Episode 90.5 – A Queer Chat About Martians and Venusians
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2018
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
If all Venusians communicate so easily, why is Kait so garbage at asking girls out? That’s just one of the questions John Gray’s Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus tire fire left unanswered from a queer perspective, so Kait rounded up a few of her queer friends to talk about why this book is extra garbage if you don’t conform to the cisgender, heterosexual societal norm. Join Kait, Wren, and Red as they have a collective rage aneurysm and make a lot of dumb queer jokes about the Mars/Venus designation. Will Wren and Red actually remain friends with Kait after she made them read this nonsense book? Listen to this bonus episode to find out!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read heteronormative bullshit advice books so you don't have to. |
| 0:17.2 | I'm Kate, and this is a special follow-up episode about men are from Mars, women are from Venus from a queer perspective. |
| 0:24.3 | Join me for this deep dive into this garbage are Ren Parker, a bisexual, not from your planet. |
| 0:31.4 | Hello. |
| 0:32.6 | And Red, formerly from Venus, currently from Mars. |
| 0:37.1 | Hello. |
| 0:38.5 | So we recorded the first episode that you've already listened to probably about men |
| 0:44.3 | are from Mars, women are from Venus. |
| 0:46.0 | And when we were done and during the process, I just sort of felt with absolutely no offense |
| 0:51.6 | intended towards Renata and our excellent guests, |
| 0:54.4 | who were all wonderful and hilarious and had amazing things to say about this book, |
| 0:59.2 | that I felt a little awkward as the only, as far as I know, queer person on that episode, |
| 1:06.3 | because this book, looked at through that lens is just so skin crawly. |
| 1:14.8 | And it was hard to be able to talk about that with people who didn't see it from that |
| 1:21.3 | perspective. |
| 1:22.8 | So I raised a call on Twitter and found a couple other people who were willing to subject themselves to this book. |
| 1:30.5 | Sorry, guys. |
| 1:32.4 | And we're just going to talk a little bit about how horrible and disgusting this is if you're not a cisgender heterosexual man or woman. Man, really, because even for the weather, it was pretty garbage. |
| 1:48.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:53.3 | Oh, Lord. |
| 1:54.8 | So I'm sorry again, guys. |
| 1:56.9 | What were your first impressions? |
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