Episode 112 – Queer Thoughts on Having It All
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2018
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
How do you get and keep a man? Hell if Kait knows, even after reading Having It All by Helen Gurley Brown. Once again, Kait has gathered some queer friends to see if Helen Gurley Brown’s worldview falls apart if you are not a heterosexual, cisgender woman. (Spoiler alert: It does!) Join Kait, Wren (of Ready to Roll), and Laura as they explore whether bisexual people exist (Spoiler alert: They do!), what the best “thanks for the sex!” gift is (brass lion all the way), and how much to tip on dates (less than the price of whatever outmoded status symbol you gift to your date at the start).
Coming up next: The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, and welcome to the worst bestsellers, but queer, or queerer than usual. |
| 0:06.7 | This is a periodic special installment we do of worst bestsellers where I gather some of my other |
| 0:11.8 | queer friends to dip further into particularly egregiously bad books. |
| 0:17.8 | You may recall that we had the lovely and talented Kelly Sue Deconic on the show last spring to discuss having it all by Helen Gurley Brown. |
| 0:26.4 | It was groundbreaking in its time, but it didn't age real well, especially in regards to the way that it handled queer representation. |
| 0:34.9 | The episode you're about to hear is a conversation that we had about a couple |
| 0:38.8 | chapters in particular, kind of a deeper dive into it from a queer perspective. We'll be back |
| 0:45.6 | with a normal episode in two weeks where we'll discuss the Thornbirds by Colleen McCullough. |
| 0:51.1 | And in the meantime, please enjoy this queer examination of having it all by Helen |
| 0:55.4 | Girlie Brown. Thanks. |
| 1:10.7 | Hello and welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about how to get a man so you don't have to. |
| 1:13.9 | I'm Kate, and this is a special follow-up episode about having it all by Helen Gurley Brown from a queer perspective. |
| 1:21.7 | Joining me to discuss this poorly aged cis-hete white lady advice, |
| 1:27.0 | Arren, a bisexual unicorn burger, |
| 1:29.8 | and unqualified lesbian Laura. |
| 1:33.4 | Hello. |
| 1:34.6 | Hello. |
| 1:37.4 | Thanks for joining me, guys. |
| 1:40.0 | Oh, my God, I'm back again. |
| 1:46.0 | It's almost like these books give you a lot of angry feelings about their treatment of people who aren't cis-hete white folks. |
| 1:58.4 | There's just so much. |
| 2:01.1 | There is a lot. There's a lot in this one. |
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