Jane Mayer's controversial New Yorker article about Al Franken ... Phoebe: We need to differentiate "gross but not evil" behavior ... Claudia Rankine's unusual essay on white male privilege ... Does the privilege framework make sense out of the classroom? ... An art exhibit presents an escape room with a twist of privilege ... In praise of the viral personal essay "The Crane Wife" ... Recommendations for further reading ...

Kat's new audiobook, in collaboration with Stan Lee, A Trick of Light ... The author who became unduly obsessed with her online critic ... Trolling cloaked in the language of social justice ... Blythe Harris, mega-troll ... The "here is my wretchedness on display" genre of personal essay ... The author who lost her book contract after a single tweet ... A final debunking of the personal finance myth about lattes ... Phoebe makes the case against "investment clothing" ...

Moby’s Natalie Portman misstep and “May-December” relationships ... How old is too old to infantilize yourself? ... Kat: Incels aren’t a feminist issue; they hate themselves too ... Phoebe: Teenage heartbreak isn’t as gendered as one would think ... Strong recommends and non-recommends from Feminine Chaos ... Interrogating Budweiser's celebration of Gray Asexual Pride ...

Are journalists becoming too thirsty for their subjects? ... Phoebe: Journalists dunking on subjects can backfire ... The College Board Adversity Index ... Is a “holistic” college admissions process even possible? ... Kat and Phoebe’s qualifications as Francophiles ... The cult of reverence for stereotypically French customs ... Why Americans look to “exotic” cultures for basic life skills ...

The problems with pairing artificial intelligence with dating apps ... Should apps serve us what we want or what we should want? ... A viral tweet on amazing Millennial women and their loser boyfriends ... Young women who use Tinder in Brooklyn are not all women ... "Basic bitch bookstores" and the online commenters who hate them ...

Kat's article on #OwnVoices novels ... The case against sensitivity readers ... Fiction and our common humanity ... The controversy over the "clean" Chinese restaurant ... Sexism posing as anti-racism ... Is "white Jew" a slur? Is "TERF" a slur? ...

Leggings, the modern locus of anxiety ... A deep dive into Jia Tolentino's New Yorker story about fitness brand Outdoor Voices ... Was Isaac Chotiner's interview with Bernard-Henri Lévy unfair? ... The "Leggings Mom" and other helicopter parents ... A controversial Modern Love column on interracial dating ... The conjugal drama of the "soap dispenser husband" ...

Kat and Phoebe talk Captain Marvel and media representation ... How closely should art mirror reality? ... “Universal” literature vs. demographic-specific literature ... Privilege and the college bribery scandal ... The limited value of “acknowledging” privilege ... What’s worse than being a “reply guy”? ...

Critiquing the essay "How Marie Kondo Helped Me Sort Out My Gender" ... "Fauxbivalence," Miley Cyrus, and boring straight women ... Feeling like the label of "woman" doesn't fit ... The strange Twitter man who instructed women on how to be beautiful ... When men tell women online that they're not attractive ... Does #RetweetWomen undermine itself? ...

Critiquing the essay "How Marie Kondo Helped Me Sort Out My Gender" ... "Fauxbivalence," Miley Cyrus, and boring straight women ... Feeling like the label of "woman" doesn't fit ... The strange Twitter man who instructed women on how to be beautiful ... When men tell women online that they're not attractive ... Does #RetweetWomen undermine itself? ...