The same but different was part heading of an entry on the "big" blog that was a necessary examination of some topics before it could (and did) move on in an integrated way and in some ways this year was like that.
Different people do things very much in different ways and how people present and the kinds of gender roles and that they do can vary as indeed society itself has moved on since I was a child.
I have decided to put my feelings pretty much on the line where it comes to the variety of forms of presenting as more as a Little/Middle simply because as I see it we all do it differently and so do actual little or middle girls.
It's not uncommon for girls to wear shorts or trousers to school however much traditionalists may not so keen on it as I saw earlier on in the week where one girl of about ten living on our road wore grey long trousers to school and still be the same girl who may put a dress on whenever she feels like it. It's not one or the other necessarily.
There's a TomBoy element within me that likes in that context wearing formal shorts so I decided for the first day to wear my black ones where everything else was all girls which I quite enjoyed as much as I liked wearing my thicker grey school dress on the Saturday and part Sunday.
My heroine, George who really is Georgina in the Famous Five novels by Enid Blyton did the same believing in challenging perceptions around what a girl can be.
They are both equal parts of the same fully integrated girl me, Jo, and I don't like pigeon holes.
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