Bad Feminist

320 pages

Published Oct. 30, 2014 by Harper Perennial.

ISBN:
978-0-06-228271-2
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OCLC Number:
861210005

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4 stars (45 reviews)

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Review of 'Bad Feminist' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Roxane Gay is likable. I know she makes a point of saying likability is the wrong standard to apply to the protagonist of a work of fiction, but what about non-fiction? Is it just about ideas? A view from nowhere?

I strongly embrace the idea that one can be a "bad" feminist and still get to write essays on the subject (as well as essays on race and pop culture and reviews of books and movies.) I am a bad book reviewer but I'm here writing one anyway.

Unfortunately (though sometimes, I'd have to say fortunately) I was not familiar with many of the works she chose to review. I did think her review of Girls was excellent, by which I mean it matched how I think about it. Similarly, I agree that Orange is the New Black made a virtue of diversity while telling the story of a privileged …

Review of 'Bad Feminist' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

This book struck me as a bit uneven, but my take-away is that I need to read more by Roxane Gay. At their best, these essays expanded my thinking along both race and gender lines. At their worst, I felt like Roxane was an annoying friend who wouldn't just tell me what she thought of the movie, but wanted to replay it scene-by-scene for me - literally. Had I edited this collection, I would've cut the essays in which Gay reviews books (The Help), films (anything by Tyler Perry) and television shows (Orange is the New Black). I appreciated her smart perspectives on these works, and was simultaneously bored by the lengthy plot summaries I had to wade through to find them. I'm curious enough that I'll be picking up "Hunger" in the near future - and just hope she doesn't walk me through the recipes of her favorite foods!

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