We loved long hair, pretty breasts, pouts, simpers, charm, grace; not boyishness. So I kind of get femininity from my mother and boyishness from my dad. The coarse boyishness of his later protagonists, "Max and Moritz", was rare in his childhood. She attributed his impotence to his boyishness and heavy drug abuse. Despite her boyishness, Horikita looked up to her mother.