Episode 90 – Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2018
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
We wanted to start the new year off with a self-help book, so we teamed up with Jolenta and Kristen from By the Book, a podcast where they try out living by self-help books, and read Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus by John Gray. We’re glad Jolenta and Kristen already tried out John Gray’s advice, because we would hate to even think about living by his gender essentialist nonsense. Make sure to download this before you retreat to your Woman Well or Man Cave, because everyone knows the wifi down there is terrible.
Readers advisory: Here.
Footnotes: By The Book: Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus
This American Life #291 – Reunited (And It Feels So Good)
“How To Talk To Babies About Gender Theory” by Mallory Ortberg
“Solved: Do Men Cry? Do Women Defecate?” by Amy Collier
Candy pairing: Jolenta says rock candy, Kait says gin, Kristen says circus peanuts, Renata says astronaut ice cream.
Coming up next: Warriors: Into the Wild by Erin Hunter
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about the rigid construction of the gender binary so you don't have to. |
| 0:17.4 | I'm Kate. |
| 0:18.3 | And I'm Renata. |
| 0:19.9 | And for this episode, we read Men are from Mars, Women Are |
| 0:23.2 | from Venus by John Gray. Joining us to discuss the sexist pile of garbage, Arjolenta Greenberg, |
| 0:30.4 | and Kristen Meinser, hosts of By the Book, a podcast in which they live by the rules of a different |
| 0:35.5 | self-help book in every episode to see which ones actually work. A few weeks ago, they live by the rules of a different self-help book in every episode to see which |
| 0:38.2 | ones actually work. A few weeks ago, they lived by men are from Mars, women are from Venus, and so |
| 0:43.9 | at this point, they're pretty much experts in this horrible bestseller from the 1990s. |
| 0:49.6 | Hi, Jolenta. Hi. Hi, Kristen. Hi, so excited to be here. |
| 0:55.9 | We're so happy to have you. |
| 0:57.7 | I mean, we read it, but you lived it. |
| 1:01.9 | Lord help us, we did. |
| 1:04.7 | And it, well, I guess we'll get into it in a little bit. |
| 1:08.4 | But I definitely would recommend everyone listens to their episode about it too, |
| 1:11.8 | because it was actually very moving in a way that our episode will not be. |
| 1:19.5 | No, no. |
| 1:19.7 | The warning there is crying in our episode. |
| 1:22.4 | True. |
| 1:22.7 | Yeah, real tears, real meltdowns. |
| 1:24.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:26.3 | And then the next thing I want to say about this book is because I know this is a question |
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