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dangerwaffle
Since: Jul, 2010
2nd Jan, 2011 05:52:57 PM
Uh, bump cause I'm pretty shocked we don't have this one. Can anyone at least confirm that I'm not crazy and there isn't a trope for this before I take it to YKTTW?
So didn't there used to be a counterpart of Real Women Never Wear Dresses called Real Women Always Wear Dresses? You know, where a really butch female character is derided because obviously there's something wrong with being female and not having traditional feminine traits? Was it renamed? Did I just imagine this?
Or is it just covered under another trope? It's not quite No Guy Wants an Amazon - that's specifically about butch women being unattractive to men, not about there just being something wrong with them in general - and it's not Acceptable Feminine Goals, since that's about female characters being given tacked-on feminine traits to avoid this. And it's not Straw Feminist, since a female character can be extremely masculine without actually being a feminist.
Come to think of it, is there even a trope for the gender-flipped version where a male character is derided for having feminine traits?