As a young gay person, I was displaced: from society’s expectations of me, from the category of 'male' which violently oppressed me. Many people’s stories are like mine: forced from safety, forced from the idea that the world could ever be kind to you. We are, from the off, failing to fit into our perceived category. And so are these ‘iconic’ women. Society’s misogynist bedrock demands that all women fit into very specific confinements: beautiful, quiet, sexy. While we all know these codes are totally archaic and essentially full-on bullshit, when Britney shaves her head, when Heidi Montag has endless surgeries and then releases a single called "Superficial", we are witnessing these women fully rejecting these expectations, whether they’re choosing to or not. No longer are they perfect; instead they are flawed, and criticised for it.