It’s 2016 and people are ready to talk; The Oscar nominations were recently revealed and people in and out of Hollywood are not pleased. The black acting community received zero nominations and it was overwhelmingly clear that no matter how good of an actor you are, the older white males over at the Oscars aren’t going to nominate you based on talent. Roxanne Gay’s essays titled “Me” reflects the views of a black, educated, and outspoken writer who brings to light in an interesting, factual, and comical way the difference of struggles between white and black people in the educational world. Sure, this topic has been discussed over and over and over again; but Gay has a certain way of putting it that makes you want to call your friend and talk
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Her style of writing is honest, clear, to the point and inspirational to an extent. It is very easy for people to write or talk about how certain groups should be accomplishing this or that but it’s a whole other story to actually fulfill those goals. I didn’t read the entire chapter, but I did read “Careless Language of Sexual Violence”, “How To Be Friends with Another Woman”, “Spectacle of Broken Men”, “Dear Young Ladies Who Love Chris Brown So Much They Would Let Him Beat Them”. The central themes throughout these short essays are inequality between genders, violence against women—both sexually and physically—and women …show more content…
The article focused on how the town was shaken and broken apart by this atrocious event. The article lacked any sympathy for the innocent girl who experienced this traumatic event. Gay slays the dragon by bringing to light the fact that when terrible things like rape happens, society tends to shy away from the individual victim and instead it becomes a topic of rape in general and the essence of the word rape outshines the victim. The word rape in turn also has been created to be something other than what its actual definition is. Society as a whole uses the word rape so commonly and in a joking manner that the severity of the act of rape can be viewed lighter by certain people and not taken as seriously as it should be. Gay continues to slay the dragon because she focuses on what the article lacked, she actually pin points in on the victim, the act of rape and what it did to her, the following repercussions and how her life will be affected forever. As a society “we are careless. We delude ourselves that rape can be washed away as neatly as it is on TV and in the movies, were the trajectory of victimhood is neatly defined.” (Gay,
Her style of writing is honest, clear, to the point and inspirational to an extent. It is very easy for people to write or talk about how certain groups should be accomplishing this or that but it’s a whole other story to actually fulfill those goals. I didn’t read the entire chapter, but I did read “Careless Language of Sexual Violence”, “How To Be Friends with Another Woman”, “Spectacle of Broken Men”, “Dear Young Ladies Who Love Chris Brown So Much They Would Let Him Beat Them”. The central themes throughout these short essays are inequality between genders, violence against women—both sexually and physically—and women …show more content…
The article focused on how the town was shaken and broken apart by this atrocious event. The article lacked any sympathy for the innocent girl who experienced this traumatic event. Gay slays the dragon by bringing to light the fact that when terrible things like rape happens, society tends to shy away from the individual victim and instead it becomes a topic of rape in general and the essence of the word rape outshines the victim. The word rape in turn also has been created to be something other than what its actual definition is. Society as a whole uses the word rape so commonly and in a joking manner that the severity of the act of rape can be viewed lighter by certain people and not taken as seriously as it should be. Gay continues to slay the dragon because she focuses on what the article lacked, she actually pin points in on the victim, the act of rape and what it did to her, the following repercussions and how her life will be affected forever. As a society “we are careless. We delude ourselves that rape can be washed away as neatly as it is on TV and in the movies, were the trajectory of victimhood is neatly defined.” (Gay,