Can Everyone Please Calm Down?: A Guide to 21st Century Sexuality

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Martin says when strangers approach, they act as if they are friends, asking the most intimate questions. “They feel like they really know me. And the mad thing is they kind of do. So we have deep conversations. They get right into it asking about addiction, relationships and gender.” Logan, Brian (24 August 2017). "Mae Martin: Dope review – hair-raising comedy about romance and rehab". the Guardian . Retrieved 5 July 2021.

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Then Martin heightens the bit further. “This is a little abstract, but don’t you think that, in a way, our brains and our minds are like our rooms, and we furnish our minds with experiences that we collect to then build what we think of as our identity and our selves?” they ask. “I always visualize every experience that we collect as like a little novelty snow globe. We’re just going around being like, ‘One time I saw Antonio Banderas at the airport. Yes, I did. And I’m myself. And no one else is me.’” They pantomime palming an imaginary snow globe and placing it on a shelf.Along with two school friends, Martin went to the Toronto sketch show Family Circus Maximus 160 times in a single year. Newspaper features were written about the trio, who became known as “the Groupies”. Martin began to do their own standup, in school uniform, at 13. “I felt my whole body vibrating with excitement and euphoria. I found the adrenaline addictive, and the camaraderie and the feeling of inclusion into this club of cool people that I admired. I couldn’t believe it. It felt amazing.” You can sense their euphoria, as Martin recalls it.

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There’s been increasing attention recently to on-set behaviour towards women. Have you had disquieting experiences?I really noticed this coming out of the pandemic — all human interaction is just basically taking turns showing each other our snow globes … Someone will be showing you their snow globe, and you’re trying to be a good listener. It’s like a story about a party they went to five years ago, and you’re like, ‘Yes, and you are you as well. How wonderful to be yourself as well.’ But the whole time, your eyes are just darting to your own shelf — a hundred percent, the whole time. You’re like ‘Hmmm. Yes. No. Yes,’ waiting for your moment to be like, ‘And me as well! I have one!’” Martin stamps this punch line by holding out an imaginary snow globe, widening their eyes, and staring directly into the camera. Alexander, Ella (17 May 2016). "Mae Martin's Guide to 21st Century Sexuality". Glamour. Archived from the original on 2 November 2016 . Retrieved 2 November 2016. That’s the thing – a lot of the chat around Feel Good leans towards the heavier side of it, but it’s really funny. a b Wiseman, Eva (15 March 2020). "Mae Martin: 'It's enriching to share things you're ashamed of' ". The Observer . Retrieved 7 July 2021. This is very much an aside, but Charlotte: do you recall very much your time as an uncredited extra on Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire?

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The prevailing tendency in pop culture is to depict gender variance as an avant-garde aesthetic, whereas Martin has a them-next-door vibe: they’re clear-eyed and ultra-blond, a fan of Radio 1 bangers and ballads, dressed in Adidas and Carhartt, likely to compare themselves to Bart Simpson or confess an affinity with Niall from One Direction. We discuss our mutual love of Haim and the 1987 Goldie Hawn screwball comedy Overboard, and how not everything has to be about queer enclaves. “I relate to Titanic,” they confide. “That’s a very straight story.” (Whenever a photographer asks what look they’re going for, Martin replies, “ young Leonardo DiCaprio.”) CR: I read a good book recently, part of a book. A headline about a book. No, I did the modern thing of reading a book and reading a bit of an article about a book. And it was about how history actually is a good example of humans continuously working on their cohabitation in a positive way, and I’m not sure I agree but I like the thought that maybe there are more examples of goodness than bad acts in the world. I don’t know if that’s true, but I’m hoping that will be the case as we move forward and try to work a bit harder at being more inclusive and better people. Mae Pearl Martin [1] (born 2 May 1987) is a Canadian comedian, actor, and screenwriter. They co-created, co-wrote and starred in the Channel 4/ Netflix comedy series Feel Good. They received a nomination for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Female Comedy Performance for their work on Feel Good. Martin is too aware of their own anxiety to be alarmed by all this, and it’s not all horror. “There are lighthearted ones, too. This is the happiest one I’ve got.” Again, Martin scrolls forwards. “ Oh boy, I’ve got a puppeee. Wheeeeeeee!” I’m sure these snippets will make it into a future standup routine. Editor’s note: The following review contains spoilers for Season 2 of “ Feel Good,” including the ending.]Performing comedy since the age of 13, Mae trained in improvisation and sketch comedy at the Toronto outpost of the internationally acclaimed comedy institution, The Second City. Notable alumni include Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Steve Carrell and Mike Myers. They received their first Canadian Comedy Award nomination at 15, and has since won for writing on the sketch series The Baroness Von Sketch Show. At 16, they made their Canadian television debut on The Comedy Network's Cream of Comedy, and was the youngest ever nominee for the Tim Sims Encouragement Fund Award. MM: I think it changes episode by episode. And I like that it's, even at the very end, I think, kind of open to interpretation. I'm rooting for them, because I think they're really in love. And that kind of love is hard to find. However, I think the main message of the show is that that has to be a choice that you make every day based on whether it's making you happy, and whether your needs are being met, and you're able to meet the needs of someone else. So I think they're trying to get to that place where they're choosing to be with each other rather than compelled to be with each other because of a gaping chasm of insatiable need. By the end of series two both characters have evolved. George is happy with her bisexuality, while Mae changes from she to they, announcing: “I think I’m transgender or non-binary or whatever the term is these days.” Mae has also begun to understand that their teenage relationships with older men were abusive and exploitative.