History PlayingWith / StayInTheKitchen

** Kelvin encourages Marcy and Scarlet to try others skills like learning how to fight, despite how sexist the rest of society is.

* '''Enforced''': The writer is sexist, well-meaning chivalrous, or delivering AnAesop about how non-action roles are just as important as the action ones.

-->'''Kelvin:''' ''[[SeriousBuisness GUARD OUR PANTRY WITH YOUR LIFE!]]''

** Marcy and Kelvin are a private detective [[SpyCouple team]]. The kitchen is where Marcy serves as the firm's MissionControl and TechnoWizard.

You want to be independent and strong, how cute! [[StayInTheKitchen BACK TO THE KITCHEN AND MAKE MY FOOD]] [[JustAddBitch BITCH!!!]]

* '''Double Subverted''': ... but she only says it to flatter and reassure [[LicensedSexist Kelvin]]'s ego so she can actually get the job done once he's gone without having to bear with his irrelevant machismo.

** [[DirtyCoward Andy]] [[DisguisedInDrag disguises as Alice]], in the hopes that Kelvin will order him not to fight, minimizing the risk getting killed in the process.

** It were the men who were offended by Kelvin because he implies MenAreTheExpendableGender. Now Kelvin has to either fight all by himself or with the girls.

** [[ActionGirl Scarlet]] says that she's actually too weak to handle serious battles and that she must stay out of trouble, else she'll just be a burden...

* '''Exploited''': [[DirtyCoward Andy]] [[DisguisedInDrag disguises as Alice]], in the hopes that Kelvin will order him not to fight, minimizing the risk getting killed in the process.

** The fight is taking place in a kitchen.

** Kelvin tells Marcy to stay into the kitchen... Because she IS the TeamChef, and [[NeutralFemale also lacks any combat training]], therefor she would be at danger if she got anywhere near the battlefield. Nevertheless, [[MistakenForRacist everyone mistakes his prudent request as "chauvinistic-bullshit"]] and start chasing him around with {{torches and pitchforks}}.

** Marcy is a CordonBleughChef. Where do you think she's gonna be?

* '''Zig Zagged''': Kelvin forbids Marcy to go on the battlefield but later lets Scarlet enter the fight since her skills are exactly what he needs to defeat the BigBad, only these skills are magic chants which leave her vulnerable to attack and force Kelvin to protect her anyway.

** Marcy is a CordonBleugh chef. Where do you think she's gonna be?

** Kelvin and Marcy are [[BarbarianTribe nomads]]. Marcy stays in the cooks tent but when it is time to move she get's on a horse like everyone else.

** Thugs invade the home and threaten Marcy's [[MamaBear dear little ones]]. She [[MoreDeadlyThanTheMale ferociously hacks them to pieces]] with a [[LethelChef kitchen knife]].

** Marcy does her work over the internet. ''Of course'' she stays in the kitchen: her job allows her to stay whereever is most comfortable to her and that happens to be the kitchen.

* '''Justified''': Marcy is inexperienced and doesn't have the sort of training and protection Kelvin does.

* '''Played For Drama''': Kelvin and Marcy have to work together, but his condescending attitude and insistence on "protecting" her wear on Marcy's nerves, creating tension between them -- tension they'll have to overcome if they're going to have any chance at surviving.

* '''Exaggerated''': Kelvin, a poorly skilled superhero tells {{Badass}} Scarlet that she's got no place on the battlefield because women are naturally weaker than men. [[AmusingInjuries She demonstrates the logical fallacy with that argument]].

* '''Inverted''': [[ActionGirl Scarlet]] tells [[DistressedDude Anton]] to [[GreaseMonkey stay in the workshop]] for once.
** Alternately, Anton is a NonActionGuy or a FakeUltimateHero, and often relies on his [[ActionGirlfriend Action]] (or [[MagicalGirlfriend Magical]]) Girlfriend to bail him out.

* '''Subverted''': [[ActionGirl Scarlet]] says that she's actually too weak to handle serious battles and that she must stay out of trouble, else she'll just be a burden...

* '''Parodied''': Kelvin is constantly trying that the AmazonBrigade of [[BlackMagicianGirl Marcy]], [[ActionGirlfriend Scarlett]] and [[TheLadette Alice]] to stay home and act like [[RealWomenNeverWearDresses stereotypical females]]. The same AmazonBrigade who [[LethalChef burn water]] and have saved his ungrateful useless rear over and over.

* '''Deconstructed''': Kelvin alienates Marcy and any other women who might have been willing to work alongside him because he isn't willing to accept them as equals. The only allies he can find are like-minded guys who also take a dim view of what women are capable of. This further tarnishes Kelvin's reputation and creates serious problems for him.
** Alternatively, Kelvin refuses the help of [[ActionGirl Scarlet]] on the grounds that Scarlet might get hurt. Scarlet goes back home to the kitchen, while Kelvin goes off to fight the BigBad. Kelvin gets killed because he lacks any assistance or backup.
** It were the men who were offended by Kelvin because he implies MenAreTheExpendableGender. Now Kelvin has to either fight all by himself or with the girls.
* '''Reconstructed''': Marcy has work to do behind the lines which, while not glamorous, is suitable to her skills and important to the mission, and both she and Kelvin come to appreciate the value of her efforts.

* '''Enforced''': The writer is sexist, well-meaning chivalrious, or delivering AnAesop about how non-action roles are just as important as the action ones.

* '''Defied''': "Kelvin, if you believe women are unable to make any impression in a fight, you're sorely mistaken!"

-->'''Kelvin''': What the hell was that?!
-->'''Marcy''': Women can't fight, you say? Tell that to the guy behind you. Oh wait, you can't, ''he's dead!''

* '''Exploited''': [[DirtyCoward Andy]] [[WholesomeCrossdresser disguises as Alice]] so that Kelvin would tell him not to fight and risk getting killed in the process.

* '''Played For Laughs:''' Marcy is clearly stronger than Kelvin and repeatedly rescues him while he fumbles with his heavy armor and comically oversized weaponry.
* '''Played For Drama:''' Kelvin and Marcy have to work together, but his condenscending attitude and insistance on "protecting" her wear on Marcy's nerves, creating tension between them -- tension they'll have to overcome if they're going to have any chance at surviving.

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