Just out of curiosity, is there a gender inversion of this trope? Like, if a not-so-manly guy tries to be more masculine, but fails at it? The character of SpongeBob SquarePants has been an example of this trope, in episodes such as "No Weenies Allowed" and "Shell of a Man" (the latter of which is essentially the Sweet Polly Oliver plot, but replacing the genders with different levels of manliness).
Just out of curiosity, is there a gender inversion of this trope? Like, if a not-so-manly guy tries to be more masculine, but fails at it? The character of SpongeBob SquarePants has been an example of this trope, in episodes such as "No Weenies Allowed" and "Shell of a Man" (the latter of which is essentially the Sweet Polly Oliver plot, but replacing the genders with different levels of manliness).
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