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[–]censorshipment 23 insightful - 6 fun23 insightful - 5 fun24 insightful - 6 fun -  (1 child)

Katharine Hepburn went by Jimmy as a kid.

At the age of nine, Hepburn had her head shaved, then ran and put on her older brother’s clothes. “I had a phase as a child when I wished I was a boy because I thought boys had all the fun,” she told biographer Charlotte Chandler, in I Know Where I’m Going: Katharine Hepburn: A Personal Biography. “I did wish I could be a boy, so I decided I wanted people to call me Jimmy. I just liked the name Jimmy. I told my family I wanted to be called Jimmy.” An actress in the making, Hepburn’s cross-dressing alter ego was a part she played. “I created Jimmy for the others,” she emphasized to Chandler. “Inside I never felt like Jimmy.”

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/05/katharine-hepburn-style-pants

I developed a male alter ego as a child too. If anyone has seen the French film "Tomboy", it's pretty accurate to our experiences. Just wanting to have unrestricted lives without our moms worrying about us and wanting us to be pretty. And we (Hepburn and Page) liked girls... so being a boy seemed like the only option to get girls. I knew at age 5 that I wanted to be a boy with a girlfriend.

Tomboy trailer: https://youtu.be/Jb-Oys-IcWE

[–]lefterfield 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Around age 5 or 6, I knew I didn't want to marry or have kids. Not because I didn't like boys, just because I got the impression from my peers that wives did nothing but cook, clean, and raise kids, and I didn't want to do those things. But yeah, regardless, the most logical explanation for girls like this is that they want the freedom given to boys. Not that they're literally boys.