![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I am committed to fighting fiercely for equality as I am committed to disrupting the notion that there is an essential feminist. I have strong opinions about misogyny, institutional sexism that consistently places women at a disadvantage, the inequity in pay, the cult of beauty and thinness, the repeated attacks on reproductive freedom, violence against women, and on and on. Maybe I’m a bad feminist, but I am deeply committed to the issues important to the feminist movement. This is from one of the concluding chapters: Ultimately, the book argues, being a bad feminist is better than not being a feminist at all. For Gay, being a bad feminist means embracing feminism while also admitting to being human, messy, and flawed. It would help, I suppose, to start out with the idea of being a bad feminist. What I’ve finally concluded is this: Bad Feminist is a relevant and worthwhile collection of essays, a collection I’m glad that exists, but a collection I think is organizationally flawed. 5 from Harper Perennial), so bad that I’ve been tossing and turning my lukewarm reaction to the book around in my head for a couple of weeks, trying to figure out what I might be missing. I want to get on the bandwagon of people who have loved Roxane Gay’s debut essay collection, Bad Feminist ( Aug. ![]()
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