Feminine Chaos

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.comKat and Phoebe discuss a sexual harassment training, a MeToo memoir, and a firing controversy at a very fancy New York City private school.LINKS:MeToo memoirs continue to trickle in: An artist retrospective: Montreal-born Jill Ciment's memoir asks 'Me Too?' after the factMy Adventures in Deconstruction | The New YorkerM.J. Koch’s Free Press story, My Fr…

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.comKat and Phoebe discuss the urban legend of cat-eating Haitians, Trump's not-so-great debate with Kamala Harris, and JD Vance's identity crisis.LINKS:Goose on the loose: https://x.com/AliceFromQueens/status/1834084575401717899Ted Cruz, not a literalist: https://x.com/tedcruz/status/1833174142591365185The actual cat-eater: born in the USA!Someone was accu…

Kat and Phoebe discuss a dead squirrel, a controversial magazine cover, and a New York Times essay on air conditioning by the world's smuggest, sweatiest man.LINKS:The New Yorker cover that launched a thousand takes:-Wesley Yang and others interpret the cover of the New Yorker: https://x.com/wesyang/status/1830979536986472586Counterpoint:https://x.com/MiriVinni/status/1831352406657167416Scissor statements: Sort By Controversial | Slate Star CodexPhoebe’s a/c guy rant: Sweaty but saintlyKat's ode to the social history of booze: What School Didn’t Teach Us: You Need to Lose Control | The Free Press This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit femchaospod.substack.com/subscribe

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.comKat and Phoebe discuss the cancellation of a Jewish book event by a rogue disgruntled employee, the changing character of Toronto's Roncesvalles neighborhood, and alcohol as a social good.LINKS:Bookstore drama: https://x.com/joshualeifer/status/1826086333875630245NY Post coverage: https://nypost.com/2024/08/21/us-news/nyc-bookstore-cancels-event-citing-…

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.comKat was on a lot of drugs and Phoebe was on a plane for 729 hours, but we podcasted through it, so that’s fine. Topics include the scourge of AI image generators, Kat’s sort-of-viral essay about cat ladies, and Phoebe’s impressions of the Sex and the City sequel series.Links:If we had to see this so do you.Kat, defensive and coping:Phoebe on Euro aesthe…

By popular request, Kat and Phoebe discuss ballerinas, farms, and Ballerina Farm.LINKS:The infamous Times article: My day with the trad wife queen and what it taught mePhoebe on Ballerina Farm: MomfluenzaKat on tradwives: The Paradoxical Freedom of Tradwife Tiktok This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit femchaospod.substack.com/subscribe

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.comKat and Phoebe discuss the return of the self-flagellating white woman, the rise of Brat Girl politics, the war on childless cat ladies, and the petting of hairless cats.LINKS:On Wednesdays we wear... not pearls and Converse or we're racists.https://x.com/meghan_daum/status/1815884959204401336https://x.com/rekhilperts/status/1815467609069912123The white…

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.comKat and Phoebe discuss the post-assassination discourse, ear-wound conspiracy theorists, the MAGA wife aesthetic, and what on earth is going on with J.D. Vance's hands.LINKS:Canceling cashiers:https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1813320436702400568Who is J.D. Vance's Wife Usha and Why Isn’t She ‘Raring’ to Become Second LadyMAGA women (and men, and humans…

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.comKat and Phoebe discuss the memory-holing of Kat's entire early career oeuvre, Phoebe's theory of eternal youth, and the culture critics who want every show to be an after-school special.LINKS:A reflection from Kat: The MTV News Archive Is Gone—and That's OK-Phoebe is still angering her fellow Canadians, and has a theory: https://x.com/BovyMaltz/status/1…

Kat and Phoebe do a post-mortem on the recent presidential debate.Links:Biden his time: Phoebe Maltz Bovy on watching the sorry state of U.S. politics from north of the borderAmerica Doesn’t Need Momala Harris | The Free Press This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit femchaospod.substack.com/subscribe

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.comKat and Phoebe discuss a kink-shaming incident in the Cyclades, a wife-seeking incident on Twitter, and a line of clothing that repels the sun, the men, or both. LINKS:-Who needs mail-order brides when there are truck-stop sweeties? https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1804929793420677153?s=46&t=UOIT2B6ilGTmoEH9aY9RDQWe’re Entering a Joyful New Era of Les…

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.comKat and Phoebe discuss a traumatic tree takedown in Kat's neighborhood, a whisper network for women of a certain age, and a sundress that caused a civil war amongs online trad types. (Pictured: not the sundress, but a $10 doppelganger spotted in a local Charlotte Russe just hours after recording, which just goes to show… something.)LINKS:Miranda July is…

Phoebe apologizes for the print version of her bisexuals article appearing during Pride month, while Kat unpacks the controversy surrounding a certain judge's wife's flag-flying proclivities. Then: divorce! Does it make you hotter, or does it just make you sad? Links:When your wife is fond of flying flags: Inside the Clash That Prompted the Alitos’ Upside-Down Flag - The New York TimesAs CPAC dismisses claims that its stage resembled a Nazi insignia, Hyatt calls hate symbols 'abhorrent'When the O.K. Sign Is No Longer O.K. - The New York TimesNike Drops ‘Betsy Ross Flag’ Sneaker After Kaepernick Criticizes It - The New York TimesKat on the hot new divorcées: Does Divorce Make You Hotter? | The Free Press This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit femchaospod.substack.com/subscribe

Kat and Phoebe discuss a Catholic kicker's commencement-speech controversy, two literary autopsies of the Great Awokening, and whether communion wafers taste like flesh. LINKS:Harrison Butker is Catholic. So What? | The Free PressThe speech in full : Bubba: A Cancel-Culture Casualty – but Not in a Town Without Pity | RealClearInvestigationsNellie Bowles and Katherine Brodsky: Jewish women dangerously recap the cancellation era in new books reviewed by Phoebe Maltz BovyKat in Unherd: Why progressives want to forget George Floyd - UnHerdBooks mentioned:Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History a book by Nellie BowlesNo Apologies: How to Find and Free Your Voice in the Age of Outrage--Lessons for the Silenced Majority a book by Katherine Brodsky This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit femchaospod.substack.com/subscribe

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.comKat and Phoebe discuss a scandal in the pageant world, the disappearance of dick appreciation discourse, the relative dangers of men as versus bears, and the dating app that apologized for suggesting that people might want to use it to, uh, date. LINKS:Kat on the beauty queens: Miss USA and the privilege of mental health - UnHerdKat on man vs. bear: The…

Kat delivers a traffic report from Norwalk, Conn., where a petroleum truck recently went boom. Then: Kat and Phoebe discuss the new sexy tennis movie Challengers, the undescended proverbial testicles of protesters, and the never-ending curse of being Harper's letter signatories.Links:The fireball that shut down the interstate! Kat at Unherd: Can Challengers make sex hot again?Phoebe at CJN: Kids on the lawn: Phoebe Maltz Bovy on the new 'youth' movement on display in campus protests across North AmericaMore from the "protesters are babies" discourse:https://twitter.com/Afinetheorem/status/1786128998675656994https://twitter.com/Lingman/status/1786355458313158800https://twitter.com/BovyMaltz/status/1786460248318063017Very sad story: Privileged Columbia protester who 'killed' elderly couple in crash should be in jail, not on campus, furious family saysVery sad frat boys: Normal Kids Get F*cked - Tablet MagazinePhoebe on the legacy of the Harper's letter: https://twitter.com/BovyMaltz/status/1787278271341638019 This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit femchaospod.substack.com/subscribe

Kat and Phoebe discuss a very horny theater critic, an uncommonly hot historian, and Uri Berliner's critique of NPR from inside the house.LINKS:Lea Ypi: "Advice for scholars: next time you lecture on Kant and revolutions at “Downing” Cambridge, make sure your hair is neatly tied and that you’re not blonde. Or else your research impact will be on the @spectator libido section."I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust. | The Free PressThe Real Story Behind NPR's Current ProblemsEmily Yoffe's reporting on l'affaire Sonmez: 'I'm Radioactive'Washington Post reporter pleads with Felicia Sonmez to cease Twitter rants: 'Please stop'Felicia Sonmez: Washington Post reporter fired after a week of feuding with colleagues | CNN BusinessKat and guest Amna Khalid discuss the Sonmez-Weigel conflict: https://femchaospod.substack.com/p/thats-not-funnyJeet Heer pulls a “nobody is talking about this” and gets community noted:https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1780225893257945196 This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit femchaospod.substack.com/subscribe

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.comKat and Phoebe discuss the mass bisexuality of Gen Z and the BookForum takedown of Lauren Oyler.LINKS:Kat on the bi boom: Gen Z-ers Are Identifying as Bisexual En Masse. Why? - Air MailPhoebe on straight women: Straightness Studies | Who Do We Think We Are? | Issues | The Hedgehog ReviewStatistics! LGBTQ+ Identification in U.S. Now at 7.6%Rod Dreher fre…

Kat and Phoebe discuss sexually adventurous podcasting, unwanted heirloom dining sets, the phenomenon of "divorce rings," the latest viral Cut essay about age gap relationships, and what to do when your foyer is too narrow to hold your collection of body parts in jars. LINKS:Kat and Phoebe on BARpodTwitter: Won’t someone think of the boomers’ furniture?I Inherited a Nazi Helmet From My Husband. What Should I Do With It? - The New York Times Divorce Rings Are Having a Moment Thanks to Emily Ratajkowski - The New York TimesAge Gap Relationships: The Case for Marrying an Older Man This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit femchaospod.substack.com/subscribe

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.comKat and Phoebe discuss the moral quandary of missing royalty. Links:Kate announces her cancer diagnosis: https://twitter.com/KensingtonRoyal/status/1771235267837321694Everyone should be ashamed over Princess Kate but me | Ben Sixsmith | The Critic MagazineOpinion | The Real Royal Scandal Is on Us - The New York Times-“I will NOT be scolded into feeling …