Episode 95 – Having It All
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2018
⏱️ 110 minutes
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Summary
Kait and Renata dug into some vintage life advice from former Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown’s 1982 book Having It All. Who better to help them talk about compliance to gender and beauty norms than Bitch Planet writer Kelly Sue DeConnick? That’s not a rhetorical question, we really got to talk to Kelly Sue DeConnick! Join us now to hear 17 easy ways to tell whether or not you’re a mouseburger!
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Footnotes: The Author of Enter Helen on Why Helen Gurley Brown Is Such an Enigma by Julia Felsenthal
Bitch Planet has always been absurd. But in 2017, it reads like a warning.
Candy pairing: Kait says hot lemonade, Kelly Sue says monkfruit, Renata says a packet of Equal.
Coming up next: A Princess In Theory by Alyssa Cole.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about compliant women so you don't have to. |
| 0:15.7 | I'm Kate. |
| 0:16.6 | And I'm Renata. |
| 0:17.7 | And for this episode, we read Having It All, Love, Success, Sex, Money, Even If You're |
| 0:23.6 | Starting with Nothing, by Helen Garley Brown. |
| 0:26.9 | Joining us to discuss this extended magazine for Mouseburgers is comic book and |
| 0:31.6 | television writer Kelly Sue. |
| 0:33.2 | Hi. |
| 0:34.1 | Hi, Kelly Sue. |
| 0:34.7 | Hi, thank you for joining us. |
| 0:37.0 | Yeah, thank you for having me. And also, sorry. Little, Kelly Sue. Hi, thank you for joining us. Yeah. |
| 0:38.5 | Thank you for having me. |
| 0:40.1 | And also, sorry. |
| 0:42.8 | Little bit resentful that you made us read this book. |
| 0:44.8 | You know, you're welcome. |
| 0:50.8 | By the way, just in case you were confused by that modest introduction, it's Kelly Sue DeConic, |
| 0:55.1 | writer of such comic books as Bitch Planet, which I'm sure you've heard about because we recommend it like every episode here on our podcast. |
| 1:00.0 | Captain Marvel, obviously, pretty deadly, a run-on Avengers that I really liked, personally. |
| 1:09.7 | And other such things. |
| 1:11.7 | I can Google it. |
| 1:13.0 | Yeah, you can Google it. |
| 1:14.7 | But I just wanted to be clear up front if you're like, oh, is that just somebody named Kelly Sue? |
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