Tomboy Jo

There's an age-old adage, "There's more than one way to skin a cat" and that is very true when it comes into many aspects connected with age regression and the life that goes with it so I usually counsel an acceptance that there's no one magically right way to go about it.
This is especially true on the little/middle girl side where sometimes it might seem we're all frilly dresses with lashings of lace but there was a girl, very famous one who was a heroine of mine who went a whole 180 degrees the other way

 "George" from the Famous Five series actually was Georgina a girl who was very much a Tomboy, taking the lead and liking to wear less feminine girls attire to the point she did wear schoolboys shorts (although most modern versions remove this essential aspect of the storylines).

You could say she was rebelling about gender roles  and what was seen as suitable attire for girls and actually there is a fair bit of her in me that does wear shorts that aren't super pink and with curvy piping outside of my love of dresses.

I do wear the above navy tailored 'boys' shorts with my girls attire as that girl which is at times more practical and yet also does tie in with liking to present as a middle/little

This Saturday for instance I wore them with my Hello Kitty long sleeve t shirt and white frilly ankle socks outdoors walking as it was fairly warm for time of year which is pretty Tomboy.

 

 

Of course that doesn't mean I cannot and do not have pretty dollies I can play with, dressing them up and creating super girls adventures that I and they feature.

Indeed we might have that most occassions especially social ones you have me in pretty skirts and dresses with matching accessories, it's just that it isn't like that all the time.
 

Be the change

It's a summer's day after the weekend that saw me playing with one gender variant child and having a blast for just going more with who you really are are than any set roles and that while everyone looked on and just accepted the scene.

No one seriously expects rounds of applause for being you however you are and everybody has an opinion however well informed on everything and that includes us but all you need to do is allow the space for everyone to be themselves.

And that's what we had from people brought up in the boys and girls do "this" and wear "that" era with all it's policing in the playground and in some families to extreme lengths that weekend.

I just felt privileged to spend time with them.

I'm just cleaning a replacement record by paw and it hasn't half removed a load of dust and other debris from deep in the groove after some 40 years!