#trees types

started missing one of my old dnd characters so y'all get to see this half finished doodle

I stumbled across an artist on Twitter and was scrolling through their page and noticed they post art memes of “tomboy phenotypes”

some of these “tomboy phenotypes” quite literally boiled down to “woman who plays video games” or “woman who wears hoodies and forgets to shower sometimes” and it struck me as so odd.

a woman can play video games and wear hoodies and forget to shower sometimes and still be super feminine? if she wants to be? those things don’t necessarily make someone a tomboy?

the line of logic that playing video games and sometimes faltering on your hygiene are “masculine” enough to classify someone as a tomboy is kind of stupid and also begs the question — if you consider a woman a tomboy if she does something so innocuous and common as playing video games, then what are feminine qualities? would you therefore only grant the title of “feminine woman” to like, I don’t know, a barefoot tradwife whose only hobbies are cooking and baking?

it just kind of seems like a slippery slope, and very similar semantically to how people try to rob trans woman and woman of color of their femininity for what are otherwise nothingburger traits like “was angry once” or “has a deep voice”