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Problematic faves, dissident feminism, and poodle interruptions: this is Feminine Chaos, featuring cultural commentary from Phoebe Maltz Bovy and Kat Rosenfield.
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.comKat and Phoebe discuss Jewish-coded skiing incidents, ozempic divorces, men losing babies, and the loneliness of the immortal optimizer.LINKS:How Weight-Loss Drugs Can Upend a MarriageThe world's most optimized man:
Kat and Phoebe discuss $800 sweaters for feminism, Instagram deep-diving, and why angry MAGA men are circulating pictures of a certain podcaster’s hindquarters on twitter. (Early access for premium subscribers!)LINKS:Kat on the horny beer calendar: The picture that made one Conservative Dad lose his mind:Cartoons Hate Her on MAGA babes: Phoebe vs fancy sweaters: 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 an allegedly terrible new sex trend all the youths are into, the bizarro aesthetics of the MAGA babe beer calendar, strange bedfellows in the culture wars, and how asking questions became a bad thing.LINKS:Cookie jarring, from Thought Catalog, which still exists: https://thoughtcatalog.com/molly-burford/2025/01/theres-a-new-dating…
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.comKat and Phoebe discuss Taffy Brodesser-Akner's Long Island Compromise, fictional nose jobs, sexual reciprocity, and Trump's executive order to un-bend genders everywhere.LINKS:Phoebe reviews Long Island Compromise:The safety question: Jewish existential dilemmas in Taffy Brodesser-Akner's hilarious 'Long Island Compromise'Kat’s internet-breaking newslet…
1This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.comBecause the Neil Gaiman discourse is a gift that keeps on giving podcast content, Kat and Phoebe return to discuss the yucking of yums, the sex lives of old ladies, and whether women should be allowed to have their own bank accounts.Links:Once again, the Gaiman exposéThere Is No Safe WordRoss Douthat on the constraints of the BDSM technical foul:https:/…
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.comKat and Phoebe discuss the MeToo-ing of Neil Gaiman (and certain questions about the reporting thereof.) Also: BDSM, Babygirl, and the non-binary comedy of Ilana Glazer.Links:The expose of Neil "Call Me Master" GaimanKat's first-on-the-scene dispatch from the YA Twitter Wars: https://www.vulture.com/2017/08/the-toxic-drama-of-ya-twitter.htmlArchived ver…
Kat and Phoebe discuss the surprise comeback of home cooking discourse, the anatomy of the PR war between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, and how a dying political movement spawned the world's weirdest list of thought criminals.Links:Home cooking-gate: Kat on the Baldoni vs Lively mess:Phoebe on trans rights as omnicause The BARpod episode on Transgender Map: 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 viral dress ad and all it contains (or, uh, doesn't). Also: straight woman studies, Alice Munro and the men who ask for performance reviews after rejection.LINKS:The pasteurized backlash:Phoebe's Sex & Politics appearance:https://savage.love/lovecast/2024/12/19/sex-politics-36-phoebe-maltz-bovy/What Alice Munro Knew - The New Yo…
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.comKat and Phoebe discuss a hot (alleged) killer, a perfectly nice-looking podcaster, the death of civility norms in digital space, interesting use cases for AI chatbots, and the Colleen Hoover movie Kat watched while couchlocked with the flu.LINKS:Ask us anything! Submit your question here:https://femchaospod.substack.com/p/amasKatie Herzog on "gay or Ita…
Kat and Phoebe discuss the character assassination of the “olfactory ethics” PhD lady, the actual assassination of an insurance CEO, and the anatomy of scapegoating. LINKS:The infamous October 7 tweet from Najwa Sharif Alawi: “what did y'all think decolonization meant? vibes? papers? essays? losers.”Kat Norman Rockwell-painting memes against murdering people in Midtown.The PhD Lady sagaDoes this book read as too parochial—or too 'Zionist'? The pitfalls of Writing While JewishPhoebe’s greatest admirer 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 Victorian houses, emotional support pitbulls, Phoebe's "main character" debut, and whether every edgelord manlet posting "your body my choice" memes should be executed or merely jailed for life.Links:Phoebe did a fascism: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-problem-with-bluesky-it-wont-broaden-our-horizons/Phoebe d…
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.comKat and Phoebe discuss their recent cameos off pod, the mass migration to Bluesky, and the literary sex scandal involving Cormac McCarthy and a teenage cowgirl. LINKS:Phoebe is famous!The Ethics of Self-Interpretation - Tablet MagazineKat on the BARpod:Episode 237: Time For A Re-Reckoning (With Kat Rosenfield)Phoebe on Other-Twitter: Cormac McCarthy’s S…
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.comKat and Phoebe discuss extruding our intestines (or not) in the wake of the election, and the history and future of woke media.LINKS:'Challah for Ceasefire'?: Phoebe Maltz Bovy on watching women's media walk the political tightropeKat urges artists not “to allow Donald Trump to live rent-free in our heads like some sort of perverse anti-muse”: Can we pl…
Kat and Phoebe discuss the late-breaking squirrel murder that could unite the nation, the places you can't go on a first date, and… hmm. Is something else happening today? LINKS:Government goons murder internet-famous squirrelWho ratted out P’nut the squirrel? Grieving owners have their theory — and it’s a rich oneKat (and other Free Press folks) on the symbols of the election:First dates: it's Le Cirque or nothing:https://x.com/bendreyfuss/status/1851756223185760668 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.comIn our last episode before the election, Kat and Phoebe discuss mushroom mommies, Britcom asexuals, cryptopolitical lesbians, and secret apostrophes.LINKS:Kat's investigative report: The Middle-Class Women Who Are Tripping Balls | The Free PressPhoebe's close read on Mrs. Councillor Nugent: 'Our forefathers practically went their entire lives without an…
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.comKat and Phoebe discuss the big NYT expose on the death of DEI, the trap of self-mythologizing, and the mystery of the Democratic party's man problem.LINKS:How DEI DIED: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/16/magazine/dei-university-michigan.htmlPhoebe called this 1000 years ago:https://x.com/BovyMaltz/status/1846729114541015289The law school, THE LAW SCHOOL!
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.comKat and Phoebe discuss cancellable food takes and entertainment recommendations. Links:Post your cancellable food take!… WAIT NO NOT THAT ONESociety of the SnowKat on Megalopolis: Phoebe talking about Nobody Wants This on the CJN Bonjour Chai podcast
Kat and Phoebe discuss a blackmail sextortion scheme, a pair of rabid and possibly incestual raccoons, and the de-centered men who can’t quite hit de center of de toilet bowl.NOTES:I Decentered Men. Decentering Desire for Men Is Harder. - The New York TimesWhat is going on in this picture:Do non-white men pee standing up? An unsolvable mystery.‘Am I a Snob Or Is He a Simpleton?’ - by Heather Havrilesky 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.comSpecial guest "C," a.k.a. Cartoons Hate Her, a.k.a. Donald Trump impressionist extraordinaire, joins the podcast to talk about the men who waste women’s fertile years in going-nowhere relationships, the myth of the nubile nanny, and the difference between an ultimatum and a marriage proposal. Also, Phoebe is not mad at the New York Times real estate sec…
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…
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