Basic Trope: A female character who believes other women are inferior, particularly feminine ones.
- Straight: Marcy thinks that all other women are weak and incompetent and should Stay in the Kitchen.
- Exaggerated:
- Marcy also applies this to herself, and believes that all women should only try to have children, she thinks women should Stay in the Kitchen, she is in agreement with the Madonna-Whore Complex, and she is a Heteronormative Crusader (at least against lesbians).
- Marcy outright refuses to speak to another woman unless necessary.
- All Women Hate Each Other
- Downplayed:
- Marcy mentions once or twice that she wishes Girly Girls would Stop Being Stereotypical, but she doesn't make a federal case out of it.
- Marcy just prefers the company of men in general but has no contempt for other women in general.
- Marcy is usually treated as One of the Boys due to her tomboyish personality and she likes it that way and isn't interested in female company that much, mostly because she's not into feminine activities or finds the company of other women very boring.
- Marcy hates men as well, but has more dislike for women.
- Marcy loves to talk shit about other women, but will be offended if a man insults them.
- Justified:
- Marcy just gets along better with men than women, and her relationships with other women, including (or especially) with her own mother and sisters, have just been detrimental to her through and through.
- Marcy is the sister of three boys who were viciously bullied by other women in High School and then fleeced from all their money and barred from seeing their kids by her money-grubbing sisters-in-law. That, in addition to what she saw other women do to men just because they could, made her develop a low opinion of her gender as a whole.
- Marcy works in the fashion industry, which put her face to face with the worse things that women could be.
- Marcy is secretly a lesbian who is afraid of coming out, and so tries to cover up her feelings by pretending to hate women.
- Marcy is constantly comparing herself to other women in order to feel better about herself because at least she's not like them.
- Marcy is a Tomboy or an Outdoorsy Gal who has rather masculine interests and is usually better than most women at physical activities so she doesn't think much of women who aren't as physically strong as she is.
- Marcy is a Tomboy who was raised by an obnoxious feminine mother who Wanted a Gender-Conforming Child and all of her female relatives mock her due to her Femininity Failure that develop her Mommy Issues Freudian Excuse.
- Marcy is The Queenpin, which means she's supposed to be obeyed and feared, not liked. Thus, she is just as demanding and inflexible towards other women as she is towards men, and she doesn't trust them either.
- Marcy was sexually abused or assaulted by a woman or group of women in the past and finds women frightening and men more comforting and protective.
- Marcy is so desperate for validation from a society that puts immense value on men to the exclusion of women that she tries to assimilate into their beliefs, pushing down her fellow women in a single-minded bid to be part of the "in-group", even aligning herself with extremely bigoted and misogynistic men in the process.
- Marcy is a heterosexual Tomboy who deeply jealous to the Girly Girls who always win the guys' hearts, while she is treated as One of the Boys rather than the romantic option, or she even Only Has Same-Sex Admirers because people think she is a Butch Lesbian, much to her bitterness.
- Or if Marcy has a boyfriend, he will even reinforces the idea that he attracts to her because she is Not Like Other Girls, which boost her arrogant attitude to cover up her insecurity.
- Inverted: Marcy believes women to be superior, probably particularly mannish ones.
- Gender Inverted:
- Harry is a male character who believes other men are inferior, particularly masculine ones; in other words, he is a Male Misandrist.
- Subverted:
- Marcy is never seen socializing with women, but she later says it's just because she knows mostly guys from work and doesn't get much of a chance to have female friends.
- Marcy is actually an Effeminate Misogynistic Guy who looks like a woman.
- Double Subverted:
- But she's not trying to anyway, since she "doesn't want to talk about shoes all day."'
- You Are What You Hate, Marcy is actually a Transgender woman living in denial of her true gender, also her misogyny comes from jealousy.
- Parodied: Marcy is married to a Straw Misogynist who tells her to Stay in the Kitchen... and she squeals in delight whenever he insults her!
- Zig Zagged: Sometimes Marcy is seen hanging out with girls and enjoying herself, but sometimes she's seen with men griping about how annoying they are.
- Averted:
- Marcy is mostly seen around men but gets along very well with other women.
- Marcy doesn't just hate other women, but Hates Everyone Equally regardless of gender.
- Enforced:
- The writers wanted to do An Aesop on gender equality, and thought the best way to do that would be to make a Strawman in the form of Marcie, who hates women, by virtue of having her change her mind about her gender at the end of her story-line.
- The writers want to do An Aesop about how women aren't a Hive Mind and just because a person is female doesn't mean she will automatically sympathize with another female.
- Lampshaded: "...You're a woman who hates other women because they're female? You do know you're structurally no different from the rest of us, right? "
- Invoked: Territorial Smurfette
- Exploited:
- Other girls use Marcy's prejudices to spite her.
- Other, more bigoted men encourage this in Marcy because people can tolerate her prejudices as a member of the same gender, and won't attract as much attention as if a guy was just as spiteful.
- Defied:
- "Just because I prefer hanging out with men doesn't mean I despise other women."
- Marcy can't stand for any women including herself, so Marcy come out as a Transgender and becomes a He-Man Woman Hater.
- Discussed: "You do understand that you're a woman yourself right?" "So? Just because we happen to share the same genitals doesn't mean I have to agree with everything a woman says or that I should feel solidarity towards her. Screw her!"
- Conversed: "Why does this girl hate women? She is one!" "Because some women believe themselves superior to all other women for some reason."
- Implied: Marcy is invited to sit with a group of women and refuses instantly, but leaps at the chance to hang out with a group of three guys. It is never explicitly stated why.
- Deconstructed:
- Marcy ends up pregnant with a little girl that she ends up abusing and neglecting because she wanted a boy. The fact that she married a religious man who has a dim view on anything feminine only increased the effect.
- Everyone is so tired of Marcy's Double Standard, that they decide to enforce her beliefs to make a point... Starting with Marcy.
- Marcy's issue with women isn't necessarily out of prejudice; it's mainly because she can't relate to other women. Femininity is something she lacks, so she deals with that by attacking other, more feminine women.
- Marcy's cruelty toward her fellow women and aligning herself with a group of He-Man Women Haters alienates her from them and non-misogynistic men, who see her as a Boomerang Bigot desperate to be validated by people who will never accept her. Meanwhile, the misogynistic men and the flawed system she aligns herself with only sees her as "one of the good females", and only value her as a means to validate their cruel bigotry and reinforce their agenda. It's implied that the minute she ever comes to her senses or the misogynists don't need her anymore, they'd toss her aside without a second thought, leaving her with no one on her side.
- Turns out that Marcy is actually a closeted Butch Lesbian who is afraid of coming out, and desperately tries to cover up her feelings by pretending to hate women, which make her even more miserable when it comes to her love life, even worse when she finally coming out, and nobody believes her.
- Reconstructed:
- Marcy is befriended by a group of misogynistic men. She eventually meet their wives with whom she ends up getting along just fine.
- Marcy starts accepting herself as a Butch Lesbian, falls in love with a Nice Girl and develops her sympathetic feelings of the fellow lesbians.
- Played For Laughs: Marcy has to be reminded on several occasions that she's also female, usually to the sound of a "Oh yeah, I forgot that".
- Played For Drama: Marcy brutally bullies anyone who isn't male out of her anti-woman prejudice, and it drives one girl to attempt suicide.
- Played For Horror: Marcy is a Psycho Lesbian Serial Rapist who colludes with male serial rapists to target women.
Back to Female Misogynist, there are less inferior girls there.
