A third explained that she refuses to use it because there is nothing boylike about being active, athletic or tough. Hundreds of readers commented on an article about the term “tomboy” and how ...

“It was tough, but afterwards it was the biggest rush ... She says: “At school I was a tomboy, I didn’t have a solid group of friends. When I was 9 I had a day off school sick and stumbled ...

Tomboy, sexist though the word may be ... The message to them is that if they veer too far toward masculine — being tough, rejecting dresses and skirts, wearing short hair — they’re no ...

She’s now revealing why she embraced a tomboy look in her early days ... has decided that she is allowed to be smart, beautiful, tough, sexy, bold, shapely, radical and have “strong thoughts ...

My father and my brothers raised me to be a tough tomboy. I was bullied at a young age and through my early teenage years by my father. My upbringing brought me to the greatest thing in the world ...

An utterly charming, smart, and tough tomboy, she becomes “the most important girl in the world” as the key to the cure for a fast-approaching global pandemic. Of course, the purported star of ...

acting tough and even entertaining the idea of a girl being interested in her. The end of summer and the start of school promise an end to Laure’s dual identities. Tomboy is a touching coming-of-age ...

Max was the cool tomboy skater who had the highest score on Dig Dug, and Sink, with her vibrant red hair and permanent scowl, embodied her tough girl attitude perfectly. In the next season ...

Like the character prototypes in a John Hughes coming-of-age movie, each girl initially seems to occupy a specific role: the New Girl (Erin), the Tough Tomboy (Mac), the Rich Jock (KJ), and the ...