It's smart and laugh-out-loud funny essay, and in a humbling turn, Gay herself finds a similar unwarranted frustration toward competitors when she begins losing. One of the best pieces comes early in the book when Gay competes in a Scrabble tournament and her success as a beginner angers her male opponents. To combat the demeaning stereotype that feminists are humorless, Gay imbues her essays with levity. 'They are, like feminism, flawed, but they come from a genuine place.' This place, as displayed throughout the course of her excellent essay collection, is also one of daring intelligence, imagination, and empathy. An Amazon Best Book of the Month, August 2014: 'These essays are political and they are personal,' Roxanne Gay announces in the introduction of Bad Feminist.
