Ladies, Were You A Tom-Boy or Girlie-Girl When You Were A Kid?

[THUNDER HANDS]

Did you play with barbies or with GI Joes?

Did you play House or baseball?

Did you prefer Home Economics or Gym class?

[Ellen Forradalom]

1. Where's the entry for Well-Rounded?

I liked running, sewing, politics, baking, gymnastics, soccer (this was long before there were girls' teams), baseball, reading, and dolls.

[THUNDER HANDS]

3. wow

I never knew anyone who was into politics when they were a kid. You seem to have been a very unique child. :D

[Hell Hath No Fury]

2. I total Tomboy...

It was all about climbing trees, using my Grandpa's work tools, playing with Hot Wheels...

Scratch that, it's STILL all about that!

I still am essentially a Tomboy -- I dress like one, act like one -- though once or twice a year I do my "girl drag" with the push-me/pull me bra, heels, and make-up, just to scare the boys. :)

[VelmaD]

4. Mostly a tom-boy...

although I did do some "girly" stuff too. I played basketball, soccer, football, volleyball, tennis, golf, softball, racquetball, swimming and diving...you name it. I was WAY into sports. And I mostly hung out with boys. All my life most of my friends have been guys. And I hated wearing dressed.

But, I also liked to bake cookies and love my long hair and was a serious musician.

So, mostly tom-boy but still fairly well-rounded I guess.

[supernova]

5. 1/2 and 1/2

I was never a sports nut (due to health reasons), but I preferred hanging out with boys and men, was uncomfortable in dresses, and was aware of politics very early, around 7-8 due to watching the Vietnam war on the evening news. That and breathing a sigh of relief that my brothers lottery number was too high for him to be drafted. That was around 1970. I was a world-weary veteran of 11 by the time the Watergate hearings rolled around.

Though, I love cooking, cocooning and otherwise feathering my nest. I'm also big on spending time with family.

Though I occasionally wear dresses now, I'm not as comfortable in them as my favoriet jeans and immediatly change clothes when I come home.

[THUNDER HANDS]

6. wow...lotta Tom Boys so far

I guess girlie-girls don't really gravitate toward liberalism, huh?

[SOteric]

7. Extremely well-rounded

I have 4 older brothers, so...it's not like their wasn't some tom-boy activity to be had.

And I'm my mum's only daughter, so it's not like there wasn't some girly activities to engage in.

I didn't go to public schools. Home-Ec wasn't even an offering at our Prep School, and I'd no doubt have aced it as my mother was a Cordon Bleu-trained Master Chef.

But I also excel at atheletics, have run marathons, climbed mountains, and can operate a 40' sailboat with or without assistance.

[PopArt]

8. Lame poll

Like my girl forradalom put, since when have binaries ever been an accurate portrayal of people? :eyes:

In fact, I don't even believe in the words "feminine" and "masculine." These tired notions of what women and men are "supposed" to be and not be are just perpetuated by a question like this that reinforces the status quo.

Expecting people to fit into little boxes never did anyone any good.

And just for the record: my Barbies and Jem dolls were right along side Lion-o.

[THUNDER HANDS]

9. well...welcome to DU PopArt

Hope you like my future polls better. :hi:

[Ellen Forradalom]

11. Welcome to DU PopArt!

Do you look like this

or this?

:-)

[PopArt]

15. Good One

LOL (even though I'm not a fan of this acronym)

:thumbsup:

[soothsayer]

10. yeah, had Major Matt Mason (astronaut) dolls rather than barbie

Liked alot of science stuff, not baseball per se but fun outdoorsy stuff we made up.

Now I'm a cute lesbian---not really on the tuff side, but not on the girly side either (but i prolly look more girly than tomboy-ey).

In other words, just normal, not gender stereotyped.

[tnlefty]

12. Voted tom-boy

Two older male siblings and their friends made a fighter out of me. I used to get into fights a lot with the boys in my neighborhood but not many girls. I played sports and I liked competing with males. I played with dolls, had an EZ Bake oven, read a lot, didn't mind regular dresses but hated thoses frilly ones! I built dams in the space in front of my house and the pavement during hard rains and frequently got into trouble for flooding the street. When I got good enough to flood the street my brothers and the boys in the neighborhood would come to help and then we'd all get into trouble.

[Kat45]

13. Neither.

I wasn't into dolls and such, nor was I into sports.

[cally]

14. Since I was the only vote

I was a total girly-girl. I loved clothes, dolls, playing house, etc. I also loved my bike, exploring the 'creek', wandering in the hills. I have no idea what changed me but I'm not a girly-girl now.

Same thing with my children. Both loved everything pink and the more glitter the better. Both are tom=boys now.

[starroute]

16. Neither -- I was a geek

I read a lot, mostly science fiction and fantasy.

I played games of make-believe.

I was kind of a klutz in gym.

I dealt with cooking class by writing a poem about in the rhyme-pattern of "The Raven." ("We'll bake cookies nevermore.")

As I got older, I became aware that I wasn't particularly fond of either guy-stuff or gal-stuff. The women I knew seemed to live lives centered around relationships and contact lenses. The men were lost in either sports or politics, neither one approached in a way that bore much relationship to real life.

I still haven't figured out what it all means. But sometimes I get the feeling I must have wandered in here from some other planet. I sure don't seem to belong.

[kayell]

21. Another geek

I spent all my time reading or rambling around in the woods behind our house. Traded my baseball glove for a 3 gallon bucket of turtles. Cut up some of my dresses in 3rd grade, cause I was SICK of the color pink. Desperately wanted to take shop instead of home ec (I already knew how to cook) but they didn't let girls do that then. But I also hated gym, didn't like playing competitive sports at all. I spent lots of time sitting or standing as high as I could climb in trees, watching the world go by.

[sinkingfeeling]

17. Tom-Boy......

Not into sports, but raised hogs, cattle, plowed, drove tractor, and hung out with my Dad at farm auction barns.

[MissMillie]

18. I am far less girly now

Motherhood has a way of making you re-think how much time you put into looking like a beauty queen. I now opt for the extra 10 minutes of sleep in stead of blow-drying my hair in the morning.

[Skittles]

19. TAKE A BIG FAT F***ING GUESS, MAGIC RAT

:evilgrin:

[THUNDER HANDS]

27. hmm...tough one

My guess is you were the girlie girl who kicked all the other girlie girls asses.

:D

[Skittles]

32. I KICKED BOY ASSES TOO

STILL DO :7

[THUNDER HANDS]

34. !

!

:wow:

[haele]

20. Actually, I was both...

Had to learn to take care of a house as well as being a tomboy. I played soccer, rode a bike everywhere, climbed trees and went hiking and camping, but I also liked cooking, sewing, dancing, nice shoes and furbelows (extra points for those who know what a furbelow really is!) but -
- I still really, really, really do hate makeup. (It Buuuurrrrrrrnnns, yes it does!)

Haele

[Palacsinta]

22. Mix

I loved my dolls and pretty dresses, but I also loved running wild, playing football, tree-climbing, woms, mud. Tended more to "mixed" girlfriends, too, The super-girly girls were too prissy, the super-tomboys wouldn't play dolls. I gave up some of my tomboy likes when I turned 13..........way too soon. I could tell by my peers' reactions, boys and girls both, that it was no longer "appropriate". Sigh, hard growing up in the dark ages.

[jus_the_facts]

23. I guess I was both....depended on the situation...

....when with the girls I did girlie stuff...when around the boys I did what they did...was always in my best interest to adapt to any situation....such is life! :D

on edit...afterall I was raised by a Marine...adapt...overcome...etc.:P

[Piperay]

24. Girlie girl and

I still am except that I love to work with tools and build stuff. :shrug: :-)

[Red State Rebel]

25. 4th Grade broke my collarbone falling out of a tree :)

The limb broke!!! I was umpiring a baseball game between my two brothers and the tree just seemed to have the best view.

[Nikia]

26. Tom boy geek with some girly tendencies

There were very few things that kids find fun that I wasn't interested in doing when I was a kid. My sister and I did play barbies a lot when we played indoors as opposed to sports and exploring nature outside. Barbies represented people and we acted out a number of situations, not just shopping and whatever else most girls played with barbies. We basically wrote impromptu plays and movies with the barbies playing the various characters. I also read a lot, including encyclopedias. I didn't mind wearing dresses until my mother informed me that I had to behave a certain way while wearing them. I couldn't be playing rough and turn cart wheels while wearing them. After that, I didn't like them until I was in high school.

[slinkerwink]

28. I was a tomboy...but girly-girl occasionally.

I hated Barbie dolls. I thought they were stupid so whenever I got a barbie doll as a present, it automatically went into the plastic trash bin underneath my bed. I also hated it whenever my mom would insist in brushing my hair and forcing frilly (really itchy) dresses on me.

I'd go biking all over the neighborhood, and play roller hockey with the neighborhood kids. I also played tag football with the boys in fifth grade during recess.

I read a lot----even had a library in my room, and I'd force my friend to stamp out a book if she wanted to borrow a book. I also was a huge trekkie fan with my best friend. We used to reenact episodes of Star Trek in her room by using cardboard boxes to mimic the bridge of the Enterprise.

I also used to get into punch-down fights with her and sometimes we'd arrive to school with a black eye or a bloody nose....

hahaha, those were the good ol' days....

[THUNDER HANDS]

29. you...forced...your...friend...to...stamp...out...a...book.....?

Man, you were a weird kid. :D

[slinkerwink]

30. so was she!

she did the exact same thing to me. We even taped a small notepad paper to the inside of the back of the book to place the stamps on.

[THUNDER HANDS]

33. lol

Did you even charge late fees?

[slinkerwink]

38. actually, we did....

god, we were such bossy AND nerdy kids back then...

[Cheswick2.0]

31. both

I was a mix of both. I played sports, dolls, climbed trees, wore dresses and beat the crap out of boys who kissed me on the playground. At about 12 I stopped beating the crap out of boys and started kissing back.
But I continued to x-country ski, snowshoe, skate, kayak, swim, sail and bike.

[TEXASYANKEE]

35. 3 older brothers

I have 3 older brothers and grew up wearing, primarily, their hand me down clothes. I hated dresses and frilly things. Hated dolls. I wear suits to work in now, but I much prefer jeans and sweats. In my earlier years, I played every sport. Now I only partake in a round of golf every now and then, but I enjoy watching most sports. I'm definitely a tomboy.

[geniph]

36. I have seven older brothers

and was convinced I was a boy until I was about 8. Seriously. I was really bummed when I found out I'd have girl-cooties forever.

Oh, and I performed operations on any dolls I had. I used to steal Lincoln Logs and Hot Wheels whenever I could; my parents didn't think they were "appropriate" toys for me, so I had to swipe 'em.

Next question?

(I'm not sure I've outgrown this, by the way.)

[RebelOne]

37. Hated playing with dolls.

I always played cowboys and Indians with the boys.

[angee_is_mad]

39. youngest

of three and was a spoiled little brat, lol. My big sister was the ultimate girly girl and my brother was all boy. I wasn't a tomboy, but I wasn't a priss-priss neither. I played with my brother and his buddies, but I would also sneak into my big sister's makeup and borrow her clothes. Oh, and I did play with dolls and that included Barbie!

[populistmom]

40. I suppose I was pretty girly, but...

I wasn't timid either. I was, as a child, a very loud assertive little girl. I also wasn't afraid of things and so I had my share of adventures too, but overall, based on your descriptions of favorite activities, I was girly. I guess that's why the universe gave me so many boys- to balance my whole ying and yang.