Basic Trope: A character identified as a feminist expresses an extremist, misandrist ideology.
- Straight: Alice often discusses men as being inherently inferior to women.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice often wishes and plans for the complete extermination of all men everywhere. She is unaware that this will only hasten the eventual extinction of the human species. Alternatively, she is aware of this fact, but she hates men so much that she doesn't care. In her mind, anything with a penis is so inherently, completely, irredeemably evil that she considers the total extinction of the species to be acceptable tradeoff for a few decades without them.
- She wishes for all men to be imprisoned in Nazi-esque concentration camps, and used exclusively for breeding stock to keep the human race alive.
- Alice has one or both of the above views and accuses any woman who disagrees with her of being a Female Misogynist and a gender traitor or even a man-pleasing whore, only sucking up to men for their attention and approval at the expense of other women. Alternatively, she accuses any woman who disagrees with her of being brainwashed and controlled by the patriarchy, and therefore just one more piece of evidence proving why all men need to be exterminated/imprisoned, along with all the women who don't hate men.
- And as well as all of the above, Alice may also have an opinion of trans and non-binary people as "traitors" and "spies" and even full-on non-humans.
- Same as the first one, but she wants to get rid of male animals too.
- Downplayed:
- Alice only brings up her anti-men views when it's appropriate to the conversation, and can interact with non-Straw Misogynist men normally, perhaps gives them a Not Like Other Guys treatment too.
- Alice views men as being inherently inferior to women, but she has some level of tolerance toward them, and she usually doesn't express her ideology further than acting snobbish toward men.
- Alice is a misanthrope who hates women as well as men, but hates men even more.
- Justified:
- Alice had an upbringing in which she was treated horribly by her Straw Misogynist family (even her mother was a Female Misogynist), which made her opinion of men in general very negative.
- Alice grew up in a No Woman's Land where Straw Misogyny was rampant and just as extreme. She felt that to fight the oppressive, extremist world she lived in, she had to subscribe to oppressive, extremist values.
- Alice has been conditioned (either by upbringing or later radicalization) by other Straw Feminists to believe that all men oppress women For the Evulz and/or are literally subhuman and only necessary for reproduction purposes.
- Alice is a young person or a Womanchild who doesn't know nearly as much about feminism as she claims, and has more passion and anger than common sense.
- Inverted:
- Female Misogynist.
- Alice's radical ideologies are actually being used to promote feminism.
- Alice is a feminist and presented as an Incorruptible
Purity Sue and Friend to All Living Things. - Alice is a feminist but she cares about men's inequality issues much more than women's, bonus point if she is also an One of the Boys who refuses to let other girls hang out with her too.
- Gender Flipped:
- Bob hates women so much, he wishes to get rid of them.
- Bob is a Straw Misogynist who often tends to see women as inferior to men.
- Bob hates men.
- Subverted:
- Bob assumes that Alice is going to be like this upon hearing that she's a feminist, only to learn that she's a moderate.
- Alice expresses some pretty hateful views of men... And then goes on to attack her fellow women with equal vitriol, and turns out to be just misanthropic in general.
- Carol and Diana show up and are presented as moderate reasonable feminists in contrast to Alice's extremism and irrationality.
- Alice definitely Does Not Like Men, but her attitude is justified that she fears men due to her traumatic past experiences, instead of thinking men are inferior.
- Alice says some scathingly anti-males things, like how all men are rapists and how all men should die. Later, she claims she was only joking and hopes no one took her seriously.
- Alice only behaves this way to certain men, not all of them.
- Double Subverted:
- Alice only pretends to be a moderate for her own reasons; her views are actually more extreme than she lets on.
- But she still thinks men are worse.
- That's just a façade they put on to get people on their side. They're really a man-hating lesbian couple.
- ... at least, she didn't used to, but as time goes on she later becomes on.
- Alice claims her anti-male ramblings were just jokes, but they weren't. She actually does believe they're all rapists and wants to kill them all.
- Turns out that they are key pawns in whatever plan she has to control or exterminate men and she was doing the "knife what enters slowly" thing with them… until when they stop being useful, then she speeds it up.
- Parodied:
- Alice is presented as a naïve, ill-informed imbecile who represents every possible stereotype of feminism. Bonus points if she fits both the stereotypes of being a slut and a prude at the same time. note
- Bob, a man, often wishes and plans for the complete extermination of men as a gender.
- Alice is normally a polite and mild-mannered young lady. However, seeing a man or even simply mentioning men around her will cause her to enter Unstoppable Rage.
- Alice runs into Bob, a Straw Misogynist. Hilarity Ensues.
- Alice is a Take That! at feminists, but instead of being a misandrist, she espouses Political Overcorrectness and All Issues Are Political Issues. She spends most of her time debating about whether or not chess is sexist and talking about how milk ads objectify women by promoting the idea that drinking white liquids is good for you.
- Alice hates men so much that she forces herself to only date and have sex with very feminine women, and identifies as a lesbian despite being completely heterosexual. Hilarity Ensues as she makes her girlfriend do increasingly ridiculous things to please her in bed, such as wearing a strap-on (not that ridiculous), wearing a fake beard (getting up there), and taking up chain smoking in order to make her voice sound more gravelly and masculine. Any suggestion from her girlfriend that maybe she would prefer to have sex with a man instead is met with frothing rage.
- Alice constantly contradicts herself:
Alice: Women are equal to men! ... All men are pigs and should be killed or locked up!
A woman can do anything just as well as a man! ... Physical fitness standards for police/firefighters/soldiers are sexist and must be lowered so that women can pass them!
Trans women are women! ... Trans men are vile gender traitors seeking male privilege!
Women should be free to make their own choices! ... Any woman who chooses to do [thing I don't approve of] has been brainwashed by the patriarchy! It wasn't really her choice!
Women can be actively sexual if they want! ... Straight women who want sex are doormats because they're desperate for male approval!
Women's health and wellbeing matter! ... Any woman who doesn't devote her life to feminism 24/7 at the cost of her health is a traitor!- ...and so on.
- The flagpole in front of Alice's house has a burning bra on it instead of a flag.
- Alice takes her hatred of men so far that she avoids using words that sound even remotely masculine, like history or manipulate, and lashes out on anyone who dares to use those words while she is in earshot.
- If Alice speaks Spanish or another romance language (or anyother gendered language), she will also talk about why gendered languages are misogynist because using masculine plural form to talk about both sexes people invisibilate women and by that she thinks erase gender in languages will finish with the misogyny in the world. And she'll get in a Unstoppable Rage if you use words as "El hombre/Mankind" in place of "Humanidad/Humankind".
- Alice, a moderate reasonable feminist Jerk with a Heart of Gold, violently slaps at a man once for self-defense reasons, other feminists claiming that she is a man-hater instead of a feminist.
- Zig Zagged: Bob assumes that Alice is going to be like this upon hearing that she's a feminist complete with Imagine Spot, only to learn that she's a moderate. Then they come to one issue in particular that sets her off and her friend Carol tells her to Stop Being Stereotypical, which she does.
- Averted:
- The Nice Girl Alice is a feminist and doesn't want the death of all men.
- Alice doesn't have any opinion about feminism or gender equality in general, whether she Does Not Like Men or not.
- Enforced:
- "I hate feminists! How can I lampoon them to best effect?"
- "Standing up for equal rights is all well and good, but I think it's important that we show how some activists don't practice what they preach and could simply be claiming an opposition towards misogyny in an attempt to absolve themselves of attacking men just because they're men."
- Lampshaded: "You'll have to excuse Alice — she's one of those crazy feminists..."
- Invoked: "You can't be a feminist without wanting to completely crush all men, honey!"
- Exploited:
- Patriarch Evulz covertly funds Alice's misandric crusade in order to discredit real feminists.
- Alice is a Con Artist profiting from her trust-funding audience by saying the right words, for the wrong reasons.
- Defied: "Being a feminist doesn't mean you have to subscribe to extremism; men and women are equal, after all..."
- Discussed:
- "Surely all feminists can't be as bad as Alice..."
- "Is it me or does the women are always victims mentality sounds horribly sexist?"
- Conversed: "What a ridiculous stereotype!"
- Implied: Alice is shown to be more cheerful around women than she is around men.
- Deconstructed:
- Alice's vicious and extreme opinions alienate her and ensure she remains friendless and unloved.
- Alice's views make most people think all feminists are insane man-haters.
- Any men who have any sympathy towards Alice or the feminist cause are eventually disgusted with her, and leave feeling angry and insulted.
- Alice acts like this because she's sick of being ignored, especially by men who won't acknowledge their privilege. She's grown to distrust all men as a defense mechanism, and thinks going to extremes is the only way to get her voice heard. Grossly misguided as her position is, there's a reason for it.
- Alice hates all men because she thinks their privilege makes them evil. Betty, a more reasonable feminist, points out that if Alice is in any way privileged herself (white, cishet, neurotypical, able-bodied, middle-class, etc), then by her own logic she should also think of herself as Beyond Redemption and incapable of truly supporting equality.
- Reconstructed:
- Alice finds The Mentor in Carol who helps her chuck the straw.
- Alice works with genuine moderate feminists as a foil to show what is a stereotype and what is the real deal.
- More moderate feminists redeem the cause without alienating men in the process, for example they address how gender norms hurt everyone.
- Alice may be acting from a place of deep frustration, but others still rightly point out that it doesn't justify bullying men, or women who don't subscribe to her extremist feminism. Nor does it change the fact that she's doing more to harm than help the feminist cause.
- Alice is such a fanatic, she does think of everyone who isn't simultaneously part of every minority group as evil. Including herself if she's part of any majority.
- Played for Laughs:
- Alice complains about women being oppressed and treated like slaves while ordering Bob to Stay in the Kitchen.
- Alice meets Bob, a Straw Misogynist, and ended up loving each other because they fight!
- Played for Drama:
- Alice gets a What the Hell, Hero? speech by other feminists for being making the rest look bad.
- Alice's views came about because she was raped. Now, she wants a boyfriend. Unfortunately, her pathological hatred of men makes it impossible for her to get a date, and she remains lonely and sad.
- Played For Horror:
- Alice is a Serial Killer who targets males. Any male will do, especially babies and little boys, they all deserve to die anyway. And women who dare protect their children/relatives from her rightful wrath will die too, like the betrayers they are.
- Driven to misandry after being raped, Alice is a Serial Rapist who kidnaps young men and boys, imprisons them in her basement and keeps them as sex slaves.
- Plotted a Good Waste: Alice is a double agent trying to infiltrate feminism to make them look bad.
- Unparodied: Alice hates men so much that she forces herself to only date and have sex with very feminine women, however, it turns out that her Lipstick Lesbian girlfriend is also a misandristic feminist who refuses to do ridiculously masculine things to please Alice in bed, and while Alice is revealed that she is completely heterosexual, Alice is harshly called out for being a Category Traitor of womanhood due to her attraction with men.
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