History Main / TheUnfairSex

* The narrator of "Before He Cheats" never actually says definitively that he's cheating. She says he's ''probably'' cheating, meaning that her actions are done on an assumption. He's probably in the bar, ''hiding from her'' in a place filled with witnesses.
-->'''Creator/BillBurr:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKkEowjdNa0 Why don't ya just break up with him?]]
** "Tears Dry On Their Own", on the other hand, is about Winehouse being the other woman and it portrays her in a more sympathetic light than "You Know I'm No Good" or "I Heard Love Is Blind", however, it does not place any of the blame on the man she was having the affair with at all or portray him in a negative way either. "Tears Dry on Their Own" puts the blame of their affair and Winehouse's reasons for feeling miserable about it afterwards solely on her " I don't know why I got so attached. It's my responsibility, you don't owe nothing to me".

* Inverted on Website/{{Literotica}}, where stories about cheating usually get the heaviest criticism from readers of the same gender as the person being cheated upon. Most of the site's users are male, so stories where women cheat on men often score two points lower than similar stories where men cheat on women. (And it goes even lower if [[WhereDaWhiteWomenAt they cheat on a white man with a black man]]...)

* Writer Creator/GeoffJohns reinvented the Franchise/GreenLantern Corps so that now there are seven Corps, each representing a different emotion. The Violet Corps represents love. ''All'' of its members are female. It's especially notable because ''every single other'' corps are fully integrated regardless of race or gender. When asked why, Johns just said, "most men are not worthy". Let's ''hope'' he meant that the all-female Zamarons[[note]]Who made the Star Sapphires, similar to how the all-male Oans made the Green Lantern rings[[/note]] didn't consider men worthy. Since the Sapphires run on every kind of love, people like crazy stalkers can (and one was possessed by Predator, the embodiment of love) become sort of Sapphires, if not official members.

* ''Franchise/XMen'':

* Where do we begin with ''ComicBook/MonicasGang''? No matter the circunstances, the boys are never able to properly get back at Monica for the constant abuse she puts them through, with Jimmy Five being the most common victim. And this even extends when Monica meets with her [[OnceAnEpisode weekly]] LoveInterest: She'll interact with them, the boy will reveal that [[AllLoveIsUnrequited they don't reciprocate the feelings]], she gets angry and [[NotHelpingYourCase beats the ever loving crap out of them]], even with their reasoning being that they find her [[HairTriggerTemper too aggressive]]. And this pretty much can extend with ''all of the girls'' in the cast [[DependingOnTheWriter in their worst days]].
* ''ComicBook/NinjaHighSchool'' has a character named Sammi, a Chinese food delivery female forced to dress like a male due to the stupidity of her father making a bet with his friends to have a son (it's a long story), a secret only a few close friends of Sammi's know about. In one of the stories, she runs afoul of the local cheerleaders who are very feminist and one of the girls takes a liking to Sammi (again due to looking like a boy). Sammi tries to let the girl down gently that she isn't interested. But this only offends her friends since they think Sammi figures she's not good enough, to the point they nearly kill Sammi over it. Said girl isn't a saint either, practically trying to ''force'' Sammi to be her boyfriend. In the end, when Sammi finally reveals her secret to the girl, said girl gets angry ([[NeverMyFault for her VERY psychotic mistake]]) and hits Sammi with a mallet for the embarrassment. Granted its played for laughs but their unreasonable mentally through the whole thing was completely deplorable and the fact they only backed off ''just because'' Sammi was a girl only made it worse.

* A recurring theme on the '[[http://fuckyeahsocialjusticesally.tumblr.com/ Social Justice Sally]]' meme, several examples of which -- according to Sally (and the 'social justice warriors' she parodies), at least -- suggest that anything, no matter how innocuous or excusable, immediately becomes reprehensible if said, thought or done ''by'' a straight white man, and anything, no matter how reprehensible, immediately becomes not only excusable but ''moral'' (as in, you are a horrible person if you ''don't'' do it) if it is being said, thought or done ''to'' a straight white man.

* Averted with Andy and Roger in ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'': while Andy is infinitely more competent than BumblingDad Roger, on the rare occasions when she is at fault, she gets called out on it. Played straight, however, with their son Peter and his girlfriend Denise. Half their story arcs revolve around [[PoorCommunicationKills some misunderstanding that could have been cleared up with a single sentence]], and Peter is ''always'' portrayed as having been at fault. What makes it especially jarring is that the situation is always crafted in a way that leads the reader to draw the same conclusions as Peter - up until he's made out to be a complete idiot for interpreting the situation the same way the audience did.

* Justified in ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'': Men are expected to remain chaste until marriage, while women having homosexual relationships before marriage is seen as no big deal. Considering the fact that this is all due to fear of [=STDs=], and heterosexual sex is much more likely to transmit diseases than lesbian sex, this makes sense. (As men have GenderRarityValue, male homosexuality is never mentioned, so it is not known what people think about it.) Averted by Corelle Whistler, whose answer to the rumour that her crush Balin Brindle has sex with his own ''mothers'' (strictly speaking aunts, but socially, they're his mothers), is that, that way, at least they know he's fertile. She's either pretty relaxed about that chastity thing, or very into him. Or maybe she just doesn't believe the rumour.

* Averted in ''Literature/HarryPotter [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince and the Half-Blood Prince]]''. After Ron found out that Hermione might have kissed a guy who asked her out two years prior while she was single ''and'' getting told that [[MySisterIsOffLimits his overbearing watchdog tendencies about his sister]] were due to his own inexperience with girls, he gets into an extremely shallow relationship with basically the first girl to give him the time of day, largely out of spite. He is portrayed as insensitive and, giving how publicly he flaunts the relationship, pretty hypocritical, and quickly gets his own comeuppance by means of [[ClingyJealousGirl his “girlfriend” being utterly insufferable]]. Hermione [[OperationJealousy attempts to retaliate]] by asking out the JerkJock who had been eyeing her for most of the book… only for the plan to implode immediately since she genuinely can’t stand the guy. Harry, and by extension the narrator, are quick to point out that they’re both idiots, though he’s slightly more overtly critical of Hermione, possibly owing to the fact that Ron was being an impulsive idiot who didn’t think things through, whereas Hermione was being consciously and deliberately petty.
-->'''Narrator''': "Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge."
** In-universe, there's a milder case of this: girls can go into the boys' bedroom without problem, but there's a charm on the stairs to the girls' bedroom that turns it into a slide if a boy tries to enter. Hermione {{Handwave}}s the rule as being old fashioned, though she doesn't seem nearly as incensed by the DoubleStandard as she does about, say, House Elf Equal Rights.

* Averted with many of Music/AmyWinehouse's songs such as "You Know I'm No Good" and "I Heard Love Is Blind" which were about her having affairs behind her spouse's back, but NEVER portrayed her in a good or sympathetic light at all. In fact, the whole point of both songs was to show how destructive Amy was to herself and everyone around her. Kind of summed up with the line "I told you I was trouble you know that I'm no good"

* Refreshingly averted by Music/TaylorSwift, who seems to blame the boy (e.g. "Picture to Burn"), the other girl (e.g. "Better than Revenge"), or herself (e.g. "Back to December") according to the situation.

* This trope is averted with "Close My Eyes Forever", a duet by Music/OzzyOsbourne and Lita Ford. The lyrics concern a woman who has been unfaithful to her man, and she begs him to forgive her for her infidelity. The man, however, feels that he cannot trust her anymore and tells her to "close your eyes for me" (i.e. forget about him).

** It's still strongly averted when it comes to the question of infidelity - no matter their sex, and no matter their rationalizations, the cheater is in the wrong. It's the one area where even Aubrey would drop that kind of reasoning, and probably threaten anyone she caught using it. Otherwise, Aubrey and Peejee will use it on Davan because [[VitriolicBestBuds their friendships are based on giving each other hell]], and Aubrey will pull it out on other women and then chastise them for failing to measure up.