Kat and Phoebe discuss the new film Materialists and marrying rich, the O.G. (and long-lived) Jewish sitcom The Goldbergs, the difference between Dakota Fanning and Dakota Johnson, whether “nepo baby” is a slur, and the eggshells upon which artists may or may not have walked/ be currently walking/ will continue to walk in the future.

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Can Any Woman …

Kat and Phoebe discuss intimacy coordinators, rodent men, and the mechanism whereby certain left-wing things begat a certain orange man.

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The Real Reason Actresses Are Rejecting Intimacy Coordinators

The mechanism

Are Liberals to Blame for the New McCarthyism? - The Atlantic

Opinion | I Don’t Want to Watch Slavery Fan Fiction - The New York Times

Early access for premium subscribers! Kat and Phoebe discuss a straight lady court victory, a puckish (and very symmetrical) student journalist, and a grotesque act of botanical sabotage.

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Supreme Court Unanimously Rules for Straight Woman in Workplace Discrimination Suit

Straight out of DOGE

A Student at Brown Channeled Elon Musk. Then He Got in Trouble.

How to become a right-wing star? Harass people

Carnage:

Kat and Phoebe discuss the state of Anne Hathaway's eyebrows, the downsides of celebrity, the end of diet culture, and the MeTooing of a certain journalist. (Hashtag MeToo, hashtag BLM!)

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The bad Anne Hathaway take, archived for your pleasure: https://archive.is/1lUm5

Phoebe on Anne's detractor: Envy-pity

And on Wesley Lowery: Objectives

Journalists At…

Kat and Phoebe discuss what's right about built-in bookshelves, what's wrong with water aerobics, what's for sale on OnlyFans, and the time one of us sent nudes by carrier pigeon.

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The built-in bookshelf of Phoebe's dreams:

(via: The Group Behind Project 2025 Has a Plan to Crush the Pro-Palestinian Movement)

No-cis-men, no-sleep-deprivation dance part…

Kat and Phoebe discuss the Ozempification of the populace and the traumatic sleepovers of our respective youths. Also, raccoons.

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I Speak From Experience When I Say: Weight-Loss Drugs Give Women Freedom.

The Parental Safetyism Arms Race - Cartoons Hate Her

Kat and Phoebe discuss the Met Gala, one man's polarizing torso, and the legacy of the MeToo movement now that its chief villain is back on trial.

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The tweet that launched a thousand 'I prefer a dad bod' sentiments: https://x.com/CostelloWilliam/status/1914860472723005446

Cartoons Hate Her makes the case for chiseled:

Phoebe pored over some torsos so you don't have to:

Kat on the surprising-but-not GOP pro-Weinstein moment:

As promised:

Kat and Phoebe discuss capsule wardrobes, online discourse degradation, natalist White House policies, and whether you can get pregnant from a toilet seat.

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The elusive instagram post featuring a very expensive not-jumpsuit:

Your capsule wardrobe stinks

White House Assesses Ways to Persuade Women to Have More Children

​​Health Hazard: AIDS Fight Is Ske…

Kat 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.

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Kat's big book news:

The Podcaster versus the Vice President:

https://x.com/jessesingal/status/1912573409029947456

The bulldog-in-top-hat weighs in:

https://x.com/CharlesPBarkle…

Kat 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.

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We Believe in Buy-It-For-Life Products. Here Are Our 25 Favorites. | Reviews by Wirecutter

In ‘Dying for Sex,’ Men Are Eternally Disappoin…