It has taken me a while to review this one because I was trying to get my thoughts in order. I struggled with much of this book. I have friends that are tomboys, but maybe I had never talked to them about it or was ignorant about certain things. It was hard for me to get through the hatred for all things feminine in the early parts of this book. I never went through one of those phases when I hated the color pink; I somehow skipped right over to the hating what society wants women to be and how masculinity is the right answer. And the lack of addressing that early on made this book difficult for me, to see the author spouting that same hatred. By the end of the book, I see how she feels differently, but it was hard for me to make that journey. I am a cisgender white woman engaged to a cisgender man, so I can also recognize that this story has something to teach me, in a way that I have had privilege in not dealing with this bullying or feeling different about myself. I can see why it is so popular. I would like to pass it on to some of my tomboy friends and see how they feel.