5 years old: never seen a girl with short hair

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I found out yesterday that my daughter has never (knowingly) seen a girl with "boyish" hair, in real life or fiction. We were reading a poem about a tomboy with an accompanying illustration of a short-haired girl playing football, and my daughter asked me a few times if it was a boy, and then was asking me to explain how the character could have boy's hair if she was a girl, and why the character had hair like that. She was confused but happily fascinated.

She knows all about girl vs boy bodies. But in day-to-day life she also tells girls of her age apart from boys almost exclusively by their hair styles.

It made me realise that none of the girls at her nursery, clubs or school have boyish hair. None of her books have girls that look like that. Or any of the television she watches. Or Disney films. Or music videos.

She doesn't get much screentime though so there might be some very mainstream young kids TV that has tomboys on. Maybe I'm missing the obvious illustrated books. Or has UK media really become so homogenous in how girls are presented that most kids are reaching five without ever seeing girls of their own age with short hair?

sammybins - "In my personal experience, it's not easy to be a woman and have short hair. There's lots of hostility around it, and it's definitely got worse in the last few years. I've been spat at in the street for this hair. Literally spat at. Called dyke, and lezzer. To my face. Not quietly muttered behind hands, but full frontal. Had one young person scream in my face, 'eeewww', and tell me that I 'look like a man'.

Note that most of this 'hostility' (homophobia?) comes from, you guessed it... young women."

Bloody Nora! That's horrendous!

I have had very short hair most of the time since I was in my late 20's - I am now in my mid 60's. I let it grow a little longer, a short bob rather than a pixie-cut, in the winter for warmth!

In all that time I have never had any hostile comments like Dyke, Lezzer, etc. so this does seem to indicate a horrible growth (and "acceptability"?) of lesbophobia - and from your experience, in women!!

There are people like Layla Moran MP coming out as proudly and pretentiously "pansexual" when she means "bi" - I assumed because she thought "bi" was too boring to mention - while women with short hair are subjected to homophobic abuse and girls with short hair are perceived as boys or transmen.

Virtually all the UK LGBT organisations have been omitting to mention the word "lesbian" and its derivatives from their annual reports for some years.

users.ox.ac.uk/~sfos0060/LGBT_figures.shtml

That would account for increasing invisibility heading towards erasure but not the animosity, which is misogyny and male entitlement to women's bodies on steroids!

Is it 3rd Wave Feminism responsible for young, straight women turning against lesbians?? If not, what??

Spat at in the street by young women??? WTF is going on??