In her Graphic Memoir Tomboy, Liz Prince, born a girl but likes to do boyish things talks about what its like to not fit into society’s gender role conspiracy. She talks about the first 18 years of her life while using pictures to describe her feelings from dresses, to hair, to clothing at various ages. She is truthful and forward while strolling down memory lane about the things girls aren’t supposed to do and how expectations of gender roles can play a major part in the way a young girls mind can think. Society tells young ladies that there 's one and only approach to be a young lady and that silliness is innately worth not as much as boyishness.
Liz Prince disguised those messages and considered them important. What 's more, since she didn 't fit the pictures of "young lady" that she saw around her, and since she purchased that being a kid was superior to being a young lady... All things considered, you can see where this is going. Yes, Liz does inevitably go to the acknowledgment that being girly is not unbiasedly of any less esteem than being boyish, and that girly and boyish are altogether subjective classifications. …show more content…
Many little girls don’t want to put on tiaras and play dress-up, many don’t want to wear dresses and cute little sandals. There are females that at a very young age choose to play football with the boys, throw on a baseball cap and go. “As a girl who disliked dresses and often had shorts on underneath (who wants everyone to see your underwear when you do a cartwheel or hang upside down, am I right?), actively disliked anything pink, was not into dolls, and was your classic tomboy (oh how I hate that word)” (pg. 36). Liz obviously feels that being labeled is wrong when it comes to gender. She wrote this book for the girls who can identify with her and put their selves in her shoes and know that’s its ok to not like girly things while still being
Liz Prince disguised those messages and considered them important. What 's more, since she didn 't fit the pictures of "young lady" that she saw around her, and since she purchased that being a kid was superior to being a young lady... All things considered, you can see where this is going. Yes, Liz does inevitably go to the acknowledgment that being girly is not unbiasedly of any less esteem than being boyish, and that girly and boyish are altogether subjective classifications. …show more content…
Many little girls don’t want to put on tiaras and play dress-up, many don’t want to wear dresses and cute little sandals. There are females that at a very young age choose to play football with the boys, throw on a baseball cap and go. “As a girl who disliked dresses and often had shorts on underneath (who wants everyone to see your underwear when you do a cartwheel or hang upside down, am I right?), actively disliked anything pink, was not into dolls, and was your classic tomboy (oh how I hate that word)” (pg. 36). Liz obviously feels that being labeled is wrong when it comes to gender. She wrote this book for the girls who can identify with her and put their selves in her shoes and know that’s its ok to not like girly things while still being