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Originally Posted by Freebase Dali
I don't think girls that grow up around boys and play boys games are automatically going to become tomboys. I've seen too much evidence to the contrary. I think it's natural and healthy for girls to get rough and not have to tip-toe around with tea cups on their heads all day to be "lady-like" (Please don't, Vegangelica).
If anything, I think the entire term "tomboy" is thrown around like a frisbee far too much and for far too little.
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Actually having a girlfriend with awful taste in music would be an interesting experiment, a lot of girls with these tastes simply haven't been exposed to the finer things, they need assistance and I'd be glad to provide.
You just have to take it one step at a time. If she listens to a lot of crappy music, I'd try to get her into good music of the same genre, and then sneak in the more progressive stuff as we go along until eventually I'll have her digging Amon Duul II and Henry Cow records.
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Originally Posted by Freebase Dali
I don't think girls that grow up around boys and play boys games are automatically going to become tomboys. I've seen too much evidence to the contrary. I think it's natural and healthy for girls to get rough and not have to tip-toe around with tea cups on their heads all day to be "lady-like" (Please don't, Vegangelica).
If anything, I think the entire term "tomboy" is thrown around like a frisbee far too much and for far too little.
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Agreed. For me riding bikes and playing in the mud isn't a boy thing, it's a KID thing. All my girl cousins around my age loved playing with the boys when we were kids, though they did tend to enjoy the girlier things on the side.
I do feel girls have more options, as in nowadays parents find it much more acceptable for their daughters to do "boy" stuff than it is for their sons to do "girl" stuff. Girls are now given variety of boy and girl toys to play with while few dads would ever let their boys play with barbies out of fear of them becoming homosexuals, which is stupid because there is no surefire way to prevent homosexuality anyway it's something you're born with.
I used to envy my cousin Ashley's dollhouse.
