Analysis Of The Selection, Bad Feminist By Roxane Gay

The selection, Bad Feminist, by Roxane Gay contains very powerful essays about different feministic topics. The author is a what she considers a ‘bad feminist’. “Anytime I remember how I once disavowed feminism, I am ashamed of my ignorance” (Gay xii). She was always a feminist, but she was never vocal about her ideas. Gay realized that this was wrong, and slowly started to progress, and started to be more vocal about her ideas. Feminism is a controversial issue, which the author discusses indepthly, this appeals to the audience because the entire book is very appealing to people with any type of feminism views, the main idea of this selection is fundamental human rights, and the author really understands what a reader wants to try to fully understand, and what is not as important. She adds little encounters she has had in her lifetime to develop the essays even further. …show more content…
There has been a variety of different books written about this topic. Multiple people do not support the idea of complete equality between all males, females, and nonbinary. The majority of those people are from the baby boomer generation. Their parents raised them to believe men were superior. But why? There are many distinct differences between everyone, yes, but what difference deems that a man should be superior? Many people frown upon the millennial generation for being so open minded about everything, mainly when it comes to equality for everybody. This selection has a very important purpose, which shows the small ways men try and act like they are indeed above women. In addition, the intended audience would be anyone interested in feminism, or any feministic ideas. Anyone who has this interest would have strong feelings towards what these pages contain. She writes about any sort of issue really, from feminism, to racial issues. She also explains that almost everyone has some sort of