History Main / EffeminateMisogynisticGuy

Can also be a deconstruction of GayBestFriend, especially if that's a role he never asked for -- maybe all those "hilariously catty" putdowns he's slinging around are more pointed that you thought they were. And does he maybe seem a bit overenthusiastic to make use of his honorary [[NWordPrivileges B-Word Privileges]]?

* Buffalo Bill in both the film and novel of ''Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs''. It's carefully established that he ''isn't'' a "true" transsexual, and several gender reassignment centres have turned him away; rather, he's obsessed with his dead mother and suffering from a vicious case of IJustWantToBeYou. On the other hand, he's a large, gruff man who has to "put on" an effeminate guise, which doesn't come at all naturally to him.

-->'''Light''': He's surprisingly disparaging of the effeminate due to his hatred of women. I don't remind him of his decidedly camp music collection, but [[FreudianExcuse I blame his mother]]. He doesn't trust women. He doesn't trust men, either, [[TheParanoiac or dogs, or cats]], [[TheLongList or bees, or horses]], but he reserves a particularly spiteful hatred for women and femininity which I find as an equally cruel, unreasonable, and [[EvilIsSexy sexually attractive]] quality in him.

* Chi Fu from ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'' would be a milder example; he is a NonActionGuy known for his GirlyScream, yet when told Mulan is a hero he simply says [[DeliberateValuesDissonance "she's a woman, she'll never be worth anything"]].

* Omega Zell from ''Franchise/{{Noob}}'' slips into this by being both AmbiguouslyGay and a misogynist.
* HIM, from ''WesternAnimation/WeAreTheStrange'', is a pink guy who looks like he's wearing lipstick while smacking around a woman at his strip club and stating that women are "mere tools" of pleasure for him.
* Played with by WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic. Vain, subby and girly, he's a feminist who nevertheless likes to occasionally poke female tempers so he can get dommed or at least slapped around.

* CampGay {{crossdresser}} Creator/ChrisCrocker says he will KILL any woman he sees with a gay man. He says SHAVING is harder than giving birth. He claims he came out of his mom's vagina with his nose covered...

* Chi Fu from ''Disney/{{Mulan}}'' would be a milder example; he is a NonActionGuy known for his GirlyScream, yet when told Mulan is a hero he simply says [[DeliberateValuesDissonance "she's a woman, she'll never be worth anything"]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', the gay (later {{trangender}}, and then back again) teacher Mr. Garrison thinks this of women:

* In ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', the gay (later {{trangender}}, and then back again) teacher Mr. Garrison thinks this of women;

* In ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', the gay teacher Mr Garrison thinks this of women;

* WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries's Marik loudly proclaims himself the most effeminate guy around, and generally disdains women. Of course, given the women's characterization...

* The 'hermaphrodite' Alpha Centauri in ''Series/DoctorWho'' has a prissy, feminine personality and is voiced by a woman. Yet, in "The Monster of Peladon", he's very sexist towards Sarah Jane and the Queen (a trait he didn't display in his first appearance).

** By ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIV'' Vega seems to have settled for being less bloodthirsty towards women, in favor of passive-aggressive condescension. A good example is [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP_3H2Qawbw his rival intro]] with [[WorldsMostBeautifulWoman Chun]][[ActionGirl -Li]], whom he considers his equal in both skills and looks.
* ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'' presents Kanji's [[EnemyWithout Shadow]] this way, a guy initially clad only in a fundoshi (who later transforms into a muscle-bound titan with a head of roses wielding Mars symbols as weapons) who speaks with an obvious "gay accent." He tells Kanji that he hates girls, because they always gossip and taunt him about his [[RealMenWearPink feminine interests]], and then says he finds comfort in men. As the Shadow is supposed to be everything the individual hates about themselves, Kanji does not take this monologue kindly.

* Marik from ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'' loudly proclaims himself the most effeminate guy around and generally disdains women, even believing that ''Anime/YuGiOh'' ''has'' no women.

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* ''Series/StargateSG1'': The System Lord Ba'al, who used to be an EvilOverlord, is a prime example of TheDandy, often dressing himself in flowery robes or leather suits and concerned quite a bit with his own appearance. He also makes a bunch of misogynistic comments at [[TheSquadette Colonel Carter]] when he and SG-1 have been forced into an EnemyMine, who punches him in the face in response.

A subtrope of HeManWomanHater. Compare/contrast with FemaleMisogynist (as a subset of BoomerangBigot), who have a similar issue, but the contradiction is more immediately obvious in that case, as opposed to an effeminate misogynistic guy who could instead have stereotypes about women that aren't the same as the gender stereotypes of the setting in which he's presented.

* Marik from ''WebOriginal/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'' loudly proclaims himself the most effeminate guy around and generally disdains women, even believing that ''Anime/YuGiOh'' ''has'' no women.

* HIM, from ''WeAreTheStrange'', is a pink guy who looks like he's wearing lipstick while smacking around a woman at his strip club and stating that women are "mere tools" of pleasure for him.

* Most gay characters in ''ComicBook/FromHell''. The book makes mention of the gay fraternity group known as "The Apostles" who occasionally show up in UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper ConspiracyTheory lore, who were well known for their outspoken hatred of women (more than most people in the 1800s, even!). This plays into (and in the Apostles' case may have been an inspiration for) the British stereotype of homosexual men in general, especially in older works, that portrays them being very catty and mean to women, rather than the supportive "sassy gay friend" archetype more often seen in North American works.

* Clair Leonelli from ''Anime/HeatGuyJ'' is a more subtle example of this trope. He's a small, slender, physically-unimposing {{Bishonen}} who also is in charge of the only organization in the series to contain absolutely no women, and he once disparages [[TheHero Daisuke]] for having to be saved by a woman on one occasion. [[note]] Although it seems that that particular remark was sarcasm. [[/note]] On a more metatextual level, there's also the fact that his birthday coincides with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinamatsuri Hinamatsuri]], a festival associated with women and girls; but at the same time his own mother [[DeathByChildbirth died giving birth to him]].

Such characters will generally be villains (or at least generally more often than {{tomboy}}ish girls who [[DoesNotLikeMen happen to have contempt for males]], perhaps partly because women diverging from gender norms is relatively more embraced), and represent an [[XMeetsY intersection]] of PoliticallyIncorrectVillain and SissyVillain. However, some portrayals may nevertheless be more sympathetic, and make him an intersection of NobleBigot and RealMenWearPink.

** ''[[Anime/LupinIIIThePursuitOfHarimaosTreasure The Pursuit of Harimao's Treasure]]'' has [[VillainousCrossdresser Herr]] [[PunnyName Mafroditte]], who was basically a narcissistic gay Nazi. When [[FemmeFatale Fujiko]] touches him, he's [[{{Squick}} visibly repulsed]] by it and tells her not to touch him because he hates women. [[spoiler: Fujiko weaponizes this at the climax by kissing him on the lips, causing him to [[VillainousBreakdown run away screaming in disgust.]]]]

* The VillainProtagonist SerialKiller Light Yagami of ''Manga/DeathNote'' repeatedly expresses his opinions on the [[StayInTheKitchen uselessness of women]], particularly his girlfriend [[MadLove Misa]], who continues to ignore his [[HatesBeingTouched rebuffing of her affections]] and the fact that he's using her to get away with murder. However, Light himself possesses a weirdly effeminate demeanor, with a special mention to the lovely [[SharpDressedMan pink butterfly belt]] he wears in the first opening sequence.
* Clair Leonelli from ''Anime/HeatGuyJ'' is a more subtle example of this trope. He's a small, slender, physically-unimposing {{Bishounen}} who also is in charge of the only organization in the series to contain absolutely no women, and he once disparages [[TheHero Daisuke]] for having to be saved by a woman on one occasion. [[note]] Although it seems that that particular remark was sarcasm. [[/note]] On a more metatextual level, there's also the fact that his birthday coincides with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinamatsuri Hinamatsuri]], a festival associated with women and girls; but at the same time his own mother [[DeathByChildbirth died giving birth to him]].

-->'''Light''': He's surprisingly disparaging of the effeminate due to his hatred of women. I don't remind him of his decidedly camp music collection, but [[FreudianExcuse I blame his mother]]. He doesn't trust women. He doesn't trust men, either, [[TheParanoiac or dogs, or cats,]] [[TheLongList or bees, or horses]], but he reserves a particularly spiteful hatred for women and femininity which I find as an equally cruel, unreasonable, and [[EvilIsSexy sexually attractive]] quality in him.

* Chi Fu from ''Disney/{{Mulan}}'' would be a milder example; he is a NonActionGuy known for his GirlyScream, yet when told Mulan is a hero he simply says [[DeliberateValuesDissonance "she's a woman, she'll never be worth anything".]]

* Buffalo Bill in both the film and novel of ''Film/SilenceOfTheLambs''. It's carefully established that he ''isn't'' a "true" transsexual, and several gender reassignment centres have turned him away; rather, he's obsessed with his dead mother and suffering from a vicious case of IJustWantToBeYou. On the other hand, he's a large, gruff man who has to "put on" an effeminate guise, which doesn't come at all naturally to him.

* Buffalo Bill from ''SilenceOfTheLambs''; see Film above.

* Lionel Trane (a gay, activist teen) from ''UnitedStatesOfTara'' was so misogynistic that he made other, more mature and secure gay characters uncomfortable.
* Jack from ''WillAndGrace'' DID occasionally have elements of this (and HetIsEw), but it varied from episode to episode due to RuleOfFunny.

** In ''Anime/StreetFighterIITheAnimatedMovie'', [[HomoeroticSubtext he became jealous]] when Bison appeared to [[BuxomIsBetter take an interest in Chun Li's "talents]]." And, when tasked with eliminating her, Vega's method was sadistic; delighting in Chun Li's suffering until she fought back and [[BerserkButton stepped on his face]].
** Similarly, in the comics Vega gets '''pissed''' when Ken's fiancée Eliza, normally a NiceGirl, gets upset at him and gives him a hard slap to the face. If not for Ken being there, the poor girl would've been torn to shreds.

* Nekron, the BigBad in ''WesternAnimation/FireAndIce'. When his mother kidnaps a beautiful princess to serve as his concubine, he is disgusted by the idea of mating with her, referring to said princess as a "little slut" and throwing her in a dungeon. He does say that she is attractive for "a lesser beast" and he might take her after all, but this was said to goad her brother into attacking him. In fact, he shows more interest in the ''male hero'' than his girlfriend.

* The 'hermaphrodite' Alpha Centauri in ''Series/DoctorWho'' is generally referred to with male pronouns and, in "The Monster of Peladon", is very sexist towards Sarah Jane and the Queen (a trait he didn't display in his first appearance).

* Most gay characters in ''ComicBook/FromHell''. The book makes mention of the gay fraternity group known as "The Apostles" who occasionally show up in JackTheRipper ConspiracyTheory lore, who were well known for their outspoken hatred of women (more than most people in the 1800s, even!). This plays into (and in the Apostles' case may have been an inspiration for) the British stereotype of homosexual men in general, especially in older works, that portrays them being very catty and mean to women, rather than the supportive "sassy gay friend" archetype more often seen in North American works.

* Clair Leonelli from ''Anime/HeatGuyJ'' is a more subtle example of this trope. He's a small, slender, physically-unimposing {{Bishounen}} who also is in charge of the only organization in the series to contain absolutely no women, and he once disparages [[TheHero Daisuke]] for having to be saved by a woman on one occasion. On a more metatextual level, there's also the fact that his birthday coincides with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinamatsuri Hinamatsuri]], a festival associated with women and girls; but at the same time his own mother [[DeathByChildbirth died giving birth to him]].

* Light Yagami gets this treatment again in ''Fanfic/ThoseWhoStandForNothingFallForAnything'', but also point this out in his boyfriend L: