This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.com Kat and Phoebe discuss extruding our intestines (or not) in the wake of the election, and the history and future of woke media. LINKS: '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?   LINKS: 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 This is a...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.com In our last episode before the election, Kat and Phoebe discuss mushroom mommies, Britcom asexuals, cryptopolitical lesbians, and secret apostrophes. LINKS: 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…

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.com 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. LINKS: 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!

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.com Kat and Phoebe discuss cancellable food takes and entertainment recommendations. Links: 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. NOTES: 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 This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.com 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…

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.com Kat and Phoebe discuss a sexual harassment training, a MeToo memoir, and a firing controversy at a very fancy New York City private school. LINKS: 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…

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.com 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. LINKS: 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…

Kat and Phoebe discuss a dead squirrel, a controversial magazine cover, and a New York Times essay on air conditioning by the world's smuggest, sweatiest man. LINKS: The New Yorker cover that launched a thousand takes: -Wesley Yang and others interpret the cover of the New Yorker: https://x.com/wesyang/status/1830979536986472586 Counterpoint: https://x.com/MiriVinni/status/1831352406657167416 Scissor statements: Sort By Controversial | Slate Star Codex Phoebe’s a/c guy rant: Sweaty but...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.com Kat and Phoebe discuss the cancellation of a Jewish book event by a rogue disgruntled employee, the changing character of Toronto's Roncesvalles neighborhood, and alcohol as a social good. LINKS: Bookstore drama: https://x.com/joshualeifer/status/1826086333875630245 NY Post coverage: https://nypost.com/2024/08/21/us-news/nyc-bookstore-cancels-event-citing-…

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.com Kat was on a lot of drugs and Phoebe was on a plane for 729 hours, but we podcasted through it, so that’s fine. Topics include the scourge of AI image generators, Kat’s sort-of-viral essay about cat ladies, and Phoebe’s impressions of the Sex and the City sequel series. Links: If we had to see this so do you. Kat, defensive and coping: Phoebe on Euro aesthe…

By popular request, Kat and Phoebe discuss ballerinas, farms, and Ballerina Farm. LINKS: The infamous Times article: My day with the trad wife queen and what it taught me Phoebe on Ballerina Farm: Momfluenza Kat on tradwives: The Paradoxical Freedom of Tradwife Tiktok 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

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.com Kat and Phoebe discuss the return of the self-flagellating white woman, the rise of Brat Girl politics, the war on childless cat ladies, and the petting of hairless cats. LINKS: On Wednesdays we wear... not pearls and Converse or we're racists. https://x.com/meghan_daum/status/1815884959204401336 https://x.com/rekhilperts/status/1815467609069912123 The white…

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.com Kat and Phoebe discuss the post-assassination discourse, ear-wound conspiracy theorists, the MAGA wife aesthetic, and what on earth is going on with J.D. Vance's hands. LINKS: Canceling cashiers: https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1813320436702400568 Who is J.D. Vance's Wife Usha and Why Isn’t She ‘Raring’ to Become Second Lady MAGA women (and men, and humans…

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.com Kat and Phoebe discuss the memory-holing of Kat's entire early career oeuvre, Phoebe's theory of eternal youth, and the culture critics who want every show to be an after-school special. LINKS: A reflection from Kat: The MTV News Archive Is Gone—and That's OK -Phoebe is still angering her fellow Canadians, and has a theory: https://x.com/BovyMaltz/status/1…

Kat and Phoebe do a post-mortem on the recent presidential debate. Links: Biden his time: Phoebe Maltz Bovy on watching the sorry state of U.S. politics from north of the border America Doesn’t Need Momala Harris | The Free Press 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

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.com Kat and Phoebe discuss a kink-shaming incident in the Cyclades, a wife-seeking incident on Twitter, and a line of clothing that repels the sun, the men, or both. LINKS: -Who needs mail-order brides when there are truck-stop sweeties? https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1804929793420677153?s=46&t=UOIT2B6ilGTmoEH9aY9RDQ We’re Entering a Joyful New Era of Les…

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.com Kat and Phoebe discuss a traumatic tree takedown in Kat's neighborhood, a whisper network for women of a certain age, and a sundress that caused a civil war amongs online trad types. (Pictured: not the sundress, but a $10 doppelganger spotted in a local Charlotte Russe just hours after recording, which just goes to show… something.) LINKS: Miranda July is…

Phoebe apologizes for the print version of her bisexuals article appearing during Pride month, while Kat unpacks the controversy surrounding a certain judge's wife's flag-flying proclivities. Then: divorce! Does it make you hotter, or does it just make you sad?  Links: When your wife is fond of flying flags: Inside the Clash That Prompted the Alitos’ Upside-Down Flag - The New York Times As CPAC dismisses claims that its stage resembled a Nazi insignia, Hyatt calls hate symbols...

Kat and Phoebe discuss a Catholic kicker's commencement-speech controversy, two literary autopsies of the Great Awokening, and whether communion wafers taste like flesh.  LINKS: Harrison Butker is Catholic. So What? | The Free Press The speech in full : Bubba: A Cancel-Culture Casualty – but Not in a Town Without Pity | RealClearInvestigations Nellie Bowles and Katherine Brodsky: Jewish women dangerously recap the cancellation era in new books reviewed by Phoebe Maltz Bovy Kat in Unherd: Why...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.com Kat and Phoebe discuss a scandal in the pageant world, the disappearance of dick appreciation discourse, the relative dangers of men as versus bears, and the dating app that apologized for suggesting that people might want to use it to, uh, date. LINKS: Kat on the beauty queens: Miss USA and the privilege of mental health - UnHerd Kat on man vs. bear: The…

Kat delivers a traffic report from Norwalk, Conn., where a petroleum truck recently went boom. Then: Kat and Phoebe discuss the new sexy tennis movie Challengers, the undescended proverbial testicles of protesters, and the never-ending curse of being Harper's letter signatories. Links: The fireball that shut down the interstate!  Kat at Unherd: Can Challengers make sex hot again? Phoebe at CJN: Kids on the lawn: Phoebe Maltz Bovy on the new 'youth' movement on display in campus protests...

Kat and Phoebe discuss a very horny theater critic, an uncommonly hot historian, and Uri Berliner's critique of NPR from inside the house. LINKS: Lea Ypi: "Advice for scholars: next time you lecture on Kant and revolutions at “Downing” Cambridge, make sure your hair is neatly tied and that you’re not blonde. Or else your research impact will be on the @spectator libido section." I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust. | The Free Press The Real Story Behind NPR's...