I don't like compliments on my looks.

He's not calling you beautiful because you're a girl and it is expected of him, he keeps telling you you are beautiful/pretty because you are beautiful/pretty to him.

Maybe he just honestly thinks you're pretty and likes to make you feel good. Why does he have to be forcing you into a role? I compliment guys as often as girls, I don't think there's anything gendered about that.

I understand the whole rebelling against a role you perceive to be thrust upon you, my mom would always push me to be more girly and as an act of rebellion for a long time I wore guy's clothes or baggy clothes and avoided every female stereotype I could.

Now I'm more of a blend. I've taken my identity under my own control and rather than trying to not be certain things, I just be the things that are right for me. Christ, I worded that awkwardly.

Wow - your bf is into you and compliments you! That's the worse thing I have ever heard on IIN!!! OMG. What a monster. You poor thing. Run, run, run. He's a beast. How can you tolerate such abuse!!!

You are being completely childish. You're reading sexism and feminism bullshit into a completely normal compliment. He says it because he finds you attractive, not because you're a women. Pushing you into a gender role!?!?!?! Stop seeing sexism in your own shadow.

What has the world come to where a guy can't say his girlfriend looks beautiful without being told he's a sexist and pushing her into a gender role? Seriously.

Tell him? Or you could compliment him back, which would stop you feeling so "pushed into a gender role" (I can understand why you might feel like that by the way), I'm sure he won't mind if you do xD

Sorry to tell you, princess, but males be with women because they like women to be women.
If you feel like he is "pushing you in to a gender role", then why not solve it by complimenting him just as much? That way there is no individual being pushed in to a specific role, because both are doing the same thing.

Would you rather he put you down...

Would you rather he put you down all the time?

Would you rather he put you down all the time?

It's normal within these two possible explanations.

A) You might have low self esteem. Or...
B) You might be a crazy tumblr feminist who's confused about her gender and is a social justice warrior.

And what gender role is that?

It hasn't got anything to do with gender. Please do not tell me you never compliment your boyfriend on how he looks?

I would take the compliments now. Wait till you've been with him a few more years.

Plus how is it a gender role, guys should get just as many compliments. I'm terrible at complimenting men though because a lot of the time when I compliment them they either think I'm hitting on them or act rather odd. I guess because they are use to not getting complimented and it is true. Women get complimented a lot more because us women are always complimenting eachother on clothes, hair, make up and so on... and men don't normally compliment eachother because they normally feel they don't need one. But like I said it shouldn't be a gender role.

It's annoying if he says it ALL the time, but come on... don't you enjoy the compliment? A lot of people wish their partners did more things like that.

You look great.

OP, you don't have to make it more complicated than it is. Tell him that it makes you uncomfortable. A successful relationship is built on trust and respect! Tell yourself that he really isn't meaning it maliciously, and try to let it go, rather than let it bother you.

You might mention to him that you know he thinks your pretty but his constant commenting about it makes you uncomfortable. Guys are pretty clueless about women's feeling, thought process, fashion, oh pretty much dam near everything!
Don't be bitchy about it just explain slowing using simple words, it will take several attempts but he will eventually begin to get the dim notion that he's overdoing the compliment stuff.
Best of Luck