History Main / FemaleMisogynist

Sadly, this is sometimes TruthInTelevision, but [[Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease that's all we're going to say about the subject]].

* In ''Literature/{{Masques}}'', Aralorn seems to be a mild case, judging by this one book. She looks down on women who "hate men", ignoring the fact that she lives in a patriarchy where women are forced into subservient roles, a fate she only escaped because her father, a nobleman, decided to let her run free. Aralorn seems blind to the privilege that both her unusually tolerant father and her noble birth gave to her. She interacts with only one female character in a meaningful way, a little girl whom she helps with a doll. Other than that, she seeks out men for company.

* The politically radicalized post-apocalyptic world of ''Literature/{{Victoria}}'' includes both versions.

* Titania, archenemy of ComicBook/SheHulk, has this as essentially her defining trait; She-Hulk is the only woman who's physically more powerful than Titania, so Titania obsesses with taking her down and beating her.

* Odile von Rothbart in ''Literature/TheBlackSwan'' has NoSympathy for the women her father keeps captive on the manor grounds, thinking they deserve it for being fickle and faithless. She believes that her loyalty, obedience, and unswerving devotion to her father makes her 'one of the good ones' in his eyes; she doesn't realize that to him she is just another swan.

* [[Characters/MiraculousLadybugChloeBourgeois Chloé Bourgeois]] of ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' has shades of this - she was responsible for all the akumatizations of Marinette's female classmates.

* '''[[YouAreACreditToYourRace The "Honorary" Dude]]''' -- A [[TheLadette Ladette]] who is [[OneOfTheBoys One Of The Guys]] and a firm believer of RealWomenDontWearDresses. When she wants to insult a man she'll call him a "girl," "sissy," "bitch," "pussy," and so on. She also will make and laugh at overtly misogynistic jokes (possibly in a misguided bid for male approval, possibly because she actually feels that way). She likely also prefers traditionally masculine pursuits, and will denigrate women (and men) who don't enjoy the same. People will remind her that she's a girl herself, but she will deny it -- or consider herself an "honorary dude" because she's NotLikeOtherGirls (i.e. she's [[MoralMyopia "better" than the other girls]], in her mind). She's also known as a "pick-me girl" when it's obvious that she's doing this for male approval.

* In ''Manhwa/TheRemarriedEmpress'', Rashta has shown shades of this, despite genuinely [[IJustWantToBeYou admiring]] and [[IrritationIsTheSincerestFormOfFlattery copying everything Navier does.]] She definitely prefers male company due to the fact that she is used to manipulating them with her looks and fake attitude, to the point of excluding noblewomen from her parties as an empress. In the game, she thinks to herself that she likes spending time with men more, since women are jealous of her beauty. When her second child turns out to be a girl, she initially wishes it was a boy, though this has more to do with HeirClubForMen issues than her own views, and she is very happy when Glorym is declared the crown princess. [[spoiler:Ironically, every person responsible for her final fate is a man.]]

* In the Korean comic ''Boy of the Female Wolf'' the cross-dressing (straight) female protagonist dislikes females because [[MissingMom her mom]] [[ParentalAbandonment left her]] when she remarried and her female classmates are shallow airheads. The only woman she sort of respected was her grandma, and she "left" her by dying, forcing her to move in with her mom.

* ''WebAnimation/HazbinHotel'': The character Niffty shows signs of this, as she seems to think that women should be good at cleaning. It's justified and downplayed as she died in the 1950s (a decade infamous for StayInTheKitchen views), and she apologizes for if her comments offended the others.

* Lori Spengler in ''Film/HappyDeathDay'' outright despises [[spoiler:Tree]] for making out with Dr. Butler because that's what she wanted to do.

** Serena Joy made a living as an advocate before Gilead took over, claiming that women should refrain from taking up careers and fighting for equal rights and instead seek a life of blissful peace in servitude to their husbands. Of course, now that she has (or rather, has been forced into) everything she preached about, she's pissed. This is probably a TakeThat against [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Schlafly Phyllis Schlafly]], who famously campaigned against the Equal Rights Amendment on the grounds that women should {{stay in the kitchen}} while herself being a lawyer and activist who [[{{hypocrite}} didn't follow her own dictum]].

* ''Series/TheHandmaidsTale'': Serena Joy is a hardcore fundamentalist who believes women's primary function is in the home and to make babies and held a key role in shaping the deeply oppressive society of Gilead.
** Aunt Lydia also qualifies as she seems keen on SlutShaming, UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming women who've been raped and breaking down other women to become obedient and submissive to the commanders.

** Detective Kay Howard is unable to relate to other women from a lifetime of suppressing her feminity to be one of the guys, and is the squad member most openly bigoted against female cops.

* '''[[NerdyBully The Nerdy Bully]]''' -- A woman who leans towards more intellectual interests and hobbies (often in male-dominated fields), viewing herself as superior to other women for embracing intellectualism. Particularly prone to blanket black-and-white categorism -- women who prefer more traditionally feminine pursuits are dumb Stepford robots; women who prefer the same kind of things that they do but also embrace feminine pursuits [[NoTrueScotsman are fake and only superficially interested in what they like for the purposes of receiving male attention and validation]]; women who like more traditionally masculine pursuits (particularly athletic ones) are {{Dumb Jock}}s, and so on and so forth. May exhibit some StrawFeminist tendencies, but in a very immature and self-centered way -- they claim to back female empowerment and breaking down gender-based barriers, [[OriginalPositionFallacy but only in a way that does not make them feel threatened and allows them to continue to maintain their adolescent sense of superiority]]. Expect them to emit phrases such as "I'm not like ''other girls''! Other girls are shallow bimbos, but ''I'm'' different because I like ''Franchise/TheAvengers''!"

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[[caption-width-right:584:At best, these women have serious Stockholm Syndrome, and at worst, they're actual ''[[CategoryTraitor gender Quislings]]''![[note]]The illustration is from a 1907 issue of ''Harper's Weekly'' lampooning anti-suffragists.[[/note]]]]

->''"I am most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights,' with all its attendant horrors... Were women to 'unsex' themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen, and disgusting of beings and would surely perish without male protection."''
-->-- '''UsefulNotes/QueenVictoria''' [[https://quotepark.com/quotes/1753150-victoria-of-the-united-kingdom-i-am-most-anxious-to-enlist-everyone-who-can-speak/ in response to the suffragist movement]]

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* 'The Stay at Home Mommy' in ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfGynoStar'' is a FemaleMisogynist villain wants to turn all women on earth into brainless zombies.

* ''VideoGame/HardWest2'': Flynn. A dudette example who hangs around men - because her abusive childhood in a zealous nunnery soured her to the idea that 'other' women would protect her, as they were the ones who hurt her the most.
->'''Flynn''': I'm really liking this 'suffrage' thing...''we can shoot women''.