Jodie’s individualised resistance can be set alongside Carly and Debbie’s joint efforts to disrupt prevailing gender orders among the peer group. Yet, paradoxically, Jodie, no less than the ‘girlies’, seemed engaged in a process of accommodating the boys. The means of accommodation may differ but the compliance with existing gender regimes remains. Madeline Arnot (1982) writes of the ways in which boys maintain the hierarchy of social superiority of masculinity by devaluing the female world. In 3R, Jodie was also involved in this maintenance work. Although her practices are not rooted in subordination to the boys, she is still acquiescent in prevailing gender hierarchies. Her practices, no less than those of the ‘girlies’ and the ‘nice girls’, are confirmatory of male superiority.