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Being a tomboy…
I’ve been one my whole life. Here’s a little history on my raising…
My mother worked a full time job and went to school, so I spent A LOT of time with my father, who was a engineer for an apartment building, therefore giving him a lot of free time to hang out with me considering he was an on-call engineer and pretty much only worked when he was needed.
My father was/is a firm believer of tough love. Despite the fact that I was a little girl, my fathers method of raising me leaned more towards the direction one would take to raise a little boy. In the apartment that my father lived in, (my parents were separated by the time I was 2 years old) also lived his older son from a previous marriage. Thus, I was constantly in the company of men. My father would take me to the bar with him, to the hardware store, low end diners, anything you can think off that a middle aged single man would go or do, I was right there with him. I was a daddy’s girl to the max.
My mother, for the most part apparently did not mind my father’s parading of me through bars and hardware stores, also did not really enforce a feminineness upbringing for me. She did obviously teach me the basics that all girls should know, but besides that, I was a tomboy.
The now..
At 22, I still find it hard to be comfortable in a dress, and I cant really walk in heels. Make up is something very new to me, and Im still learning. I own very little “dress-up” clothes and for the most part my closet consist of jeans, basketball shorts, sneakers and t-shirts.
Sometimes there are days when I wish I was more feminine, and I dressed in cuter outfits, wear a little mascara and lipgloss, but realistically it isnt me. Not saying that being a tomboy makes up who I am, but I am a tomboy because of my upbringing. My father was a great father, and a lot of the things he taught me have molded me to this person I am. I believe, that in my case, being a tomboy is not just dressing a certain way, for me it’s also about my attitude and the way I carry myself.
