This Troper's desire to be One Of The Boys led to a brief period of believing herself to be {{transsexual}}. It only made her more miserable than she'd been before.

This Tropette didn't realize she's it until one of her male friends said that she's 'a great guy, who has been given boobs by God for some reason'.

This troper broke her best friend's nose when she met him, (age 5) because he said she couldn't play with him and his friends. I have been friends with them ever since.

On behalf of all males, I'd like to apologize for the dumbasses some of you have befriended. Why anyone would friend zone most of you as a question I think it's impossible to answer. I may be biased, as I most certainly would never date someone who wouldn't fit in here. Still, these morons don't know what they're missing.

This Troper is defintely one of the boys. Because I have been a life-long {{Tomboy}}, I am usually seen with my male, geeky friends at my school's video gaming and anime club meetings, I chat about punk rock with male friends in my gym class (since everyone else in the class is annoying, a douche, or Libby}} a Libby), I absolutely hate preps, I loan video games and anime out to male friends, and I am seen as a {{Cool Big Sis}} to her male friends. But, I do have some female friends.

I was the go-to girl for guys involved with ''other'' girls. Because I was one of the guys, they could talk to me where they couldn't to ''regular'' girls.

As a kid, this troper used to receive awkward, but well-intentioned compliments from guy friends such as "LOL but you're not a real girl, you're awesome!" Now her status as "not a real girl" has her firmly filed away in the Friend Zone in the minds of all of her childhood guy friends.

Are we twins? If so, I have the sister I always dreamed of!

More like triplets.

Quadruplets now. I have more sisters! Wait...

When this troper was younger, she was friends with a pair of fraternal twins: a boy and a girl. Every year, when they would send out invitations to their shared birthday parties, boys would receive one invite and girls another. Just guess which one this troper got every year.

Nowadays, while this troper gets a lot more respect from guys as a person than some of her "girlier" friends due to her tomboyish nature, she often finds it exceedingly hard to get a date because NoGuyWantsAnAmazon.

This Troper once had to dress like a stripper for a play she was in and the reaction from one of her guy friends who she's known since kindergarten and regularly refers to her as "bro" was: "oh my god you're hot... that's really weird." We ended up going to prom together because we decided we could make each other look good and have a shit ton of fun not dealing with the pressure of a romantic date. It was the best prom ever.

This might be the wrong position for it, but this guy frequently found himself in this position for female friends.

This troper actually found this to be her advantage, since it got her a wonderful boyfriend and earned her several "little brothers". All of whom she loves to death.

You can pretty much always find me hanging with boys, and boys only. It gets to the point where if I'm forced to work in a group with girls (note the word 'forced'), I feel very, very weird and out of my comfort zone.

This troper's sister was like this she had more male friends than female friends this eventually landed her current boyfriend, she is also the loudest belcher in our family and can beat almost any guy in an arm wrestling match.

This troper hung out with boys and talked about videogames. If you told her to wear a dress, she would force you to eat it. If it weren't for her gender being female, my friends would never have had to yell out SheIsNotMyGirlfriend!

This (male)(straight) troper seems to end up as one of the ''girls'' often enough. I've always taken it as a complement, though the time I ended up in the middle of a group discussion about the problems of wearing white clothing at certain times of the month was...interesting.

This troper. Oh, so much. As a kid I only had male friends and even now, in my early 20s, I find it impossible to relate to girls who are neither nerds nor fellow tomboys.

Exactly! Then again, I have been told by my sister that if I were any more like Reno, I'd grow a.... well, you know what I mean.

This troper like the one two entries up, has...for most his life, been just one of the girls. God, I hate the Friend Zone.

This Troper sometimes thinks she's a deconstruction of this trope. Her friends are mostly guys or tomboys which is all well and good, but she freaking hates the shit out of it once there's feelings that tend to get in the way. Almost all the guys she ends up liking always see her as just her and that thinking of her beyond that is just wrong. She's at least now resigned to that fate and tries not to get her hopes too high with boys.

That sounds so much like me it hurts. I never minded being one of the guys until I got old enough to be Boy Crazy, and then hated that the guys I liked never saw me as anything but a friend or sister-substitute since I was "one of the guys". It wasn't until I finally fell in love with a ''girl'' for the first time that I finally found someone who would date me. (Which I'm definitely not ungrateful for, but still, sigh.)

An inversion of the deconstruction here - several of my male friends have ended up falling in love with me (Because of my to apply make-up UmkemptBeauty? Because they know me well enough to know that I'm not a BitchInSheepsClothing but simply a JerkAss? I have no idea.) which has proven to be a major problem since I'm asexual. I'm becoming more and more afraid of getting new male friends if there's even the slightest possibility they might develop feelings for me, and I'm unable to feel comfortable around girls.

This troper was especially this in high school. My grandma was shocked to see me looking in the men's section when we went shopping. I also had a lot of guy friends. Unfortunately, this was also how my crush saw me, much to my chagrin.

As a child I spent most of my time playing with boys. I put it down to having an older brother and so I got used to playing 'boy games'. Nowadays I do have more girl friends than guy friends, but the girls I'm friends with have a similar background.

This troper was this during grade school, mainly because the girls in her class were all TheLibby, or trying to be. (The fact that this troper got to hang out with the boys only made them jealous and even more libby-like.) After switching schools, and fitting in better with the girls, she could get along with both sexes...unless either were {{Jerkass}}es. Then this troper went to a women's college for their biology program, and, well, rarely sees any guys (unless they're professors or her friends' boyfriends/fiances.) She still gets along with those she does see, though.

I'm sort of a deconstruction. While I regularly hang out with guys and feel uncomfortable with other girls, I hate being referred to as a dude. OneOfTheBoys? Sure, fine. It's just that, in my opinion, girls can do boy stuff WITHOUT being called a dude/man/etc. To be honest, I hate tomboys. Especially the ones that will hit you for no reason. You CAN be OneOfTheBoys without being a tomboy. It JustBugsMe that people assume that you're a tomboy just because you do boy stuff and hang out with boys all the time . . .

Truth of the matter is, this troper was RaisedByDudes. Three older boy cousins, and an ''uncle'' who was ''fifteen'' when she was born, meaning that, even if she did dress like a girl, wore dresses, and acted like a lady, she would still throw on some jeans and go sit in her cousin's room with the lot of them and talk about "Guy Stuff". The good thing is it has not affected my love life, most guys I meet are actually overjoyed to find a girl who is not freaking out about how her hair looks, and my boyfriend and I are extremely happy,even if he's not the toughest guy out there, and I'm not the most delicate flower around.

This troper, not that it's a big deal most of the time. I didn't have any good friends who were girls until late elementary school, and even then they were more like the guys than the girls. I identify better with guys, though the girl friends I do have are also into traditionally "boy" things: comic books, video games, action movies, etc. My best friend generally considers it okay to talk about anything with me because, his words verbatim, "You're more like a guy than a girl." It helps that I'm bisexual, so I have similar views when it comes to girls. The only thing that kills me about being one of the guys is a common occurrence on this page: the "friend zone." Since I'm just one of the guys, I'm not even considered as girlfriend material. It especially sucks when you hear these guys complaining about how they can't find a geeky girl who doesn't get wrapped up in all that "crazy girl drama."

Inverted with me: Yes, I'm a male, yes, I'm straight, but for some reason, most of my friends since I was in kindergarden have been girls. There was a time when one of my friends actually said (after bitching about her ex boyfriend in a "all boys suck" way) "Oh no! Except you: you're fine, you're like one of the girls!"...A little odd but what the hell? They are my best friends in the world and I won't change that for anything.

I play with the inverse. I've always been decent with females, but now it's reached a point where I have more close female friends than male ones; I'm almost ThatOneGuy. I really don't know why.

Another inversion here. Male, straight, gets along with girls amazingly well, starts contemplating mass murder when left with other guys for longer than an hour.

Most of this troper's friends are geeky guys, and while she's more of a culture/debating person (good luck finding more than one of those when you're 14) than a gaming/internet person, she gets on pretty well with them and, unlike most of the girls she knows (who talk normally to gay/non-threatening guys), can actually talk to them (it works the opposite way round too: because I act more like a guy than is strictly normal they feel more comfortable around me and don't see me as a puzzle with convenient orifices). To the point where a gynophobic friend of mine isn't scared of me (because I don't count) and a slightly saner one thinks I look really weird in skirts and dresses (I'm not entirely comfortable in them either...).

This troper is one (and has been one since she was young) and loves hanging out with her guy friends. However, as much of a good thing this has been to her, this troper fears that being just 'one of the boys' will be the reason why her unrequited crush on her guy friend will always be... well, unrequited. Damn you Friend Zone.

When I (a male, straight troper, btw) was very young (around the 6-8 age group; memory is a little fuzzy but this story ''is'' confirmed by my parents), I was very good friends with one of these types, who played with me and my other two male friends at the time. What makes this tale interesting is that she must have ''really'' liked me because she gave me my first kiss and I was ''not'' expecting it to happen....and then she moved away the next day. Come to think of it, it might explain part of the reason I'm so attracted to tomboys, especially this type.

This troper grew up ''wishing'' to be one of the guys, because they got to do things like play football and other physical activities. Being the social misfit she was, she never fit in with the guys ''or'' the girls.

The fun thing of being "one of the guys" is when I am grouped together with "the guys" by other people who do not necessarily know of my "guy" status. This has included being addressed as "sir" once by the costume manager when I was in theater, and being told that I should "be outside picking up chicks" on a nice summer day. The best was when a few other girls from my dorm were hanging out in the same lounge as me and my guy friends: the girls talked with us a bit, watched some tv, then left the room saying "Bye-bye, boys". After they left, there were a few seconds of silence as everyone else in the room stared at me, followed by everyone collectively saying "WTF?" while I laughed hysterically.

My female friends poke fun at me for having more guy friends than I do them. And then they say I'm in love with all of them. They're such idiots. (still love em)

Ever since her teenage years, this troper always preferred hanging out with guys rather than with girls. I've always preferred playing ball, combat sports, video games and just plain talking with guys rather than being with the bunch of teenage girls talking about guys and fashion. Ever since, my regular female friends are mostly lesbians or like-minded women. And yes, I'm straight.

This troper, as well, and she never really grew out of it - in middle school, she could hardly sit near anything with a uterus, let alone make eye contact or conversation about the weather, and she was even mistaken as a boy by boys outside of the five man group. That's great for someone's ego, eh? **grumblegrumble**On another note, it IS handy to be able to talk to guys about guy things, and at least to this troper, girls talk about utterly incomprehensible and complex things she could never get her head around**coughdramacough**.

This Troper was, and still largely is, a very big tomboy. Many of my friends are now girls, but I have very close guy friends too, and when I was younger, the guy-to-girl pal ratio was much, much higher on the guy side.

This troper has a hard time carrying a conversation with girls. I could care less who's going out with who and what you're wearing to the dance, I'd rather discuss the finer points of medieval weaponry designs for the Renny Faire with the only two people in my grade that I feel not-akward talking to. And there's no need to worry about the "Friend Zone" since I'm not sure of my sexuality.

This troper grew up with several boys, a dad who refused his only daughter dress up in "girly clothes" and several relatives who further encouraged her tomboyishness. I could still hang out with regular girls, just not as comfortably as with other guys, and I probably have more platonic relationships with the guys than most of the girls in our class. Heck, in our whole family, it's practically established that I'm one of the boys.

Inversion here, This straight male troper gets along better with girls.

Subversion: This troper had actually more male friends and prefared boy games like football, but mostly becouse they happended to be around more often. It's probabley more WildChild than OneOfTheBoys as troper simply doesn't care about social norms, which makes her more boyish than girly.

While jokingly texting one of my guy friends about how he verbally abuses me, he texted me back that Bros don't need to be nice to each other. So I'm a bro. Also, strike two for my best friend breaking up with his girlfriend was that she was hyper jealous of me.

I was this in high school among my group of drama club friends, which might explain why none of them were willing to go to prom with me. Their loss, I guess. These days is more of the same; I still feel more comfortable with guys than women, which makes my job (at a fabric store, where the shoppers and employees are predominately female) all the more challenging for me.

This troper's best friend is one. She's constantly hanging out with me and my HetrosexualLifePartner, she wears more boyish clothes than we do, is better at Football and videogames than we are, and knows how to dropkick two guys in the nuts (As we learnt when we gave her a wedgie that ripped her GoofyPrintUnderwear). All three of use constantly tease each other, wrestle, and other stuff.

This troper hung around with someone who was very much OneOfTheBoys for a while. Turns out there was a reason for that.