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This is not the book I thought it would be. I expected this to be about the tension between what she wants and does and what she thinks she should being wanting and doing. I thought this was going to be about the challenges of maintaining feminists principles while negotiating the pressures of society and pop culture. For example, I like James Bond, and MZB's The Mists of Avalon, I w ...more
This is not the book I thought it would be. I expected this to be about the tension between what she wants and does and what she thinks she should being wanting and doing. I thought this was going to be about the challenges of maintaining feminists principles while negotiating the pressures of society and pop culture. For example, I like James Bond, and MZB's The Mists of Avalon, I w ...more
I had avoided this book for a while due to the excess of NPR hype and marketing -- I assumed that it would be cheerfully packaged faux-feminism. But after hearing Gay interviewed, I gave the collection a shot, and found myself impressed by the combination of criticism and memoir, and the accessibility and flexibility that Gay imparts to the subjects of feminism, pop culture, the media, etc. Gay's feminism is just that - hers and uniquely her own - but I constantly found myself drawing parallels
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4.5 stars
I've been wanting to read this for at least a year, and though it is now slightly dated - it came out in 2014 - it's worth reading. Some parts were difficult for me because she makes a lot of cultural allusions, and in some cases I had not read/seen the works in question, but that is ok. There are many others that I had, and really only one section of the book contains this multitude of literary references.
The most important section of the book, for me, was about the intersection of race and ge ...more
The most important section of the book, for me, was about the intersection of race and ge ...more
Ah, feminism. Like the rest of us, never totally perfect.
That seems to be the main thrust of the essays collected in "Bad Feminist." Yes, we should always be trying to be better, but we should also be aware that we are human, everyone else is human, and so things are never going to be perfect. And that's a pretty good message.
It was refreshing to read someone being so thoughtful about the pop culture flashpoints of a few years ago. Yes, pop culture and horrible tragedies both pile up so quickly ...more
That seems to be the main thrust of the essays collected in "Bad Feminist." Yes, we should always be trying to be better, but we should also be aware that we are human, everyone else is human, and so things are never going to be perfect. And that's a pretty good message.
It was refreshing to read someone being so thoughtful about the pop culture flashpoints of a few years ago. Yes, pop culture and horrible tragedies both pile up so quickly ...more
Loved this, love her! She had me crying and laughing on the same page so often!
I am so angry with myself for not going to see her speak last year.
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I am so angry with myself for not going to see her speak last year.
Book Riot Read Harder Challenge 2016 - Read a collection of essays
#bookchallenge2016feministbook
Feel guilty rating this so low! But I really found it a slog: it would have benefited greatly if the editor hadn't grouped together all her essays on similar topics. I think they would have come across as much stronger if the reader weren't presented with all her pieces on race in movies one after the other, everything on the music industry back to back, etc.
It also suffered from the fact that she was preaching to the choir on the vast majority of topics she wrote about so, being a know-it-all ...more
It also suffered from the fact that she was preaching to the choir on the vast majority of topics she wrote about so, being a know-it-all ...more
I was turned on to this book (and author) by her essay "How to be Friends with Another Woman". That essay is perfect and incredibly insightful. My girls and I have already started to implement a few that we missed in our daily lives (example, give your girls work - men do it, why shouldn't we?). It's still my favorite essay in this book but the other essays all got an emotional reaction out of me. Sometimes I was so angry, I wanted to punch someone in the throat. Sometimes I wanted to cry. Somet
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Gay is at her best in her charming essay about Scrabble, her jolting piece about the way in which 'boys will be boys' comes at the cost of girls and women, and her analysis of the current state of representation POC in popular media (can't wait to see what she thinks of Empire).
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A mixed bag of essays, but the good ones really hit it out of the park and outnumber the lesser. I would especially recommend men to read it.
Mar 09, 2017
Katie
marked it as to-read
Jan 21, 2018
Andrea
marked it as to-read
May 10, 2018
Heather Wescott
marked it as to-read
