Essayist, novelist and pop-culture gu Gay (An Untamed State, 2014, etc.) sounds off on the tratg plexi of genr and race pop culture and society as a whole.
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ROXANE GAY: THE BAD FEMIST MANIFTO
5 starsEssays are one of my favoure lerary genr and recently I've read some amazg say llectns that have troduced me to new ias and new wrg styl so perhaps I put overly high expectatns on Roxane Gay's say llectn. I liked the troductn which Gay discs what means to be a "bad femist", an imperfect woman a world which women are expected to strive for (unattaable) perfectn at all tim. I'm probably the wrong dience for this book bee, after all I don't watch realy TV or any of the televisn shows Gay criqu, I’m not terted criqu of 50 Shas of Grey, Gone Girl or Twilight at all so 's not a surprise that I didn't enjoy those particular says.
I felt like Gay was tryg to say, look I’m an amic but I’m still ol. I n fely see Gay's appeal, and the ia of her appeals to me as well. Gay do brg up lots of important topics, such as rape, racism, racial stereotyp, and abortn and the topics still need to be discsed and alt wh.
Well, thank God for Roxane Gay and her llectn of timate, genero, wty, and wholly accsible says, Bad Femist.
ROXANE GAY’S ‘BAD’ FEMISM
”First, a few thgs you should know about Roxane Gay: she’s a wrer of novels, short stori, says; a profsor of English; a lerary and cultural cric; a native of Nebraska, the dghter of Haian immigrants. She mat, chats, gossips, but rarely do Gay nclu.
Gay is a pop culture enthiast and many of her says exame ntemporary race and genr relatns through the filter of current cultural touchston. I haven’t had televisn sce 1993 and I don't read, I soaked up what Gay had to say about the pop culture phenoms, even if I uldn’t relate to the tails.
In the say Beyond the Measure of Men, Gay wr: The label “women’s fictn” is often ed wh such disda. Gay draws the clive readg le at irrponsible wrg of poor qualy that celebrat the subjugatn and abe of women and at wrg and film that craps all over the black Amerin experience.