6/19/2023 0 Comments Bad feminist book review![]() ![]() Throughout all this sharing of her witty, funny and important opinions, she manages to stay human.Īll across Bad Feminist, Gay shows how everyone – especially women themselves – expect feminism to be perfect and to solve all problems.  She appears like a fangirl (for Peeta in the Hunger Games) and, sometimes, like a “serial dater”, but then she puts her sensible hat on and criticises songs like Blurred Lines (despite still dancing to them) or some states’ law against abortion. ![]() What makes Bad Feminist  so great is that Gay’s voice makes her extremely relatable. Gay’s essays, ranging from her passion for teen books and the love for The Hunger Games, from accounts of terrible sexual violence to a sneak peek into her younger self’s food habits, are a great example of the past and present of a woman of our day and age. ![]() Bad Feminist had me hooked from the start: I devoured it. Although it generally takes me much longer to finish a non-fiction book. I saw a copy of Bad Feminist on every bookshelf and in every book store during my Couchsurfing trip in the USA. By the time I reached San Francisco I was basically bullied into buying it by a bunch of impressive reviews. Here’s what I thought of Roxane Gay‘s New York Times Bestseller.īad Feminist is a book of short essays that gives us insight into the mind, world and ideas of American writer, professor, editor, blogger, and commentator Roxane Gay. ![]()
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