Feminine Chaos

Kat and Phoebe discuss Ozempic (the new lobotomy!), American patriotism (the new Zionism!), and the sad, strange, entirely predictable downfall of Graham Platner (we told you so!).

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The Drug That Made Me Want Less

Previously, on Platner:

Kat’s reporting on death doulas:

In a special episode to make up for last month’s shortfall and last week’s forgotten shoutouts, Kat and Phoebe discuss review-tagging, hate-following, and why one extremely tall politician was chased away from a trans pride parade.

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Is heterosexuality hopeless? | Arwa Mahdawi | The Guardian

Kat and Phoebe discuss the Bluesky backlash against Phoebe’s book, the Twitter suffrage discourse that made it feel, ever so briefly, like 2017 again, and the big, Gay link between the two. Also, a rare cat cameo!

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Kat and Phoebe turn their attention to young men and their trends, from vegetable haircuts to looksmaxxing to sending ill-considered (read: wildly anti-Semitic) emails to people who want to give them jobs!

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Do Gen Z women actually find the popular male “broccoli” hairstyle attractive? : r/GenZ

Broccoli haircut - Wikipedia

Antisemitic Cornell student t…

Kat and Phoebe discuss the character of aspiring senator and porta-potty masturbator Graham Platner, the romantic philosophy of the horror film Obsession, and what happens when an unrequited affection meets an immovable incel.

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Graham Platner, haver of normal ones:

Obsession, for men:

Phoebe airs her grievances vis-a-vis being reverse scooped by a certain New York Times article, Kat discusses the contours of her post-cancellation comeback, and everyone agrees that if that guy actually was turned into a newt, that was pretty bad and he probably deserves an apology.

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Phoebe actually does want it in the newspaper that she’s mad:

Kat’s cursèd cancellation:

Kat and Phoebe discuss the fallout over an expose of the finances of the bestselling author of the new memoir, Strangers.

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Was I Married to a Stranger? - The New York Times

Jessica Winter at the New Yorker has some receipts: What’s Missing from Belle Burden’s “Strangers” | The New Yorker

Emily Gould’s defense of Ms. Burden: The Memoirist and the Backl…

Kat and Phoebe discuss the latest in Jewish canine sexual aggression, a vintage Lena Dunham controversy, and a buzzy new novel that has all the tradwives talking.

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Come see us in Toronto! And buy Phoebe’s book!

Bad dogs, if true: The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians - The New York Times

Kat on Yesteryear:

Phoebe on Lena Dunham of yesterye…

Kat and Phoebe are joined by special guest Suzy Weiss to discuss the lemon-stealing literati, the dubious sex appeal of leftist Twitch streamers, the friends who take Ozempic without our permission, and what the youths think about the personal essay industrial complex.

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Come celebrate Phoebe’s book launch in Toronto!

Opinion | ‘The Rich Don’t Play by the Rules. So Why Should I?’ - The New York Times

What the Hell Is Microlooting? - by Suzy Weiss

Everybody’s doing it

Losing My Friend Over Wegovy

Kat and Phoebe are joined once again by the inimitable Leigh Stein for a discussion of the latest in memoirland.

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