Identifying with the boys again

I was reading a lot of the posts on metafandom about identifying with boy and girl characters and naturally it started making me think about characters I identified with growing up. I tend to identify with both male and female characters, but when I think of the characters I was really into, they were probably more often male. wemblee wrote something that really stuck out to me.

wemblee:

Like, I told a friend of mine, "When I watched Robin Hood, I identified with Robin Hood, not Maid Marian. I wanted to have the adventures." And she replied that, yeah, she identified with Robin Hood, too, but also wondered why he couldn't be a girl and thought, wait, he should be. Or could be.

But at the same time, it's like... should I beat myself up because I didn't manage to make that leap of progressive logic at age six?

( My feeling was no, she shouldn't... )