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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.

Phoebe Maltz Bovy and Kat Rosenfield


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    Premium: The Arc of the Social Media Revolution Is Long but It Bends Toward Slop

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2025 14:10


    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.comKat and Phoebe discuss capsule wardrobes, online discourse degradation, natalist White House policies, and whether you can get pregnant from a toilet seat.LINKS:The elusive instagram post featuring a very expensive not-jumpsuit:Your capsule wardrobe stinksWhite House Assesses Ways to Persuade Women to Have More Children​​Health Hazard: AIDS Fight Is Ske…

    Lena Dunham Has a Blog, Ee Eye Ee Eye O

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2025 11:10


    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.comKat and Phoebe discuss some personal news, some internet drama, some political blame-laying, and some promising signs (or are they?) that we are entering a Renaissance du Blog.LINKS:Kat's big book news:The Podcaster versus the Vice President:https://x.com/jessesingal/status/1912573409029947456The bulldog-in-top-hat weighs in:https://x.com/CharlesPBarkle…

    Premium: Butt Plug for Life

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2025 10:20


    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.comKat and Phoebe discuss a list of Wirecutter recommendations with a surprise, um, ending. Then: the sexual politics of the new FX series Dying for Sex, which you should under no circumstances watch on an airplane.Links:We Believe in Buy-It-For-Life Products. Here Are Our 25 Favorites. | Reviews by WirecutterIn ‘Dying for Sex,' Men Are Eternally Disappoin…

    And You Can, Too

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 4, 2025 53:43


    Early access for premium subscribers! Kat and Phoebe discuss the Ghiblification of deportation, political tone policing, and the evangelical lesbians who study heterosexual women like zoo animals.The Last Unicorn by Topstar a.k.a. Studio Ghibli before it was Ghibli:The White House jumps on the Ghibli meme train:https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1905332049021415862Whoops: An ‘Administrative Error' Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran PrisonElon Musk's new hat:Elon Musk wears new MAGA hat with 'big message' on at Trump's latest cabinet meeting - News - UNILAD TechCarlos Lozada on the executive orders: Opinion | What I Learned About Trump's Second Term by Reading His First 100 Executive OrdersPhoebe bait:If Hetero Relationships Are So Bad, Why Do Women Go Back for More? 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

    Premium: Who Do You Think You Are

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2025 16:18


    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.comKat and Phoebe discuss the cartoon avatars of the political resistance, the fall of 23andMe, the aesthetics of MAGA, and the 14 year-old pig wrangler whose icy stare stole our hearts and/or souls.LINKS:The original pseudoposter/realposter collab:

    Premium: Good Dogs, Bad Neighbours

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2025 14:16


    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.comKat and Phoebe discuss an incredibly Canadian neighborhood poop drama, the allure of bisexual men, and the free speech imbroglio surrounding the deportation of a Columbia student protester.Links:Ladies, is it gay to like men?The FP on the ICE arrest of a Columbia protester:Melissa Chen with thoughts on the probationary green card:h…

    Premium: Spicy Maltz Bovy

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2025 15:31


    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.comKat and Phoebe discuss the tragic denouement of a recent celebrity death, the spicy for-podcast-only outtakes from Phoebe's recent Globe & Mail column on woman-defining, and whether robots are coming for our jobs.LINKS:https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-what-is-a-woman-an-obsession-with-defining-women-has-become-a/https://x.com/katrosenfiel…

    We Are All In Vogue Now

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2025 59:33


    Kat and Phoebe discuss post-woke fashion, ideological trends, a sexy Oscar-winning movie, and a minor vandalism incident in Kat's front yard (stay tuned to minute 39 for the thrilling live-on-podcast denouement!)NOTES:The license plate holder:Amy Odell: Fashion Has Given Up on Being Woke, and That's OKAndrew Sullivan: We All Live on Campus NowKat on post-politics actors and AnoraPhoebe on the 2010s: 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

    Premium: Suspicions Abound

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 27, 2025 16:53


    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.comKat and Phoebe discuss the tragic and strange death of Gene Hackman (with latest news in links), the controversy surrounding Trump's passport policies, and the Nanette of divorce memoirs.Links:Gene Hackman steals Young Frankenstein:

    Premium: Boobs Are Back, Right Is Woke

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 22, 2025 15:39


    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.comChestfeeding is out and boobs are in on the latest episode of Feminine Chaos, as Kat and Phoebe discuss the renaissance of tits, the female gaze, and a new round of "whither wokeness" discourse.Kat on knockers: The age of the prude is overThe “man” ad for Kamala:

    Premium: Slippery Slopes

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 12, 2025 14:12


    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:

    Big Sweaters and Teeny Bikinis

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 7, 2025 50:00


    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

    Premium: Thought Catalogs, Beer Calendars, and Just Asking Questions

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 31, 2025 15:19


    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…

    Premium: Compromises of the Long Island Variety

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 24, 2025 11:31


    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…

    Premium: The Yum-Yucking Episode

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 17, 2025 9:07


    This 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:/…

    Premium: The Subtle Slay of the Non-Binary Babygirl

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 14, 2025 11:11


    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…

    Outrage Nostalgia

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 10, 2025 67:16


    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

    Premium: Milkmaids in the Raw

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 21, 2024 10:34


    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…

    Premium: Hunks of Discourse

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2024 14:55


    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…

    Silent But Deadly

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2024 64:29


    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

    Premium: Baby's First Dogpile

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 27, 2024 14:18


    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…

    Premium: Bluer Skies, Bloodier Meridians

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 21, 2024 14:37


    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…

    Premium: The Great Asleepening

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 13, 2024 16:26


    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…

    Staying Together for the Squirrel

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 5, 2024 52:39


    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

    Premium: Women Tripping Balls, Women Voting Walz

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 1, 2024 15:03


    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…

    Premium: It's My Party and I'll DEI If I Want To

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 19, 2024 13:37


    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!

    Premium: Cancellable Cannibals

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 12, 2024 10:29


    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

    I Decentered Men and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 6, 2024 55:55


    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

    Premium: Women and the Cartoons Who Hate Them

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 27, 2024 15:13


    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…

    Premium: The Young and the Braless

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 22, 2024 16:12


    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…

    Premium: Pet Detectives

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 13, 2024 45:23


    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…

    Dead Squirrels and Sweaty Sanctimony

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 8, 2024 61:13


    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

    Premium: Bookstores and Boozehounds

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 27, 2024 13:36


    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-…

    Premium: Hives and Jet Lag

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 20, 2024 12:13


    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…

    Farming Ballerinas

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 3, 2024 55:25


    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

    Premium: Hairless Cat Ladies

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 26, 2024 14:26


    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…

    Premium: Ear Truthers and MAGA Wives

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 19, 2024 13:08


    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…

    Premium: RIP to MTV and How Do You Do, Fellow... Boomers?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2024 15:36


    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…

    Orange Man Bad, Vegetable Man Not Ideal

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 4, 2024 50:33


    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

    Premium: Truck Stop Sweeties and Lesbian SPF

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2024 10:21


    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…

    Premium: This Sundress Will Make You Pregnant

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 12, 2024 11:05


    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…

    The Gay Divorcees Who Are Fond of Flying Flags

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 6, 2024 57:18


    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

    Is the Pope Catholic?

    Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2024 66:03


    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

    Premium: We Like Our Dick (and Yours)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2024 15:01


    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…

    Mostly Peaceful Sexy Tennis, Anyone?

    Play Episode Listen Later May 8, 2024 60:24


    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

    NPR Voice in the Streets, Shock Jock in the Sheets

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2024 57:08


    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

    Premium: Never Touched a Boob In Bio

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 13, 2024 16:40


    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…

    Heirloom Brains and Other Adventures

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2024 64:46


    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

    Premium: My "I'm Not a Missing Princess" T-Shirt Is Raising a Lot of Questions Already Answered By the Shirt

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 26, 2024 14:25


    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 …

    Big Naturals and Big Pharma

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2024 72:19


    Kat and Phoebe discuss breast aesthetics, 90s nostalgia, and whether we're all taking too many drugs.  Links:Are We Sunsetting Ass and Entering a Golden Age of Boobs?Sydney Sweeney has brought boobs back - The Spectator WorldKatherine Dee: “I think benzos and SSRIs are overprescribed for the same reason antibiotics and birth control are. Pharmaceuticals are a lucrative industry and being sick is a lifestyle brand.”Meghan Murphy: “Popping pills won't actually address your feelings of depression or anxiety. Go outside, get some exercise, interact with humans or nature.”Are You Asexual Or On Antidepressants? - by Freya IndiaAbigal Shrier on Bad Therapy: Honestly with Bari Weiss: Why the Kids Aren't Alright on Apple PodcastsKat on drugs:Why Ozempic is cheating - UnHerdWomen are pawns in the contraception war - UnHerdAll in Her Head is in bookstores now: https://www.amazon.com/All-Her-Head-Medicine-Matters-ebook/Mary Harrington's pill musingshttps://twitter.com/Heritage/status/1662534135762624520 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

    Premium: Luxury Sandwich

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2024 15:17


    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.comKat and Phoebe talk about the sandwich anecdote that melted the internet, how they got jobs in journalism, and the one-way feud between two memoirists.Links:The origins of Sandwichgate: I Was a Heretic at The New York Times - The AtlanticPhoebe on sandwich discourse:Kat on the battling memoirists: https://unherd.com/2024/02/polyamory-is-a-luxury-belief/

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