I love strong heroines: Beka Cooper from Tamora Pierce's Beka Cooper trilogy, Del from the Tiger and Del series by Jennifer Roberson, etc. In my writing, all the MCs are female (I should probably branch out but meh), as am I.
However, there is one problem: I am finding it difficult to make my characters feminine and yet still kind of tomboys, accepted by the men (most of them are in a predominantly male line of work), and badass. To add on to that, they are all warriors- soldiers, law enforcement, rebels, etc.
Also, to clarify: sexism isn't the problem here. She works as a soldier/law enforcement in an order founded by a woman. Right now, no one cares whether you are a girl or a boy so long as you can fight- they need soldiers, they get them. Women are generally healers or mages and men are generally fighters, but that's just the usual preference of the individual.
It's simply that they are tomboys in a predominantly male world and I'm having a hard time writing them as tomboys instead of boys.
I hope that makes sense. Any ideas?
Thanks for taking the time to read this,
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