" When beauty becomes mandatory, it ceases to be about fun, about play. Dressing up, playing with gender roles, doing your braids badly in the mirror, and eating half your mother’s lipstick in an attempt to get it on your face – do you remember when that used to be fun? And do you remember when the fun stopped? Like any game, the woman game stops being fun when you start playing to win, especially if you’ve got no choice: win or be ridiculed, win or become invisible, dismissed, disturbed. "

― Laurie Penny , Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution