Gay’s reviews are not anything like the attempting-to-be objective reviews I used to write for the newspapers (perhaps this is why I’m not writing reviews anymore). I don’t really think that’s the case – unless of course you are too young to remember 2014, in which case – sorry… I worry the booksellers suspect it has dated. This is why it was difficult to get a copy of this book in a bookshop such as Blackwells or Waterstones in the UK – I had to buy it off Amazon. James’s Fifty Shades of Grey, the Hunger Games, Django and the Help. The book features Gay’s reviews of contemporary cultural phenomena: HBO’s Girls, E.L.
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It would be wrong to give you the idea that feminism is the overwhelming subject of this essay collection – it is rather a returning theme that appears from time to tim. She has that lovely “classic American writing style” that makes you feel as if you were listening to a flowing conversation. Her writing style is clear and unpretentious. trying to makes some noise with my writing while also being myself: a woman who loves pink and likes to get freaky and sometimes dances her ass off to music she knows, she knows is terrible for women and who sometimes plays dumb with repairmen because it’s just easier to let them feel macho than it is to stand on the moral high ground.” I am messy… I am just trying-trying to support what I believe in…. “I embrace the label of bad feminist because I am human. Gay’s take is funny and self-deprecating – but it is also wise.
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Equally, a lot of us have a fear of the other side of the barricade – can you really be a feminist and read the Vogue? How can you be a feminist and listen to rap music which objectifies women? Many of us have had the experience of being called a feminist and it being meant as insult. “I was called a feminist, and what I heard was “You are an angry, sex-hating, man-hating lady person” The collection begins and ends with a reflection of what feminism means in the US in the 21 st century (in 2014, so before the Weinstein scandal broke out). The term “bad feminist” serves as a frame for this collection of Roxane Gay’s essays.