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Compare IJustWantToBeNormal.

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* In the comic ''Cinderella's Sister'', Cinderella is the antagonist - perfectly sweet and kind, but it's all passive-aggressive SugaryMalice - at least in the eyes of the angsty protagonist, the "evil" stepsister. Cinderella's most heinous weapon is her ability to teach her sister about not being docile enough, not feminine enough, et cetera, causing her to suffer a massive dose of InternalizedSexism.

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[[caption-width-right:195:This young angel is trying to cut off his own wings. Because, you know, it's not ''normal'' to be able to fly.]]

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[[caption-width-right:195:This young angel is trying to cut off his own wings. Because, you know, it's not ''normal'' to be able to fly.]]

* Zinnia Jones talks about InternalizedHomophobia in several episodes, especially [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9_xsFId_eI ''coming out'']], which is based on the concept that HeteronormativeCrusader antics are designed to 'make'' gay people hate themselves.

* Internalized hatred of sexual desire, acting out in a self-destructive or abusive manner: SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny
* Internalized fear of sexual desire, preventing the character from acting out romantically or sexually: ParalyzingFearOfSexuality.

* Internalized hatred of sexual desire: SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny

* InternalizedParaphobia: self-hating fetischists, sadomasochists et cetera. For the non-internalized version, see HeteronormativeCrusader.

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[[caption-width-right:195:[[Film/{{X-Men}} This young angel]] is trying to cut off his own wings. Because, you know, it's not ''normal'' to be able to fly.]]

"Categorism" is a catch-all word for racism, sexism, homophobia, and all such phenomenons where people get reduced to being a catergory of people - negative stereotypes, prejudice, strict norms and/or entitlement for the normative group. As a trope, Internalized Categorism covers real social categories as well as fictional ones such as mutants with superpowers.

The self-hatred of Internalized Categorism may cause the character to become a BoomerangBigot. However, a Boomerang Bigot does not ''necessarily'' suffer from any such self-hatred: The character might be too shallow for such emotions or might side with the oppressors for any number of reasons that leave room for feeling good about oneself: greed, StockholmSyndrome, even delusions of grandeur. For example lets say that a certain afroamerican man believes that black people are lazy criminals and rapists. If he doesn't live like that but attributes it to denying his "true nature", then he's only a Boomerang Bigot. If he doesn't really try to get a real job because he's just a Negro and/or commits criminal offenses of the drug-related or sex-related kind, saying, "[[ImAManICantHelpIt I'm a Negro, I can't help it]]", then he's only a case of InternalizedRacism.

"Categorism" is a catch-all word for racism, sexism, homophobia, and all such prejudice where people get reduced to being a catergory of people - usually a negative stereotype about that category. As a trope, Internalized Categorism covers real social categories as well as fictional ones such as mutants with superpowers.

* InternalizedHomophobia: Self-hating gays For the non-internalized version, see HeteronormativeCrusader.
* InternalizedSexism: Women or men hating themselves simply for being born into a certain gender. (And this hatred is about a belief that this gender is inferior or evil, not about being a {{Transsexual}} who feels like being trapped in the wrong body.) For the non-internalized version, see HeManWomanHater and DoesNotLikeMen.
* InternalizedRacism: People hating themselves for their genetic ancestry or ethnicity. For the non-internalized version, see RacistGrandma.
* InternalizedMutiephobia: Self-hating [[MarvelUniverse super-powered mutants]]. For the non-internalized version, see FantasticRacism

* {{Normopathy}}: People who hate themselves for being different from others in any way, and thus hide any skills or talents that might make them stand out from the crowd.

[[caption-width-right:195:The young [[Film/{{X-Men}} angel]] is trying to cut off his own wings. Because, you know, it's not ''normal'' to be able to fly.]]

Whatever such category of people it is she belong to, it makes her hate herself. And while the trait itself is not destructive, her self-hatred ''makes'' it destructive. It might even lead her to seriously harm herself or others.

* InternalizedHomphobia: Self-hating gays For the non-internalized version, see HeteronormativeCrusader.

When this phenomenon is about homosexuality, it's called "Internalized Homophobia", but the mechanism can be the same no matter what trait it focuses on. However, the trait is always something the character consider herself to ''be'', not something she's considering herself to believe in: If it's her beliefs that gets scorned but she keeps her faith in them, she will see the scorners as bad instead of seeing herself as bad. Lets say she eventually gets DrivenToSuicide : If it is out of self-hatred then it is this trope, but if it is because she can't stand the ignorance and narrow-mindedness of other people then it is a variant of TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth.

"Categorism" is a catch-all word for racism, sexism, homophobia, and all such prejudice where people gets reduced to being a catergory of people - usually a negative stereotype about that category. As a trope, InternalizedCategorism cover real social categories as well as fictional ones such as mutants with superpowers.

The self-hatred of InternalizedCategorism may cause the character to become a BoomerangBigot. However, it should be noted that a BoomerangBigot does not ''necessarily'' suffer from any such self-hatred: The character might be too shallow for such emotions or might side with the oppressors for any number of reasons that leaves room for feeling good about oneself: Greed, StockholmSyndrome, even delusions of grandeur. For example lets say that a certain afroamerican man believes that black people are lazy criminals & rapists. If he doesn't live like that but attributes it to denying his "true nature", then he's only a BoomerangBigot. If he doesn't really try to get a real job because he's just a negro and/or commit criminal offenses of the drug-related or sex-related kind, going "[[ImAManICantHelpIt I'm a negro, I can't help it]]", then he's only a case of InternalizedRacism.

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* In BitchyButch, the protagonist learned in her teens that she's a horrible person, and took it to heart. As an adult she don't believe in that stuff anymore, but it's obvious that she still have a lot of self-hatred inside her and that her aggressive attitude is partly an overcompensation for this.
* In MarvelUniverse, it is socially stigmatized to be a mutant. That is, to have superpowers. One issue of the new mutants have a buy hanging himself in shame of being able to create beautiful sculptures of light.
* Much of TheFeelingPrinceCharlesHad is about women learning to hate themselves for being the gender that society consider less valuable.

* In TheSMJudge, Magda initially hate herself for being a masochist, ruining her own life as well as making her husband miserable. This turns around early in the movie, but the character had already wasted decades of her life when the story began.
* [[Film/{{X-Men}} X-Men: The Last Stand]] starts with a little angel trying to cut off his own wings (and maybe he did that quite often) in his desperation to be normal. Later his father tries to help him get "cured" of having white wings to fly with. [[spoiler: Angel changes his mind at the last minute, however, and later use his {{flight}} to save his father's life.]]

* In HarryPotter, some of the meanest persons are said to hate themselves because they are squibs -and taking this self-hatred out on young wizards that they are jealous of. While more ambiguous, it is also possible that Tom Riddle (Voldemort) himself was embarrassed over being a half-blood and that his FantasticRacism was partly a overcompensation for this. (This example is for the novels only, the movies don't have room for such nuances.)
* In one of the official collections of shortstories for WerewolfTheApocalypse, the pratagonist go through severe identity confusion and selfhatred as he discovers that he's actually a child of the ''evil'' werewolf clan, the Black Spiral Dancers. (He eventually snap out of it and conclude that he doesn't have to be like his ancestors.)

* InternalizedSexism: Women or men hating themselves simply for being born into a certain gender. (And this hatred is about a belief that this gender is inferior or evil, not about being a {{Transsexual}} who feels like being trapped in the wrong body.) For the non-internalized version, see HeManWomaHater and DoesNotLikeMen.

The self-hatred of InternalisedCategorism may cause the character to become a BoomerangBigot. However, it should be noted that a BoomerangBigot does not ''necessarily'' suffer from any such self-hatred: The character might be too shallow for such emotions or might side with the oppressors for any number of reasons that leaves room for feeling good about oneself: Greed, StockholmSyndrome, even delusions of grandeur. For example lets say that a certain afroamerican man believes that black people are lazy criminals & rapists. If he doesn't live like that but attributes it to denying his "true nature", then he's only a BoomerangBigot. If he doesn't really try to get a real job because he's just a negro and/or commit criminal offenses of the drug-related or sex-related kind, going "[[ImAManICantHelpIt I'm a negro, I can't help it]]", then he's only a case of InternalizedRacism.

* InternalizedMutiephobia: Self-hating [[MarvelUniverse super-powered mutants]]