Stereotypes In Liz Prince

Liz Prince is not the average girl who follows the societal expectations. She, like any other person, is not an exception to the societal expectations for gender roles. Through her graphic memoir, she tells her experiences as a tomboy. Because of Liz’s boyish tendencies, she is not easily accepted in the society. She even has a hard time finding who she is and where she belongs. She states that “girls are expected to be polite and lovely and pink and frilly and dainty and reserved,” (16). However, she dislikes those expectations, not because there is anything wrong with it, it is just that she just feels like “they’ve never described” (16) her. She is aware of how society “makes a lot of assumptions about gender” (18), but she is not sure what …show more content…
There are also false labels put upon a person because they are different from others. For instance, Liz hangs out with girls and boys, but when she is with a girl friend, they are dubbed as lesbians, even if they are not. Even with the bullying she receives for being a tomboy, she likes who she is. She does not dislike the fact that she is a girl, she dislikes the stereotypes that comes with being a girl. Liz even prays to the Lord to let her not be girly than she is already. She hopes that she would not develop the feminine aspects such as curves or having her menstruation. Nonetheless, she does not stop developing a feminine body, but although her body develops feminine features, she is still a tomboy. She takes the life of being a tomboy seriously and does not have any mind of changing who she is for anyone else. She does not want to buy into the societal expectations, she wants to go against it, and she does. She proves that even though she is a girl with boyish tendencies and is a tomboy, she is not any different than a regular girl; the only difference is that she has more boyish preferences than girlish