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Your use of “proto-Tea Party Atticus” in describing his Klan activities is beyond offensive and totally inaccurate. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to make it through the first paragraph of your review without finding something with which to take issue. there are no victims when it comes to writing.
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People write because they cannot do otherwise. And no, I didn’t have a husband/friends to support my writing.
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I write full time now, but interspersed my academic papers with newspaper articles, columns, and feature writing. Especially not me! I have to MA degrees (I was un-victim enough to write 2 MA theses), and taught college-level classes in sociology & poli sci for 27 years. When I see how happy my kids are in their traditional marriages (they and their spouses are all well-educated & conservative), none of us feel like victims. Affluent/white women could afford to pshaw traditional marriage & family, while most women I knew would have given their left tit for man who liked to work and felt he should stick around and support his family. I also learned that ‘liberated’ women were a pain in the butt. I learned my lines and knew my role at each stage, including the “tough love” when they were in their drug experimentation phase. I was better the older they got until now (they’re 53 & 48), I get their sincere thanks for being kind of mom they needed at the time. I was a great “new-mom” but a terrible mom when my kids were in elementary school, according to the motherly canon. What I learned is that ‘motherhood’ must change as the kids grow up. I was a single parent from 18-21, 23-25, and from 31-on to 72. A good mother is a good victim.” If Shalmiyev, or other women, really believe this, then why do women continue to posture as archetypal victims? Don’t they want to be liked and understood? To her and her ilk, I would say, she hasn’t met the right mothers. “No one will ever like or understand a victim.