'Gaslight' sparks bate after Roxane Gay slams Nile Kidman's Lucy

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• ‘GASLIGHT’ SPARKS BATE AFTER ROXANE GAY SLAMS NILE KIDMAN’S LUCY
• OUTTAK: LENA DUNHAM AND ROXANE GAY DISCS LOVE & BASKETBALL, INA GARTEN
• WE SAT DOWN WH ROXANE GAY TO TALK ABOUT SEX, LOVE, AND SOUL MAT
• ROXANE GAY
• ‘I’LL ALWAYS BE A BAD FEMIST!’: ROXANE GAY ON LOVE, SUCCS – AND UPSETTG PIERS MAN

‘GASLIGHT’ SPARKS BATE AFTER ROXANE GAY SLAMS NILE KIDMAN’S LUCY

Femist thor Roxane Gay took to Twter to pla that Lucille Ball — played by Nile Kidman, 54 — the term “gaslight” Amazon’s new film “Beg the Rirdos. Gay, known for her bt-sellg book “The Bad Femist, ” seemed to claim that the term wasn’t ed the 1950s when the movie was set.

Roxane Gay sparked ntroversy on Twter after cricizg Nile Kidman’s e of the term “gaslight” when playg Lucille Ball.

Author Roxane Gay sparked bate on Twter when she plaed that Lucille Ball — played by Nile Kidman, 54 — ed the term “gaslight” Amazon’s new film “Beg the Rirdos. ”Twter/@rgay.

OUTTAK: LENA DUNHAM AND ROXANE GAY DISCS LOVE & BASKETBALL, INA GARTEN

And for a while Gay, 47, stuck to her pot, even llg “a bad screenplay, perd” another sce-leted tweet.

WE SAT DOWN WH ROXANE GAY TO TALK ABOUT SEX, LOVE, AND SOUL MAT

It wasn’t part of the vernacular then, ” Gay rpond, addg a later post, “The dacy of y’all fg gaslightg to me. Other people on Twter jumped to Gay’s fense, claimg the term wasn’t monly ed the ’50s.

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Journalist Evie Nagy chimed , sayg wasn’t troduced to vernacular until later and that the Twter stir Gay’s ment ed beme a “gaslightg ceptn.

‘I’LL ALWAYS BE A BAD FEMIST!’: ROXANE GAY ON LOVE, SUCCS – AND UPSETTG PIERS MAN

However, ultimately, Gay chid menters for g an “absurd” firtorm and offered a half-hearted mea culpa.

— roxane gay (@rgay) December 23, 2021. "It wasn’t how we planned but was perfect," Gay said of their timate elopement last year.