"Entertainment Weekly" nails its list of The Top 24 Tomboys

I've been a little angry at EW lately because they've been consistently leaving Xena off of their lists (Butt kicking babes with no Xena?  A lot of the butt kicking babes on that list wouldn't be around without Xena).  When I first saw this list, I was trying to figure out if I would be mad if Xena wasn't on it.  She's about as butch as you can get (and even dresses up as a guy and looks good doin' it), but she runs around in a miniskirt. As mentioned in the article, tomboy is an attitude though and I think that Xena definitely qualifies.  In some ways, however, Xena defies categorization so I decided to forgive them for their oversight.

Joygasm!  On all accounts. 

A League of Their Own is my all time favorite movie (I have the entire movie memorized line for line), and I completely agree with them choosing Kit.

Heh Jo from the Facts of Life- another of my all time favorites and it's because of Jo's character.  I own season's 1-3 and have been waiting impatiently for season 4 (hopefully it will come out).  Roseanne is my second favorite sitcom ever, ahem, Darlene is the reason for that.

I love Bend it Like Beckham, I've seen it countless times.  EW hit these choices on the head.  I was a tomboy as a kid, now I'm a 25 year old tomboy :P

"...but Jess did go off and secretly join a women's soccer team, and we all know about women's soccer."

hahahahha, if only it was a little more true. my team is probably the straightest group of girls on the planet. great. 

I LOOOOVVE that movie! I recently rediscovered it on youtube and watched the whole thing.

It is so much queerer and more awesome than I think it was intended to be. Love it.

Watts from Some Kind Of Wonderful is one of my favorite characters of all time. I remember being 13 years old and thinking she was so much hotter than Amanda Jones.

"Have you ever seen a girl with a drumstick shoved up her nose?"

My new crush is Ziva David from NCIS. She kind of qualifies as a tomboy doesn't she?

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My favourite of all time is Randy Dean.

I can't stop smiling when I'm watching Laurel Holloman in 'TITAOTGIL' :)))

Oh Watts. *Sigh* She will always be my favourite tomboy.

When I first saw Some kind of wonderful, I wanted to learn how to play the drums too. And wear boys' boxer shorts. 

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What about Christina Ricci character in "Now And Then"? She bound her breasts, wore flannel and got into fights. Total tomboy. 

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how is megan fox a tomboy? is it cuz she fixed a car? that's hardly enough to qualify in my book.

But i totally agree with a handful of those characters.

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Haley from Hard Candy is Tomboy in extremis! :)

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When I was reading this on EW last night, I was clicking and waiting for Watts to appear every next slide. I'm so glad we have non-sporty tomboys - sport is not the only thing that makes a girl a tomboy!

yeeeah Juno and Masterson HAD to be there!- I love love love Some Kind of Wonderful only because shes there ^^. She rawcks it!, it would have been better if she had ended up fallin in love with another girl but hell, Watts was just amazing and as Chatelaine said, is always good to see a non sporty tomboy :D>. Whos with me? Kristen Stewart could have been there too?..she looks like she might be one too, kindsa like Paige, they walk the same, and their wardrobe of preference screams out tomboy all over. Or again, is it me daydreaming?.

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I'm the same age as Jodi Foster and even as a young girl I recognized her as a very cool tomboy.  In almost all of the films where Jodi starred in (as young girl) she played a tough, smart, confident, smart non-girlie girl who didn't mind getting dirty, wearing pants, and just being super cool.  Freaky Friday epitomizes Jodi Foster at her tomboyish best.  Paper Moon, Candleshoe, and The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane are also good examples where she played a tough, and not very girlie. Jodi assumed her 'grown up' tough girl persona in The Brave One.

And to me Xena isn't butch but a macho femme (as coined in the L Word.)  Butch is defined in several online dictionaries as a woman who is markedly masculine in appearance, which Xena ain't (imho).

Watts, oh Watts. Sigh.

Yeah, and what's with leaving out Idgie Threadgoode?

My other picks: Sandra Bullock in Miss Congeniality, Angelina Jolie in Hackers, Cynthia Nixon in SATC, and Tina Fey in 30 Rock.

Im just glad Darlene made the list, she was officialy my first girl-crush at the age of 5 or 6, couldnt have enough of her. she can be a gentelman one moment, a greek goddess the next. *sigh*

and ofcourse, Christian Ricci is forgotten you guys, from the movie "Now and Then?", I couldnt control the flutters in my stomach when she was on.

i gues long-haired tomboys are the the best really, according to my personal opinion that is.

i have to totally agree with collettelala ziva david is definately a tomboy. and a damn sexy one too. lol. any girl who can scare the likes of the hardened criminals and qsychotic killers had to qualify as a tomboy. i mean the girl does kick arse.

 also think that Missy Peregrym as Hayley Graham in 'Stick it' was definately a tomboy even if she did end up wearing the skin tight liatards (which she looked very hot in i must say)

for anyone who read the comments at the EW site -- can we all join together to open a paypall account for Joseph so we can help him buy back his sense of humor?  cuz it's either that or we'll read about him (or her, who knows these things for sure) opening fire in a fast food restaurant pretty soon.