Episode 215 – Beauty Fades, Dumb Is Forever
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2023
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Did you read Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus and think, “This could really use more victim blaming?” If so: have we got a book for you! Kristen and Jolenta from How To Be Fine (and By the Book) joined us to discuss Beauty Fades, Dumb Is Forever: The Making of a Happy Woman by Judge Judy Sheindlin. Listen to this episode on your way to pick up your husband’s dry cleaning!
Readers advisory: Here.
Footnotes: By The Book: Beauty Fades, Dumb Is Forever
Judge Judy To Megyn Kelly: ‘I’m Not A Feminist’
Coming up next: The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to worst bestsellers, where we read about Judge Judy's ugly opinions, so you don't have to. |
| 0:19.3 | I'm Renata. |
| 0:20.5 | And I'm Kate. And for this episode, we read |
| 0:23.5 | Beauty Fades, Dumb as Forever, Colon, The Making of a Happy Woman by Judge Judy Shindlin. |
| 0:31.6 | Joining us to discuss this depressing self-help book are authors and advice critics Kristen Mineser and Jolenda Greenberg, |
| 0:39.7 | who have just launched their new podcast based on their book by the same name, How to Be Fine. |
| 0:45.8 | Their podcast aims to tell the truth behind wellness myths and uncover empty promises from the |
| 0:51.4 | self-help world. Welcome back to Worcestersellers, Kristen and |
| 0:55.0 | Jolenda. Thank you so much for having us back. We're so excited to be here. I don't know if we can |
| 1:01.0 | top men are from Mars, women are from Venus, but maybe we can. I think it's, I think it is |
| 1:08.5 | going to be hard because this book was written by a woman. |
| 1:15.9 | And as we've just learned, women are not great at, at things. |
| 1:17.5 | Anything really. |
| 1:20.0 | I think the main adjective she uses is stupid. |
| 1:21.4 | Stupid and dumb. |
| 1:21.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:22.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:34.5 | I am more depressed having read this book than I was before, which is quite a statement from me, to be honest. We are sorry. |
| 1:37.0 | No, I know what you mean. |
| 1:38.6 | I feel like there's like an inherent sense, or at least there was for me. |
| 1:43.3 | It was depressing plus disappointing because it is not |
| 1:47.5 | what I expected from Judge Judy. Yes, because with men are from Mars, at least I expected that to be |
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