Where Have All The Tomboys Gone Analysis

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When seeing a girl, who is wearing boy clothes or doing something that a girl wouldn’t usually do, people will jump to the conclusion that she is a lesbian. Rachel Simmons claims that “the tomboy is a girl who flouts the unwritten rules of girlhood and feminist, who seems to have an unnatural level of unself-consciousness in the face of powerful gender norms, who freely and bravely take on challenges and experiences and venture into places girls don’t go.” (Meltzer 1), meaning that tomboys are just regular girls with a little more bravery to them, because they aren’t afraid to do what they want to do. But where have girls like this gone? The article, Where Have All the Tomboys gone, talks about how tomboys are just regular girls who like what
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