Are you satisfied with your gender?

Freebase Dali · 07-14-2010, 06:33 PM

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.

Astronomer · 07-14-2010, 06:37 PM

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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.

Yeah I agree... which is why I made it a point to not immediately use the term "tomboy." What is a tomboy anyway? I think it's a stupid term. I'm glad I grew up playing with a range of different toys and genders. That being said, I do know a lot of families full of girls who have grown up to be very girly and I often wonder if it's because they didn't have a brother or access to other games/ activities. Maybe their parents only bought girly toys because they only had girls. I don't know, but it's interesting.

And yeah, I think I act like a girl, I just get along with guys better, we generally share the same interests... it's just the types of guys and girls I know, I guess.

Freebase Dali · 07-14-2010, 06:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Lateralus

Yeah I agree... which is why I made it a point to not immediately use the term "tomboy." What is a tomboy anyway? I think it's a stupid term. I'm glad I grew up playing with a range of different toys and genders. That being said, I do know a lot of families full of girls who have grown up to be very girly and I often wonder if it's because they didn't have a brother or access to other games/ activities. Maybe their parents only bought girly toys because they only had girls. I don't know, but it's interesting.

And yeah, I think I act like a girl, I just get along with guys better, we generally share the same interests... it's just the types of guys and girls I know, I guess.

I don't blame you for wanting to hang out with guys.
If I had to hang out long-term with some of the girls I've known in the past, I'd slit my own throat with a rusty butterknife.

boo boo · 07-14-2010, 07:11 PM

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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.

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.

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.

Laces Out Dan! · 07-14-2010, 08:51 PM

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I used to envy my cousin Ashley's dollhouse.

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Freebase Dali Partying on the inside Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 5,584	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.