Tomboyish Ponytail: Difference between revisions
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Basically using a ponytail to set off girls who are [[Tomboy
This is [[Truth in Television]] for many tomboys in [[Real Life]], due to being an easy to do style that gets your hair out of the way. In fiction, odds are that if a girl is wearing a ponytail (save for one paired with an elegant hairstyle), she's not going to act demure or feminine, at least [[She Cleans Up Nicely|not all the time]]. Back when girls just didn't have boy hair, no matter what, ponytails were a way for tomboys to rebel against the curls their mothers wished they'd worn. At least this was the case in 60s-80s girl empowerment fiction.
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* Jo from ''[[The Facts of Life]]''.
* [[Unkempt Beauty|Kara Thrace]] from the rebooted ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]'', when her hair is long enough to be tied back.
* [[Lois Lane]] often sported a
== Video Games ==
* [[Action Girl|Lara Croft]] from ''[[Tomb Raider]]''.
* Hilda (Touko in the Japanese version), the female player character in ''[[Pokémon Black and White]]'', has a ''huge'', [[Eighties Hair|voluminous]] ponytail, complete with [[Hair Antennae]]. Her look gives off a convincing [[Tomboy
* Marle of ''[[Chrono Trigger]]''.
* Lip of ''[[Panel De Pon]]'', also a [[Tomboy Princess]].
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