Feminine Chaos

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

In our last episode before the election, Kat and Phoebe discuss mushroom mommies, Britcom asexuals, cryptopolitical lesbians, and secret apostrophes.

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Kat's investigative report: 

The Middle-Class Women Who Are Tripping Balls | The Free Press

Phoebe's close read on Mrs. Councillor Nugent: 

'Our forefathers practically went their entire lives without an…

Kat 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.

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How DEI DIED: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/16/magazine/dei-university-michigan.html

Phoebe called this 1000 years ago:

https://x.com/BovyMaltz/status/1846729114541015289

The law school, THE LAW SCHOOL!

Kat and Phoebe discuss cancellable food takes and entertainment recommendations.

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Post your cancellable food take!… WAIT NO NOT THAT ONE

Society of the Snow

Kat 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.

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I Decentered Men. Decentering Desire for Men Is Harder. - The New York Times

What 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

Special 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…

Kat and Phoebe discuss a sexual harassment training, a MeToo memoir, and a firing controversy at a very fancy New York City private school.

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MeToo memoirs continue to trickle in: An artist retrospective: Montreal-born Jill Ciment's memoir asks 'Me Too?' after the fact

My Adventures in Deconstruction | The New Yorker

M.J. Koch’s Free Press story, My Fr…

Kat 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.

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Goose on the loose: https://x.com/AliceFromQueens/status/1834084575401717899

Ted Cruz, not a literalist: https://x.com/tedcruz/status/1833174142591365185

The actual cat-eater: born in the USA!

Someone was accu…