+429 It really sucks that there are gender roles, especially if we've got past the womens roles but not the mens. If a girl can play football and there's no problem, a guy should be allowed to be a cheerleader or be able to straighten his hair without being called gay or have judgement passed on him. If girls can be tomboys, guys should be able to be girly-girls, amirite?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I agree, but you might find a different adjective than "girly-girl" if you want to be taken seriously.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

But that's the word for it. Girls have boy in theirs.....

by Anonymous 13 years ago

'girly-girl' vs. 'tom-boy'? i think you missed a bit of a connection there

by Anonymous 13 years ago

The problem is guys try to be as "manly" as possible a lot of times. I think girls would accept "girly-guys" (just look at Sassy Gay Friend), but there's no way guys would.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

And I think that's the reason why we don't see more gay guys in society.... It's a rough place out there when you're not accepted into the media. Fucking homophobes....

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It's called a double standard. I don't agree with it, but it's a fact of life.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I straighten my hair. Nobody calls me a faggot. Guys have to do something that's actually pretty gay to be called gay.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Not our fault, guys are just too full of themselves to think a gay guy can be a normal person who DOESN'T want to sleep with the football team.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Actually we can think hat. I play football, and one of my closest friends is a flamin homosexual.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Huzzah for the cultural evolution of the human race!!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

in cantonese, there are two words for gay and one word for what you're trying to describe as 'girly-guys'

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Probably because gays aren't a good thing.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

THIS should have been post of the day

by Anonymous 13 years ago

not really, girls on football are probably called dykes all the time.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Where I come from, it's considered "hot". But that's around here, it will probably be different in other areas.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I agree with the person above me, loveashlynne. Whilst this post is true and I agree with it, there is still stigma against being a tom-boy. I know loads of girl footballers, and some of them are called 'dykes'.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

mmm but usually it's the guys hating on other guy cheerleaders/girly men. Girls love having a gay best friend and guy cheerleaders are better when being lifted as they are stronger. It's mostly high school guys and insanely bitchy girls who would ever hate to be honest, mostly men anyway.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Girly-girls are gay men by definition.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Girls can wear jeans, and cut their hair short. Wear shorts and boots, 'cause it's okay to be a boy. But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading. Because you think that being a girl is degrading. But secretly, you'd love to know what it's like. What it feels like, for a girl.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Guy cheerleaders are more accepted than girl football players...

by Anonymous 13 years ago