tomboyish

Or learn about cases where tomboyish young women were told that they were actually men because they were interested in science or sports.

Brave, with its tomboyish princess Merida is one.

But then again, my mind is very female for a man's, possibly due to a case of high-IQ androgyny (smart men tend to be effeminate; smart women, tomboyish).

I've also had some time to speak to a few coworkers and, with no surprise to me, the more tomboyish ones would feel weird or unwelcome because femininity is too much of a focus.

Doesn't it privilege some kind of essentialist view - that there is some fundamental, immutable characteristic that is not captured by personality or preference, that girls are girls and boys are boys regardless of how tomboyish or flamboyant they are?

At best, you might find a small number of women getting fancy rims (usually just tomboyish women who are into trucks), but good luck finding any who buy exhaust headers, intakes, engine tunes, etc.

> After all, the fact that I could, in principle, have sex with a woman—if I were plied with enough alcohol and she were tomboyish enough to create a suitable gender-modifying illusion—doesn’t exactly make me a heterosexual.

Peppermint Patty´s best frient, Marcie, tends to eccentrically call her "sir", which may be due to Marcie´s bad eyesight and Patty´s slightly tomboyish behaviours.

It's funny how good female bosses are often described as "tomboyish".

I always thought "tomboyish" meant "willing to climb a tree," with possible overtones of "hair shorter than shoulder length."

In 2003, a girl sitting around playing GBA games was still considered to be doing something "tomboyish." It wasn't until the release of the Nintendo DS in 2004 that there was any large-scale availability of games specifically targeted at female demographics.