However, by the end, I was still unsure about what I was meant to take away from the book. I did manage to read all the essays, and there were definitely some interesting ideas. Personally, I’m somewhere between the two. Others found it an easier read but thought it didn’t really say anything new about feminism that they hadn’t already read elsewhere. It certainly divided the group, with some readers finding it a real struggle to finish. Bad Feminist, a collection of essays by Roxane Gay, was the chosen book for the May Brighton GozenGirls book club.