I mean, hey, I grew up with two of them (dont worry guys, I love you both to bits and pieces! You're both the coolest and only brothers I know =) Hugs.)
I think that makes me a girbo (girl + boy) very unoriginal, and not really that cool sounding; Tomboy = (boy + boy) because Tom = boys name. Who came up with tomboy anyways?
Sociology teaches that when kids are young, parents nurture them into their roles as boy or girl by giving them toys meant for their gender. Eg. A boy gets cars/ hammers/ and building blocks; A girl gets dolls/ doll houses/ cooking things 'masak - masak' as commonly termed back in Malaysia.
When I was a kid, all I wanted to do was take my brother's toy cars (sadly girls, I actually thought they were way cooler than dolls) but. I loved my dolls very much. So my dolls got to sit on my brother's toy cars (which also meant that my brother had no toys to play with, sorry bro).
They don't teach you that in sociology. The boy or girl kind that is fascinated with the other kind's toys.
So, I guess if you were like me (as in the above), you could be a 'girbo' too =). Or a 'bogirl' (boy + girl) = I don't know what the real equivalent of a tomboy for a guy's version is. Is there even one?
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