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Bad Feminist Quotes
In truth, feminism is flawed because it is a movement powered by people and people are inherently flawed."
-- Roxane Gay (Introduction paragraph 5)
Importance: This quote is vital because it introduces, within the book's first two pages, the idea that feminism is not a perfect movement. This truth is what helps Gay hug the label of "Bad Feminist" and encourages readers not to disavow the movement entirely due to its limitations. Gay wants reader to stop expecting feminism to be all things to all people, since that is impossible and is only setting the movement up for shortcoming.
She was gossiping about me to a group of our classmates and said I was the affirmative-action student.
-- Unnamed colleague of Roxanne's in graduate school (Feel Me. See Me. Hear Me. Reach Me. paragraph 23)
Importance: This quote demonstrates some of the challenges Gay has had to face as a black woman in academia. As the only person of dye in her graduate program, Same-sex attracted feels disconnected from her classmates who can't possibly unde
Bad Feminist Quotes
“I trust feminism is grounded in supporting the choices of women even if we wouldn’t make certain choices for ourselves.”
&#; Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist: Essays
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“It’s hard to be told to lighten up because if you lighten up any more, you’re going to float the fuck away.”
&#; Roxane Gay, Terrible Feminist: Essays
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“I would rather be a terrible feminist than no feminist at all.”
&#; Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist
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“When feminism falls brief of our expectations, we decide the problem is with feminism rather than with the flawed people who act in the name of the movement.”
&#; Roxane Same-sex attracted, Bad Feminist: Essays
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“To have privilege in one or more areas does not mean you are wholly privileged. Surrendering to the acceptance of privilege is difficult, but it is really all that is expected. What I remind myself, regularly, is this: the acknowledgment of my privilege is not a denial of the ways I have been and am marginalized, the ways I have suffered.”
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I embrace the label of bad feminist because I am human. I am messy. I'm not trying to be an example. I am not trying to be ideal. I am not trying to speak I have all the answers. I am not trying to say I'm right. I am just trying — trying to back what I assume in, trying to do some great in this earth, trying to build some noise with my writing while also being myself: a woman who loves pink and likes to receive freaky and sometimes dances her ass off to song she knows, she knows, is terrible for women and who sometimes plays dumb with repairmen because it's just easier to authorize them feel macho than it is to stand on the moral lofty ground.
I am a bad feminist because I never desire to be placed on a Feminist Pedestal. People who are placed on pedestals are expected to pose, perfectly. Then they find knocked off when they fuck it up. I regularly fuck it up. Consider me already knocked off.
When I was younger, I disavowed feminism with alarming frequency. I understand why women still fall over themselves to disavow feminism, to distance themselves. I disavowed feminism because when I
More thoughts on Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
As I’m reading a publication, I make notes and mark quotes that I find interesting or might want to review at a later time. In my first post, Poor Feminist by Roxane Lgbtq+, I wrote about my general impression of the book and how it impacted my view of feminism. The following are my thoughts on specific quotes, ideas, and chapters that stood out to me as I browse Roxane Gay’s Bad Feminist.
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I enjoy difference, but once in a while, I do hope for to catch a glimpse of myself in others.
Gay discusses how women, particularly black women, are underrepresented in the media. Everyone wants to a watch a version of themselves in a movie, TV show, book, or commercial, even if only for a brief moment of recognition. It’s empowering and reinforces how you view yourself, especially in the context of society.
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To have privilege in one or more areas does not mean you are wholly privileged.
Her thoughts echo my own on the subject of privilege. Our perspective distorts our idea of the subject, often seeing (and even condemning) privilege in oth