Being a tomboy is generally more about personality than looks. Generally a girl who has a boy's interests, as dictated by traditional gender roles. That isn't to say that a girl can't look tomboyish by wearing certain clothes and hairstyles, but it has always sort of been a secondary thing. Daisy was meant to be a tomboy since day one in Mario Land. It's kind of right there in the manual of the game. However, her Mario land design is just about as girly looking as peach if we disregard her lack of blonde hair and a pink dress. She even wears namesake daisy jewlery and dress to this day. Daisy was always supposed to be a tomboy, but in her earliest appearance this is largely just an informed trait (she's brown haired yellow clothed peach with little personality to speak of) besides her enthusiastic countenance. Peach, in her early art is much more demure, and so that enthusiasm is really the only hint we get that Daisy is anything other than a yellow Peach in Mario land, and we don't even see it in game because the game's graphics are too crude and primitive.


What Nintendo did to try and capture this is her game selection.. We rarely see her outside of competitive athletic settings. Like, after Mario Land her first game appearance was in N.E.S. Open as Luigi's caddy, which is one of Mario's earliest sports titles, and she didn't really become an especially popular character until Camelot dug her out of the backlog for Mario Tennis, where she's still sporting long bushy hair.

Simply put, to the best of Nintendo's ability, they tried to make Daisy a more athletic character than peach. When I write "to the best of their ability", it has to be noted that Peach is shoehorned into many of the same games Daisy is in because she's a part of the core Mario roster, and ends up being a character in most of the games Daisy is in anyway.

But we also see Peach being kidnapped more often than Daisy, and even though we see Peach in those competitive sporting events, she's not as gungho about it as Daisy is. Peach has more of a polite reserved attitude that suggests she's doing this public appearance stuff as a matter of royal obligation, rather than actually wanting to be there (or at least wanting to be there as much as Daisy).

Point is, what the word tomboy suggests to me is you're kind of looking for an athletic girl. A girl who wants to do boyish things. Sporty things. Adventurous things. Less peach sitting pretty in her castle and baking cake on occasion, more Daisy being excited about getting out 'n about. It's a bit of a shame that Nintendo wastes Daisy by not using her as a protagonist more often, because it'd fit her character well but them's the breaks.

Plus in terms of looking tomboyish, the additional exercise might trim down on some of the fat that gives a woman her more feminine curves.

So yeah, Pierce Dalton has a point with the gym. Also you might want to look at dating profiles for girls who like to hike for example. Maybe go to some sporting events. When you're at the bar, maybe look for a girl who is trying to sneak a peak at the game on the telly like some husband shirking off his wife's assigned daily errands. You're likely not getting in on cheer leading practice on account of not being a girl. I'm not suggesting cheerleaders are tomboys mind you. Cheer-leading gets girls closer to the game. Basically front row seats. Gives them an outlet to burn off their excess energy too. Kim Possible was a cheerleader. Maybe horse riding lessons too. Might get you closer to the rancher's stablehand daughter if she's not riding the horse herself. Granted, again horse riding doesn't make a girl a tomboy. They say every little girl girl wants a pony. But you know it's one of those physical adventurous almost knightly things that might attract a tomboy. Also, while you're perusing dating profiles, look to girls who like to hike. Tomboys also like to be outdoors, for the sense of adventure it gives them, so try the park or the beach Also, depending on the mark, you might want to check closer to the basketball hoops.

Since tomboys, by definition, are basically girls with more masculine interests, you're pretty likely to find them wherever guys like to be, and the more masculine the venue, the more likely that the girls you meet are likely to be tomboys. It's kind of hard to imagine girly-girls liking boxing or W.W.F. wrestling. Like, you see this picture of Rosa Mendes[whatculture.com]] Granted, there's a line to be drawn where a girl stops being tomboyish and starts being butch, but it's really difficult for me to articulate the difference between tomboyishness and butchiness. Since I reckon a tomboy might like fighting, you might try martial arts classes too.

Of course there's one additional thing about tomboyishness that makes it particularly difficult to find a tomboyish girlfriend, and that's because it's also a trait associated with childishness. There are mature tomboys mind you but if I was to rattle off a list of tomboyish characters there'd probably be a Buttercup, Cirno and Kim Possible for every Leela or Revy. Might be something some girls tend to grow out of for some reason or another.

Now of course I'm not going to tell you to go creepin' up on children, and there is really nothing doin' for a girl who grew out of it. However there is still a reason to take it into consideration. A sympathetic single mom might be the sort of woman who enrolls her child into a sporting event, possibly with the intent of living vicariously through her child.

Of course, this comes with the difficulty that you'd probably be seen as a creep for just randomly attending a children's sporting event without a reason to be there, even if your intention is to hit on the soccer moms, esp. since in being mothers many of them are likely married anyway. You kind of need to be there with a child to legitimize it. All I'm sayin' is that if you get the opportunity to drop off a niece or nephew at soccer practice you might want to take your sibling up on the offer and stick around for the game. Not only will that give you the opportunity to meet people post-game, but your helpfulness might be seen as sweet, sensitive and supportive. Again though, big gamble with being seen as a creep if they think your real reason for being there is to hit on the moms, so maybe only try this route if you get the opportunity and you genuinely like your niece or nephew.

Of course, the problem with tomboyisnness is that since it is very much a matter of personality first, you need a compatible personality, so if you're not very traditionally masculine and interested in those traditionally masculine things yourself then getting and maintaining a relationship with a tomboy might prove difficult. I remember your last thread. There's a reason I said finding a nerdy tomboy was like finding a needle in a haystack y'know. I wrote that it puts a girl more towards the jockish side of the spectrum.

If all else fails, use your magnetic nerdiness to find places where jockish bullies might hang out and you might just find a tomboy to bully you like some tsundre anime girl by happenstance.