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A review by lauradoesnothing
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
fast-paced
2.0
HOUSEKEEPING: Since Gay doesn't believe in content warnings, I should advise that the essay starting with 5 pages of squeeing over The Hunger Games does handbrake turn into a graphic SA story after page 6. Reader beware.
The next time I start reading a collection of feminist essays, please take the book out of my hands and slap me in the face with it. It's the only way I'll learn.
This book is fine, but if you've read one book about feminism, you've read this one: abortion and contraceptive rights are essential, pop culture is fun but problematic, rape jokes aren't funny, body image issues, sexual assault story, and that's a bingo! Gay is Haitian American, and I was excited to see what she had to say about race that might expand my perspective, but I didn't learn anything from this book.
The shining moments come when Gay lovingly describes books she's particularly fond of, a bit like when you go to a friend's birthday party and meet someone new you really hit it off with - so much so that a decade down the line, neither of you remember whose party it was.
The next time I start reading a collection of feminist essays, please take the book out of my hands and slap me in the face with it. It's the only way I'll learn.
This book is fine, but if you've read one book about feminism, you've read this one: abortion and contraceptive rights are essential, pop culture is fun but problematic, rape jokes aren't funny, body image issues, sexual assault story, and that's a bingo! Gay is Haitian American, and I was excited to see what she had to say about race that might expand my perspective, but I didn't learn anything from this book.
The shining moments come when Gay lovingly describes books she's particularly fond of, a bit like when you go to a friend's birthday party and meet someone new you really hit it off with - so much so that a decade down the line, neither of you remember whose party it was.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Rape