Board Thread:The Heroes of Olympus/@comment-31061080-20170116021657/@comment-25155763-20170427220710

Ea225225 wrote:

TheViralSorceress wrote: Well, for me, just because a girl is a tomboy doesn't necessarily make them a good character. They are many amazing female  characters who probably wouldn't be stated as a "tomboy", but are awesome in their own right as well. We never said that. It's just for me, a girl being a tomboy, knowing that she's not even close to the stereotypical petty and stuck-up type, is just a trait that I for one, really admire in a women. We never said being a tomboy makes you a great character as a whole. I actually despie the institionalized sexism in this post. Sorry but calling any girl who wears makeup or likes fashion 'sterotypical petty and stuck up type' is sexist. I know you(hopefully) didn't mean it that way, but what your saying is that its admirable or respectable for a girl to be boyish but annoying and stereotypical to be feminine...Why are masculine traits more admirable than feminine ones? Why is the one thng you like about Piper also simultaneously the least feminine thing about her?