Life is unfair Kill yourself, or get over it - Black Box Recorder , Child Psychology (Girls!) To do the dishes, (Girls!) to clean up my room (Girls!) To do the laundry, (Girls!) and in the bathroom (Girls!) That's all I really want is girls - Beastie Boys , Girls Women, encouraged to manipulate their appearance and sublimate assertive impulses behind a mask of feminine behaviour, are necessarily involved in everyday duplicitous practices. The emotional, sexual, and social machinations of the dating and marriage market, the self-objectification that presents an appealing facade: these are achieved by employing the trickster tactics of deception, impersonation, disguise, duplicity, and subversion. Because the social practice of femininity is a form of trickery, tricksters in cultural texts resonate with and expose a fundamental tenet of the social relations of the sexes in American culture: the only way for women to survive, given their subordinate position and limite...