Sexy grandma Martha Stewart bravely goes where no self-respecting woman really should: The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition Cover. What can we say, other than: “yas Queen, get it”. Next, a social club for the losers of the intellectual discourse--or is getting cancelled kind of sexy now? (We say: yes).SUBSCRIBE TO HEAR THE BONUS: https://aspecialplace.substack.com/subscribeLINKS:At 81, Martha Stewart Is the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue Cover StarA Club for the CancelledHow Therapists Became Social Justice WarriorsWatch this episode on YouTube: Listen to the podcast on:Apple: https://apple.co/3jnEkALSpotify: https://spoti.fi/3l3WLLeSubstack: https://bit.ly/3XYHFoWAmazon & Audible: https://amzn.to/3JANQehi-Heart Radio: https://bit.ly/3jtpskoRSS: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/aspecialpl...Tune In: http://bit.ly/3lhLwixStitcher :http://bit.ly/3x1P9eYGoogle: http://bit.ly/40WvZEkFollow us on:Twitter: https://bit.ly/40heL4ZInstagram: https://bit.ly/3X3fHXEFacebook: https://bit.ly/3l2OW8GSubstack: https://bit.ly/3XYHFoWYouTube: : https://bit.ly/3jrxz0AWebsite: bit.ly/3wQygUe This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aspecialplace.substack.com

Are the criminally insane suffering from mental marginalization? Or is New York City just terrible? Is it ageist of Sarah to force Meghan to use Trello?Watch the episode on YouTube:Listen to the podcast on:Apple: https://apple.co/3jnEkALSpotify: https://spoti.fi/3l3WLLeSubstack: https://bit.ly/3XYHFoWAmazon & Audible: https://amzn.to/3JANQehi-Heart Radio: https://bit.ly/3jtpskoRSS: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/aspecialpl...Tune In: http://bit.ly/3lhLwixStitcher :http://bit.ly/3x1P9eYGoogle: http://bit.ly/40WvZEkFollow us on:Twitter: https://bit.ly/40heL4ZInstagram: https://bit.ly/3X3fHXEFacebook: https://bit.ly/3l2OW8GSubstack: https://bit.ly/3XYHFoWYouTube: : https://bit.ly/3jrxz0AWebsite: bit.ly/3wQygUe This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aspecialplace.substack.com

Titan of (so-called) TERFdom, philosopher-turned-activist, columnist, lesbian resurrectionist Kathleen Stock joins our hellscape oasis for a wide ranging conversation about academic freedom, professional cowardice, and how trans ideology took over the gay rights movement.Also: Sarah, Meghan and Kathleen compare notes on who apologizes the most. (Spoiler: it’s not Sarah.)Watch the episode on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3jrxz0AListen to the podcast on:Apple: https://apple.co/3jnEkALSpotify: https://spoti.fi/3l3WLLeAmazon & Audible: https://amzn.to/3JANQehi-Heart Radio: https://bit.ly/3jtpskoRSS: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/aspecialpl...Tune In: http://bit.ly/3lhLwixStitcher :http://bit.ly/3x1P9eYGoogle: http://bit.ly/40WvZEkFollow us on:Twitter: https://bit.ly/40heL4ZInstagram: https://bit.ly/3X3fHXEFacebook: https://bit.ly/3l2OW8GSubstack: https://bit.ly/3XYHFoWYouTube: : https://bit.ly/3jrxz0AWebsite: bit.ly/3wQygUe This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aspecialplace.substack.com

Is “public intellectual” a white supremacist concept? Is the MacArthur Genius Grant a Woke prize? Is Judy Blume a TERF?Watch the video episode on YouTube: : https://bit.ly/3jrxz0AFollow us on:Twitter: https://bit.ly/40heL4ZInstagram: https://bit.ly/3X3fHXEFacebook: https://bit.ly/3l2OW8GWebsite: https://aspecialplaceinhell.org/ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aspecialplace.substack.com

Saira Rao and Regina Jackson, founders of Race To Dinner, join the hosts to discuss white tears, their book, and encouraging white people to speak up against racism. They also explore the role of white supremacy in the United States and plan a screening of a documentary called 'Deconstructing Karen'.

This week (actually it was a few weeks ago), the girls/women find themselves in NYC! In the bustling, dystopia-adjacent metropolis, Meghan reclaims OWNS the streets of her youth/recent middle age while Sarah is disoriented by the assault on her tender suburban senses and feels as if she is suffocating on the miasma of mold and garbage juice. And guess what? This was the first time Sarah and Meghan ever met person! Sarah still cannot believe Meghan is merely average in height. Meghan cannot believe Sarah doesn’t have a baby permanently attached to her hip. In any case, they must look at each other without the buffering effect of camera filters, which is an act of radical courage. Despite their disappointment, they embark on Season 2 with clear eyes, full hearts, That means recording an in-studio conversation with race discourse’s Enfant Terrible, Coleman Hughes. All parties thought they were going to be the host for this recording, but Meghan’s interrupting interviewing chops won out and Coleman divulged all sorts of personal things, including his musical background, his experiences dating social justice-y women and, moreover, his heterodox “origin story.” (Like all superheroes, he has one.) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aspecialplace.substack.com

This episode includes the bonus content normally only for paying subscribers: You are all welcome. The girls/women take on so many meaty topics that they might as well be glowing from Jordan Peterson’s carnivore diet. After a quick plug for Meghan’s new (and soon-to-be-HUGE) Substack feature Dreams of Heterodox Podcasters, they begin with a discussion of Sarah’s recent Substack post about “how hate crime hoaxes are good.” (Never blame writers for headlines. Except on Substack.) They move on to a recent New York Times article about Meghan’s favorite non-cancel culture topic: real estate. Data shows that single women outnumber single men in the home buying market. Is that because of factors like getting divorced and getting the house? Or is it because single men are all incel slugs living in their parents’ basement? They then discuss the apparently huge number of women who wanted to have children but now probably never will and whether or not this is because Society Has Lied To Them. Meghan points out that people are delaying starting families because of the cost of home ownership and inaccessibility of middle class life. Sarah denies it all, and blames the victims. In what would ordinarily have been the bonus content, the hostesses get uncharacteristically dark and debate whether life is really worth living at all and discuss the concepts of pro-natalism and anti-natalism. Finally, they discuss the so-called “Fleishman Effect,” recently coined in an article in New York Magazine’s The Cut, and respond to listener comments, including comments about Sarah having the “certainty gene.”Relevant links:New York Times: Single Women Own More Homes Than Single Men https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/02/realestate/single-women-own-more-homes-than-single-men.htmlNY Magazine’s The Cut: https://www.thecut.com/2023/02/the-fleishman-is-in-trouble-effect.html This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aspecialplace.substack.com

The New York Times has been tiptoeing up to the gender youth story. Does that mean the subject will soon be safe to talk about in polite company? The ladies discuss a recent Times article about the effects of school policies that compel teachers to hide kids’ new gender identities from parents. In the interests of balance, they also talk about an article in The Federalist (which Sarah reads religiously despite being an atheist) bout how government overreach and agenda-driven advocacy caused a troubled teenage girl to be removed from her home and placed in child protective custody, where she was eventually sex trafficked and violently assaulted. Mercifully, Meghan eventually lightens the mood by describing a recent conversation with her doctor, who appears to be woefully misinformed about certain things despite being a doctor and therefore super smart. (Meghan also wrote about this on her Substack this week.) Speaking of doctors: In the bonus content available to paying subscribers only, the girls/women discuss an advice column letter from a neurosurgeon in her late 30s who wants to find a husband and start a family now. Did she get the right advice? It doesn’t matter, since Sarah is here to give her the final word. (Sarah also thinks Meghan reads The New York Times too much and needs to #DoBetter.) They also respond to reader comments about their last episode, which seems like a long time ago because it was. They will #DoBetter!Links:https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/22/us/gender-identity-students-parents.htmlhttps://thefederalist.com/2023/01/19/virginia-teen-sex-trafficked-twice-after-school-hides-gender-identity-from-her-parents/ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aspecialplace.substack.com

Is Sarah too-light skinned, or not light-skinned enough? What sort of impact will this have on A Special Place’s imminent move to video? Unrelatedly, how does one pronounce the Brothers Karamazov? Or the name of its author, for that matter? Plus, Sarah hears the pronunciation of Solzhenitsyn for the first and it’s like a blind person who can suddenly see. Speaking of great authors, in this episode, the girls/women discuss Lex Fridman’s reading list (because everyone else already has, and they are committed to leading from behind). After trashing critiquing the Lady Patriot Betsy Ross and Trailblazing Black Scientist George Washington Carver, Sarah discusses her discoveries about male scholarships. (Spoiler: Don’t bother, gentlemen.) They then move on to Meghan’s new Substack post about why she thinks she can afford to talk about gender, while others run for the hills at the mere mention. In the BONUS CONTENT for paying subscribers only, the girls minimize sexual assault (“It was a different time!!”), and come out of the closet as fans of Cuties, the infamous groomer drama that is really an art film because it’s not only French but directed by a WOC. Lex’s Reading List Sarah’s post on scholarships for men:Meghan’s post on talking about trans stuff:BONUS: #TheeToo : Teen Stars of Romeo and Juliet File Lawsuit This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aspecialplace.substack.com

Is Christmas the Master Holiday? Or is it the Joe Rogan of holidays? Have young men OD’d on video games? Are so many words actually that harmful, or is it just Stanford? Plus: More Penelope Trunk backbiting. In this episode, the girls/women discuss their holiday plans, which are very unexciting. Was Sarah a trans-child, or was she just neglected? Has Meghan always hated babies? Should Sarah (who has large cheeks) gift her fat to Meghan (who needs padding), thus bonding them forever in the vain pursuit of beauty? And how wrong was Penelope Trunk anyway? They then discuss the Harmful Words List from Stanford University, feeling very superior all the while. They insist on reserving their right as AMERICANS to call anyone a spaz, or r*tard — or maybe even a grandfather. In the BONUS content for paying subscribers: Some dusty old man Sarah has never heard of comes out as a Nazi. Meghan is overjoyed to have another sane voice around. They then move onto a general discussion about COVID vaccines, which inevitably becomes a conversation about menstruation. Plus: An announcement!!! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aspecialplace.substack.com