Top Ten Struggles of Being a Tomboy

The Top Ten
1 You are forced to wear feminine clothes by your parents

This happens to me sometimes. Once, my mom made me wear a dress because I was wearing a black shirt and plaid pants. I got so mad that I didn't feel like myself. My mom knows that I don't like dresses or skirts and that I prefer more masculine things

I usually like wearing graphic t-shirts most of the time, but sometimes when I go shopping, I have to buy some "trendier" things because my mom says graphic t-shirts can't be the only things I wear. My mom does say that I cooperate the best when it comes to clothes shopping though.
I am also pretty sure I wouldn't be allowed to wear a women's tuxedo for a formal dance.

2 Some girly girls hate you

Tough tomboys will always be completely superior to those weak emotional girly girls. Tomboys should know that they will always be completely superior to girly girls so if they think girly girls hate them, then it shouldn't matter because tomboys are much more powerful and stronger than those hypersensitive girly girls.

There has been a case where girly girls did not accept me for being a more tomboyish girl who didn't want to listen to their boy bands and wear a bunch of jewelry.

The only time Girly girls hate tomboys is when they are in second grade.By middle school they have matured out of it and the border between feminine and masculine blurs.I think only the "I'm not like other girls" type fells this way.

3 Some people think you're a lesbian

I hate this so much! I'm a tomboy and straight yet the girly girls in my school call me a dyke and a lesbian. Turns out that one of the girls who bully me is bisexual!

I am not lesbian, not all tomboys are lesbian, just because they dress boyish does not mean they are one. I am a bisexual who actually leans more towards men.

Sure I wear metal band t-shirts, I have a leather jacket and want more. I want a sidecut ('cause they're metal)! The latter is usually associated with lesbians, but I want one and I'm asexual.

4 Some of your family want you to be girly

One of my sisters is like this. I hate makeup. I tried putting it on once bc I was going to this fall bash party thingy, but I just ended up looking like I had a black eye or something so I took it off.

This applies to all of my family members. My mom wants me to wear very feminine clothes and my dad gets mad at me for wearing hoodies and flannel shirts

My Asian relatives think that since I'm born a girl, I have to act like a girly girl forever.

5 Some think you hate girly girls when you don't

There is a huge difference between calling out some annoying people and hating every girly girl. Please learn it.

I don't hate girly girls, some of my friends are and they are nice people.

No, I don't, I love my friends unless they're meany bastard!

6 You are forced to wear makeup by your parents

Like every time I go out I have this pressure of parents saying me to put makeup just to look good. But for me I don't care if I look good.

Yep. Every time I go to a school dance or wedding

7 You can't walk properly if you are forced to wear high heels

Honestly I feel that, I am a mix of tomboy and girly but to be honest I hate wearing high heels. I know some ladies wear it to be powerful but I will never wear those they are uncomfortable

Which is why I avoid high heels. If I wear a dress with anything, I wear flats (or sparkly Converses ;).
Update: I don't wear dresses anymore and for prom this year and next year, I'm wearing a tuxedo.

Haha, this is me. I just wear combat boots or just regular boots that aren't that high up.

8 You get mistaken for a man

I have a pretty deep voice for a girl. When I first sent a voice recording on a chat room in Amino, one member on it (he was one of the members I commonly chat with) said my voice was manly, even though I'm a girl. When I'm recorded or on video and I happen to speak, my voice sounds like a teenage boy's. When I make Roblox based characters, their often mistaken for guys and my winter outfit of my regular Roblox avatar is mistaken for a male.

It seems tomboys would rather be men than girly girls anyway.

Again, you don't have to be girly to not be mistaken for a man.

9 You can't wear jeans if you need to wear formal clothes

I HATE dresses although my mom always makes me wear them on special occasions and I hate it

10 Everyone thinks you are good at sports even if you're not

The thing with sports is, I am not good at them, not because I hate playing it or because I don't have the energy. I have both, the thing is rather that I don't have the organized, quick thinking skills for sports. I sometimes would break a rule for not doing a step right, there is just so much rules to sports and you have to do it quickly. I am not the organized kind of person or the quickest thinker. I am more into free sports like skating, a sport that isn't very organized, I never skated, but I feel like I would be decent at it since it's not organized, and I have the energy for it.

The Contenders
11 Tomboys usually wake up late and love discussing boyish things

I like to talk about Star Wars and superhero movies with my male cousins sometimes

12 Everyone judges you based on your looks

Look I agree I wear tshirts and boyish stuff, but it is much better than walking in a short skirt and wear heels

13 Everyone assumes things about you that aren't true
14 Guys might reject you
15 No one listens to tomboys
16 People try to change you
17 People might think you are weird because they will mistake your gender
18 People think you are trans
19 People want to be friends with popular girly girls
20 The way you sit is considered “unladylike”
21 People behave strangely towards you
22 It's a pain to find shoes in your size that aren't feminine or from the children's section
23 You are forced to wear feminine colors by your parents
24 You can't have boyish jobs
25 You can't wear your cap backwards because some people think you're gay
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