In Judith Halberstam's piece "Female Masculinity", she offers the audience some potential definitions of the term "masculinity" and how the term applies to "female masculinity". He states that “although we seem to have difficulty defining masculinity, as a society, we have little problem recognizing it” (935). Halberstam suggests that female masculinity is often blatantly ignored in culture and scholarship due to the feeling of indifference often associated with the topic. Halberstam uses her essay to explain a variety of aspects associated with female femininity such as tomboys, queer methodologies, and the bathroom issue. Halberstam's description of the term "Tomboys" is reminiscent of the character Emily Fields from Sara Shepard's Pretty Little Liars book series. Attending middle school with a group of "girly" friends, Emily is easily labeled "tomboy" due to her sporty appearance. Her overly conservative Christian family and classmates see no "threat" or meaning behind Emily's tomboyish appearance because they believe it is just a phase in her life. As soon as Emily enters eighth grade and begins dating a gay woman, her family and classmates begin to worry about Emily's masculine appearance and behaviors. In the book titled Pretty Little Liars, one of the liars, Emily's obvious masculine ways raise concern for her thesis: go back and fix it. Emily displays masculine feminine characteristics from an early age, but her appearance, attitude, and actions are seen as a phase. In the text, Halberstam states that “'tomboys' are described as a long infantile period of female masculinity. If we are to believe the general account of childhood behavior, tomboyishness is quite common for girls and does not fit the... middle of paper ......ld describes the possession of female masculinity as “sometimes encoding a unique form of social rebellion” (940). Emily was the kid in the ratty t-shirts while her friends wore Abercrombie t-shirts and flip flops. To rebel against the social norms she was used to, she acted like a boy, something none of the other girls dared to do. Growing up in an overly sheltered environment led Emily to “act out” and embrace her tomboyish appearance and behavior. Her physical appearance isn't considered a threat until she reaches high school where she is labeled different after doing something outside of the perfect Rosewood norm. Halberstam states that “although we seem to have difficulty defining masculinity, as a society, we have little problem recognizing it” (935). In a perfect town like Rosewood, teenage Emily's masculinity is easily recognizable. Add a sentence