Many comedians are very proud of...

Many comedians are very proud of themselves for saying the things others are supposedly afraid to say. They are at the forefront of this culture of entitlement where we get to do anything, think anything, and say anything.

- Roxane Gay

Bad Feminist

entitlement politics rape-culture

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I would rather be a bad feminist than no feminist at all.

- Roxane Gay

I was too smart and that made people uncomfortable--most folks where we've lived our whole lives don't trust too much intelligence in a woman. There is also the problem of my eyes--they don't hide anything. If I don't care for a person, my eyes make it plain. I don't care for most. Folks are generally comfortable with the small lies they tell each other. They don't know what to do with someone like me, who mostly doesn't bother with small lies.

- Roxane Gay

... just one more reminder that the rules are always different for girls, no matter who they are and no matter what they do.

- Roxane Gay

This tension-the idea that there is a right way to be a woman, a right way to be the most essential woman- is ongoing and pervasive.

- Roxane Gay

Despite what people think based on my opinion writing, I very much like men. They're interesting to me, and I mostly wish they would be better about how they treat women so I wouldn't have to call them out so often.

- Roxane Gay

Sometimes, when you least expect it, you become the girl in the woods. You lose your name because another one is forced on you. You think you are alone until you find books about girls like you. Salvation is certainly among the reasons I read. Reading and writing have always pulled me out of the darkest experiences in my life. Stories have given me place in which to lose myself. They have allowed me to remember. They have allowed me to forget. They have allowed me to imagine different endings and better possible worlds.

- Roxane Gay

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