History PlayingWith / NoWomansLand

** On a meta level, it can lead to UnfortunateImplications if a real-life culture (or something based on one) is depicted this way.
* '''Reconstructed''': This puts the rest of society in a win-win situtation. The residents of Mansworld must either learn that women are a great asset to their society or continue being too stupid and die off.

* '''Reconstructed''': This puts the rest of society in a win-win situtation. The residents of Mansworld must either learn that women are a great asset to their society or continue being too stupid and die off. Once the latter happens, feminists from other societies show Mansworld as a strong example of what would happen if men continue their patriarchal ways.

** A woman's salary is 70% of a man's. This is "justified" because all men are forced to spend three years performing unpaid and dangerous military duties, and women aren't.

** A woman's salary is 70% of a man's. This is "justified" because men are forced to spend three years performing unpaid military duties, and women aren't.

* '''Played For Laughs''': A woman looks at a man the wrong way. Cue BlackComedyRape.
* '''Played For Drama''':
** Same situation. Cue RapeAsDrama.
** The story focuses on Alice, who has grown up in Mansworld and suffered a life of discrimination and abuse.

%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???

** Mansworld was started by escaped victims of Ladyland as a refuge for men who weren't taken seriously. Said victims became [[HeWhoFightsMonsters just what they tried to escape]].

* '''Downplayed''': While women aren't treated horribly in this foreign land, there is noticeable prejudice.

** Mansworld was started by escaped victims of Ladyland as a refuge for men who weren't taken seriously. Said victims became [[HeWhoFightsMonsters just what they tried to escape]]

* '''Played For Drama''': Same situation. Cue RapeAsDrama.

* '''Exploited''': ???

* '''Conversed''': [[StrawMisogynist Bob]]moves to Mansworld so that he can be free to mistreat the women who "belong" to him as he's always wanted.

* '''Conversed''': ???

* '''Played Straight''': Mansworld is ruled by men. Women are encouraged or required to StayInTheKitchen.
* '''Exaggerated''': If a woman does/says/wears/etc. something wrong (or a man just ''thinks'' she did), she can be publicly raped and then publicly executed. This happens for the tiniest infractions, such as looking at someone the "wrong" way, or burning the roast.

* '''Justified''': Mansworld is a religious nation, based around the worship of a StrawMisogynist war god and his ideals.

* '''Subverted''': Although women in Mansworld are not seen in positions of power or significance, beating and raping them is severely frowned upon; aside from being ''required'' to [[StayInTheKitchen fulfill]] [[HouseWife certain roles and ideals]] whether they want to or not, they are treated very well.

*** Women travel through with no ostensible trouble from the denizens of Mansworld
* '''Double Subverted''': This state is a form of StepfordSuburbia; a woman who does not conform to accepted standards of beauty, lifestyle, personality, aspirations, etc. (i.e. a HollywoodHomely {{Tsundere}} who wants to be a scientist rather than a housewife) is killed (or brainwashed) by her nearest male relative.
** Female travelers are covertly kidnapped in the middle of the night and sold into prostitution or sexual slavery.
* '''Parodied''': See "Exaggerated"
** The men of Mansworld are all homosexuals.
*** The men of Mansworld still fear the possibility of catching cooties from their female counterparts, just as grade-school children do.
*** Inferior women are required to wear leggings with an unsightly crease down the front and a matching ceremonial leash around their necks at all times. A suit and tie in other words. As the superior gender the ruling men all wear far less restrictive floral dresses.
* '''Deconstructed''': Mansworld was started by a bunch of [[StrawMisogynist straw misogynists]], who believe mistreating and beating up women ensured the men would have a happy life. The abuse gets so bad that their women suddenly decide to [[{{Gendercide}} mass-suicide themselves]], leaving only men and boys in Mansworld.
** Mansworld was started by escaped victims of Ladyland as a refuge for men who weren't taken seriously. Said victims became [[HeWhoFightsMonsters just what they tried to escape]]
** The practices stemming from the lack of respect for women in Mansworld results in a heavily skewed gender ratio, whether from abuse, honour killings, female infanticide, or high female suicide rates. This results in a dire demographic crisis.
** On a meta level, it can lead to UnfortunateImplications if a real-life culture (or something based on one) is depicted this way.
* '''Reconstructed''': This puts the rest of society in a win-win situtation. The residents of Mansworld must either learn that women are a great asset to their society or continue being too stupid and die off. Once the latter happens, feminists from other societies show Mansworld as a strong example of what would happen if men continue their patriarchal ways.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Depending on the king they have at any given time and how he feels women are to be treated, the society fluctuates between treating women as sub-human just because they are women, women are seen as [[HystericalWoman inferior]], but tolerated and not treated too badly, and women are seen as just as valuable and competent as men and treated accordingly.
* '''Averted''': The society in question is a society where men and women are seen as equally valuable and competent, and treated accordingly.
* '''Enforced''': The writer believes women are inferior, and this is his [[{{Utopia}} perfect society.]]

*** The writer is discussing a time and place where women have historically been (or still are) mistreated.

* '''Defied''': LadyLand

* '''Conversed''':
* '''Played For Laughs''': A woman looks at a man the wrong way. Cue BlackComedyRape.
* '''Played For Drama''': Same situation. Cue RapeAsDrama

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* '''Discussed''': "Why do they treat the women so badly?"
* '''Conversed''': "Because they're [[JerkAss bad people]], and because they're insecure little boys in men's bodies."
* '''Played For Laughs''': A woman looks at a man the wrong way. Cue BlackComedyRape.
* '''Played For Drama''': The plight of the abused women here in Mansworld make for lots of drama.

** There really have been (and still are) places and cultures where women have been mistreated and seen as less than human on cultural grounds.
*** A high mortality rate has led to a drastic reduction in the population and the people will die out if birth rates do not increase significantly, so the law punishes those who are not in the process of making babies. This obviously demands more from women than from men.

* '''Subverted''': Although women in Mansworld are not seen in positions of power or significance, beating and raping them is severely frowned upon and so is not the done thing; aside from being ''required'' to [[StayInTheKitchen fulfill]] [[YamatoNadeshiko certain roles and ideals]] whether they want to or not, they are treated very well.

* '''Deconstructed''': Mansworld was started by a bunch of [[StrawMisogynist straw misogynists]], who believe mistreating and beating up women ensure the men to have a happy life. The abuse gets so bad that their women suddenly decide to [[{{Gendercide}} mass-suicide themselves]], leaving only men and boys in Mansworld.

* '''Played For Laughs''': A woman looks at a man the wrong way. Cue RapeAsComedy.

* '''Reconstructed''': The residents of Mansworld learn that women are a great asset to their society, and have much more to contribute than just sons and hot dinners. The society is reformed, and becomes a more egalitarian society, where men and women are seen as equally competent and valuable, and given the same rights and responsibilities.

* '''Downplayed''': While women aren't reated horribly in this foreign land, there is noticeable prejudice.

* '''Basic Trope''': A place where women are treated very badly, with the HandWave that it's part of the culture.

Back to NoWomansLand

** The men of Mansworld regularly go plundering other villages just to rape and kill the women therein.

* '''Exaggerated''': If a woman does/says/wears/etc. something wrong (or a man just ''thinks'' she did), she can be publicly raped and then publicly executed.
** This happens for the tiniest infractions, such as looking at someone the "wrong" way, or burning the roast.

* '''Deconstructed''': Mansworld was started by a bunch of [[StrawMisogynist straw misogynists]], who got that way because they couldn't reconcile their fragile egos with the concept that women can be as good as (or better than) they are in some area(s). This is their way of defending their egos.

*** Inferior women are required to wear leggings with an unsightly crease down the front and a matching ceremonial leash around their necks at all times. A suit and tie in other words. As the superior gender the ruling men all wear far less restrictive [[BosomBuddies floral dresses]].