Line #43 PlayingWith/TenderTomboyishnessFoulFemininity


1	'''Basic Trope''': A {{tomboy}} who is {{nice\|Girl}} and a GirlyGirl who is [[{{Jerkass}} mean]].
2	* '''Straight''': [[TomboyishName Sam]] is the AcademicAthlete who is nice to the people she meets while Julie is into fashion and is a vain, {{spoiled\|Brat}} AlphaBitch.
3	* '''Exaggerated''':
4	** [[KnightInShiningArmor Sam]] is a [[TheLadette ladette]] and an AllLovingHeroine who battles [[ProperLady Ju]][[EvilQueen lie]], [[TheBaroness the feminine, yet cold-hearted bitch]] who likes crossing the MoralEventHorizon.
5	** All GirlyGirl characters [[AlwaysChaoticEvil are portrayed as]] {{jerk\|ass}}s while all {{tomboy}}ish [[TheLadette ones]] [[AlwaysLawfulGood are portrayed as]] [[NiceGirl polite]].
6	* '''Downplayed''':
7	** Sam is a TomboyWithAGirlyStreak and/or is a JerkWithAHeartOfGold or GoodIsNotNice while Julie is a GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak and/or is a BitchInSheepsClothing or AffablyEvil.
8	** Sam is a [[PomPomGirl nice, sweet cheerleader]], while Julie is an AlphaBitch GamerChick. While both are feminine, [[RedOniBlueOni Sam however prefers being active and loves playing sports, in comparison to Julie, who loves softer traditionally feminine activities like sewing and giving manicures to other people.]]
9	** Sam is an introverted JerkWithAHeartOfGold who will always do the right thing in the end despite her aloof nature. Alice is a FauxAffablyEvil BitchInSheepsClothing who fakes kindness and uses her feminine charms to exploit others.
10	** Sam and Julie have similar fashion senses and they even share some interests, but PetitePride Sam is an energetic [[NoIndoorVoice loud]] PassionateSportsGirl who gets along with the boys better than [[BuxomBeautyStandard Buxom]] HeadTurningBeauty Julie, [[GossipyHens who likes gossips]] and looks down with anyone but the GirlPosse and her MrFanservice boyfriend.
11	** Julie is a [[LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine dark feminine]] cynical IceQueen but still has some HiddenHeartOfGold moments, while Sam is a {{Bifauxnen}} and generally a {{nice girl}} but had many [[BewareTheNiceOnes moments of assertiveness, aggressiveness, and meanness.]]
12	** Both of them are Heroines but Sam is a boyish AllLovingHeroine while Julie is a girly [[AntiHero anti-heroine]].
13	** Both of them are Villainesses but Sam is a boyish AffablyEvil while Julie is a girly CompleteMonster.
14	** Both can be qualified as [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold jerks with hearts of gold]], it's just that Sam leans more on the Heart of Gold part while Julie leans more on the Jerk part.
15	* '''Justified''':
16	** Julie is popular for her feminine nature, [[PopularIsEvil giving her power]] that goes to her head. Meanwhile, Sam is unpopular and sympathizes with other outcasts.
17	** Sam gets along better with the [[MostWritersAreMale male]] [[WhiteMaleLead protagonists]] due to shared interests and traits, while [[LipstickLesbian Julie]] is a StrawFeminist who believes that everything masculine is toxic.
18	** Sam came from a poor but honest family of farmers and manual workers, as well as had many brothers she shared interests like video games and mechanics with. Julie is a spoiled, pampered, inner-city, only child ValleyGirl obsessed with pop culture, who leads a popular clique and looks down on dirty people and boyish hobbies.
19	* '''Inverted''':
20	** Sam is a {{Tomboy}} and the aggressive, {{Hotblooded}} BarbaricBully, while Julie is the [[TheCutie sweet-hearted, mild-mannered]] ProperLady.
21	** ClassPrincess {{Fashionista}} Julie is an AllLovingHeroine, while TheLadette Sam is a StrawFeminist.
22	* '''Gender-Inverted''':
23	** BigManOnCampus Samuel is a LovableJock while Julius is a NerdyBully.
24	** Samuel is a brutal boxer yet a calm and [[HumbleHero humbled]] [[NiceGuy nice guy]] who only fights in the ring while Julius is a {{Fashionista}} and is also a {{Hotblooded}}, judgemental {{Jerkass}}.
25	** Sam is a well-mannered [[InTouchWithHisFeminineSide sensitive]] NiceGuy and enjoys cooking and sewing while Julius is an aggressive [[TheBully big bully]] JerkJock.
26	* '''Subverted''':
27	** As time goes on, Sam [[TookALevelInJerkass becomes meaner]] while Julie [[TookALevelInKindness becomes nicer.]]
28	** Sam's [[BitchInSheepsClothing kindness is all an act]] while [[LovableAlphaBitch Julie]] [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold is shown to have a]] JerkassFacade.
29	*** Alternately, Sam is nice just because [[DoggedNiceGirl she wants to make someone fall for her]] while Julie's jerkass behavior is just because of her {{Tsundere}} personality.
30	** Sam is actually a DudeLooksLikeALady.
31	* '''Double Subverted''':
32	** Sam [[GirlinessUpgrade becomes more feminine]] and goes by "Samantha" after she [[TookALevelInJerkass became a bitch]]. Meanwhile Julie [[TomboynessUpgrade becomes more tomboyish]] and goes by "Jules" after she [[TookALevelInKindness became a nice gal]].
33	** Sam [[HeelRealization realizes she is so mean]] and [[HeelFaceTurn becomes nicer]]. Meanwhile Julie is DrunkWithPower and [[FaceHeelTurn turns to be a vain bitch]].
34	** Sam is a SweetPollyOliver.
35	* '''Parodied''': All female characters are increasingly mean depending on their level of femininity.
36	* '''Zig-Zagged''':
37	** Both Sam and Julie's morality and personalities vary DependingOnTheWriter.
38	** Sam is usually nice but she is [[JerkassToOne mean]] [[EvenTheLovingHeroHasHatedOnes towards]] [[EspeciallyZoidberg Bob]] and [[SiblingRivalry her own siblings]]. Meanwhile, Julie is usually mean but she can be [[EvenEvilHasStandards nice toward her friends]] and [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas her own family]].
39	** Sam and Julie keep {{Personality Swap}}ping throughout the series, while sometimes Julie is meaner than Sam, sometimes Sam is meaner than Julie.
40	** While Sam is nice and Julie is mean, some {{tomboy}}s are [[JerkAss mean]] and some [[GirlyGirl girly girls]] are [[NiceGuy nice.]] There seems to be a fair balance between nice tomboys, mean tomboys, mean girly girls, and nice girly girls.
41	* '''Averted''':
42	** Both Sam and Julie are lovable, considerate, affectionate {{nice girl}}s.
43	** Alternatively: Both Sam and Julie are insufferable, cold-hearted, unscrupulous, selfish bitches who [[HatesEveryoneEqually hates everyone around them including their own family members.]]
44	** [[GreyAndGrayMorality Neither Sam nor Julie is seen as particularly nice or mean]].
45	** Sam and Julie are either both tomboys, or both girly girls.
46	* '''Enforced''':
47	** The author notices how tomboys are typically portrayed as rude, mean and aggressive while girly girls are nice, gentle, and passive, and this gave him an idea to create two new female characters with inverted personalities.
48	** Alternatively: The author was bullied by an AlphaBitch and/or have negative experiences with [[NothingNiceAboutSugarAndSpice feminine]] [[EvilMatriarch mot]][[MommyIssues her]] or [[PsychoExGirlfriend girlfriend]] and can't get over it. [[AuthorTract So they portrays a tomboyish character as nice and a girly character as a jerk in order]].
49	* '''Lampshaded''': "You'd think the girly girl would be nice, but she's awful." "It gets better. That scruffy-looking girl who plays basketball and wears a spiked collar and combat boots? ''She's'' the nice one!"
50	* '''Invoked''':
51	** Sam [[TookALevelInKindness tries to be nicer]] because she doesn't want to be a rude tomboy, while Julie thinks [[BeingGoodSucks being nice isn't satisficactory enough]] while [[EvilIsCool being a mean brat is cooler]], so she [[TookALevelInJerkass becomes a jerk]].
52	** Julie starts [[WhosLaughingNow taking revenge against people who treated her badly]] [[RealWomenDontWearDresses due to her girliness.]] Meanwhile, Sam has no reason to take revenge because she can get away from them and she has been already EasilyForgiven by everyone else.
53	** A [[HeManWomanHater misogynistic]] [[ItMakesSenseInContext wizard]] who is a firm believer in RealWomenDontWearDresses casts a spell that will turn all feminine women ranging from [[TomboyWithAGirlyStreak tomboys with girly streaks]] to full blown {{girly girl}}s into {{jerk\|ass}}s[[note]][[CompleteMonster Or even worse]] if they’re [[ProperLady that]] feminine.[[/note]] so that people will think his cynical view on feminine women was right all along.[[note]](Doubles as {{Exploited\|Trope}})[[/note]]
54	* '''Exploited''': The {{Jerkass}} tomboys use Sam as an excuse of [[RealWomenDontWearDresses the reason why they're superior to girly girls]].
55	* '''Defied''': "Tomboys are jerks and girly girls are nice! EVERYONE knows that!"
56	* '''Discussed''': "Why this boyish girl is nicer than a girly one?"
57	* '''Conversed''':
58	--> '''Alice''': [[RealWomenDontWearDresses "Why does this show think that being girly is the exact same thing as being a dick?!"]]\
59	'''Billie''': "[[NothingNiceAboutSugarAndSpice Girly girls aren't always delicate]] and they can even be MoreDeadlyThanTheMale, also plenty of SensitiveGuy protagonists have JerkJock rivals, so I guess it's only fair to avoid a DoubleStandard."
60	** “Finally! A TomboyAndGirlyGirl pairing where the {{tomboy}} is the nice one, while the {{girly girl}} is the mean one, instead of [[InvertedTrope vice versa]]!”
61	* '''Implied''': Sam and Julie aren't especially characterized beyond their clothing and activities, but people are a lot more friendly to Sam.
62	* '''Deconstructed''':
63	** People start hating Julie due to her {{Jerkass}} behavior, so everyone abandons Julie and sides with Sam, even her GirlPosse friends.
64	** Sam has a crush on Bob, but he chooses Julie instead and rejects Sam's kindness due to her boyish appearance and behaviors, causing her TomboyAngst thoughts.
65	** Julie is so mean to the point where people ''can’t even tolerate girls being traditionally feminine'' without the thought of Julie’s cruelty coming to their minds. [[FromBadToWorse To make matters even worse]], Sam being a NiceGirl leads to the people who hate Julie’s guts thinking that [[InsaneTrollLogic being girly is mean and being boyish is nice]] according to the way Sam and Julie behaves. This leads to a ''[[UnfortunateImplications horrible]]'' [[AlwaysChaoticEvil stereotype]] about {{girly girl}}s, and a [[RealWomenDontWearDresses shunning of feminine women]] that could have been avoided if Julie wasn’t such a {{jerkass}}.
66	* '''Reconstructed''':
67	** Then Daphne, Julie's former friend, becomes the new AlphaBitch who is also DrunkWithPower and FaceHeelTurn into a relentlessly mean GirlyGirl.
68	** In the end, Sam accepts herself as she is and embraces her boyish activities, While Bob realizes that Julie is a bad girlfriend.
69	** None of the characters are stupid enough to think all girly girls are as mean as Julie. Plus the show has plenty of TomboyAndGirlyGirl characters of various levels of morality and common sense favoring neither of them, even if Sam and Julie in isolation would seem to be playing it straight. So people are able to distinguish gender expression from morality.
70	*** Alternately, Julie has her JerkassRealization [[EveryoneHasStandards by the sheer thought of something like this happening]] if she continues her abrasive behavior. So she [[CharacterDevelopment becomes a]] JerkWithAHeartOfGold and shows everyone that GoodIsNotNice.
71	*** As mean as Julie was, she was never outright sexist, while the femininity shaming mob are already the HateSink characters. [[HeWhoFightsMonsters As a result, they have officially grown worse than Julie.]]
72	* '''Played For Laughs''': Whenever Sam becomes more boyish, she's also TookALevelInKindness as well. By the time she reaches the TestosteronePoisoning DumbJock tier, her meanness is [[DumbIsGood as low as her intelligence]]. Meanwhile Julie is a {{Bratty Teenage\|Daughter}} BrainlessBeauty who is comically [[EvilIsPetty petty]] and [[HarmlessVillain harmless]].
73	* '''Played For Drama''':
74	** Julie bullies and harasses Sam for not being feminine and pretty enough, causing Sam to hate her masculine behaviors and activities, and even begins to [[DrivenToSuicide contemplate suicide]] due to it.
75	** A HenpeckedHusband version of MasculineFeminineGayCouple; [[ButchLesbian Sam]] always caves to [[LipstickLesbian Julie]]'s decisions, even if she doesn't really agree with her. Sam never stands for herself even if Julie [[DomesticAbuse abuse her]].
76	* '''Played for Horror''': Sam is [[TheHero the cop]] in a horror movie who is hired to take down [[NothingNiceAboutSugarAndSpice Julie]], a FauxAffablyEvil SerialKiller who [[{{Sadist}} enjoys]] indulging in ColdBloodedTorture and/or {{Cruel and Unusual Death}}s.
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