Podcast
Feminine Chaos
Hosted by Phoebe Maltz Bovy and Kat Rosenfield · EN
Problematic faves, dissident feminism, and poodle interruptions: this is Feminine Chaos, featuring cultural commentary from Phoebe Maltz Bovy and Kat Rosenfield.
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Premium: The Pen Is Mightier Than the Bralette
3d ago00:10:45Tap to summarizeThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.comKat and Phoebe discuss the lingerie of the long 2010s, the publishing industry’s Jewish problem, and the best place to hide your heirlooms and jewels (in a paper bag emblazoned with the words “DEAD RACCOON INSIDE.”)LINKS:A Statement to Our Community - PEN America‘A Silent Moratorium’ - PEN AmericaA Free-Speech Meltdown
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Getting Cancelled and Surviving in the Woods
5d ago01:23:06Tap to summarizeThank you Phoebe Maltz Bovy, Mark Sundstrom, Bob, TheNuclearBlonde, Dave, and many others for tuning into my live video with Rafael Frumkin! Join me for my next live video in the app. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit femchaospod.substack.com/subscribe
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Queer Eye for the Oyster Guy
1w ago01:02:35Tap to summarizeKat 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!).LINKS:The Drug That Made Me Want LessPreviously, on Platner:Kat’s reporting on death doulas: This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit femchaospod.substack.com/subscribe
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Premium: Tag Yourself, I'm the Six Foot-Long Wiener
3w ago00:11:41Tap to summarizeThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.comIn 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.LINKS:Is heterosexuality hopeless? | Arwa Mahdawi | The Guardian
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Premium: A Gay Old Time
3w ago00:14:05Tap to summarizeThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.comKat 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!LINKS:
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Premium: The Cougar Hour
Jun 1900:14:52Tap to summarizeThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.comKat 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!LINKS:Do Gen Z women actually find the popular male “broccoli” hairstyle attractive? : r/GenZBroccoli haircut - WikipediaAntisemitic Cornell student t…
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Premium: Nice Guys and Men's Men
Jun 1000:13:12Tap to summarizeThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.comKat 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.LINKS:Graham Platner, haver of normal ones: Obsession, for men:
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It's Our Podcast and We'll Be Smol Beans if We Want To
Jun 601:20:02Tap to summarizePhoebe 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.LINKS:Phoebe actually does want it in the newspaper that she’s mad:Kat’s cursèd cancellation: This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit femchaospod.substack.com/subscribe
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Premium: Broken Belles
May 2800:16:19Tap to summarizeThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.comKat and Phoebe discuss the fallout over an expose of the finances of the bestselling author of the new memoir, Strangers.LINKS:Was I Married to a Stranger? - The New York TimesJessica Winter at the New Yorker has some receipts: What’s Missing from Belle Burden’s “Strangers” | The New YorkerEmily Gould’s defense of Ms. Burden: The Memoirist and the Backl…
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Premium: The Misdeeds of Lena Dunham, Israeli Dogs, and Yesteryear
May 1400:12:42Tap to summarizeThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.comKat 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.LINKS: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…
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