Because 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.

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Once again, the Gaiman exposé

There Is No Safe Word

Ross Douthat on the constraints of the BDSM technical foul:

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Kat 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.

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The expose of Neil "Call Me Master" Gaiman

Kat's first-on-the-scene dispatch from the YA Twitter Wars: https://www.vulture.com/2017/08/the-toxic-drama-of-ya-twitter.html

Archived 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.

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Home cooking-gate:

Kat on the Baldoni vs Lively mess:

Phoebe on trans rights as omnicause

The BARpod episode on Transgender Map:

Kat 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.

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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…

Kat 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.

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Ask us anything! Submit your question here:

https://femchaospod.substack.com/p/amas

Katie 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.

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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 saga

Does this book read as too parochial—or too 'Zionist'? The pitfalls of Writing While Jewish

Phoebe’s greatest admirer

Kat 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.

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Phoebe did a fascism: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-problem-with-bluesky-it-wont-broaden-our-horizons/

Phoebe d…

Kat 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.

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Phoebe is famous!

The Ethics of Self-Interpretation - Tablet Magazine

Kat on the BARpod:

Episode 237: Time For A Re-Reckoning (With Kat Rosenfield)

Phoebe on Other-Twitter:

Cormac McCarthy’s S…

Kat and Phoebe discuss extruding our intestines (or not) in the wake of the election, and the history and future of woke media.

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'Challah for Ceasefire'?: Phoebe Maltz Bovy on watching women's media walk the political tightrope

Kat 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?

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Government goons murder internet-famous squirrel

Who ratted out P’nut the squirrel? Grieving owners have their theory — and it’s a rich one

Kat (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