Line #16 PlayingWith/IWasBeatenByAGirl


1	'''Basic Trope''': A man is offended when a woman beats him at something.
2	* '''Straight''': Bob is upset when Alice beats him at shooting.
3	* '''Exaggerated''':
4	** Bob is upset when Alice beats him at every sport and game they play together.
5	** [[TheLadette Carol]] is upset she lost to [[LadyOfWar Alice]].
6	** [[EldritchAbomination Bobthulhu]] is upset when [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu Alice beats him]] with a [[CherryTapping cherry]].
7	* '''Downplayed''': Bob is upset when Alice beats him, but still acts like a good sport and congratulates her.
8	* '''Justified''':
9	** Alice is more skilled or more experienced than Bob at the games they play.
10	** Bob is an 8 year old boy. Alice is a highly trained adult woman.
11	** Bob comes from a town where he was indoctrinated with the belief that a male losing to a female is the hallmark of shame and embarrassment.
12	* '''Inverted''':
13	** Alice, member of an AmazonBrigade, is upset when Bob beats her at arm wrestling.
14	** Alice is offended that the [[DragQueen Bobbi]] is more feminine and a better dancer than she is.
15	** Bob only respects a woman who can beat him in a sport.
16	* '''Subverted''': Alice comes close to beating Bob, but Bob comes out on top in the end.
17	* '''Double Subverted''': Alice reveals that [[ILetYouWin she let Bob win]].
18	* '''Parodied''': {{Tomboy}} ActionGirl Alice has this reaction when another girl beats her at a sport.
19	* '''Zig Zagged''': Alice wins some games but Bob wins others, some of which Alice lets him when, but at times Bob lets Alice win, and times where Bob wins on skill alone.
20	* '''Averted''':
21	** A female and a male never compete together.
22	** A male and female compete together, but the issue of gender is never brought up.
23	** The male wins, and this doesn't lead to an inversion wherein the girl is upset at being beaten.
24	** Bob is upset that he lost to Alice, not because she's a girl, [[SoreLoser but because he just doesn't like losing period.]]
25	* '''Enforced''': "We need to teach AnAesop that some girls can be good at sports."
26	* '''Lampshaded''':
27	** "Bob is gonna mope for days after this..."
28	** "[[UnsportsmanlikeGloating What's the matter, Bob? Can't take a loss from a girl?]]"
29	* '''Invoked''': "There's nothing more humiliating to a man than losing a competition to a woman."
30	* '''Exploited''':
31	** Charlie always places bets on Alice winning the competitions.
32	** Alice, a StrawFeminist, mocks Bob for losing to a girl, just to humiliate him in front of the crowd.
33	* '''Defied''':
34	** Bob trains extra hard so that no one can beat him at anything.
35	** Bob decides there's no reason to be upset just because he was beaten by a girl.
36	* '''Discussed''': "You ever notice how some guys get so upset over a girl beating them at something?"
37	* '''Conversed''': "This is the part where Alice humiliates Bob."
38	* '''Deconstructed''':
39	** Bob's defeat of Alice has made him a laughing stock to everyone, even his [[WithFriendsLikeThese friends]] and family. Now, he's thinking of [[DrivenToSuicide taking his own life]] as a means escape from this great humiliation.
40	** Bob's defeat of Alice has made him into a StrawMisogynist.
41	* '''Reconstructed''': Being defeated by Alice, Bob (and possibly his friends) realizes that gender stereotypes depicting girls as inherently weaker than men are bogus, [[CharacterDevelopment becoming a better and less bigoted person as a result]].
42	* '''Played For Drama''':
43	** Alice has been snide and arrogant towards Bob throughout the game, and after she defeats Bob, she mercilessly ridicules him for losing to a girl. Tired of Alice's mockery of him, Bob snaps and [[DisproportionateRetribution sava]][[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown gely]] [[WouldHitAGirl beats her with of an inch of her life.]]
44	** Bob is completely traumatized from getting ''[[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raped by]]'' Alice, [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale having been unsure of how such a thing would even work]].
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