Morals about misogyny that rubbed me the wrong way

I was rewatching some old cartoons and I realized some of the morals on misogyny do not hold up.

For example in sleepover episode of the forgotten Disney cartoon Lloyd In Space, the boys decide to sneak into a girls-only sleepover while the titular character claims it’s “discrimination” to not allow boys in Brittany’s sleepover. Ironically enough, the boys on the other hand, believe it’s okay for them to talk garbage about the girls behind their backs about how girls apparently always gossip behind boys’ backs. Do they not see the hypocrisy in their logic?

As expected they decide to stalk on the girls because apparently they want to know why girls are being so “private”. Lloyd decides to dress like a girl to enter Brittany’s sleepover, but as you would expect, he eventually gets found out. But plot twist, it’s somehow the girls’ fault all this happened and Lloyd goes rambling on about how girls need to stop making generalizations about boys so boys wouldn’t snoop in their business all the time. That was the last straw for me. Why don’t these boys take their own advice and hold themselves more responsible instead of blaming women for their actions?!

Another example in the Berenstain Bears episode “No Girls Allowed” (originally adapted from the book of the same name), Brother Bear and the other boys get fed up of being beaten by a girl, so they decide to ban all girls from their clubhouse, including Sister Bear. As expected, Sister Bear tells her parents about the situation, and Mama Bear advises her to build her own clubhouse. Sister Bear agrees and decides to put a rule of her own “not boys allowed”, but Mama Bear stops her and says two wrongs don’t make a right. She then points out Sister Bear was being a “bad winner” for being proud of her achievements.

My reaction was “are you f***ing kidding me?”. So apparently it’s okay for boys to get upset because they were beaten by a girl therefore it somehow justified them discriminating against girls. But girls on the other hand should not discriminate against boys because it’s always the girl’s fault, and girls should not be proud of their achievements, especially knowing that we live in a systemic society where it’s a man’s world.

The last example I want to point out is in the Powerpuff Girls episode “Equal Fights”, where the girls are indoctrinated by a stereotypical revival feminist named Femme Fatale (how original) who states that all men are evil and cannot be trusted. As expected the girls get into trouble with their teacher and Professor Utonium. In the end the girls find out that Femme Fatale was “demonizing” men just so she can get away with her own actions and have “special treatment”, leading her to get thrown in jail.

This one frustrates the hell out of me as the creators only wanted to develop an anti-feminist agenda all while claiming that feminism only exists to hate men. Even the show’s creator Craig McCracken denied the creation of the series because he didn’t feel more female protagonists needed to be represented, but to incite “good writing”. Sure, Craig, sure. To back it up, Lauren Faust (who was Craig’s wife) flat out hated the episode as it had a negative representation of feminism. I’m starting to believe why was she ever married to him in the first place. It also frustrates me as Craig McCracken also worked on a previous series Dexter’s Laboratory, in which the title character was extremely misogynistic, yet that’s somehow acceptable.

So there you have it. Those are just a few examples on morals of sexism that rub me the wrong way. Do you remember any of these shows? What other examples can you think of that I haven’t pointed out?