Feminine Chaos Phoebe Maltz Bovy and Kat Rosenfield

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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 'abhorrent'
When the O.K. Sign Is No Longer O.K. - The New York Times
Nike Drops ‘Betsy Ross Flag’ Sneaker After Kaepernick Criticizes It - The New York Times
Kat on the hot new divorcées: Does Divorce Make You Hotter? | The Free Press


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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 progressives want to forget George Floyd - UnHerd
Books mentioned:
Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History a book by Nellie Bowles
No Apologies: How to Find and Free Your Voice in the Age of Outrage--Lessons for the Silenced Majority a book by Katherine Brodsky


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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 across North America
More from the "protesters are babies" discourse:
https://twitter.com/Afinetheorem/status/1786128998675656994
https://twitter.com/Lingman/status/1786355458313158800
https://twitter.com/BovyMaltz/status/1786460248318063017
Very sad story: Privileged Columbia protester who 'killed' elderly couple in crash should be in jail, not on campus, furious family says
Very sad frat boys: Normal Kids Get F*cked - Tablet Magazine
Phoebe on the legacy of the Harper's letter:
https://twitter.com/BovyMaltz/status/1787278271341638019


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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 Current Problems
Emily Yoffe's reporting on l'affaire Sonmez: 'I'm Radioactive'
Washington Post reporter pleads with Felicia Sonmez to cease Twitter rants: 'Please stop'
Felicia Sonmez: Washington Post reporter fired after a week of feuding with colleagues | CNN Business
Kat and guest Amna Khalid discuss the Sonmez-Weigel conflict: https://femchaospod.substack.com/p/thats-not-funny
Jeet Heer pulls a “nobody is talking about this” and gets community noted:
https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1780225893257945196


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