also while iβm ranting about gender i always see debate about whether girls are rewarded for being tomboys or not and itβs like. actually girls are rewarded for mirroring whatever the situation demands of them. girls canβt be too prissy and refuse to play in the creek, but girls also canβt show up to girly events covered in mud. girls canβt have makeup art as a hobby or else theyβre superficial, but if they never wear makeup theyβre a slob and dumpy, etc. itβs not that girls are universally rewarded or punished for being tomboys, theyβre rewarded for bending over backwards to always be exactly right for any given situation and punished for breaking those boundaries. so yes a classically pretty girl who cleans up nice is rewarded when she can ALSO be a tomboy. but a girl who is a tomboy all the time is definitely punished for never being able to achieve that prerequisite feminine side. this debate is over now thanks
this is spot on. A woman's masculinity is rewarded as long as it doesn't conflict with being heteronormatively attractive and as long as the masculinity plays harmonising second fiddle to the masculinity of the men around her.























