This hits home for me. As someone who grew up preferring jeans instead of dresses, playing ball instead of jumping rope, and ...

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Outlook ‘Tomboy’ is anachronistic. But the concept still has something to teach us. These characters still give us room to experiment with the complexities of gender and sexuality.

But Jo was an important character, even if, like many tomboys, including Jo March, she was often “tamed” — feminized and paired up with a man. Let’s bring the tomboy back, without taming her.

A journalist is calling out the " war on tomboys " as little girls who express interest in stereotypically masculine hobbies or wear androgynous clothes face pressure to change their gender.

See, the girl who is a vision of lipstick and sky-high heels on the outside is actually a freewheeling, vehemently inappropriate, endlessly adventurous tomboy on the inside.

Tomboy had become a "useless term." And in 1926 an article called "The Passing of Tomboys" announced: "There aren't any Tomboys anymore. Standards have changed." ...