An Analysis Of Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist

In today’s society, the dominant ethnic group continues to be the white race, as it has been for the past few centuries. Whites can ignore what is occurring in the world since the majority of the time it does not specifically affect them. The Caucasian race is very privileged, yet they are unaware of this fact, and it is, therefore, invisible to them. There are many reasons as to why this fact is true, some of which is explained in Roxane Gay’s novel “Bad Feminist,” she outlines her views on this subject and writes about what knowledge people should have about their privilege and how they can change their perceptions. People being unable to acknowledge their privilege becomes a worldwide issue and affects the lives of many individuals worldwide.

(Ramirez, November 16th) Those that are privileged are often unable to see their advantages, white privilege specifically is similar to an invisible weightless knapsack, we don 't think about it, but it is always there, it 's hard to recognize something that we do not typically recognize. Distinguishing this privilege is the first step in overcoming inequality, but this process will take decades to overcome completely. Since white people being dominant has become normalized in the media, it can be tough to notice, which therefore only expands to its powerful influence. The normalization of racial discrimination in media is a major issue in society

The writers are just making things up about what they think people will find entertaining. She has gone to see movies that are about slavery and discrimination of the black race. She found that these depictions were incorrect and offensive to her race. Blacks did experience a very tough time and were involved in slavery, but in the way that it is depicted in the movies such as Django Unchained, and The Help. The movie The Help was written by a white woman, the screenplay written by a white man, and the film was directed by the same white man. An example of how this can go wrong is shown here, “At one point while teaching Celia Foote to make fried chicken Minny says, “Frying chicken tend to make me feel better about life.” That a line about solace found in the preparation of fried foods made it into a book and movie produced in this decade says a great deal about where we are in acting about race. We are nowhere”(Gay 214). Here, one example of unjust stereotyping that occurs within the movie is shown. Stereotyping is often called “power/knowledge.” It organizes people according to a norm and constructs the excluded “other.” (Hall 228) In most cases, race is managed insufficiently in movies and fictional novels. One other instance where Gay has been offended in movies is Django Unchained. In this film, written and