It was interesting to read Roxane Gay’s take on feminism, race and other contemporary topics.
Sometimes a movie is just well made and good and there is nothing wrong in acknowledging that. The movie was based on an actual memoir written by a black slave, the movie was faithful to the book, it was directed by a wonderful director and talented actors and actresses played leading roles with acclaim. Gay found many reasons to criticize the movie, and it was hard for me to agree with her (I haven’t seen the movie yet). One of my biggest disagreements happened with her essay on the movie, ’12 Years a Slave’. There were also things that she said that I disagreed with. There are many things that Gay said that I agreed with. At the end of the book, Gay continues this theme and says why – though she loves the colour pink, she loves listening to thuggish rap with misogynistic lyrics, though she wants to be independent but also wants to be taken care of, though she considers some domestic tasks are gendered and should be done by men, though she is human and imperfect and is filled with contradictions – she loves feminism and considers herself a feminist, though a bad feminist. Gay mostly picks up a film and tears it apart 🙂Īt the beginning of the book, there is an introduction in which Gay says feminists are placed on pedestals and they are knocked off and she is a bad feminist because she is imperfect and we can already consider her knocked off the pedestal. The section, Race & Entertainment, has essays on film. One of my favourites was one about three coming out stories. The section titled Gender & Sexuality was probably the core of the book and that is where Gay explores most of the burning topics of contemporary interest.
The Scrabble essay was one of my favourite essays in the book. There is a section at the beginning which is autobiographical in which Roxane Gay tells us more about herself and her family, her initial days as a professor, her love for Scrabble. The essays are collected under different sections – Gender & Sexuality, Race & Entertainment, Politics Gender & Race. I thought that the essays were mostly on feminism and gender and though there definitely were many essays on those topics, the range of the essays were wide and they covered race, and other topics of contemporary interest. Roxane Gay’s book is a collection of essays, many of which she had written for literary magazines and literary websites, and some essays that she wrote for this book. I have wanted to read Roxane Gay’s ‘Bad Feminist’ since the time it came out.
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