I really thought we'd moved on from this

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Just popped up on my FB. What's wrong with being an active outdoorsy girl, why do we still have to call her a tomboy?
This ad could be from decades ago. And for the BBC no less.



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Pathetic. Looks a bit suspect, too, why the bikinis in the background?

Someone thinks they can recreate pippi langstrumpf.

Indeed. The tomboy is a "their" as well What's wrong with being a girl and a she.

Tomboys? Blimey that is so last millenium. A bit Enid Blyton with lashings of ginger beer.

God, the film industry can still be so dodgy!

Tomboy is still better than telling a girl she can’t be any type of girl but is really truly an actual boy and must cut off all her genitalia and take life altering hormones in order to conform. I welcome the return of tomboy.

All their genitalia

Well, if that pic is any indication, it looks to be set in the 60s. Plenty of tomboys back then.

"please send their details" TBH I think I would have phrased it the same

I was (and I guess still am) a tomboy. I never liked the term. I didn't understand why I needed a special word that signifies that I'm "doing 'girl' wrong". I used to say that I was not any kind of boy.

It's very weird and silly, looking at it as an adult, that we have a word like tomboy.

I was called tomboy and yes, subconsciously it encouraged internalised misogyny. When it was meant positively, the implication was that it was better to be “like a boy” than those ordinary girly “normal” girls. When it was meant negatively, it made me feel ashamed and “not enough” - that I wasn’t pretty or elegant or modest enough to be a “normal” girl.

It’s shit. When will we stop putting humans in to these imaginary boxes.

I was called a tomboy as well, I was too sporty and outdoorsy I guess... oh and I didn’t wear pretty little dresses. This is so outdated

Illustrated by a girl swimming. Over the last few years the BBC have lost any credibility or relevance they ever had. Sexist tosh.

'if you are lucky enough to have a tomboy'?

my daughter 'identifies' as a tomboy- ive explained shes an active sporty girl but it persists. 🤷🏼‍♀️

I'd still prefer 'tomboy' over transboy or whatever, but it's daft pretending they're a breed apart. They're just girls doing things all girls should have the chance to do.

What the fuck is it with their to describe girls? Am I the only one who expects to see a male bodied child who identifies as trans pop up in this ‘film’, that’s supposed to be about a girl/girls?After all, the BBC is fully supportive of TWAW and TGAG, so they’ll be to woke and scared to refuse a male bodied child who declares that they are trans. Transphobia ya know.

Just in case anyone missed it or can’t see it.

Who posted it on FB? Seems a bit suspect having a gmail address and mobile number as the only contacts. Almost like a way of harvesting lots of pictures of young girls.

I'd still prefer 'tomboy' over transboy or whatever, but it's daft pretending they're a breed apart. They're just girls doing things all girls should have the chance to do.

"Tomboys" are girls, and the term is sexist (if all the fun stuff is always framed as boys stuff, it certainly encourages internalised misogyny)

However, it would be disingenuous to say that "action girls" are 100% identical to "girly girls". They are very different personality traits, with very different interests, which often persist into adulthood.

The same could be said of other traits, e.g. some boys are remarkably sensitive and artistic, some children are bookish, others are not, some children are highly sociable, others are not...

Human personality traits are very diverse (and several traits can be combined within the same individual), and they tend to persist over someone's life. We don't have to accept these traits as gendered. But we should certainly recognise and celebrate them, not erase them by saying "everybody can and should enjoy exactly the same things"

I never thought of myself as a Tomboy, but the bar seems to be very low for it these days.

Like science? Tick!
Like the outdoors? Tick!
Not really bothered about dolls? Tick!
Not bothered with make-up? Tick!

It could be applied to any girl who doesn't conform the pram-pushing, frilly dress wearing idea of what a girl is. I'm so glad I never got labelled.

Is this a genuine ad?

Alison Piper is a real director/writer in Scotland but if you try to google this film then nothing comes up .

@1000umbrellas

Who posted it on FB? Seems a bit suspect having a gmail address and mobile number as the only contacts. Almost like a way of harvesting lots of pictures of young girls.

This. It didn't matter what kind of child I had, I would not be sending these people pictures of them.

I have done a reverse search on the image and all that comes up is this thread, something from Twitter about child performers and just some generic info on online advertising. I can't find it on Facebook.

@DeliciouslyFemale

Just in case anyone missed it or can’t see it.

oh yeah, that's creepy!