Basic Trope: A mother is traditionally feminine, her daughter is a Tomboy. Drama often follows.
- Straight:
- Rose is a Proper Lady; her daughter Elizabeth is a Spirited Young Lady. Rose wonders how Elizabeth will ever find a good husband because she's so unladylike.
- Rose is a model; her daughter Elizabeth is a rough-and-tumble Tomboy who is One of the Boys, goes by "Bets", and plays sports instead of caring about makeup and fashion, to Rose's disdain.
- Exaggerated:
- All the mothers and daughters in the setting have this sort of dynamic.
- Rose has eleven daughters who are all unladylike.
- Downplayed:
- Rose has a hidden tomboyish side.
- Elizabeth undergoes a Girliness Upgrade.
- Justified:
- Rose is dead; Elizabeth was Raised by Dudes.
- Rose encouraged Elizabeth's tomboyishness because she was never allowed to be masculine as a young woman.
- Rose grew up in a time where people followed gender roles, while Elizabeth is growing up in a more accepting era.
- Puberty, this is how Elizabeth is rebelling against her mother.
- Inverted:
- Rose is an unconventional lady who smokes and drinks and is a prominent suffragette, Elizabeth is a tender English Rose.
- Rose is a pro soccer player who wears her hair short and has a rough personality, and her daughter Elizabeth likes cheerleading and dresses.
- Gender Inverted:
- Jock Dad, Nerd Son
- Young father James is a traditionally Manly Man and his son Doug is a sensitive guy who often follow into drama and dysfunctions
- James is a physical activity-driven guy who loves to be pumped up and sports in boxing and his son Doug is a sewing and design-loving sensitive guy who wants to stay slim and soft and has a thing for art.
- James is an artist who's flatter about beauty and affection and his son Doug likes action figures and basketball.
- Subverted: Rose only keeps up the feminine facade when visitors are around. As soon as they leave she's chasing Elizabeth around the yard.
- Rose is a Tomboy with a Girly Streak, so she gets on fairly well with her more conventionally feminine mother.
- Double Subverted: Rose used to be able to chase Elizabeth around the yard, but the affects of ageing mean she can't do as many of the activities her Tomboyish daughter enjoys. This means she pursues more feminine and less physically challenging pursuits, and actually enjoys them. It does make her more distant from Elizabeth though.
- Parodied: Rose wasn't particularly feminine before giving birth, but as soon as Elizabeth pops out of her she transforms into a Proper Lady who worries about her daughter's future.
- Zig-Zagged: Rose was quite the tomboy in her youth, but time has made her more in touch with her femininity, although her tomboyism isn't all gone. Elizabeth was a really girly girl in her childhood who is now a tomboy in her teenage years, although her childhood femininity isn't all gone.
- Averted: Rose and Elizabeth are not contrasted in terms of femininity.
- Enforced: The editors want Elizabeth to feel more insecure, so Rose (who was originally an Open-Minded Parent) is retooled into being more feminine and disapproving.
- Lampshaded: "I can't believe Elizabeth is your daughter, Rose! She's so rough-and-tumble, nothing like you at all!"
- Invoked: Elizabeth fancies herself a Spirited Young Lady in the vein of the novels she reads, so she consciously tries to be more tomboyish and casts her mother as the disapproving older female relative.
- Exploited: Elizabeth's girly sister Margaret sees an opportunity to become her mother's favorite, so she plays up her own femininity to be similar to Rose's and drives a wedge between Rose and Elizabeth over their differences.
- Defied: Rose can tell Elizabeth is going to be a tomboy, so she tries to relate to Elizabeth's masculine leanings because she doesn't want to be a disapproving feminine mother.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
Back to Feminine Mother, Tomboyish Daughter.
