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Feminine Chaos

Phoebe Maltz Bovy and Kat Rosenfield

Problematic faves, dissident feminism, and poodle interruptions: this is Feminine Chaos, featuring cultural commentary from Phoebe Maltz Bovy and Kat Rosenfield. femchaospod.substack.com

society & culture

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60:55

Beauty and the Beast

Feminine Chaos ·

2025/05/09

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.Early access for premium subscribers.LINKS:The tweet that launched a thousand 'I prefer a dad bod' sentiments: https://x.com/CostelloWilliam/status/1914860472723005446Cartoons 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: This is a public

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14:10

Premium: The Arc of the Social Media Revolution Is...

Feminine Chaos ·

2025/04/25

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.comKat and Phoebe discuss capsule wardrobes, online discourse degradation, natalist White House policies, and whether you can get pregnant from a toilet seat.LINKS:The elusive instagram post featuring a very expensive not-jumpsuit:Your capsule wardrobe stinksWhite House Assesses Ways to Persuade Women to Have More ChildrenHealth Hazard: AIDS Fight Is Ske…

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11:10

Lena Dunham Has a Blog, Ee Eye Ee Eye O

Feminine Chaos ·

2025/04/19

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.comKat 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.LINKS:Kat's big book news:The Podcaster versus the Vice President:https://x.com/jessesingal/status/1912573409029947456The bulldog-in-top-hat weighs in:https://x.com/CharlesPBarkle…

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10:20

Premium: Butt Plug for Life

Feminine Chaos ·

2025/04/10

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.comKat 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.Links:We Believe in Buy-It-For-Life Products. Here Are Our 25 Favorites. | Reviews by WirecutterIn ‘Dying for Sex,’ Men Are Eternally Disappoin…

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53:43

And You Can, Too

Feminine Chaos ·

2025/04/04

Early access for premium subscribers! Kat and Phoebe discuss the Ghiblification of deportation, political tone policing, and the evangelical lesbians who study heterosexual women like zoo animals.The Last Unicorn by Topstar a.k.a. Studio Ghibli before it was Ghibli:The White House jumps on the Ghibli meme train:https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1905332049021415862Whoops: An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran PrisonElon Musk's new hat:Elon Musk wears new MAGA hat with 'big

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16:18

Premium: Who Do You Think You Are

Feminine Chaos ·

2025/03/28

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.comKat and Phoebe discuss the cartoon avatars of the political resistance, the fall of 23andMe, the aesthetics of MAGA, and the 14 year-old pig wrangler whose icy stare stole our hearts and/or souls.LINKS:The original pseudoposter/realposter collab:

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14:16

Premium: Good Dogs, Bad Neighbours

Feminine Chaos ·

2025/03/21

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.comKat and Phoebe discuss an incredibly Canadian neighborhood poop drama, the allure of bisexual men, and the free speech imbroglio surrounding the deportation of a Columbia student protester.Links:Ladies, is it gay to like men?The FP on the ICE arrest of a Columbia protester:Melissa Chen with thoughts on the probationary green card:h…

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15:31

Premium: Spicy Maltz Bovy

Feminine Chaos ·

2025/03/14

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.comKat and Phoebe discuss the tragic denouement of a recent celebrity death, the spicy for-podcast-only outtakes from Phoebe's recent Globe & Mail column on woman-defining, and whether robots are coming for our jobs.LINKS:https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-what-is-a-woman-an-obsession-with-defining-women-has-become-a/https://x.com/katrosenfiel…

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59:33

We Are All In Vogue Now

Feminine Chaos ·

2025/03/09

Kat and Phoebe discuss post-woke fashion, ideological trends, a sexy Oscar-winning movie, and a minor vandalism incident in Kat's front yard (stay tuned to minute 39 for the thrilling live-on-podcast denouement!)NOTES:The license plate holder:Amy Odell: Fashion Has Given Up on Being Woke, and That’s OKAndrew Sullivan: We All Live on Campus NowKat on post-politics actors and AnoraPhoebe on the 2010s: This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus

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16:53

Premium: Suspicions Abound

Feminine Chaos ·

2025/02/27

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.comKat and Phoebe discuss the tragic and strange death of Gene Hackman (with latest news in links), the controversy surrounding Trump's passport policies, and the Nanette of divorce memoirs.Links:Gene Hackman steals Young Frankenstein:

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15:39

Premium: Boobs Are Back, Right Is Woke

Feminine Chaos ·

2025/02/22

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.comChestfeeding is out and boobs are in on the latest episode of Feminine Chaos, as Kat and Phoebe discuss the renaissance of tits, the female gaze, and a new round of "whither wokeness" discourse.Kat on knockers: The age of the prude is overThe “man” ad for Kamala:

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14:12

Premium: Slippery Slopes

Feminine Chaos ·

2025/02/12

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.comKat and Phoebe discuss Jewish-coded skiing incidents, ozempic divorces, men losing babies, and the loneliness of the immortal optimizer.LINKS:How Weight-Loss Drugs Can Upend a MarriageThe world's most optimized man:

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50:00

Big Sweaters and Teeny Bikinis

Feminine Chaos ·

2025/02/07

Kat and Phoebe discuss $800 sweaters for feminism, Instagram deep-diving, and why angry MAGA men are circulating pictures of a certain podcaster’s hindquarters on twitter. (Early access for premium subscribers!)LINKS:Kat on the horny beer calendar: The picture that made one Conservative Dad lose his mind:Cartoons Hate Her on MAGA babes: Phoebe vs fancy sweaters: This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit

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15:19

Premium: Thought Catalogs, Beer Calendars, and Just...

Feminine Chaos ·

2025/01/31

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.comKat and Phoebe discuss an allegedly terrible new sex trend all the youths are into, the bizarro aesthetics of the MAGA babe beer calendar, strange bedfellows in the culture wars, and how asking questions became a bad thing.LINKS:Cookie jarring, from Thought Catalog, which still exists: https://thoughtcatalog.com/molly-burford/2025/01/theres-a-new-dating…

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11:31

Premium: Compromises of the Long Island Variety

Feminine Chaos ·

2025/01/24

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.comKat and Phoebe discuss Taffy Brodesser-Akner's Long Island Compromise, fictional nose jobs, sexual reciprocity, and Trump's executive order to un-bend genders everywhere.LINKS:Phoebe reviews Long Island Compromise:The safety question: Jewish existential dilemmas in Taffy Brodesser-Akner's hilarious 'Long Island Compromise'Kat’s internet-breaking newslet…

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9:07

Premium: The Yum-Yucking Episode

Feminine Chaos ·

2025/01/17

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.comBecause the Neil Gaiman discourse is a gift that keeps on giving podcast content, Kat and Phoebe return to discuss the yucking of yums, the sex lives of old ladies, and whether women should be allowed to have their own bank accounts.Links:Once again, the Gaiman exposéThere Is No Safe WordRoss Douthat on the constraints of the BDSM technical foul:https:/…

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11:11

Premium: The Subtle Slay of the Non-Binary Babygirl

Feminine Chaos ·

2025/01/14

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.comKat and Phoebe discuss the MeToo-ing of Neil Gaiman (and certain questions about the reporting thereof.) Also: BDSM, Babygirl, and the non-binary comedy of Ilana Glazer.Links:The expose of Neil "Call Me Master" GaimanKat's first-on-the-scene dispatch from the YA Twitter Wars: https://www.vulture.com/2017/08/the-toxic-drama-of-ya-twitter.htmlArchived ver…

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67:16

Outrage Nostalgia

Feminine Chaos ·

2025/01/10

Kat and Phoebe discuss the surprise comeback of home cooking discourse, the anatomy of the PR war between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, and how a dying political movement spawned the world's weirdest list of thought criminals.Links:Home cooking-gate: Kat on the Baldoni vs Lively mess:Phoebe on trans rights as omnicause The BARpod episode on Transgender Map: This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit

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10:34

Premium: Milkmaids in the Raw

Feminine Chaos ·

2024/12/21

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.comKat and Phoebe discuss a viral dress ad and all it contains (or, uh, doesn't). Also: straight woman studies, Alice Munro and the men who ask for performance reviews after rejection.LINKS:The pasteurized backlash:Phoebe's Sex & Politics appearance:https://savage.love/lovecast/2024/12/19/sex-politics-36-phoebe-maltz-bovy/What Alice Munro Knew - The New Yo…

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14:55

Premium: Hunks of Discourse

Feminine Chaos ·

2024/12/13

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.comKat and Phoebe discuss a hot (alleged) killer, a perfectly nice-looking podcaster, the death of civility norms in digital space, interesting use cases for AI chatbots, and the Colleen Hoover movie Kat watched while couchlocked with the flu.LINKS:Ask us anything! Submit your question here:https://femchaospod.substack.com/p/amasKatie Herzog on "gay or Ita…

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