Alas, due to library due dates/time management issues, I had to cram my reading of Bad Feminist into two days which really isn't enough time to reflect on all the meaty issues Roxanne Gay discusses in her essays. She had me pumping my fist in her gender section and feeling embarrassed during her race section which I think is perfect. She's not spitting out opinions everyone already holds; she is challenging readers who might even feel they are coming from the same place. Her essays are candid and heartbreaking, emotional and enraged, humorous and delightfully cheeky at times. Gay acknowledges her own indulgences which seem not to align with traditional "Feminism" and explains her own stance as a "bad feminist" which I take to mean someone who is redefining the word with her passion for gender/racial/sexual equality and her refusal to deny herself any aspect of life simply because it doesn't fit into a predefined mold. That was wordy and not completely right and basically you should just read the book -- at least her beginning and ending essays on bad feminism. She also critiques books and movies in a way that makes me want to see and read them. And hallelujah! Someone told me all about 50 Shades and now I can have my curiosity satisfied and not have to read any of it! Oh, yah, spoilers abound in regard to anything she reviews. She is going to tell it all. Overall, thought-provoking. I've already started recommending it to friends, and I would like to read it again as well as her other works. I'm so very happy she writes what she writes and that she writes it so well. And now I want to play Scrabble.