![]() It probably goes without saying, but this book is incredibly cis/heteronormative. It’s tortured and overwrought and would be the first thing on the cutting room floor if a half-decent editor had their way. He frames the book in an extended metaphor, setting for us a scenario in which men came from Mars, women from Venus, and started living together here on Earth until they forgot their origins. ![]() But it is just so bad.Īs you can guess from the title, John Gray thinks men and women are very different creatures. Apparently this was an influential book in the 1990s and started the eponymous saying, so I get the reasons for wanting to read it. ![]() Yes, this is the October pick for the Banging Book Club, a monthly club that reads books about sex, sexuality, and gender. This is just a terrible, even actively harmful book, and judging from the Banging Book Club video where they talk about things that weren’t present in the abridgement, I’m very, very lucky. What’s the point in missing out on a bunch of the book? In the case of Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus, however, I think I’ll make an exception. ![]() I had to borrow the audiobook version from my library/Hoopla because that was the only format available, and it is the abridged audio edition. ![]()
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