Playing With / Lady Land

Basic Trope: A society in which the women are in charge, and men are treated as second-class citizens.

• Straight: Ladyland is ruled by women, and men are rarely (if ever) seen in positions of power or significance.
• Exaggerated:
  • Ladyland is ruled by women, and the men are treated as slaves.
  • If a man does or says something a woman doesn't like (or a woman just thinks he did), he can be publicly humiliated and then executed. This happens for the tiniest infractions (such as a man not holding a door open for a woman leaving a building), or a misunderstanding (such as mistaking a greeting for a catcall). Also, there are things that a woman can do (including to a man), that if a man did (especially to a woman), he would be severely punished.
  • The men live separately from the women, and young boys are sent to live with their fathers/uncles/brothers as soon as they can eat solid food.
  • Women of any and all types are allowed, but if there are any individuals who sincerely and correctly identify themselves as men even once, they will be instantly killed and obliterated. No exceptions. Males have to live a complete faraway land and stay there, just to stay alive.
  • If a male individual were to talk to any female, she will be immediately tell the man to do as she says and cannot be forced to be alone, as she is always with her female peers, no exceptions. Therefore, males can neither publically nor privately talk to the ladies separately.
  • All kinds of women in their land are more than twice as strong as men, and if physically challenged even once, will always win against them. Even the youngest of the females in Ladyland are brutally stronger. Any and all conflict between women in their world can and will never happen for any reason, and it is completely nonexistent, with only baseless rumors that they don't get along even on occasion by misogynistic men and the fact the females there are deliberately pretending to have drama and conflict with each other.
  • Ladyland is a post-apocalyptic world where literally no men exist, they are extinct.
  • All boys and men are Sex Slaves to the women of Ladyland.
  • The residents of Ladyland regularly hunt down and rape and/or kill men for no reason.
• Downplayed:
  • The overwhelming majority of authority figures are female, but powerful men are not unheard of.
  • They don't allow men to live in their country, but they don't actively hunt men down for sex-slavery or anything.
• Justified:
  • Ladyland is the end result of massive anger, rage and resentment reaching a boiling point when cruel, unscrupulous men caused such immense damage and catastrophe that the women decided that enough was enough. Forcefully taking over and putting the men into the same position that they had gleefully enforced onto the women, Ladyland was established. However, because humans are humans regardless of sex or gender, Ladyland is not immune to the same vices and abuses of power that made the men act the way they did.
  • Ladyland is populated by either a One-Gender Race, or a species whose males are non-sentient due to Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism.
  • Ladyland is a religious nation, built upon the worship of a Straw Feminist fertility goddess and her ideals.
  • Alternatively, Ladyland originated as a refuge for women from a No Woman's Land society.
  • Their menfolk were nearly driven to extinction by a plague or war, and are only allowed out of their enclaves for mating.
  • It's a colony world inhabited by female separatists who have either switched over to laboratory reproduction or have altered their biology to allow parthenogenic reproduction. Males are viewed as foreign and are not trusted.
• Inverted: Ladyland is ruled by women, but men were treated far better than them.
• Gender-Inverted: No Woman's Land
• Subverted:
  • The women in this society are quite hospitable to male travelers making their way through.
  • Higher-class men dress like women.
  • They aren't antagonistic at all—they just let everyone make up rumors to keep stupid people away.
• Double Subverted:
  • But one wrong move and Joe Traveler could end up on a roasting spit.
  • Their tolerance of men is all an act to avoid accusations from the outsiders.
  • Or, if they consider the men attractive enough, the Tribal Council of Ladyland makes plans to kidnap them and keep them as sex slaves.
• Parodied:
  • Ladyland’s men are content with their place in society, their biggest problems being their wives’ light nagging.
  • The residents of Ladyland still fear the possibility of catching cooties from their male counterparts, just as grade-school children do.
  • A traveler asks "How do you sustain a population with no men?" and states that they have been "proudly Man-Free for 108 generations" and have laws against importing sperm samples (because "semen is poison") and cloning, as it removes carrying the child from reproduction. Genetic engineering is a no-go either, as it's supposed to be "Antithesis to the randomization of nature" (or genetic manipulation of any sort, outside of being exposed to mutagens while pregnant, doesn't exist). The border guard gets a surprised look, her head explodes, and the entire country disappears in a Puff of Logic.
  • "We, the inclusive Ladyland, aren't allow men but we accept all kinds of women, including our team, Alice the Action Girl, Valentina The Vamp, Ramona the Robot Girl, Gwen the Goth, Vivian the Valley Girl, Tammy the Tomboy, Heather the House Wife, Giselle the Gonky Femme, Priscilla the Princess, Stella the Smart Gal, Betty the Bifauxnen, Tasmin the Transgender woman, Linda the Lady Looks Like a Dude, and Olivia the obviously male-looking self-identified female crossdresser.....err....there are only women in Ladyland!! I swear!!"
• Zig Zagged: Depending on just what kind of queen they have at any given time and how she feels about men, the society fluctuates between "men are scum, and should be killed on sight," "men live in a separate society from us, and as long as they don't bother us outside of Mating Season, we don't care," "men are inferior, but we tolerate them," and "men are just as valuable and competent as we are."
• Averted: The society in question is a society where men and women are seen as equally valuable and competent, and treated accordingly.
• Enforced:
  • The writer thinks the world would be better off if women were in charge.
  • The writer Does Not Like Men, and this is her perfect society.
  • The writer thinks that women should not be in charge, and fears that Lady Land is what happens when they are in charge.
• Lampshaded: "This place doesn't seem very friendly, for a place populated with women, Joe."
• Invoked: Some woman takes over (whether by military means, winning an election, or simply being born into the Royal Family), and aims to create a Utopia where women are in charge.
• Exploited: ???
• Defied:
  • No Woman's Land
  • The laws (religious or secular or both) of that society specifically state that men and women are equal and are to be treated as such, and the society does just that.
  • (plunks down treatise) "Sign this treaty stating that men are equals, or I blow your head off. You have until I count to 10. I am counting in binary."
• Discussed: "Why do they treat the men so badly?"
• Conversed: "I would think a society ruled by women would be more peaceful. Boy, was I wrong!"
• Deconstructed:
  • Ladyland was started by a bunch of Straw Feminists who were disgruntled with society and/or how women had been treated in the past. Their short-sighted bigotry, however, doesn't exactly make even men who might've sympathized them feel at home, and the mass exodus results in a Brain Drain that hampers the economy.
  • Ladyland was started by escaped victims of a No Woman's Land as a refuge for men who weren't taken seriously. Said victims became just what they tried to escape.
  • Without any males to project their hatred on, the women begin to fight among themselves, and soon, their paradise eventually collapses.
  • Because Lady Land isn't seen as a reasonable or even bankable nation to deal with, it has absolutely no connections to other nations and cannot call on anybody's help. When their land is being coveted and then invaded by a bigger and more massively armed country, the powers that be in Ladyland are powerless in stopping the invasion and all of its citizens are being subjected to a grim fate, with the elderly and the ugly/fat ones ending up killed mercilessly, the pretty ones being Sex Slaves or war brides and little girls enslaved or given as child brides to the youngest members of the invading army.
• Reconstructed:
  • The residents of Ladyland learn that men are a great asset to their society, and have much more to contribute than just sperm. The society is reformed, and becomes a more egalitarian society, where men and women are both seen as equally valuable and competent, and given the same rights and responsibilities.
  • The residents of Ladyland learn that people with xy chromosome and able to producing sperms are still a great asset to their society, but instead of accept them as a man, They decide to Gender Bending all men into women, making all women capable of producing sperm as well as pregnancy, so all citizens of Ladyland become the One-Gender Race with Homosexual Reproduction and removing the need for a man.
• Played For Laughs: Joe Traveler and his buddies know about Ladyland and pose as women as they pass through, for their own safety. One of them is singled out when the women see through his disguise and taken to be used as a sex slave. Since All Men Are Perverts, the rest of the group takes off their dresses, wigs, and makeup...and live Happily Ever After.
• Played For Drama:
  • Joe Traveler and his buddies know about Ladyland and pose as women as they pass through, for their own safety. One of them is singled out when the women see through his disguise and taken to be used as a sex slave or killed or both. His friends have to go on a rescue mission without blowing their cover.
  • President Alice is guilt-ridden over her country's constant abuse of men, but is afraid that if she reforms the system, girls and women will end up abused by men again, and she would rather continue.
• Played For Drama: Escaped men frequently become Serial Killers or Serial Rapists to wreck revenge on their oppressors.

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Ladies, let's head on back to Lady Land! As for the menfolk...well, we've got someplace nice picked out for you.
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