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* Dr. Luisa Mercedes "Lu" Delgado from ''StrongMedicine''. She often treats the men in her life (no matter if they're her love interests or not) ''real'' bad whether they're jerks or not, and that turns even worse after [[RapeAsDrama she's raped by a colleague]] and becomes a borderline StrawFeminist.

* Aldonza in ''ManOfLaMancha'', with good reason, as explained in the song "It's All the Same".

* The part about this being more sympathetic than men who hate women was brutally deconstructed in an episode of ''Series/LawAndOrder''. A clearly sociopathic eleven-year-old girl (Doctor Skoda, the on-hand criminal psychologist, describes her as "a serial killer that you caught before she really got going") gets off on torturing and murdering boys younger than she is. The judge lets her off easy anyway because of this trope and the episode ends with the girl very creepily staring at another boy, clearly imagining torturing and murdering him.

* Alysandra from ''Webcomic/{{Isonacia}}'' is this UpToEleven . she's ready to pop a blood vessel at the idea of having to be around a man for more than a minute and in her first appearance, hospitalizes two guy for the crime of sitting where she wanted to sit.

* Barbara Hicks from an episode of ''{{Foyle's War}}'', "They Fought in the Fields", soured toward males because of her bad marriage and loss of her son. She gradually [[DefrostingIceQueen warms toward Foyle]], eventually leaving a letter for him in which she said "I never thought my opinion of men could change. But you've changed it.

This rather vague phrase leads to tricky interpretation that's sometimes actively milked by the writers usually of romance fiction. Usually the assumption is that the character doesn't like machismo, or she has bad luck with men in her life, like her father or other relatives. That is, traits associated with men manifest into a dislike of men as a whole. This can pose a problem for any male lead trying to woo her, meaning it takes much longer than suspected to win her over. As with all dislike tropes, the degree to which a particular character DoesNotLikeMen can and does vary, from simple uncomfortableness around men to bitter disdain to outright pathological ''hatred''.

This rather vague phrase leads to tricky interpretation that's sometimes actively milked by the writers usually of romance fiction. Usually the assumption is that the character doesn't like machismo, or she has bad luck with men in her life, like her father or other relatives. That is, traits associated with men manifest into a dislike of men as a whole. This can pose a problem for any male lead trying to woo her, meaning it takes much longer than suspected to win her over. As with all dislike tropes, the degree to which a particular character DoesNotLikeMen can and does vary -- she may just not be too comfortable around them, she may want nothing to do with them but otherwise leave them alone, or she may be a {{Jerkass}} who never misses an opportunity to treat them like crap. Villains with this trait are often not above actively seeking to hurt and/or kill men that they encounter.

Whether it's the female "Does Not Like Men" or the rarer male "Does Not Like Women" variant of this trope, generally the character in question is treated sympathetically as long as the reason they don't like the opposite sex is because of bad experience, usually being actively hurt by a man or woman. If the reason they don't like the opposite sex is because they were brought up in a society of institutionalized sexism, expect this character to be villified in some way - or at the very least treated as unsympathetic - usually resulting with a HeelFaceTurn where they get AnAesop in "Sexism Is Wrong" (or something along those lines). If they are otherwise a good person who just has the "[[ValuesDissonance wrong views]]", you have a LicensedSexist, and if the character actively ''hates'' the other side, welcome to your StrawMisogynist or StrawFeminist. If they don't take a hint and never learn that all genders are equal, expect this person to be a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain villain]] for the long term.

Whether it's the female "Does Not Like Men" or the rarer male "Does Not Like Women" variant of this trope, generally the character in question is treated sympathetically as long as the reason they don't like the opposite sex is because of bad experience, usually being actively hurt by a man or woman. If the reason they don't like the opposite sex is because they were brought up in a society of institutionalized sexism, expect this character to be villified in some way - or at the very least treated as unsympathetic - usually resulting with a HeelFaceTurn where they get AnAesop in "Sexism Is Wrong" (or something along those lines). If they are otherwise a good person who just has the "[[ValuesDissonance wrong views]]", you have a LicensedSexist, and if the character actively ''hates'' the other side, welcome to your StrawMisogynist or StrawFeminist. If they don't take a hint and never learn that all genders are equal, expect this person to be a [[PoliticallyInocrrectVillain villain]] for the long term.

* Kinsee from ''ComicBook/PocketGod'' is annoyed when she meets the boy tribe and thinks her tribe was better off before they met. She especially hates [[TheBigGuy Booga]], the manly man of his tribe. She also dislikes [[ThePrankster Ooga]] because her best friend [[ActionGirl Sun]] hangs out with him now instead of her.

* This is a staple of the "social justice" blogging community on {{Tumblr}}, even if a blog in question is not about women's issues. [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment It'd probably be best to just leave it at that]].

This rather vague phrase leads to tricky interpretation that's sometimes actively milked by the writers usually of romance fiction. Usually the assumption is that the character doesn't like machismo, or she has bad luck with men in her life, like her father or other relatives. That is, traits associated with men manifest into a dislike of men as a whole. This can pose a problem for any male lead trying to woo her, meaning it takes much longer than suspected to win her over. As with all dislike tropes, the degree to which a particular character DoesNotLikeMen can and does vary -- she may just not be too comfortable around them, she may want nothing to do with them but otherwise leave them alone, or she may be given to ranting, loudly and at length, about the shortcomings of anyone with a Y chromosome. Villains with this trait are often not above actively seeking to hurt and/or kill men that they encounter.

This rather vague phrase leads to tricky interpretation that's sometimes actively milked by the writers usually of romance fiction. Usually the assumption is that the character doesn't like machismo, or she has bad luck with men in her life, like her father or other relatives. That is, traits associated with men manifest into a dislike of men as a whole. This can pose a problem for any male lead trying to woo her, meaning it takes much longer than suspected to win her over. As with all dislike tropes, the degree to which a particular character DoesNotLikeMen can and does vary -- she may just not be too comfortable around them, she may want nothing to do with them but otherwise leave them alone, she may be given to ranting, loudly and at length, about the shortcomings of anyone with a Y chromosome; or she may go so far as to actively seek to hurt or kill men that she encounters (this last is usually reserved for villains).

This rather vague phrase leads to tricky interpretation that's sometimes actively milked by the writers usually of romance fiction. Usually the assumption is that the character doesn't like machismo, or she has bad luck with men in her life, like her father or other relatives. That is, traits associated with men manifest into a dislike of men as a whole. This can pose a problem for any male lead trying to woo her, meaning it takes much longer than suspected to win her over. As with all dislike tropes, the degree to which a particular character DoesNotLikeMen can and does vary -- she may just not be too comfortable around them, she may want nothing to do with them but otherwise leave them alone, or she may outright ''hate'' them and wish them ill or even do horrible things to them.

This rather vague phrase leads to tricky interpretation that's sometimes actively milked by the writers usually of romance fiction. Usually the assumption is that the character doesn't like machismo, or she has bad luck with men in her life, like her father or other relatives. That is, traits associated with men manifest into a dislike of men as a whole. This can pose a problem for any male lead trying to woo her, meaning it takes much longer than suspected to win her over. As with all dislike tropes, the degree to which a particular character DoesNotLikeMen varies, from simple dislike to outright hatred.