History Main / ShowingUpChauvinists

* Downplayed in the ''Aratta'' series by Maria Semyonova and Anna Gurova. In the Nakh tribe, a woman is required to be an Amazon ''before'' her marriage (she can't even marry without proving herself on the battlefield), but afterwards, she ought to make a 180-degree turn and become a ProperLady housewife basically locked up in a tower, leaving the leadership to her husband. The ''saari'' (head) of the Bungar family is a woman who defied the custom, refused to marry and have children, commanded her family's army, and eventually managed to earn fame and respect among the male leaders.

* The made-for-TV movie ''The $520 An Hour Dream'' from 1980 stars Linda Lavin as Ellen Lissick, who works at an automobile plant doing "women's work." However, as a divorcee, Ellen needs more income to keep her children fed, clothed, and housed, so she applies for the higher-paying engine assembly job. This is considered "man's work," and the entire assembly section is male. However, the supervisor likes the idea of an in-house transfer rather than a "cold" hire, so he coaches Ellen well enough that she can pass the tests set by a pessimistic auditor, and slowly earns the respect of the male assemblers.

* ''Series/BrooklynNineNine:'' During the third Halloween Heist, [[spoiler: Amy gets fed up at Jake and Holt after they both [[ItMakesSenseInContext yell at her breasts,]] and decides to win the heist herself ''on the fly'' by covertly derailing Holt's plan. During TheSummation, she calls Holt out for assuming Amy was just Jake's girlfriend and Jake for assuming she was just Holt's lackey. Hers may remain the most impressive heist win, since while an intricate BatmanGambit is basically required, hers is the only one that was ''improvised on a whim.'']] [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed,]] as [[spoiler: Jake and Holt are both feminists; they were simply so caught up in winning the rivalry between the two of them that they dismissed her by assuming that she was a pawn in the other's gambits, which in fairness, is [[DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent standard]] heist [[TheMole procedure]].]]

* ''Series/BrooklynNineNine:'' During the third Halloween Heist, [[spoiler: Amy gets fed up at Jake and Holt after they both [[ItMakesSenseInContext yell at her breasts,]] and decides to win the heist herself ''on the fly'' by covertly derailing Holt's plan. During TheSummation, she calls Holt out for assuming Amy was just Jake's girlfriend and Jake for assuming she was just Holt's lackey. Hers may remain the most impressive heist win, since while an intricate BatmanGambit is basically required, hers is the only one that was ''improvised on a whim.'']]

* ''Series/BrooklynNineNine:'' During the third Halloween Heist, [[spoiler: Amy Santiago gets fed up at Jake and Holt after they both [[ItMakesSenseInContext yell at her breasts,]] and decides to win the heist herself ''on the fly'' by covertly derailing Holt's plan. During TheSummation, she calls Holt out for assuming Amy was just Jake's girlfriend and Jake for assuming she was just Holt's lackey. Hers may remain the most impressive heist win, since while an intricate BatmanGambit is basically required, hers is the only one that was ''improvised on a whim.'']]

* In the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts''/''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'' crossover fanfiction ''SAK: Sword Art Online'', when Asuna learns the Chinese Imperial Army doesn't allow women into their ranks, she outright enters the camp as herself and challenges Captain Li Shang to a sword fight so she can prove a point, refusing to let anyone walk over her pride as a woman. She [[CurbStompBattle defeats Shang easily]], who allows her to fight alongside the army, but not be a part of it.

** The book of Proverbs ends with a poem called "The Wife of Noble Character", which paints a word-picture of the ideal woman. Some traits it praises are ones you'd expect, like kindness, caring for her family, and generosity, but other traits include business savvy and making piles of money.
** The tale of Deborah from the book of Judges has the only female judge in the book, who is contrasted with a cowardly Israelite general. In the same tale, the enemy general is [[IWasBeatenByAGirl killed by a woman]].

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* Deconstructed in ''Literature/IronWidow''. Wu Zetian is by far the most powerful pilot that Huaxia has ever seen, and the patriarchal society responds by trying to either tame her or kill her to preserve their status quo. [[spoiler:Unfortunately for them, they kill her beloved Li Shimin in the attempt, and her RoaringRampageOfRevenge results in her killing the entire ruling class.]]

* Given its FeministFantasy premise, nearly all the heroines of the Literature/TortallUniverse have to do this to get taken seriously in an overwhelmingly patriarchal society. Their attitudes towards it range from amused (Daine) to annoyed (Kel) to ''highly'' annoyed (Alanna), since they're all very dedicated to their jobs and having to deal with sexist nonsense gets in the way of getting actual ''work'' done. It's deconstructed with Alanna and Kel though: Kel is the greatest knight in her year and Alanna is the greatest knight in all of Tortall because they know that even the slightest flaw will be taken as proof that women don't make good knights, and both of them resent having to repeatedly prove themselves.

* Downplayed in the ''Aratta'' series by Maria Semyonova and Anna Gurova. In the Nakh tribe, a woman is required to be TheAmazon ''before'' her marriage (she can't even marry without proving herself on the battlefield), but afterwards, she ought to make a 180-degree turn and become a ProperLady housewife basically locked up in a tower, leaving the leadership to her husband. The ''saari'' (head) of the Bungar family is a woman who defied the custom, refused to marry and have children, commanded her family's army, and eventually managed to earn fame and respect among the male leaders.

* In ''WesternAnimation/BarbieAndTheThreeMusketeers'', Barbie/Corinne sets off to become a musketeer but is mocked for her dreams by several who believe a girl can't be a musketeer, [[BerserkButton which angers her]]. She and her three friends end up proving them wrong by defeating the villain, Philippe, who attempts to kill his cousin, the prince. At the end, the prince becomes king and the four heroines become royal musketeers.