This is a perfect example of why this is a dead trope though. Googling "Cortana action figure" returns a several different Cortana figures with all the articulation of the pictured Master Chief. Similarly, you can also find plenty of Master Chief display pieces, which is what the Cortana figure in the picture really is.
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Is this a dead trope a la The Black Dude Dies First? I note that most of the examples are inverted/zig-zagged/etc or from decades ago. With the possible exception of some of the deliberately-primitve Transformers movies I can't think of any modern movies that embody this trope.
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Ok I'm kind of new to this whole editing but I want to change the title of this article. It should be Men Act, Women Appear. As a communications and film professor at the University of Minnesota who has been teaching this topic for nearly 15 years I'd say 95% of the time I've heard this iteration of the phrase and oddly never 'men act, women are.' In my opinion this a very terrible title as 'are' implies, well nothing. Women appear as visual creatures and simply exist to be looked at, not are. Please change this. Besides it also simply sounds much better.
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Well, you'll have to convince the Trope Repair Shop to change the name. And given the 2174 inbound links
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That's curious. I was just about to say how ironic this trope title is. It seems to suggest that women are more likely to adopt a persona and put on airs, while men are more likely to back up their words with their actions.
It seems more like men act and women are.
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Just a small question regarding the following section:
"The basic concept of a wizard as opposed to a witch."
Wouldn't a Warlock be the male equivalent to a Witch? Wizard tends to be a male term, but I would think that a Sorceress would be, more likely, the female equivalent. Isn't Sorcerer and Wizard the same thing?
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A very late reply here, but...
Etymologically: No.
Witch (from 'wyse', wise) is more or less gender neutral (though more common for females). Wizard (also from 'wyse', wise, but with 'ard' added to mean 'wise natured') us also gender neutral (though more common for males).
Sorcerer/Sorceress is a gendered synonym for both, though it's more commonly put opposite Wizard, where a 'Sorcerer/Sorceress' is inherently capable of magic, while a Wizard needs to study. (Because that's how D&D uses it, so that's also how all the works inspired by the author's D&D campaign use it).
Warlock is a bit of a weird one, because it means 'traitor, oathbreaker' but the Scots started using it for male witches because witch was a loanword from English for them and they didn't realize that witch is gender neutral.
Angry gets shit done.
In regards to Anzu/Téa, I always thought it was less Men Act, Women Are, and more that she's just a casual duelist that only plays for fun. She just doesn't see it as Serious Business to her. So... Men Act, Women Are with a half-assed justification, IMO.
Thus speaks the Omega Metroid! ...Or something like that.
The Lord of the Rings example describes Arwen as an Action Girl (and it's in the literature folder, so it isn't referring to the movie version). In the books, not only is she a non-action girl, she barely does anything. Éowyn is a legitimate Action Girl, but her character arc can be read as an Aesop saying women should stay home.
On the other hand, Galadriel was an Action Girl when she was younger, IIRC, and while we don't see her going around and doing things much in the trilogy, she does wield power.
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- Hard Work Hardly Works: It's Generally accepted that if a Female athlete achieves something she will be complimented on her luck and her genes/natural ability but if a male athlete does the same he's complimented on his work ethic and mental strength/endurance.
I've never seen this phenomenon in any sport.
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I think I've found a good picture for this page.
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The Master Chief Action figure has 26 points of articulation! The Cortana action figure has...zero points of articulation!
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