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[[caption-width:350: We swear allegiance to Valerie Solanas and shall purge this earth of disgusting male pigs!! Read her manifesto: http://www.womynkind.org/scum.htm ]]
-->''There are now women politicians, women soldiers, women scientists, women astronauts. But our mission is only half-done: we still haven't prevented men from doing those things!''
-->'''April June''', ''Chilly Beach''

-->''At its heart, the idea has never been WE SHOULD HATE MEN, except in the views of zealots. The idea has been WE SHOULD TREAT PEOPLE FAIRLY AND WITH RESPECT. But that idea is so simple and truthful it's hard to fight with, so there's a vested interest in trying to continue to portray the men-hating myth.''
-->'''GailSimone'''

This standard TV "feminist" character isn't very nice at all. The vast majority of real-life feminists are only out to get equal pay for equal work, respect for their rights as people equal in dignity to a man, and a lot of other phrases that use the word "equal" in similar ways. A lot of female characters have this as an understated part of their personality. Indeed, so do quite a few male characters.

However, a character identified as a "feminist" in the media nowadays is often really a "militant (read "psychotic") feminist"; the radical, paranoid, potentially violent [[DoesNotLikeMen misandrist]] type subscribing to the Second Wave who wants to bring the patriarchy to its knees so she can more easily [[GroinAttack kick it in the gonads]] in retaliation of [[MotiveRant the centuries of oppression and coercion men have put women through]] [[ForTheEvulz just because they could]]. She will be [[DoesNotLikeMen hostile to any heterosexual male present, and quite possibly gay men as well]]. In short she wants revenge for something she may not have suffered from herself...

The character will usually express a wide range or idiosyncratic beliefs, from an insistence on spelling the words "woman" and "women" differently, possibly with one or more Y's, and that the honorific "Mrs." is the possessive of "Mr.", to the view that any object that is longer than it is wide will be [[FreudWasRight seen as a phallic symbol]] intended to express patriarchal power. She can usually be found wearing Camo, or at least a ball-breaking power-suit, [[RealWomenNeverWearDresses but skirts are a definite no-no]]. And be careful if you happen to say either that [[BerserkButton God is a man]] or that [[YouSayGirlLikeABadThing women can]] ''[[YouSayGirlLikeABadThing choose]]'' [[YouSayGirlLikeABadThing to not work outside the home]]. If this character does express any opinion on a subject not directly related to women or the oppression thereof, she'll be speaking like a grown-up GranolaGirl.

And not for no reason is the term "[=FemiNazi=]" sometimes used to describe this type of character; expect her to [[ThePesci view every single thought, word and deed on the part of a man as yet more proof of the hateful patriarchal conspiracy to suppress and dominate women]] (no matter how innocuous the action or [[EpilepticTrees how many logical loops she has to jump through to reach this conclusion]]), whilst at the same time actively yearning to suppress, dominate and, in certain particularly extreme examples, completely exterminate all men. As such, it goes without saying that she'll often be depicted as a complete hypocrite, automatically buying into any DoubleStandard that denounces in outrage particular actions of men whilst simultaneously applauding any woman who engages in the exact same behaviour, usually under the justification that women are "reclaiming" themselves or "striking back" against the evil tyranny of men. This is usually based on the assumption that a woman possesses [[CloserToEarth automatic moral superiority]] to a man.

For perhaps obvious reasons, this character is often a lesbian, and [[PsychoLesbian usually a pretty fanatical one at that]]; if not, then she'll either be "sex-negative", i.e. opposed to sex on principle, as the act itself is seen as biased in favor of men, or take the exact opposite approach, and [[TheVamp try to use men as she perceives they use women]]. For added irony value, the supposedly sex-negative variation will often be far more obsessed with sex than any of the supposedly '[[AllMenArePerverts perverted]]' men she condemns. She will also have a rather alarming tendency to define '[[RapeTropes rape]]' as 'any method by which a man might convince a woman to have sex, including a supposedly sincere emotional relationship'; no matter how explicitly the woman consents, the Straw Feminist will nevertheless twist it into a case of rape. And if the man ever stops loving her, he raped her retroactively! Curiously enough, in many cases despite her raging hatred for men, all she usually needs to transform her from raging anti-man crusader to submissive 1950s housewife doll is the love -- or even just a close encounter with, IfYouKnowWhatIMean -- with a good man... or, at least, a handsome one.

As you can (hopefully) see, she's a special and particularly extreme case of StrawmanPolitical, and exists largely to express the writer's own dislike of feminists, or at least the more psychotic ones. Note that it's not always ''all'' the writer's fault, however; this is a particularly pervasive stereotype in RealLife, to the extent that normal feminists can be reluctant to be identify themselves as such, due to the powerful and unpleasant connotations associated with the term. Some might prefer to be known as egalitarians, a term with broader application, but no less accurate for someone who wants equal rights to bridge the gender gap specifically. Unfortunately, this trope is not without its basis in RealLife, and a few radical feminists have been heard to express views not dissimilar to those raised above: they're just a ''much'', ''much'' smaller minority than you would think from watching TV, is all.

A society built upon this mindset is a LadyLand.
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* Burger King had [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE2Vj0RXW4A a spot a few years back for the Texas Double Whopper]], tongue firmly in cheek, with Straw ''Masculists''(?). Certain quarters were just waiting for Straw Feminists to take offense. [[http://community.livejournal.com/feminist/2515729.html Sure enough]]...
-->I don't know who that kind of marketing works on but it must be very insecure people that need to be told they are validated by eating a burger.....weirdos.
** Even then, does *nobody* EVER NOTICE THE GUY HAULING THE TRUCK WITH THE GIRL HOLDING THE BURGER JUUUST OUT OF REACH? If anything that should be sexist against MEN. "Hey, guys are so stupid and muscle bound they'll haul anything if you wave a hunk of meat in front of them."
*** That's right! They'll only haul anything if you wave [[MostCommonSuperpower two hunks of meat in front of them!]]

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* Benio and the Zuka Club from ''OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' are a troupe of [[SchoolgirlLesbians lesbian actresses]] (parody of the real-life {{Takarazuka}} Revue) who advocate female superiority and one point (pictured above) perform a [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi salute]] against a backdrop of a red flag reading "woman" instead of a Swastika -- ''literal'' feminazis. Their radicalism is probably just a result of being headstrong teenagers who are just as silly as the Host Club, though, and at the end of the episode Haruhi, whom they'd been trying to recruit, tells them that she finds their viewpoint "interesting and unique" but doesn't feel like leaving her friends in the Host Club. In the original manga, the conflict is eventually resolved with the Host Club's apologetic invitation to one of the Zuka Club's performances, which everyone found very enjoyable. [[AdaptationDecay For some reason]], [[YourMileageMayVary probably because of the]] [[AdaptationDistillation differences in the story]] this ending was replaced with [[BananaPeel banana peel jokes]] in Bones' anime adaptation.
** It should be noted that both sides were mocked equally during these episodes; while the Zuka Club were portrayed as ridiculous over-the-top feminazis, the Host Club's reaction was a hilariously hypocritical homophobic one that bordered on chauvinist (see Tamaki's reaction).
*** Not to mention the obvious irony, at least in the anime: the Zuka Club is essentially the same as the Host Club, only with female members and different traditions. Benio especially is obviously Tamaki's female counterpart (which is emphasized in the second Zuka Club episode where she often behaves the same way as Tamaki).

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* DC Comics' Amazons hinge upon this trope, at least in the post-Crisis incarnations where all the Themysciran Amazons are the reincarnated souls of women who were abused and killed by men.
** Taken to a [[RefugeInAudacity ridiculous extreme]] in FrankMiller's ''[[InNameOnly All-Star]] Comicbook/{{Batman}} [[InNameOnly and Robin]]'', in one issue of which Wonder Woman violently shoves a man out of her way while growling, "[[CharacterDerailment Out of my way, sperm bank]]!"
* In the early Marvel ''{{Transformers}}'' comics, the Transformers were written as genderless. For some reason that was never completely explained, human females protested that the Autobots were misogynistic for not having any women. In response, the Autobots looked up human female traits and built Arcee--to which the human females responded with ire, because she was pink. Despite demonstrating that she was a competent fighter, Arcee was never seen or referenced again after that issue.
** It's easy to perceive the Transformers as being AlwaysMale, and the labeling of them as "genderless" a mere excuse by writers. [[WallE WALL-E]], for example, didn't have a sex either, but is almost universally perceived as being male (and for that matter, [=EVE=] being female). It could be argued this is something the audience has to change within their own perceptions, rather than a flaw in the work itself, but in the world we live in, if characters that "seem" male are to be portrayed as genderless, a bit more discussion and emphasis of this fact has to happen before this is commonly accepted.
** The IDW comics (written by the same person as the above) had an interesting take--Arcee, and indeed the use of gendered pronouns among the Transformers, seems to be a MadScientist's experiment, and she is somewhat contemptuous that everyone uses female pronouns in reference to her and male pronouns in reference to themselves ''without even realizing that she's still technically a sexless machine, as are they''.
*** Which brings up a whole new set of problems, in that the first and so far only female Transformer was driven completely murderously insane from the trauma of being made female. Also, if she's the only differently-gendered person, where did the 'female pronoun' come from in the first place and how did they know to use it?
* The Cirinists and Kevillists in ''{{Cerebus}} the Aardvark'' are straw constructions of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-wave_feminism second]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-wave_feminism third]] waves of feminism, respectively. Ironically, the writer's own misogynist rants made him a real-life [[DistaffCounterpart male equivalent]] to this trope.
* Goldilocks from ''{{Fables}}'' seems to be this, but she's really cynically using her rhetoric as a tool to manipulate the people around her.
* Both used and subverted in ''YTheLastMan'', which contains both the insane, violent Amazons as well as other, rational feminists (both peaceful and not). In fact, the entire series can be seen as a look at feminism in its numerous permutations, often at odds, as in real life. In writer Brian K. Vaughn's words, "...before I started work on ''Y'', I read as many feminist writers as possible. Because if you put Andrea Dworkin and Naomi Wolf in a room together, they'd fight to the death."
** Femizombies? That'd be the best cage match EVER!
*** Um, Naomi Wolf is still alive. [[strike:Meaning that she won on a technicality, perhaps?]]
* Although her pro-feminist stance was portrayed as a good thing in the '70s, by the ''[[JusticeLeagueOfAmerica Justice League Europe]]'' days of the late '80s, [[{{Supergirl}} Power Girl]] was portrayed as an obnoxiously outspoken feminist; this may have been a reflection of the more [[ReactionaryFantasy conservative attitudes]] of the Reagan years. Today, her attitudes are portrayed in a positive light again (though the {{Fanservice}} has been dialed up a bit as well).
* MarvelComics supervillain Superia wants to either eliminate, enslave, or [[GenderBender feminize]] all men-- and doesn't mind sterilizing 90% of Earth's women to make it happen. As Anaconda of the Serpent Society puts it, "What'samatter, you didn't get asked out to the prom or somethin'?"
* Diane Di Massa took this to the extreme in ''HotheadPaisan: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist,'' who dreams of "a world without penises."
* The British adult comic Viz has Millie Tant, a fat, ugly and possibly lesbian (I don't know whether she's pretending to be to spite men or not) extreme feminist who spouts a lot of S.C.U.M.-esque nonsense and many strips end with her turning out to be a hypocrite.

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* There is a recognised species of MarySue (possibly a sub-trope of the well-known TsundereSue) known as the Grrl or Psychofeminist Sue, who behaves like this and is especially prevalent in male-dominated canons such as LordOfTheRings.

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* The entire faction from ''PCU'' called the Womynists.
** Which is regrettably resolved at the end, where instead of reaching a moral of mutual respect, they determine that "If you're nice to them, they'll do things for you."
* Sarah Connor gets a monologue like this in ''{{Terminator}} 2''. To be sure, she's not exactly well balanced at that point, and her own son calls her out on it.
* In ''100 Girls'', the main character takes a Women's Studies class. Every time we see him in this class, the camera zooms in to the teacher's underarm hair with a dramatic sound effect. Towards the end of the movie, there's an {{anvilicious}} scene where he tells the teacher that inequality doesn't exist and it's all just a case of men and women misunderstanding each other. The teacher replies by painting men as evil, but the entire class full of females breaks into applause for him.
* Katherine Watson (JuliaRoberts) from ''MonaLisaSmile''. She encourages female independence, which ''is'' admirable, but not only are she and Elizabeth (Kirsten Dunst, who ''[[{{Anvilicious}} of course]]'' believes marriage is the ''only'' way to go) are quite the bitches, at one point Katherine talks to Joan (Julia Stiles) and borderline bitches her out for prefering marriage over graduate school (at Stanford, no less). (Although this is a SubvertedTrope since Katherine was regularly portrayed as somewhat overbearing and demanding without realizing her views may have been more a personal vendetta than having the best interests of the girls in mind. Joan even calls up on her using the above argument.)
* In the deleted opening scene for ''TheIncredibles,'' Bob and Helen were moving into a neighborhood and had a party in the back yard. One neighbor reacted somewhat rudely to Helen's comment that she just wanted to be a mother and let Bob be the breadwinner. Helen got a little overheated and tore into the neighbor for the attitude that you can't be a strong woman with a child in your arms. Apparently this was based on a real experience director Brad Bird had with his wife and some neighbors. The only reason it was deleted is because he wanted to make the normal life as result of the "mundane" SuperRegistrationAct and not because they chose to retire, but he still kept the idea that Helen was more comfortable with it then Bob.
** Interestingly, some of this characterization was left in the films. During the intro interviews sequence, Elastigirl is asked off-screen about wanting to settle down. "Settle down? I'm at the top of my game! [[BreakingTheFourthWall *Looks into the camera*]] Ladies! Should we leave the saving the world to the Men? I don't think so! *laughs* I don't think so..." Then after the jump into the future, Helen is the one who has adapted to domesticity while Bob, who had seemed to want a break in the prologue, can't let it go.
* ''Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death'': , [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094834/ unfortunately]].
* Lampshaded and defied in ''TheBigLebowski'' by Maude, who is a more moderate (though still very strange) feminist.
-->"One of the major misconceptions about feminists is that we don't like sex. It can be a natural, zesty enterprise."
* The [[IncrediblyLamePun campy]] and stereotype-heavy Disney film ''Follow Me, Boys!'' has one named Vera Miles. She rants that men "are all alike, puffed-up lords of the universe". After the [[MartyStu cheerful scoutmaster]] wins her heart, though, she has no quarrel with coming a straw {{housewife}}.

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* General Jinjur from ''[[TheWonderfulWizardOfOz The Marvelous Land of Oz]]'' plotted the overthrow of King Scarecrow because she thought the Land of Oz was ruled by men for too long. May have actually been an AffectionateParody of the early women's movement, as L. Frank Baum was actually the son-in-law of one of the movement's prime movers. TheOtherWiki [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Frank_Baum#Women.27s_Suffrage_Advocate has more on the subject]].
** In a subversion, the end of the story ends with Oz being ruled by a queen after all.
*** Not to mention the fact that she's beaten by an army of genuine [[ActionGirl Action Girls]].
* ''LeftBehind''. No, really, ugh.
* The Red Ajah from RobertJordan's ''{{The Wheel of Time}}'' really don't like men.
*Akasha in ''[[TheVampireChronicles Queen of the Damned]]'' by AnneRice. Though she does not use politically correct terms, since she's supposed to be an {{ancient Egypt}}ian, she believes all violence on Earth is caused by men. Her plan is to use her near-omnipotent powers as mother of all [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]] to [[{{Gendercide}} destroy almost all the world's males]] and create a utopia run by women, with herself as benevolent queen and goddess. In the end [[spoiler: she is destroyed by female twin vampires Mekare and Maharet, for personal reasons as much as to stop her plot.]] She may or may not really be a straw feminist since it's unclear whether or not the author agrees with her (persistent AuthorAvatar Lestat seems very ambivalent).

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* Marcy Rhoades (later [[EmbarrassingMiddleName D'Arcy]]) from ''MarriedWithChildren'' was a proud feminist, but she only showed this side when she was around Al. Her constant bickering about women's rights eventually led him to [[StartMyOwn start his own]] pro-male club called '''[[FunWithAcronyms NO MA'AM]]'''... Which really never did anything besides sitting around Al's garage drinking beer and complaining about their wives or go hang out at the Jiggly Room.
** Or [[CrowningMomentOfFunny hi-jacking Jerry Springer's show [the early political version, before it became trash TV] after he turns into a StrawFeminist.]]
->"Jerry Springer ovulates."
* Samantha Carter in ''{{Stargate SG-1}}'' was originally written like that, to the point of having an entire episode (aptly titled "Emancipation") dedicated to her fighting a male-dominated society. Needless to say, it's considered a DorkAge and that episode is considered one of the worst ever. The infamous "reproductive organs" speech from the pilot (which Amanda Tapping herself reportedly hated, saying that "nobody talks like that") was ''twice'' parodied in the later seasons (in the episodes "Moebius" and "200"). By that point, the StrawFeminist aspect of her character had long been toned down - instead, she proved feminist points by actually ''[[ActionGirl doing]]'' things.
* Dr. Luisa "Lu" Delgado from ''Strong Medicine'', also an adult version of a TsundereSue. The series is produced by none other than [[LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek Lifetime Channel]], so what do you expect?
* Sometimes, ActionGirl Olivia Benson gets straw-feministic lines in ''LawAndOrder: SVU'', but it usually involves interrogating women who had themselves made clear straw feminist points. Detective Benson has been shown in the past acting sympathetic to suspects to get them to open up to her. Doesn't explain the tirade she gave Stabler a little later in one such episode, though.
* The episode ''Power'' from ''{{Blakes Seven}}'' contains two warring societies of - you guessed it - men (Hommiks) and women (Seska). Naturally, the women are depicted as abominations who were happier when they'd been tamed by the men. This was particularly depressing, considering up until then ''{{Blakes Seven}}'' had featured a large number of actual feminist characters.
** Arguably the point of that episode (beyond getting teleport to work on Scorpio) is that neither men or women are "complete" as a society without the other. Avon's crew succeeds because they work together while the Hommiks and Seska are effectively doomed without their (bisexual) protector who was killed the previous episode.
* ''HermansHead'' had HandsomeLech Jay getting gut-punched by a butch member of [[FunWithAcronyms WAMP]] (Women Against Male Persons), a feminist organization so radical they neuter gingerbread men.
* If she's not written well, C.J Cregg in ''TheWestWing'' can sometimes border on this trope; fortunately, most of the time, she's written very well. Of note, however, is the episode 'The Women Of Qumar', in which C.J reacts very poorly the news of a US arms deal made to a {{Qurac}}-style country which has a poor record on women's rights; whilst the point the episode was making as a valid one, it unfortunately chose to make it by having C.J act in a very unprofessional, out-of-character and borderline StrawFeminist fashion.
** The episode 'Night Five' features a StrawFeminist intern who seems to exist solely so that the writers can knock her down and by extension any suggestion that their writing is in any way sexist.
* ''LostInSpace'' had an episode with this. The Straw Feminist villainess (who always got her Faceless {{Mooks}} to do everything for her) agreed to take Dr. Smith as her consort (after checking his teeth!), and spent most of the episode forcing the males to be her slaves and the females to accept her cultish female supremacism. The result was not so much offensive as unintentionally hilarious.
* One of the episodes of {{House}} mocks this trope. The patient is the personal assistant of a woman whose mission in life is to basically "enforce" gender equality in workplaces, whom Dr. House describes as believing that all men "metaphorically raped her by having a penis". She's seen in the cold open entering a board room full of men and snidely asking them why they didn't even "pretend to put a female on the board" and saying that there were plenty of secretaries and stenos downstairs. This is a pretty rough strawman even for US television, since she came off as more of a bitch than an egalitarian.
** Notably, the patient herself is a deliberate subversion of the trope; she's neither independent nor headstrong, and very submissive to her boss and organization's whims.
*Lilith House, a feminist organization on campus in season 3 of VeronicaMars, leads a lot of angry protests against a serial rapist on campus who shaves the heads of his victims. After a Halloween party at a frat house, one of its members is herself raped and shaved. They then launch an all-out attack against the fraternity house to get them banned from campus. Once Veronica proves that the fraternity house is innocent of the rape, they get very angry at her for stopping the fraternity house from getting banned. Oh, and the feminist who was raped? [[spoiler:''She faked the whole thing'']]. Look, Rob, we know you want [[CrapsackwOrld your world to be crappy and noiry]] where even the protagonist can be immoral and unethical, but sometimes you can take it too far.
* Dr Miller in ''{{Scrubs}}'' was a borderline case of this, though we were supposed to ''agree'' with her on some counts.
** "Borderline" my big hairy balls. The woman is a feminist basket case. She throws Turk out of her OR for daring (''daring'' I say!) to rip on The Todd for some sexist things he said about Dr. Miller. A ''reasonable'' person would have PRAISED him for this. A man refusing to tolerate sexism in the work place is undeniably a GOOD THING, but Dr. Miller somehow comes to the conclusion that Turk was actually '''condescending to her''' when he told The Todd to shove it.
* Jessie in SavedByTheBell usually sounds pretty ridiculous when she's protesting this, but it's even worse considerinng [[PrisonersOfPollyanna her actress]] [[HilariousInHindsight starred in a film like]] {{Showgirls}}.
* Dr. Janice Lester from ''StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' is one of these. She starts off frustrated that [[CanonDiscontinuity women can't be Starfleet captains]], but quickly reveals herself to be an AxCrazy who hijacks the enterprise [[GrandTheftMe in Kirk's body]]. Once she's in the captain's chair, she turns into a straight-up GodSaveUsFromTheQueen. Then, Kirk speculates that [[WallBanger the real reason behind her actions is her hatred of being a woman.]]

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* Played for laughs in ''RedVsBlue''. When Donut is possessed by O'Malley, he mouths off about how bad patriachal society is.

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* Nellie [=McKay=]'s song "Mother of Pearl" mocks the attitude behind this trope via UnreliableNarrator: the opening line is "Feminists don't have a sense of humor" and it continues on from there.

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* GilbertAndSullivan's ''Princess Ida'' (adapted from a poem by Tennyson), the Girl Graduates of the women's college at Castle Adamant learn that "Man is Nature's sole mistake." Of course, they repent in the end.

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* {{GURPS}} ''TranshumanSpace'' features an all-female colony that edges this trope, especially with some of its members experimenting with genetic engineering to make males unnecessary for reproduction. It's pointed out in the books that it is in fact obsolete within the context of the setting, as transhumanity has achieved true gender equality by 2100 when the game is set.
* In the WorldOfDarkness game ''[[WerewolfTheApocalypse Werewolf: The Apocalypse]]'', the all-female Black Furies fit this trope to some extant. While some are into the spirituality of womanhood and/or seek gender equality and reproductive freedom, others are on a sacred quest to castrate every male they come across. But even the more well-rounded Furies have the Tribal Weakness of an easier time Frenzying against men due to pent-up frustration against them. They eventually became more well-rounded with later editions, going from man-hating Amazons to a mystical cult of warrior women that worshipped Gaia in her guise of Artemis and provided the Garou Nation with necessary prophecy.
**Which didn't help White Wolf in arguments that the WOD had become a mess of retcons in the Revised Edition, since ''three other Garou tribes'' already had the whole mystical/prophetic angle.
* A more concrete example comes with the new WorldOfDarkness ''[[VampireTheRequiem Vampire: The Requiem]]''. The Circle of the Crone is a covenant that is rather feminist in its leanings, but not to the point of straw--except for one faction within the covenant, the Daughters of the Goddess, who use for public example of their valuing men and not being misandrist a ritual where they sacrifice a male vampire, ritualistically called the Oak King. This is the only ritual where male vampires are allowed any sort of prominence, and they may only be the Oak King. Needless to say, the other covenants, and indeed most other factions within the Circle, ain't buyin' it.

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* ''SamAndMax: Season Two'' has Mrs.--sorry--''Ms.'' Momma Bosco.
* One interviewee on the talk radio channel in ''GrandTheftAuto: Vice City'' was one of these, contrasting with hip, somewhat stupid '80s girl Amy. The key comedy aspect in that interviewee was that she'd just spent a year "undercover" as a man and written a book on her findings. Moreover, the interviewee mentions learning various things about men over the process of being disguised as one, including how men find sports interesting, like looking at pictures of naked women, wear hats and smoke cigarettes. She's a pretentious StrawFeminist to boot, lambasting "half-hearted bra burners" in her interview.
** In keeping with the ''GrandTheftAuto'' series' satiric bent, the character in question was a straw parody of one real-life feminist who wrote a book about being disguised as a man. But, for the record, that feminist's book was far more positive.

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[[folder: Web Comics ]]

* Susan in ''ElGoonishShive'' is introduced as a [[DoesNotLikeMen misandrist]] female supremacist. A cringeworthy portrayal by itself, but luckily she gets some CharacterDevelopment later on [[spoiler: starting with the uncomfortable realization that her general prejudice against men may be serving as a backhanded excuse for her father's infidelity (as in "all men are creeps so Daddy couldn't help it"), as well as a transference of her mother's own issues against men resulting from this onto her.]]
* Jade from ''[=PvP=]'' once qualified as a Straw Feminist. This was most notable when she left PvP to start up her own women's gaming magazine, where she even drove her fellow female writers insane. Of course, she had just been groped by Francis, so maybe this incident was justified.
* No stranger to Strawfolk, ''NipAndTuck'' has Hortense, perpetually angry lizard womyn. (Although she seems to exist less to potshot Feminism, as to piss off the local [[JerkJock Troglajocks]] so Tuck can swoop in play the badass, and to give Tuck's girlfriend Thelma someone to look good next to.)
-->'''Tuck:''' '''What?''' Feminism has '''double standards'''? Y'don't say... [[http://www.rhjunior.com/NT/00766.html]]
* ''TheWotch'' has [[http://thewotch.com/index.php?epDate=2006-07-03 D.O.L.L.Y.]] a militant feminist terrorist organization led by [[spoiler:Ms. Natasha Dahlet]] who want to [[LadyLand eradicate men from the world]]. Not by [[{{Gendercide}} killing them]], but by turning them female via MagiTek. They try to recruit Anne who is well known for using her magic for [[GenderBender Gender Bending]]. [[spoiler:While a physical personification of Anne's anger does join them, Anne herself turns the tables on them by [[KarmicTransformation turning many of the members of D.O.L.L.Y. male]]]]. Notably, most the members of the group [[spoiler:are actually brainwashed, only really Natasha and her [[TheDragon Dragon]] (of sorts) Cory are really committed to the "cause"]]. The author actually precedes the arc with a strip where she appears and explains that there really isn't suppose to be any political message or anything.
* In an early appearance of Melna on ''DominicDeegan, Oracle for Hire'', Luna gushes about how much she loves Dominic and would be nothing without him, and Melna is about ready to kill her. Of course, in this case, Dominic saved Luna from suicide and gave her some confidence. Melna's opinion is also justified as she is an Orc, and while many orcs are quite civil, most seem to be horrible brutes who treat women as property (Melna's parents were killed and she was raped because of this), a female orc is LITERALLY nothing without a husband or father and are killed as useless.
* ''TheJapaneseBeetle'' has the New Order of Women, a fusion of the real NOW and the [[{{WCW}} NWO]] - literally, since the members were all combinations of feminists and wrestlers, like "Hollywood" Dworkin. In their initial appearance, they attempt to put Die-Agra, a "male potence cure", in the city's water supply.
* ''SpaceMoose'' brutally parodies some of the University of Alberta's organizations with this trope. He then faced down expulsion, fines, and boundless criticism for his "Take Back the Night" Space Moose strips.
* Violet Oaks, the titular character of ''ComingUpViolet'', has a run in with this trope when she inedvertently causes a social trend of girls radomly giving boys wedgies after giving one to resident pretty boy. This inevitably leads to them [[http://www.webcomicsnation.com/bdaniel/violet/series.php?view=archive&chapter=31011 discovering the true meaning of feminism]].
* '''Torio''' has the overwhelmingly straw [[http://torio.comicgenesis.com/d/20050926.html M'Kystral]], who's a feminist, a vegan, an atheist, and a political activist. She really only mellows a bit when compared to her friends in said communities.
* Vespavenger from ''QuestionableContent'' commits [[DisproportionateRetribution somewhat indiscriminate violence]] against men who wronged their intimate partners.
** Probably a subversion, as when challenged with the accusation operating under a DoubleStandard she admits she finds the idea of a male vigilante who goes around beating up unfaithful women to be really hot.
* {{Precocious}}: Suzette, who more often than not proves to be an easily agitated womyn who always seems to have a speech ready. Particularly noticeable in the earlier strips.
--> '''Suzette:''' [[http://precociouscomic.com/comic.php?page=16 So screw equality--Let's take it all!]] '''[[ThisIsSparta IT'S OUR TURN TO DOMINATE!!]]'''

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* ''BeavisAndButthead'' get maced by some of these after the dimwitted duo misinterpret (as only they can) a speech at a feminism rally as a come-on line.
* ''{{Futurama}}'' gets in a quick shot in one episode; after Old Man Waterfall (a [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot bisexual Satanic polygamist hillbilly lawyer]]) dies under the foot of the [[HumongousMecha MobileOppression Palace]], his granddaughter loudly proclaims him (in a [[CrossDressingVoices fake female voice]]) "another victim of the malecentric male-ocracy!" She returned for more throughout the fourth movie before her long overdue demise.
** It wouldn't be surprising if 'she' was either a cross-dresser or a transsexual.
** Also the Femputer in the episode "Amazon Women In The Mood".
** Half the plot of TheMovie ''Into the Wild Green Yonder'' focuses on a group of these crossed with hippies. While Frieda Waterfall is an over-the-top caricature (all the Waterfalls are leftist stereotypes taken to ludicrous extremes) she and her cause are ultimately sympathetic, and Frieda herself had other quirks to her personality, such as a fondness for mega-phones.
* ''ThePowerPuffGirls'' had Femme Fatale, a man-hating criminal who only stole Susan B. Anthony coins and convinced the girls to not help men and not arrest her because she was a woman. Her flawed logic was countered by the more mainstream equality-based feminism of Sara Bellum and Miss Keane who convinced them otherwise. Not helping Femme Fatale was the fact that women were also hurt by her actions and that she didn't even know who Susan B. Anthony was.
* ''YinYangYo'' has Saranoia, who is an unstable misandrist sorceress and wants to exterminate Yang but likes Yin. Her hatred seems to be based on her feelings towards her own brother, Mark, she indicates she was TheUnFavourite growing up. She has a tendency to call Yang Mark.
* Parodied in ''TheVentureBrothers'' when a parody of the Scooby Gang ([[ScoobyDoo the originals]], not [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy and pals]]) show up in the episode "Viva Los Muertos!" Parody-Velma is constantly spouting this talk, going so far as to actually tell Parody-Daphne that men are "walking abortions". Of course, Parody-Fred is a sociopathic gang leader in the Manson mold, Parody-Daphne was kidnapped 30 years ago and is so stupid she still thinks Parody-Fred is going to take her to visit her parents, and Parody-Shaggy is a murderous lunatic who needs to take his "[[ScoobySnacks Groovy treats]]" to make the dog stop telling him to kill everyone. Velma gets off light, comparatively.
** Velma's talk in that episode isn't original Straw Feminism; they're nearly direct quotes from the "S.C.U.M. Manifesto". The four members of the mock Scooby Gang are modeled after specific (crazy) people from the 60's and 70's: "Ted" is a mix of Ted Bundy and Charles Manson, "Sonny" is David Berkowitz (aka the Son of Sam), "Patty" is Patty Hearst, and "Val" is Valerie Solanas.
* Despite being the source of the opening quote for this page, ''Chilly Beach'''s April June is mostly a parody of this misunderstanding of feminism.
* An episode of ''JusticeLeague'' had a rogue Amazon taking her people's views of "Man's World" to its logical extreme by developing a plague that will wipe out every creature with a Y chromosome. It's eventually learned that she's not really an Amazon (just a regular human girl granted haven and raised by the Amazons), and her deep hatred of men stemmed from the military coup that drove her from her homeland and washed her up on Themyscera (she balked after learning a man sacrificed his life to save hers, claiming the good deeds of one man couldn't salvage the crimes of males altogether). The incident, ironically, taught her fellow Amazons (who, including Wonder Woman, had displayed tendencies towards Straw Feminism themselves up to this point) to not too soundly preach the inferiorities of men and their own superiority.
** This trope is [[LampshadeHanging noted]] when Hawkgirl tells WonderWoman "don't knock it 'till you've tried it".
* ''FamilyGuy'' used this in an episode where Peter is forced into sensitivity training... He was so trained that he himself did a feminism equivalent of the HeelFaceTurn and became an extremely fluffy combination of this and a cookie baking, bridge playing young biddy...
** One-shot StrawFeminist character Gloria Ironbox implies that Lois's choice to be a wife and stay-at-home mother is the reason Peter doesn't respect women. And what does Lois do? She beats the shit out of her.
*** Before said beatdown, Lois delivers a speech about feminism that could be considered a CrowningMomentOfAwesome.
** Especially funny if you realize that Gloria Ironbox is voiced by Candice Bergen, who played Murphy Brown, a non-straw feminist.
* Averted in the ''[[TheSimpsons Simpsons]]'' episode "Homer Badman". The character of Ashley Grant (who falsely accuses Homer of sexual harassment) initially appears to be one of these, but by the end of the episode she concedes that she jumped to the wrong conclusion and apologizes to Homer.

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* Despite this being a front on the WarOnStraw, you ''will'' meet actual people who fit this trope from time to time. They may or may not be female. Endlessly fun to troll, but don't take that as an excuse to be rude to real feminists in hopes ye may have found a strawpersun.
** In fact, feminists are ''painfully'' aware of how prevalent this [[WarOnStraw Straw Trope]] is in RealLife. An editor for the site ifeminists.com, Carey Roberts, wrote the article [[http://www.ifeminists.net/introduction/editorials/2004/0324roberts.html "Women Lose When Feminists Bash,"]] detailing how TheUnfairSex DoubleStandard pushed by extremist feminists is legally hurting men as well as the overall cause of women.
*** Such a case of offending both would include a new 'Equality' bill put forward by Harriet Harman, a senior minister in the UK, which would give employers the legal right to discriminate in favour of women because in her own words 'men cannot be left to run things on their own'. She said a woman should always occupy one of the top two posts in government to represent female voters (such being impossible from a man apparently). Even worse straw feminists mocked those who criticised the plans as being secretly misogynistic, even though the problem was not a woman in the top job, or even all the jobs in government (or that a mix may well be preferable), but that such should be a requirement regardless of the qualities of any of the candidates.
**** Not strictly true. Harman has put forward an Equality Bill under which employers would have the right to discriminate in favour of women and minorities in situations where qualifications are otherwise equal. Harman also said that "men cannot be left to run things on their own." However, the two stories were separate and unrelated.
***** Of course, because vocal sexism and legal sexism ''obviously'' have nothing to do with each other.
* Andrea Dworkin's become something of a mascot for the "extreme-minded" feminist in the eyes of the public, through statements she's made in her varied works and commentaries. For example, she once said that "the difference between seduction and rape is that during seduction the rapist sometimes buys a bottle of wine" ... which was probably an attempt at BlackComedy, but [[DudeNotFunny doesn't reflect well on her]]--especially since she's also blamed everything from war to crime to slavery to high taxes on the penis.
** In any case, Andrea Dworkin was arguably less radical than her colleague, John Stoltenberg. Ayup, no less than a male RL StrawFeminist who believes all male sexual desire to be objectifying and misogynistic. ''Refusing To Be A Man'' arguably stands as his manifesto. Incidentally, that there are a number of male feminists like John Stoltenberg is a major difference between Straw and Real Feminists.
* These kids seem to forget that the SCUM Manifesto is a Postmodern work, and thus thoroughly tongue-in-cheek; everything PoMo is.
** That is rather misleading. Valerie Solans did not explictly claim the S.C.U.M. Manifesto to be hyperbolic Postmodern satire until roughly 10 years after its original publication and her attempt to assassinate Andy Warhol and other members of The Factory. At that time, she was diagnosed as a violent paranoid schizophrenic. There was considerable speculation by those who had close contact with her that the attempt on Warhol and others was an attempt to garner fame, to assist in having her "pornographic" misandrist play ''Up Your Ass'' produced; and her diagnosis an attempt at an insanity plea. Her improvised dialog in Warhol's movie ''I, A Man'' veers well into misandrist radical-fringe feminism.
*** Read it here: http://www.womynkind.org/scum.htm
** Speaking of PoMo... [[http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/dawkins.html in an article about postmodernism and academic dishonesty]], Richard Dawkins mentions a feminist author (Luce Irigaray) who [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_bias claimed]] physicists couldn't figure out "fluid" systems because "fluidity" is a female characteristic, but could figure out "rigid" systems because they were connected to the "erectile nature" of the masculine gender. I ''wish'' I was making this up. And yes, [[DidNotDoTheResearch they have figured out "fluid" systems]].
*** Apparently she also thought [[DidNotDoTheResearch that there are no female physicists...]]
* A feminist who insists that women should choose to be lesbians as a political act would surely be a laughable straw-woman 99% of the time. [[http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/jan/30/women-gayrights Unfortunately, not always.]]
* In 2006 Spain's ''Instituto de la Mujer'' published the 463 pages study ''La diferencia sexual en el analisis de los videojuegos'' ("Sexual difference in the analysis of videogames"), a list of sexist products in the videogame industry. Among the examples, ''{{Pokemon}}'', ''{{TheSims}}'', ''HarryPotter and the Chamber of Secrets'', ''Mario Kart'' and ''AgeOfEmpires II''.
** Out of curiosity [[{{Maxmordon}} This troper]] decided to read it after seeing it here and dear God, the whole report is a lose-lose situation; they complain in one video game about the female character being trapped in female stereotypes and in the next page about female characters being exactly like men, they complain about ''AgeOfEmpires'' that the only women are peasants without poiting out that this game is set on the Medieval Ages and such limitations are accurate facts, ''TheSims'' was more about a rant on capitalism and the whole report changes so quickly between CompletelyMissingThePoint and FridgeLogic that is not even funny.
*** Users have been banned permanently from this site for pointing out that many of the quasi-feminist tropes -- such as WomenInRefrigerators and BuryYourGays -- are examples of exactly this sort of Catch 22 thinking.
**** In what way are those tropes examples of Catch 22 thinking? One is about how disproportionately, women in supporting roles end up killed as part of the villain's plans; and the other is about gay characters disproportionatley getting unhappy endings. Also, I doubt anyone would be banned for merely "pointing out" anything about a trope, so there's probably more to the story. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, what does this have to do with ''this'' trope?
* I'm still wondering how the eroge ban in japan caused by this type of feminist is not on here. (Even though it was caused by a really stupid game [[spoiler: Rapelay ]]) While complaining about the game, the crazy idiots decided to take out the WHOLE DAMNED INDUSTRY, and petitioned the EOCS to ban this huge [[http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/06/24/eroge-taliban-take-over-all-fetishes-banned-in-eroge/ list]]of genres. Goodbye games, I hardly knew ye.
** They even wanted to ban {{Clannad}}, everything about it, due to its eroge non-cannon side stories. I don't think the ban went through, if this can be confirmed that would be awesome.
*** False. The game, did not even have sex in it. On that thought, many companies do not follow the EOCS. On another sidenote [[spoiler: Rapelay's maker, illusion, just came out with [[TakeThat ANOTHER rape game]] based on Dragon Quest this time as petty revenge]]. But, it follows the rules XD, as its [[spoiler:A MAN getting raped]]. [[supersecretspoiler: You have to lose the battles]]
** Another group is trying the have ''THE UN'' force Japan to out law all sexually explicit artwork and are apparently succeeding.
*** The group in question is ''EQUALITY NOW'', or the leading feminist group (they're not the only ones, just a the only organization opposing eroge.) They do have valid points (lolicon, guro, et cetera), but the rest is stuff that normal women get angry about ("stereotypes" of women. Read: ''moe'' archetypes and others.)
**** Succeeding? Judging from the fact that only news sources even reporting about their activities are those run by the otaku subculture, it doesn't seem that they are doing anything except loud noise. The UN gets a huge number of crank demands every year, few which ever lead to any kind of decision, and even fewer which actually affect the member nations. If all erotic art was in danger of receiving a UN ban, a bit more major news agencies would be reporting about it, this troper thinks.
**** You mentioned "valid points"?
***** EqualityNow's antics can be regarding Rapelay and it's crusade against japanese art in general can be seen [[http://www.equalitynow.org/english/actions/action_3301_en.html here]], [[http://www.equalitynow.org/english/actions/action_3302_en.html here]], [[http://www.equalitynow.org/english/actions/action_3301s_en.html and here]], notice how they use the word "rape simulator" like it's Jack Thompson calling GTA a "murder simulator" over and over again...but unlike Thompy there, EqualityNow went as far as citing comments from otaku-centric sites like Sankaku as "evidence" that they need to ban FOREIGN COUNTRIES from making art aimed at their own citizens.

* In 1993, a group of radical feminist professors and students at the University of Maryland posted flyers around the College Park campus which featured names of a number of male students, chosen randomly from the student directory, with the heading "NOTICE: THESE MEN ARE POTENTIAL RAPISTS". When threatened with disciplinary action and defamation lawsuits, the students claimed that it was a protest intended to draw attention to the issue of rape on campus, and their intended message was not that those particular students were rapists, but that ''all'' men were "potential" rapists. Similar incidents, but less high-profile have taken place at other schools around the US, some involving photos of male students as well as names.
* Allecto's "feminist" [[WitchHunt criticism of]] {{Main/Firefly}}. [[http://allecto.wordpress.com/2008/04/06/a-rapists-view-of-the-world-our-mrs-reynolds-part-one/ Dear God, is this woman scary.]]
** [[http://www.cracked.com/article_16587_hollywoods-5-saddest-attempts-at-feminism.html This]] [[SoBadItsHorrible awful, awful]] article actually seems to ''cite'' the above as an example of fans being pissed off about [[WitchHunt Whedon's sexism]], as well as being an example in its own right. I've been trying to come up with a sarcastic line about heeding her standards for female characters, but it seems even if you make them perfect and keep them out of a relationship with men, she'll just resort to outright making shit up.
*** It should be noted that Allecto is a complete idiot -- asides from being one of the people who think lesbianism is a choice, and whole-heartedly believing in Dworkin's blaming of everything on man, ''she still writes slash.'' Despite writing violent poetry about destroying men.
** There are [[http://allecto.wordpress.com/2008/04/06/a-rapists-view-of-the-world-our-mrs-reynolds-part-one/ more]] [[http://allecto.wordpress.com/2008/05/02/a-wife-beaters-view-of-the-world-our-mrs-reynolds-part-two/ posts]]. What's really scary is the people agreeing with her. Of course, that might be explained by the fact that
--->'''I won’t be allowing comments from anyone who is not a radical feminist (or pro-radical feminist) or a lesbian feminist/separatist. Yes, I am pro-censorship. Boohoo.'''
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Daly Mary Daly]], who stated "If life is to survive on this planet, there must be a decontamination of the Earth. I think this will be accompanied by an evolutionary process that will result in a drastic reduction of the population of males."
* And who can forget [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Solanas Valerie "I Shot Andy Warhol" Solanas]] and her '''S'''ociety for '''C'''utting '''U'''p '''M'''en?
*Behold, [=FandomWank=] provides us with the [[http://wiki.fandomwank.com/index.php/Ginmar Ginmar Saga!]]
* From Encyclopedia Dramatica: if the [[http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/BitingBeaver Biting Beaver]] saga is to be minimally believed... wow. Anybody has more info?
*Every year at my old high school, this one weird lady will come and speak to our school, mostly to the girls though. She warned us heavily that we must never trust boys. "Don't let them drive you home, don't go to parties with them, don't go out on dates, don't be friends with them, don't even sit by them at lunch!" if I remember correctly. My brother ended up joking with my cousin (and his best friend/female self) that he was going to rape her if she ever even blinked.

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* A substantial number of the jokes in "lad mags" like MAXIM, FHM, Stuff, etc. come at the expense of these strawmen.
** Ahem, straw''persons''.
*** Cough, strawper''suns''.
* Stand-up comics often mock this. "Ladies, when a guy holds the door open for you, scream that he's a sexist pig. This will really improve his opinion of women."
* The "Aristasia" concept (Google is your friend) is a (relatively benign) combination of this, DaydreamBeliever (with regards to a Le Guin-esque SFF mythos), and an isolationist rendering of BornInTheWrongCentury. Girls involved with this are sometimes associated with S&M, which they [[BerserkButton don't much like]].

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* Kitty Ledbetter from the webgame ''The Goat in the Grey Fedora'' is revealed to be one of these when Bounty discovers that [[spoiler:she murdered her father in order to get the deeds to a salt mine, which she was going to use to spread a chemical that would paralyze men worldwide.]]
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