Love and Basketball

I viewed love and basketball recently and ive noticed alot of gender identity issues in it. Monica ( played by sanaa lathan) is critized by her mother for being tomboyish. Her mother was the epidemy of feminitiy, she was a housewife and very girly in nature. Instead of caring for Monica for who she is, a female that is tomboyish, she tried in everyway to get her to change her personality or style.