Feminine Chaos

Mar 09 2025 109 ep. 42 mins 346
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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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We Are All In Vogue Now

Mar 09 2025 59 mins  
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 Anora

Premium: Suspicions Abound

Feb 27 2025 16 mins  
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:

Premium: Boobs Are Back, Right Is Woke

Feb 22 2025 15 mins  
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:

Premium: Slippery Slopes

Feb 12 2025 14 mins  
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:

Big Sweaters and Teeny Bikinis

Feb 07 2025 50 mins  
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

Premium: Thought Catalogs, Beer Calendars, and Just Asking Questions

Jan 31 2025 15 mins  
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://tho

Premium: Compromises of the Long Island Variety

Jan 24 2025 11 mins  
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 hilariou

Premium: The Yum-Yucking Episode

Jan 17 2025 9 mins  
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 Dou

Premium: The Subtle Slay of the Non-Binary Babygirl

Jan 14 2025 11 mins  
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.c

Outrage Nostalgia

Jan 10 2025 67 mins  
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 epis