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* A literal version in ''Literature/TheFemaleMan''. One of the alternate timelines involves a war between men and women that's been raging for decades.

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* ''Series/HellsKitchen'' splits the teams between men and women -- men on the blue team, women on the red. It's not uncommon to see the men's team to fall apart at the seams and Chef Gordon Ramsay bring one of the women over to their team to light a fire under their asses. The one time they tried something different -- Season 17's Rookies vs. Veterans -- it was such a disaster that Ramsay gave up after the second dinner service and resumed this idea.

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* ''Series/HellsKitchen'' splits the teams between men (blue) and women -- men on the blue team, women on the red. It's not uncommon to see the men's (red), though competitors can be switched from one team to fall apart at the seams other and Chef Gordon Ramsay bring one the whole battle of the sexes is abandoned when the teams merge into the Black Jackets.
** Sometimes this isn't adhered to - [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness season 1]] had mixed-gender teams, season 18 had newcomers versus returning contestants, and season 21 had 20-somethings versus 40-somethings. The latter two abandoned their new team compositions and returned to the men versus
women over to their team to light a fire under their asses. The one time they tried something different -- Season 17's Rookies vs. Veterans -- it was such a disaster that Ramsay gave up format after the second dinner service and resumed this idea.multiple dreadful performances.



* Zigzagged in ''Series/HellsKitchen''. The Red Team is comprised of women, and the Blue Team is comprised of men. However, this being a reality show, Gordon will often send members of each team to the other, and the concept is abandoned at the merge/Black Jacket phase of the competition.

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* Zigzagged in ''Series/HellsKitchen''. The Red Team is comprised of women, and the Blue Team is comprised of men. However, this being a reality show, Gordon will often send members of each team to the other, and the concept is abandoned at the merge/Black Jacket phase of the competition.

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More rarely, the episode may instead end with the boys explicitly prevailing over the girls instead. This conclusion is much riskier to end the episode with than the other two, as it can potentially carry the UnfortunateImplications that boys [[MenAreBetterThanWomen should feel justified in seeing the opposite sex as inferior]], even with the justification that the boys team just happened to be better prepared for the contest in question. Strangely, [[DoubleStandard this is not the case for girls winning over boys.]]

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More rarely, the episode may instead end with the boys explicitly prevailing over the girls instead. This conclusion is much riskier to end the episode with than the other two, as it can potentially carry the UnfortunateImplications that boys [[MenAreBetterThanWomen should feel justified in seeing the opposite sex as inferior]], even with the justification that the boys team just happened to be better prepared for the contest in question. Strangely, [[DoubleStandard this is not the case for girls winning over boys.]]
boys]], but this is likely attributed to societal sympathy towards women (who were historically oppressed).


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* ''WesternAnimation/AThousandAndOneAmericas'': The nineteenth episode doesn't start like this, since Chris doesn't initially notice the matter in question, but he realizes that the two major tribes that lived in the southeast coast of South America (Tierra de Fuego, Argentina) were contrasted this way. The tribe Chris first meets (Yagan) is that where women swim and perform various duties like gathering and fishing, and men have a less active role. The tribe he meets later (Onas, also known in RealLife as the Selk'nam) is one where men perform all major activities while women are culturally oppressed via intimidation (several wolfdogs are put barking in front of them, and during a ceremony men dress with black-and-white robes and begin performing fearsome chants and screams in front of them); the latter tribe's local chief tells Chris that they do this ''because'' his men do not wish to be dominated by women like it happened with the first tribe's. A seemingly-strange detail is that younger boys are ''also'' grouped with these women, but this is likely meant to serve as a precursory period of fear that the boys have to overcome later as part of a coming of age.
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The topic of UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} characters is almost never brought up during these episodes, and where a character who was assigned male at birth but identifies as female and visa versa stands in such a conflict. If it does get brought up, especially if one side is being particularly nasty to the character in question for trying to join them, expect the Aesop to be more about acceptance to those of non-traditional genders rather than the usual boy VS girl spiel.
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* ''Series/HellsKitchen'' splits the teams between men and women -- men on the blue team, women on the red. It's not uncommon to see the men's team to fall apart at the seams and Chef Gordon Ramsay bring one of the women over to their team to light a fire under their asses. The one time they tried something different -- Season 17's Rookies vs. Veterans -- it was such a disaster that Ramsay gave up after the second dinner service and resumed this idea.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheNewArchies'': After the kids watch a detective movie, the boys and the girls compete to see who can solve a crime that fastest. They all end up suspecting the wrong man.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheChocolix'' episode "Goodventure Camp", Chocolyne and Chocomark convince Goodventure Camp's visitors to compete in their Chocogames with teams based on gender, and they spend the rest of the episode fighting to win the prize with the clues they're given. [[spoiler:They realize neither team got all the clues at the end of the episode, causing them to realize the boys vs. girls thing is a bad thing and set aside their differences to put their clues together and find the prize.]]
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* In one episode of the CBBC comedy ''Kevin's Cousins'', the girls and boys have a basketball match. It's won by the girls, thanks to the substitution of Milo's AnnoyingYoungerSibling Brian onto their team when one of them is injured.

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* In one episode of the CBBC Creator/{{CBBC}} comedy ''Kevin's Cousins'', the girls and boys have a basketball match. It's won by the girls, thanks to the substitution of Milo's AnnoyingYoungerSibling Brian onto their team when one of them is injured.
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* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'': [[Recap/PokemonS7E32TheBickerTheBetter "The Bicker the Better"]] does this, with Ash and James engaging in a double battle with May and Jessie after both groups (Ash's friends and Team Rocket) get into arguments over who is more competent. It ends with Jessie deciding to cheat by using an extra pokemon, which Brock says disqualifies the girls' team, but by then Team Rocket are only interested in stealing Pikachu, anyway.

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* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'': ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesRubyAndSapphire'': [[Recap/PokemonS7E32TheBickerTheBetter "The Bicker the Better"]] does this, with Ash and James engaging in a double battle with May and Jessie after both groups (Ash's friends and Team Rocket) get into arguments over who is more competent. It ends with Jessie deciding to cheat by using an extra pokemon, Pokémon, which Brock says disqualifies the girls' team, but by then Team Rocket are only interested in stealing Pikachu, anyway.
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Yes, it seems the men and women of fiction are always fighting. [[MarsAndVenusGenderContrast They're from two different planets]], and all that, and with their differences always comes a lot of tension...often romantic tension, but still, tension nonetheless. And, of course, nobody wants to admit that the other "side" might just be better than they are. So how better to settle it than a proper competition?

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Yes, it seems the men and women of fiction are always fighting. [[MarsAndVenusGenderContrast They're from two different planets]], and all that, and with their differences always comes a lot of tension... often romantic tension, but still, tension nonetheless. And, of course, nobody wants to admit that the other "side" might just be better than they are. So how better to settle it than a proper competition?
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* ''Literature/TheBerenstainBears'': In the Big Chapter Book ''and the Female Fullback'', the B-plot involves Brother Bear running against Queenie [=McBear=] for school president. Queenie decides to turn the whole thing into a boys vs. girls fight by using the upheaval from Bertha Broom trying out for the boys football team in her campaign, expecting to win because all the girls (and ''one'' boy, her on-again off-again boyfriend Too-Tall) will vote for her as a result, while all the other boys vote for Brother (which would have made Queenie the winner by one vote). It doesn't quite work out like she planned, ending in a tie when one of the girls -- Bertha Broom, the titular female fullback -- doesn't care about women's issues and votes for Brother instead. Queenie still wins, but only because Brother concedes after admitting he has too many responsibilities anyway.

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* When WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic and WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick did a crossover review of ''WesternAnimation/TheChipmunkAdventure'' the video escalated into the two of them having their own battle of the sexes in song.


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* Day 11 of WebVideo/FishtankLive featured a "battle royale" which began with the remaining six men and women dividing up into teams, hoping to take out the other before turning on themselves. The former group barricaded themselves on the lower floor, while the latter decided to wait their opponents out upstairs. While the men took out two of the women, they quickly turned on themselves afterward, ultimately handing Josie the win.
* When WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic and WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick did a crossover review of ''WesternAnimation/TheChipmunkAdventure'' the video escalated into the two of them having their own battle of the sexes in song.
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* Zigzagged in ''Series/HellsKitchen''. The Red Team is comprised of women, and the Blue Team is comprised of men. However, this being a reality show, Gordon will often send members of each team to the other, and the concept is abandoned at the merge/Black Jacket phase of the competition.
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* This trope is in danger of being upended in the world of sports by so-called "transathletes", where a biological man will identify as a woman and then proceed to figuratively, and in some cases literally, crush his female competitors.
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