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** If a female Warden recruits Sten in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', a conversation will eventually ensue where he states that he doesn't believe you're a woman, because Qunari women cannot be warriors. Despite the deep cultural divide, you can eventually make him respect the Warden as a warrior. In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'' The Iron Bull states that even though he's lived among non-Qunari long enough that the culture shock is less severe than Sten's he still mentally categorizes female fighters like Cassandra as men in his mind. He also states that Qunari women ''can'' in fact be warriors if the show particular talent in that area -- they just [[LoopholeAbuse get treated like men]] for all intents and purposes.

** If a female Warden recruits Sten in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', a conversation will eventually ensue where he states that he doesn't believe you're a woman, because Qunari women cannot be warriors. Despite the deep cultural divide, you can eventually make him respect the Warden as a warrior.
** In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'' The Iron Bull states that even though he's lived among non-Qunari long enough that the culture shock is less severe than Sten's he still mentally categorizes female fighters like Cassandra as men in his mind. He also states that Qunari women ''can'' in fact be warriors if the show particular talent in that area -- they just [[LoopholeAbuse get treated like men]] for all intents and purposes.

* If a female Warden recruits Sten in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', a conversation will eventually ensue where he states that he doesn't believe you're a woman, because qunari women cannot be warriors. Despite the deep cultural divide, you can eventually make him respect the Warden as a warrior.

** In Disgaea 5, it's mentioned that Demons seem to suffer from a little bit of this toward Angels; explaining why [[spoiler:Christo hid his identity the way he did]]. To be fair, they have [[FreudianExcuse been the ire of every known Angel for who-knows-how-long]]. (Heck, it's even a voice option for the Male Angel class!) [[ItGetsBetter If the possibility of this being a prequel is true, however....]]

* The Angels in the ''Disgaea'' series hinge in and out of this. Angels generally believe that Demons are pure evil [[FantasticRacism solely because they're demons]]. As Angels see themselves as harbingers of complete good, they lump every Demon into the category of "evil" just because. [[ItGetsBetter Recent games imply that they're slowly starting to change]].

* The Angels in the ''Disgaea'' series hinge in and out of this. Angels generally believe that Demons are pure evil [[FantasticRacism solely because they're demons. As Angels see themselves as harbingers of complete good, they lump every Demon into the category of "evil" just because. [[ItGetsBetter Recent games imply that they're slowly starting to change]].

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* Parodied in Nanne Gronvall's song [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfR58YVqTH4 Fördomar]]. The protagonist spends the song doing aggressive categorism against all kinds of people while [[IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance considering herself to be enlightened and free from prejudice]].

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* ''Anime/CrossAnge'': In a world where mages are commoners, every muggle is treated ''worse'' than a witch; not only are muggles forced to a deserted island where they secretly fight an invasion force of alien dragons in highly unstable cool mecha with a disturbingly high death rate, but the friends and family who actually cared for them slowly erode in opinion until it's as if they hated their muggle companion all along. Including ''Ange's beloved little sister''; [[Franchiuse/CodeGeass Princess Nunnally]] [[AvertedTrope that]] [[BitchInSheepsClothing bitch]] [[MisBlamed is]] [[NeverMyFault NOT]]. Muggles are treated like devil spawn even if their behavior doesn't change or they show exceptional merit and mercy. [[spoiler:Though this is only partly their fault: it's revealed near the end that the mana they use is like meth, only it makes them obedient to an abusive thousand-year-old pervert]]. In response to this, said muggles have no qualms with opening fire on civilians for their past torments (said civilians usually shown having guns, and planning to use them first), but show mercy to traitors in their ranks for harsher war crimes.
** One major exception: Momoka is a mage who never loses her loyalty to Ange, even though she thinks that most muggles are scary dangerous. This is explained by her abnormally high willpower, [[spoiler:which allows her to use magic on the pervert ''who invented mana and controls it like a computer'']].

* Creator/GeorgeCarlin was quite fond of doing this in his [[RantComedy rants]] satirizing the InsaneTrollLogic that underlies this type of thinking.

* In the 4th album of ''WhateverLoveMeans'', The rant about Jihad Jane plays this trope on two levels. First, Liv accuses mainstream society of doing this to Arabs and Muslims, assuming that they are all terrorists. Second, she focuses on the fact that Jihad Jane was blond, female, middle aged and dressed in a certain style common among western women. Having established that, she moves on to portray a scenario where all western women with this style are treated as if they were terrorists.

* ''Anime/CrossAnge'': In a world where mages are commoners, every muggle is treated ''worse'' than a witch; not only are muggles forced to a deserted island where they secretly fight an invasion force of alien dragons in highly unstable cool mecha with a disturbingly high death rate, but the friends and family who actually cared for them slowly erode in opinion until it's as if they hated their muggle companion all along. Including ''Ange's beloved little sister''; [[Franchiuse/CodeGeass Princess Nunnally]] [[AvertedTrope that]] [[BitchInSheepsClothing bitch]] [[MisBlamed is]] [[NeverMyFault NOT]]. Muggles are treated like devil spawn even if their behavior doesn't change or they show exceptional merit and mercy. [[spoiler:Though this is only partly their fault: it's revealed near the end that the mana they use is like meth, only it makes them obedient to an abusive thousand-year-old pervert]]. In response to this, said muggles have no qualms with opening fire on civilians for their past torments, but show mercy to traitors in their ranks for harsher war crimes.

* ''Anime/CrossAnge'': In a world where mages are commoners, every muggle is treated ''worse'' than a witch; not only are muggles forced to a deserted island where they secretly fight an invasion force of alien dragons in highly unstable cool mecha with a disturbingly high death rate, but the friends and family who actually cared for them slowly erode in opinion until it's as if they hated their muggle companion all along. Including ''Ange's beloved little sister''; [[CodeGeass Princess Nunnally]] [[AvertedTrope that]] [[BitchInSheepsClothing bitch]] [[MisBlamed is]] [[NeverMyFault NOT]]. Muggles are treated like devil spawn even if their behavior doesn't change or they show exceptional merit and mercy. [[spoiler:Though this is only partly their fault: it's revealed near the end that the mana they use is like meth, only it makes them obedient to an abusive thousand-year-old pervert]]. In response to this, said muggles have no qualms with opening fire on civilians for their past torments, but show mercy to traitors in their ranks for harsher war crimes.

* ''Anime/CrossAnge'': In a world where mages are commoners, every muggle is treated ''worse'' than a witch; not only are muggles forced to a deserted island where they secretly fight an invasion force of alien dragons in highly unstable cool mecha with a disturbingly high death rate, but the friends and family who actually cared for them slowly erode in opinion until it's as if they hated their muggle companion all along. Including ''Ange's beloved little sister''; [[CodeGeass Princess Nunnally]] [[AvertedTrope that]] [[BitchInSheepsClothing bitch]] [[MisBlamed is]] [[NeverMyFault NOT]]. [[spoiler:Though this is only partly their fault: it's revealed near the end that the mana they use is like meth, only it makes them obedient to an abusive thousand-year-old pervert]]. In response to this, said muggles have no qualms with opening fire on civilians for their past torments, but show mercy to traitors in their ranks for harsher war crimes.

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* In ''ShowMeLove'', Markus is the obvious case, with his inane rant about how women can't possibly understand cellphones and men can't possibly understand makeup. However, it's implied that the people in general are just as narrow-minded, they just don't flaunt it like he does. Life in a small town is hell.

* ''Anime/CrossAnge'': In a world where mages are commoners, every muggle is treated ''worse'' than a witch; not only are muggles forced to a deserted island where they secretly fight an invasion force of alien dragons in highly unstable cool mecha with a disturbingly high death rate, but the friends and family who actually cared for them slowly erode in opinion until it's as if they hated their muggle companion all along. [[CodeGeass Princess Nunnally]] [[AvertedTrope that]] [[BitchInSheepsClothing bitch]] [[MisBlamed is]] [[NeverMyFault NOT]]. [[spoiler:Though this is only partly their fault: it's revealed near the end that the mana they use is like meth, only it makes them obedient to an abusive thousand-year-old pervert]]. In response to this, said muggles have no qualms with opening fire on civilians for their past torments, but show mercy to traitors in their ranks for harsher war crimes.

* ''Anime/CrossAnge'': In a world where mages are commoners, every muggle is treated ''worse'' than a witch; not only are muggles forced to a deserted island where they secretly fight an invasion force of alien dragons in highly unstable CoolMecha with a disturbingly high death rate, but the friends and family who actually cared for them slowly erode in opinion until it's as if they hated their muggle companion all along. [[spoiler:Though this is only partly their fault: it's revealed near the end that the mana they use is like meth, only it makes them obedient to an abusive thousand-year-old pervert]]. In response to this, said muggles have no qualms with opening fire on civilians for their past torments, but show mercy to traitors in their ranks for harsher war crimes.
** One major exception: Momoka is a mage who never loses her loyalty to Ange. This is explained by her abnormally high willpower, [[spoiler:which allows her to use magic on the pervert ''who invented mana and controls it like a computer'']].

* ''Anime/CrossAnge'': In a world where mages are commoners, every muggle is treated ''worse'' than a witch; not only are muggles forced to a deserted island where they secretly fight an invasion force of alien dragons in highly unstable CoolMecha with a disturbingly high death rate, but the friends and family who actually cared for them slowly erode in opinion until it's as if they hated their muggle companion all along. [[spoiler:Though this is only partly their fault: it's revealed near the end that the mana they use is like meth, only it makes them obedient to an abusive thousand-year-old pervert]]. In response to this, said muggles have no qualms with opening fire on civilians for their past torments.

** One major exception: Momoka is a mage who never loses her loyalty to Ange. This is explained by her abnormally high willpower, [[spoiler:which allows her to use magic on the pervert ''who made it'']].

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* Defied in {{Prozzak}}'s ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yacVgQ89b2E Be As]]'', which is about not letting people lock you into narrow categories such as white/black or straight/gay.

* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'': Jonathan Kent is firmly convinced that ''all'' Kryptonians are evil by nature. When Martha points out that [[InterspeciesAdoption their son]] is a Kryptonian himself, Jonathan simply replies that Clark is the exception because he was raised by humans.

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* "Palin's greatest hypocrisy is her pretense that she is a woman". [[http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/panelists/wendy_doniger/2008/09/all_beliefs_welcome_unless_the.html Professor Wendy Doniger]] writing in the Washington Post.

* If a female Warden recruits Sten in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', a conversation will eventually ensue where he states that he doesn't believe you're a woman, because qunari women cannot be warriors. Despite the deep cultural divide, you can eventually show him that the Qun is not the absolute truth.

* "Palin's greatest hypocrisy is her pretense that she is a woman". [[http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/panelists/wendy_doniger/2008/09/all_beliefs_welcome_unless_the.html Professor Wendy Doninger]] writing in the Washington Post.