the new dictionary according to tp:

damsel-in-distress
–verb

1. to appear as a weak female in trouble in order to achieve an advantage against potential competition.
   
   
2. to use one's feminine abilities to inspire a male to perform certain tasks that are made to appear as 'much too hard, tiresome and/or complicated for a simple and weak female to perform'.
   

—Related forms
damsel-in-distress·ing·ly, adverb