I Was Beaten by a Girl/Playing With

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    Basic Trope: A man is offended when a woman beats him at something.

    • Straight: Bob is upset when Alice beats him at arm wrestling
    • Exaggerated: Bob is upset when Alice beats him at every sport and game they play together.
    • Downplayed: Bob is upset when Alice beats him, but still acts like a good sport and congratulates her.
    • Justified: Alice is more skilled or more experienced than Bob at the games they play.
      • Bob isn't as physically fit as Alice.
    • Inverted: Bob beats Alice at cooking and sewing.
      • Alice, member of an Amazon Brigade, is upset when Bob beats her at arm wrestling.
    • Subverted: Alice comes close to beating Bob, but Bob comes out on top in the end.
    • Double Subverted: Alice reveals that she let Bob win.
    • Parodied: Bob is upset that all women can beat him at any sport.
    • Zig Zagged: Alice wins some games but Bob wins others, some of which Alice lets him when, but at times Bob lets Alice win, and times where Bob wins on skill alone.
    • Averted: A female and a male never compete together.
      • A male and female compete together, but the issue of gender is never brought up.
    • Enforced: "We need to teach An Aesop that some girls can be good at sports."
    • Lampshaded: ???
    • Invoked: ???
    • Exploited: Charlie always places bets on Alice winning the competitions.
    • Defied: Bob trains extra hard so that no one can beat him at anything.
      • Or Bob decides there's no reason to be upset just because he was beaten by a girl.
    • Discussed: "You ever notice how some guys get so upset over a girl beating them at something?"
    • Conversed: "This is the part where Alice humiliates Bob."

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