Sallygirl is the original counterpart before it fell out of use in favor of a slur (s***y) because tomboy was ok but sallygirl was discouraged. Tomgirl is more like futch or girly tomboy. Femboy is a more recent coining that doesn’t have a counterpart because we still have tomboy
Wikipedia gives Janegirl rather than Sallygirl, but they may be wrong. Yet I haven’t met any of this words in real life. I find both cuter than s***y which come with so much other meanings…
I get it, but seriously, why is it tomboy for girls and femboy for guys?
Shouldn’t it be like, tomboy for girls and Janegirl for guys?
It’s not that I care an awful lot, it’s that the thought crossed my mind and I had to share it or I would explode.
Sallygirl is the original counterpart before it fell out of use in favor of a slur (s***y) because tomboy was ok but sallygirl was discouraged. Tomgirl is more like futch or girly tomboy. Femboy is a more recent coining that doesn’t have a counterpart because we still have tomboy
tysm for sharing
Wikipedia gives Janegirl rather than Sallygirl, but they may be wrong. Yet I haven’t met any of this words in real life. I find both cuter than s***y which come with so much other meanings…
Huh. Til. Thank you for sharing. I honestly have never heard of the phrase SallyGirl before.
I do believe tomgirl is a thing