In her 2012 article “Bad Femist,” published by VQR, Roxane Gay suggts that many of the tensns and negative nnotatns that acpany the term femism n be attributed to a damagg, socially-nstcted ncept emed sential femism. Gay, an Amerin sayist and mentator, scrib sential femism as “the notn that there are right and wrong ways to be a femist,” leavg those who do not live up to societal expectatns feelg unf or aquate to intify themselv as such (pg. 1).
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In her 2012 article “Bad Femist, ” published by VQR, Roxane Gay suggts that many of the tensns and negative nnotatns that acpany the term femism n be attributed to a damagg, socially-nstcted ncept emed sential femism. Gay, an Amerin sayist and mentator, scrib sential femism as “the notn that there are right and wrong ways to be a femist, ” leavg those who do not live up to societal expectatns feelg unf or aquate to intify themselv as such (pg.
In her article, Gay nonts the rctive—not to mentn untertuive—nature of sential femism and the exclive stereotyp produc, while addrsg her own rervatns towards embracg femism self.