GAY SCIENCE: The Totally Scientific Examination of LGBTQ+ Culture, Myths, and Stereotypes, fun froth for the train to Babylon

GAY SCIENCE: The Totally Scientific Examination of LGBTQ+ Culture, Myths, and Stereotypes
ROB ANDERSON
DK Books
$25.00 hardcover, available now

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Rating: 3.75* of five

The Publisher Says: New York Times Bestseller

Comedian Rob Anderson examines queer stereotypes and LGBTQ+ culture with humorous explanations borrowed from real principles across multiple fields of science.

Class is in session, babe! Discover the inner workings of the LGBTQ+ community with this humorous and informative book. Author and comedian Rob Anderson borrows the familiar science textbook format to skewer ridiculous queer stereotypes with his own version of science.

Using the principles of natural, social, and formal sciences, Rob answers extremely serious questions Why can’t gays sit in a chair properly? Why don’t lesbians have electricity in their movies? Are colleges turning people bisexual? How does gaydar work? Will bottoms survive the apocalypse?

You’ll read about the three subtypes of the gay uncle species, examine the Periodic Table of LGBTQ+ Elements, understand gay crime and punishment, and get educated on the types of bacteria and viruses that exclusively affect the LGBTQs, like the state of Florida.

Inspired by his viral “Gay Science” series, Rob recreates some of his most popular episodes in a literary format, and also tackles completely fresh subjects, presenting them with super empirical and totally evidence-based homosexual data.

Gay Science

Coverage of 60 topics across 29 fields of science including biology, chemistry, physics, genetics, botany, nutrition, astronomy, anthropology, oceanography, sociology, criminology, engineering, computer science, and more!Informative sidebars including Get PrePared, The Tea, Serving Conclusions, The Gloss, Yas or Naur, Fagtoids, and A Lesbian Explains.Diagrams, charts, illustrations, and maps to explain the gayest concepts.

Rob Anderson is course-correcting decades of educational shortcomings by explaining the scientific reasonings behind every aspect of LGBTQ+ life. If you’re looking for a fun book that will probably be banned (if it isn’t already), add Gay Science to your personal lesson plan.

I RECEIVED THIS BOOK AS PART OF A PROMOTION. THANK YOU.

My Review: Do you remember the science textbooks from seventh grade? You will soon...you will forcefully recall the graphic design, the placement of information, the snippets and bullet points and images you sometimes wondered where they came from. It's deja vu only not scary...you're still sitting there book/device in hand, not out-of-body wondering how to escape the nightmare.

Comedy = misery plus time was never more well-aimed. The way we learn how to be queer is often bound up with laughter. Joking, clowning, being the butt of the joke, being laughed at...it's all laughter and all fuel for the deep wells of humor in gay culture. And notice I'm using "gay" not the more inclusive words. If this gigglemaker of a book has a flaw it's that it us very much for, by, and about the gay male. Being one of those I don't find that troubling. I find it more indicative of marketing segmentation than a product of innate malice or even unexamined bias. Go watch his YouTube channel; decide if you think the man's being insensitive or telling his own truth, not trying to generalize his experience into spurious universality.

Of course, as humor, it will inevitably fail to "hit" with some; I am not among them. I got good laughs and lots of snorts and a few eye-streaming fits. My Rob was a little scared by my call during one of those! He thought I was having another, weirder, stroke. He was far more muted in his responses to Mr. Anderson, possibly because I introduced him as "the hot comedian"—might've been a tad prejudicial.

The stereotypes and archetypes Anderson takes on are real, so there will be some butthurt among the people. Laugh at yourself, get over the idea that respect = praise, and most of all take in the scene...get some perspective on how you actually look from the outside. It very much helps everyone when we all do that.

So let me urge the gay guys to listen to this call from inside the house. Let me urge the eww-ick homophobes to splash out for a sale Kindlebook. Let's look at the reality of gay identity in its weird and wonderful strangeness, its wildly obsessive focuses, its deeply human flawed glorious fun-seeking.

And laugh. Together.