Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em Podcast 90. Kat Rosenfield Makes Us Laugh About Culture, And Also Rethink It
This week Nancy and Sarah butter up the prolific and enviably clever journalist/novelist Kat Rosenfield. Kat takes us back to the days of writing $15 posts for MTV News and through the confounding episode of her cancellation in the young-adult fiction world, which led to a stellar career as, among other things, a culture columnist at UnHerd and co-host of the podcast Feminine Chaos. She writes compulsively readable thrillers, too! Also discussed:
* That time Kat was suspended from Twitter for telling someone to …
* The YA lit dogpile that Kat wrote her way out of
* Why she thinks most cancellations are “an overcoat over some personal beef”
* Her obsession with the loss of social trust
* Our conflict between wanting women to have the agency of their own choices and wanting to keep them safe
* Ahhh, Howard Stern memories (and how apparently no woman should be over 120 pounds in the 90s)
* The disappointing reveal of the Lauren Boebert footage
* How to solve a problem like Russell Brand?
* Age of consent and 16 year olds
* The podcaster that makes Kat bite her lips
* New Beauty Mark recommendations to make you smooth, soft and sleepy
And much more!