fighting skills are, however, on par with his.

* In ''[[Bakuman｡]]'', when Miyoshi demands that Mashiro and Takagi let her into their office, Takagi reluctantly decides to answer the door, saying that she would beat him up later. He says that he would fight back and win, but can't because she's a girl, and Mashiro doubts this statement.

** [[Subverted]] in ''High School Boys and Seniority'', Motoharu didn't hit his sister's classmates that are bullying him...not because they're girls, but because they're [[Sempai-Kohai|senior to him]].

* Even though Guts from ''[[Berserk]]'' [[Would Hit a Girl|averts this]] when it comes to VERY LETHAL female apostles, he fiddles with this trope at best. You see, Guts isn't exactly the poster child of a [[Knight in Shining Armor]] and has done a BIG share of morally questionable actions, but he's still too decent of a guy to sink to level of battering women and girls just because. At most, he'll just hurt their feelings, traumatize them, threaten them, or hold them hostage, and in those instances, that was back when Guts was almost a [[Villain Protagonist]] before [[Morality Chain|he found his light again.]] A good example would be with his own future [[Love Interest]], Casca. When they were stranded in the rain after a battle and Casca feel ill (which was induced by her fighting during her period), [[Intimate Healing|Guts had to save her life by taking off their clothes and warming her.]] Casca, who didn't like Guts back then, didn't take too kindly to this gesture the next morning and attacked him. In his aggravation, Guts began to yell at her and told her that had she been a man, he would have dislocated her jaw. [[Stay in the Kitchen|Guts said a bunch more pretty hurtful things to Casca]] - which resulted in her crying and him feeling sorry for doing so - but it was most likely because he was hurt that he always tried to get on Casca's good side but she never approved of him, so he just popped.

 

* ''[[Sin City]]'' Played straight in the comic book and film; Marv has some (albeit a very few) moral lines in the sand, which he crosses only with extreme reluctance - hitting a woman is one of them. He crosses this line on only two occasions in the series: {{spoiler|to spare his companion Wendy, Goldie's twin sister, from having to watch him torture Goldie's killer Kevin to death}}, and {{spoiler|executing a female slave trader who was planning to sell a girl who Marv was trying to find and bring back to her mother into sexual slavery}}.

** Marv also takes this trope one step further, as other people hitting women is his [[Berserk Button]], particularly in regards to Nancy Callahan, his favorite among the strippers at Kadie's. He mentions an episode from his past when some frat boy asshole roughed up Nancy, and Marv "straightened him out but good," implying that the other guy didn't survive the beatdown.

** And yet after that, Superman backslides into being bound by this trope. Fortunately for Metropolis, most of his opponents are male because, when he fights a woman, he gets slapped around a lot because he can't be shown striking her, even when she's clearly powerful enough to take one of his punches. He'll restrain her or attack her in an indirect fashion (like pouring water on Livewire), or a female superhero will step in (often after he's been dropped) and beat the villainess up for him.

* In ''[[Asterix]] and the Secret Weapon'' The villain attempts to use this trope to defeat the invincible-yet-honourable Gauls - by employing a whole ''centuria'' of women to fight them. The gauls respond by transforming their village into a giant mall. The "trap" succeeds flawlessly; [[Unfortunate Implications]] ahoy, though one can also attribute their lack of military discipline (evidenced in their first on-page appearance) to a rushed training.

* ''[[Wonder Woman]]'' volume 3 #20, Diana ticks off [[Beowulf]], and he attacks her. After she punches him in the face, Beowulf apologises and says he doesn't fight women. Then they see Grendel's worshippers approaching, and Diana asks him if he ever fights ''beside'' women. Cue the pair readying themselves for battle.

** Which is odd, because in the original Legends, one of the monsters Beowulf kills is Grendel's ''mother''.

* The first time [[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Spider-Man]] encountered a female villain, he said that he couldn't hit a girl. Few of his villains even today are female.

** He gets over this later. In ''[[Secret Wars]]'' especially when he takes on Titania (who was about kill [[She Hulk]]) and throws her through a wall.

** He had definitely gotten over this by the videogame based on the third movie; not only can you pummel Shriek, there are also Apocalypse Gang Grenadiers, who are female, and there's nothing stopping you from catching them in a web line and slamming them at high speed into the pavement.

** Used again in another comic. A supervillain and a supervillainess have escaped from prison. Long story short, Cap hits her with his elbow hard enough to knock her out briefly while saying "Sorry, lady!"

* ''[[The Punisher]]''—for a while. Prior to Garth Ennis, Frank had a habit of going easier on women than men. He once laments that he doesn't know why, given all the evil women he's met. They usually try to kill him despite his mercy, making it a moot point.

** Both subverted and played straight in a fairly recent ''[[The Punisher|Punisher]]'' Christmas Special (2005, I think), wherein a [[Dark Action Girl|hitwoman]] is hired by the wives of New York mafiosos killed by the Punisher. She has a decoy gun down civilians at Times Square on New Years Eve to draw Frank out, then they engage in brutal fight. Frank wins, and the hitwoman reveals she has a bizarre [[Stalker with a Crush]] attitude towards Castle. She reveals her employers, Frank apparently kills her by tossing her out a window, and then confronts the wives. The lead one pulls a gun and is killed, while the others plead with Castle, who agrees to let them go, as long as they leave the country after donating money to the victims of the Times Square massacre.

* [[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|The Thing]] explains [http://www.comicvine.com/jean-grey/29-3552/earth-616-jeanphoenix/108-26/jean_grey1/105-1712956/ his predicament] in a [[Let's You and Him Fight]] with the [[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]].

 

* ''[[Small Soldiers]]'' Chip Hazard references the trope, but he's very selective about how he applies it. His statement is in reference to a bunch of Barbie dolls he and his fellow toys roboticized. He really has no problem killing human women if necessary.

* ''[[Batman Returns]]'' When Batman and Catwoman are fighting for the first time, she pummels him and he refuses to counterattack - for a moment. When finally he does punch her out, she whimpers, "How could you? I'm a ''woman!''" Immediately contrite, Batman moves to help her up... and she knocks him off the rooftop. "As I was saying, I'm a woman, and can't be taken for granted!" In later encounters, Batman has learnt his lesson and does hit her.

* In ''[[Superman II]]'', Ursa says, "What? ''You'd'' hit a woman?" to get Superman to hesitate.

 

* Played to the hilt in ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'' series. Although many of the women of [[Fan Nickname|Randland]] wield more political power than men, and are frequently seen physically abusing men, most cultures are extremely protective of women, causing many men to refuse to harm a woman for any reason. Many women, however, protest this behavior.

** Rand al'Thor is the most prominent example. He refuses to harm a woman even if she's an immortal agent of [[Ultimate Evil]] and trying to kill him using legendary [[Black Magic|magical powers]]. He also goes out of his way to avoid putting women in danger, which upsets his Amazonian bodyguards immensely. In fact, Rand has memorized the name or identifying characteristic of ''every woman'' who died because of him or while in his service. He once goes into a [[Heroic BSOD]] after a woman who tried to steal his throne and betray him commits suicide. The 12th book suggests that his behavior is the result of his growing insanity, which magnifies his chivalrous upbringing.

* In ''[[The Great Brain|More Adventures of the Great Brain]]'', the kids all taunt a 12-year old girl named Dottie, who dresses like a boy and has never been to school before. Ringleader Sammy gets a little too close, so she punches him in the nose. He says he'd fight back if she weren't a girl, but she tells him to go ahead. Sammy ends up eating dirt, and once she learns to fit in, Dottie becomes a celebrity among the other girls for beating up a bigger boy in a "fair and square fight."

* In [[Lois McMaster Bujold]]'s ''[[Chalion|Paladin of Souls]]'', Arhys {{spoiler|kills seven enemy sorcerers before being defeated by the eighth. Ista tells the others that the last sorcerer was probably a young and beautiful woman, and Arhys couldn't overcome his chivalry in time to win the fight. His brother remarks sadly that it is an appropriate death for him.}}

* Subverted in ''A World Gone Mad''. Jerkass [[Anti-Hero]] Griffin, when confronted by teen [[Action Girl]] Tanya, raises his hands and tells her "I'd never hit a girl." He then promptly whips out his gun and shoots her in the head while she's occupied preparing to give him a "you sexist idiot" speech.

** He later tries to pull the exact same move on Kyra, but she's quick enough and smart enough to dive for cover before he can clear his holster.

* Played completely straight in another of [[David Weber]]'s book series, the [[Hell's Gate]] series where both empires have big, big issues with harming women.

* In [[Dan Abnett]]'s [[Gaunt's Ghosts]] novel ''Traitor General'', when the [[La Résistance|resistance member]] Sabbatine Cirk baits and snipes at the members of Gaunt's team, it is Ana Curth who finally slugs her.

* In [[Sandy Mitchell]]'s [[Ciaphas Cain]] novel ''The Traitor's Hand'', the colonel of the Tallarn regiment refuses to participate in an interregimental competition of unarmed combat because the women in the Vallahan regiment would participate, which is "unseemly." Whereupon their regimental champion was "promptly and informally challenged" by a female Vallahan.

* ''Sisterhood'' series by [[Fern Michaels]]: Harry Wong in ''Lethal Justice'' apparently has this attitude towards Yoko Akia when they spar against each other. She non-hesitatingly kicks his ass, but she is still willing to have a relationship with him anyway!

 

* ''[[Star Trek]]'' plays this straight a lot. Which is weird, since the Federation (especially from the TNG era on) is generally portrayed as a liberal utopia free from all gender prejudice.

** ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' In the episode ''Dax'', [[Dogged Nice Guy|Dr Bashir follows Dax to her quarters]] and sees her being kidnapped by a [[Terrible Trio]]. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|After punching]] [[The Scrappy|their leader]], one of the other two goes for him. He is about to punch when the hood comes down and he sees it's a woman. Needless to say, the poor guy got his ass handed to him.

* ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]'' the 1960s series. The villains' girlfriends never got involved in the fights, Batgirl never got hit, and in one especially goofy moment, the villain uses a ''gang of schoolgirls'' to capture Robin, knowing that he's 'too much of a gentleman' to hit a woman.

** Revealing exception: In "The Entrancing Dr. Cassandra," Batgirl actually takes several punches... all from invisible opponents.

* ''[[Ashes to Ashes]]'' Taken more or less as a given—while the two male leads of ''[[Life On Mars]]'' could and did knock each other around as a regular means of conflict resolution, for Gene to raise a hand to his new female opposite number would be [[Crossing The Line]]. Not that they actually fight any less often, you understand—he's just forced to resort to verbal baiting and blatant sexual harassment.

** It's probably a side-effect of this trope that leads to Gene's sidekicks being astonished when she hits him with a fist, instead of with an open hand.

** Apparently averted at least once... because Conan used that clip on his show, acting shocked after it was over.

** [[Would Hit a Girl|The exact opposite of this trope]], however, was regularly used with the villains, who frequently batter women in many episodes, always without fear of the consequences. (Children and elderly people have also been known to be hit and injured by the bad guys in episodes.)

* Subverted in ''[[The Wild Wild West (TV series)|The Wild Wild West]]'': The second (In Color!) [[Animated Credits Opening]] changed a scene of Jim West incapacitating a female assassin with a kiss to incapacitating her with a right cross. That's right: Woman-punching was specially added for the new-and-improved credits sequence. Though given he shot all other opponents, it's still a step down on violence: [[Double Subversion|James West wouldn't shoot a girl.]]

* Played with in ''[[Chuck]]'':

'''Mary''': I can't believe you'd hit a girl!

'''Marshall''': You're no girl. }}

 

* Subverted in an early ''[[Peanuts]]'' strip, where Charlie Brown is fed up with Lucy, and shouts at her. She challenges him to a fighting match, but he declines. Linus says that Charlie Brown should've slugged Lucy. Schroeder explains that Charlie Brown "would never think of hitting a girl, so he deliberately humiliated himself to hold on to his high moral standards". Charlie Brown responds that he was just afraid that she would beat him up.

** In another ''Peanuts'' strip from the late 1950s, Linus takes Lucy on in a backyard boxing match but takes two hard lefts before he knows it. Stunned, Linus begins to get serious and then Lucy lowers her gloves and says "You wouldn't hit a girl, would you?" while Linus, saying "Huh?" then lowers his gloves upon which Lucy rips a left hook to Linus' jaw to knock him out.

* In ''[[Dick Tracy]],'' when the female villain Quiver has threatened to blow up an airliner, Tracy ends up having to sock her in the jaw before she can hit the button. Afterward, he looks embarrassed, and tells the stewardess he doesn't normally go around hitting women. The stewardess quips, "That's alright, Detective Tracy. Haven't you heard of equal rights?"

 

 

* A longtime trope in [[Professional Wrestling]] (at least among [[face]]s), averted when [[Triple H]] (then Hunter Hearst Helmsley) hired a female bodyguard ([[Chyna]]), who was more muscular than most of the men on the roster. She established her position early on by beating up [[Bret Hart]] in one of her first appearances, without giving him a chance to hit her back. Then they went up against [[Stone Cold Steve Austin]], who had no such qualms, and thus made it OK for men to get physical with her (and occasionally, other women). She would go on to regularly wrestle men and win the Intercontinental title.

** Often times if a heel has a female manager or girlfriend, they'll [[Dirty Coward|use her as a human shield]] when being chased by a face with a steel chair, because they know the face would never hit a woman.

* During the WWF's kayfabe era, this trope's most frequent use centered on Miss Elizabeth, the valet of [[Randy Savage]]. During Savage's heel run in 1985-1987, particularly when he was wrestling [[Hulk Hogan]], Savage would pull Elizabeth in front of him, using her as a shield while he had a chance to regroup; Hogan would simply pick Elizabeth and gently move her out of the way, giving Savage ample opportunity to blindside Hogan. Also during Savage's heel run, he came close several times to striking Elizabeth himself (usually when he perceived her to be paying too much attention to an opponent, not opening the ropes or folding his robe correctly or some other minor misdeed) but always stopped short of actually striking her. Apparently, Savage (and the WWF) agreed that they wanted him to be a heel, but not such an outwardly despicable one.

: The rule of "never touch Elizabeth" began to be thrown out when Savage turned face at the end of the summer 1987, and while the heels never struck or punched her, Elizabeth was shoved and grabbed by both the wrist and ankle on many occassions, by such dastardly heels as The Honky Tonk Man, [[Andre the Giant]], the Big Bossman and Akeem. Savage's other opponents during his face run -- Butch Reed, "Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase, Haku, Bad News Brown and Dino Bravo -- were satisfied with simply trash-talking Elizabeth. During Savage's second face run starting in 1991, Jake "the Snake" Roberts completely threw out the trope by slapping Elizabeth across the face during a memorable match.

* This was averted in the [[Attitude Era]] and Ruthless Aggression Era in a few intergender tag matches where men and women on

separate teams would get in some offence against their opposite gender. The likes of [[Lita]], Jacqueline, Molly Holly, Ivory and later [[Trish Stratus]] would have no objections to taking a few hits from the men.

** Bubba Ray Dudley completely averted this in a tag match in late 2002 where he dished out body slams and clotheslines to Victoria with no hesitation along with both her male partners.

 

 

* ''[[Bully (video game)|Bully]]'' allows you to hit girls, but your alert bar goes to maximum and prefects spawn out of nowhere to attack you. Justified, since it's a Western game, after all. This has a side-effect of turning Zoe {{spoiler|who doesn't appear until very late in the game and fills the conspicuously-empty Bully clique girl's slot}} into a [[Faux Action Girl]], because although she's stated to a formidable fighter and really likes to fight, you can't fight her; the girl-type AI has them run away if struck.

* The ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' series. Every character is willing to hit a girl, but there are a few exceptions;

* In [[Fallout 2]], if your Chosen One is female, Enclave patrols will occasionally express their displeasure about having to kill a woman. Doesn't stop them from tearing her a new one with their hi-tech weapons though.

* In ''[[BlazBlue]]'', this is one of the [[Pet the Dog|nicer traits]] of [[Badass|Ragna]] [[One-Man Army|the]] [[Anti-Hero|Blood]][[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|edge]]. Granted, he won't hold back if a woman attacks him or tries to apprehend him, but he states several times that he doesn't enjoy fighting them, and when he does defeat them, he is usually quite sympathetic and regretful.

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* Justified in the [[Web Comic]] ''[[Fans]]'' with Will Erixon: {{spoiler|he feared becoming like his father, who beat his mother to death.}}

* ''[[Ozy and Millie]]'' plays with this trope [https://web.archive.org/web/20100713130208/http://www.ozyandmillie.org/d/19990310.html here].

* Used straight in ''[[Misfile]]'' [http://www.misfile.com/index.php?page=33 when Emily slaps Ash and tells her she can only hit back if she's willing to accept being a girl.] Semi-averted later when Ash picks a fight with Tom and he fights back (offscreen) until they're pulled apart. (It's not a true aversion since Tom is never actually shown striking Ash.) Naturally, the [[Double Standard]] ensures that Tom gets punished and Ash doesn't even though she started the fight, which both relieves her and annoys her to no end. Fully averted later [http://www.misfile.com/?page=1312 here], when Ash loses her cool and actually ''does'' hit a girl full-force in the face, only to freak out about it afterwards.

** Mr. Verres, however, follows this trope completely as shown [http://egscomics.com/?date=2010-11-01 here.] Even though he knows that the "girl" in question is [[Gender Bender|normally a guy]] he still won't deliver the much-deserved [[Dope Slap]].

* The [[Villain Protagonist]] Hunter Ravenwood of [[Suicide for Hire]] claims that [[Even Evil Has Standards|"I draw the line at the unwarranted violent abuse of the fairer sex."]] This does not stop him accepting female clients of the eponymous business, however, nor did it stop him from planning the most grotesque death yet for a female client. {{spoiler|His plan involved, in Arcturus' words, "having metal hooks shoved up [her] ass to forcibly remove [her] innards". When Arcturus argued that this was too close to rape, Hunter amended the plan and shoved the hooks down her throat instead.}} Evidence suggests he tries not to think of the clients as people in the first place.

* ''[[Last Res0rt]]'', being a (reasonably) egalitarian [[Cyberpunk]] future setting, sees very few problems with women fighting alongside men on the show, or shoving people into a pit full of [[Mecha-Mooks|robotic chickens]] for a job interview... but when [http://www.lastres0rt.com/?p=53 Jason slaps Daisy upside the head], almost every other woman in the room is still shocked and appalled, to the point that Jigsaw's overly dramatic [[Freak-Out]] is [http://www.lastres0rt.com/?p=54 dismissed as a bad reaction to the scene], ignoring the [[Red Eyes, Take Warning|dead eyes]] she just showed off... Daisy was chained to the wall by her hands and foot, and was helpless when it happened. She was trying to provoke him at the time anyway...

* Played straight AND averted in [http://gunshowcomic.com/347 this] [[Gunshow]] comic

'''Torg:''' Ouch. Is that policy too?

'''Crushestro:''' Ever since my re-divorce? Yes! }}

* In ''[[Our Little Adventure]]'', [http://danielscreations.com/ola/comics/ep0131.html Lenny asks Julie to hit her sister for him, because of the double standard and everything.]

 

* Sarge of ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'', despite his usual willingness to shoot or hit anything Blue (or Grif). In Reconstruction, when the blue soldiers of Blood Gulch consist of only Sister, Sarge insists that he can't attack Sister because she's a woman, and thus they are locked in an 'epic stalemate'.

* In ''[[Epic Rap Battles of History]]'', [[Ludwig Van Beethoven]] says this is why he won't smack [[Justin Bieber]].

 

* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' By and large averted but played with in-story [[Kayfabe]] no less, in the episode "The Blind Bandit":

{{quote|'''The Boulder:''' [[Third Person Person|The Boulder]] feels conflicted about fighting a young, [[Disability Superpower|blind]] girl.

* Judge Mills Lane subverts it during his fight with [[Judge Judy]] in ''[[Celebrity Deathmatch]]''. Although he does make it known that he doesn't hit women, he puts a blindfold on as a handicap and proceeds to fight her.

 

* Commonly [[Truth in Television]]; many parents do teach their sons this rule. Men who break this taboo, even in self-defense against a woman who poses a credible threat, are treated with contempt in many cultures.

* A metaphorical example: ''[[The Gruen Transfer|Gruen Nation]]'' commented, that in the leadup to [[Australian Politics|the 2010 Australian Election]], the Coalition seemed unwilling to run ads attacking Prime Minister Julia Gillard herself, as opposed to the Labor Party (albeit probably more because they were worried about how the public would react than any moral qualms on their own part). It was only near the end of the campaign, as things got increasingly frenetic, that ads attacking Julia Gillard appeared.

** Not altogether uncommon. To quote a teammate of mine from high school: "There's no good way to wrestle a girl. You don't want to lose to a girl and look like a wimp, but if you beat her, you just look like a bully.

 

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