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Bad Feminist Quotes
In correctness, 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 important because it introduces, within the book's first two pages, the idea that feminism is not a perfect movement. This fact is what helps Gay embrace 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 mistake.
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 Lgbtq+ has had to confront as a black girl in academia. As the only person of dye in her graduate program, Gay feels disconnected from her classmates who can't possibly understand how hurtful
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| This section contains 1, words (approx. 4 pages at words p Bad Feminist Quotes “I accept feminism is grounded in supporting the choices of women even if we wouldn’t make certain choices for ourselves.” Like “It’s hard to be told to lighten up because if you lighten up any more, you’re going to float the fuck away.” Like “I would rather be a poor feminist than no feminist at all.” Like “When feminism falls concise of our expectations, we decide the problem is with feminism rather than with the flawed people who act in the name of the movement.” Like “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.” Like “It's hard not to undergo humorless, as a chick and a feminist, to 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 perfect. I am not trying to say I have all the answers. I am not trying to declare I'm right. I am just trying — trying to support what I believe in, trying to do some good in this world, trying to make some noise with my writing while also being myself: a female who loves pink and likes to get freaky and sometimes dances her ass off to melody she knows, she knows, is terrible for women and who sometimes plays dumb with repairmen because it's just easier to let them feel macho than it is to stand on the moral high ground. I am a bad feminist because I never want to be placed on a Feminist Pedestal. People who are placed on pedestals are expected to pose, perfectly. Then they get knocked off when they fuck it up. I regularly fuck it up. Contemplate 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 was called a feminist, the label felt like an insult. In fact, it was generally intended as such. Wh More thoughts on Bad Feminist by Roxane GayAs I’m reading a guide, I make notes and mark quotes that I find interesting or might want to review at a later time. In my first post, Terrible Feminist by Roxane Same-sex attracted, 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. ~ ~ ~
Gay discusses how women, particularly black women, are underrepresented in the media. Everyone wants to a observe 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. ~ ~ ~
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 others before being able know our own.
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