Adler's Law or 'She's Not All That'
Adler's Law = No matter how admirable or impressive a woman, real or fictional, is recognized to be, there will always be at least one person on the Internet who will try to downplay and undermine her and her accomplishments.
See people claiming that Percy Shelley secretly wrote Frankenstein instead of Mary, calling Cleopatra an incompetent ruler who did nothing but bang Julius Caesar and Mark Antony and literally nothing else, claiming that Irene Adler didn't really defeat Sherlock Holmes and he just 'let her go' because he thought she was hot, asserting that nobody should care about Boudicca because she had lousy military tactics, complaining that Ada Lovelace gets too much credit for computer programming, arguing that Eowyn would've been totally incapable of killing the Witch King if Merry hadn't stabbed him first, and so on and so forth.
All to say, "She's overrated, she's not that great," all in an attempt to dismiss the idea that a woman could actually be admirable and worthy of being looked up to and esteemed in some way.
See people claiming that Percy Shelley secretly wrote Frankenstein instead of Mary, calling Cleopatra an incompetent ruler who did nothing but bang Julius Caesar and Mark Antony and literally nothing else, claiming that Irene Adler didn't really defeat Sherlock Holmes and he just 'let her go' because he thought she was hot, asserting that nobody should care about Boudicca because she had lousy military tactics, complaining that Ada Lovelace gets too much credit for computer programming, arguing that Eowyn would've been totally incapable of killing the Witch King if Merry hadn't stabbed him first, and so on and so forth.
All to say, "She's overrated, she's not that great," all in an attempt to dismiss the idea that a woman could actually be admirable and worthy of being looked up to and esteemed in some way.