On the other hand, my immediate images of old cartoons are the Bugs Bunny ones, where I don't remember any female-coded characters or that shape of interaction, and the Coyote/Roadrunner ones, which again weren't anywhere near that dynamic. "Brawny hunter isn't as clever as he thinks" and maybe "good sense is better than bought technology," with no implication that even the coyote believed the roadrunner wanted, or should want, the coyote to catch him.