Women Are Wiser/Playing With

Basic Trope: The female character is wiser, more intelligent and morally superior to the male character.

• Straight: Judy is a more moral, smarter and wiser human being than Bill, who often gets in trouble due to his impulsive, boorish nature.
• Exaggerated: Judy is The Messiah and practically a candidate for sainthood, whereas Bill is a complete Man Child sitting on the couch unemployed and slovenly pounding back beers.
• Justified: Bill's issues stem from a dysfunctional childhood, whereas Judy was raised in a stable, happy family.
• Inverted: Bill is a more moral, smarter and wiser human being than Judy, who frequently gets into trouble due to her impulsive and boorish nature.
• Subverted: Judy likes to think that she's morally superior to Bill and acts in such a fashion, but she's actually a Hypocrite and no better than Bill, if not worse.
• Doubly Subverted: ... except that Judy is nevertheless still presented as morally superior to Bill.
• Parodied: Judy is a deeply self-righteous individual constantly subjecting Bill to pious lectures, meaning that Bill goes to extreme and absurd lengths to avoid her.
• Deconstructed: Judy looks down on Bill due to his numerous failings, whilst Bill resents Judy's superior and judgemental attitudes towards him. Their relationship breaks down.
  • Being always the moral voice of reason, most people go to Judy asking to help and she is always the one who must solve all mishaps thanks to her maturity and intelligence. However, she is so overloaded with problems that, eventually, she gets mad and explode into a brutal rage
• Reconstructed: Judy attempts not to be so judgemental, and Bill attempts to improve himself. They mend their relationship.
• Zig Zagged: Judy and Bill keep switching between who has the highest morality.
• Averted: Judy and Bill are presented as people with both genuine flaws and genuine virtues, neither being superior or inferior to the other.
  • Alternately, Judy and Bill are in an ensemble cast that features men and women of various levels of maturity and common sense favoring neither gender even if Judy and Bill in isolation would seem to be playing it straight.
• Enforced: "We don't want to upset any women in the audience by treating Judy as inferior to Bill — let's give Judy moral superiority at least."
• Lampshaded: "Bill, you don't know the meaning of the word 'morality'. Only Judy can know about that, she's a woman."
• Invoked: "Women are morally superior to men — just accept it, Bill!"
• Defied: "Judy, being a woman doesn't automatically make you a moral person."
  • Judt ends up bored about having to be always the intelligent and sensible voice of reason, seeing that she is very emotionally repressed for it and decides to whoop it up.
• Discussed: "Is this one of those arguments that you're going to win automatically because you're a woman?" "Yes. Because I have morals."
• Conversed: "Men have no morals! That's what women are for!"

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