The article, Female Masculinity, keeps bringing up the idea of a line being crossed; the line referring to the socially constructed norm. When speaking of tomboys on page 938, it's stated, "Tomboyism is punished....when it threatens to extend beyond childhood and into adolescence." Society gives younger girls mixed signals in that tomboyism "may even be encouraged" at a younger age but then there comes a point in time where if one was to remain a tomboy, it crosses a line to the point where it threatens the norm. The same can be said for the bathroom issue. When a tomboy walks into a women's bathroom, she is accepted. When a female with a low voice walks into a women's bathroom she is accepted as long as quiet. But when a "masculine" or out-of-the-norm female or MTF walks into a women's bathroom, some feel threatened and feel the need for that person to be removed. Where is that line, that society constructs with the socially accepted as normal and okay on one side and the threatening and abnormal on the other? When can one be accused of crossing it and what is the correct punishment?