Beauty and the Beast

Feminine Chaos

Beauty and the Beast

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Phoebe Maltz Bovy

May 08, 2025

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.

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LINKS:

The tweet that launched a thousand 'I prefer a dad bod' sentiments: https://x.com/CostelloWilliam/status/1914860472723005446

Cartoons Hate Her makes the case for chiseled:

Cartoons Hate Her

Women Are Not Rejecting Men For Being Too Muscular

I initially wasn’t going to write about this because it felt a bit too “done” the second it went viral—like, almost too obvious CHH chum—but a guy’s before and after fitness photos went around Twitter this week, with men insisting he looked better after he got in shape, and women insisting he looked better before. TLDR: the usual annoying arguments ensued…

2 months ago · 96 likes · 138 comments · Cartoons Hate Her

Phoebe pored over some torsos so you don't have to:

Close-reading the reruns with Phoebe Maltz Bovy

Inspecting Mr. Torso

The eternal problem with having taken on the straight-woman topic is that I can never be sure if I’m talking about straight women or about my own weirdo self. For there are always three possibilities…

2 months ago · 19 likes · 15 comments · Phoebe Maltz Bovy

Kat on the surprising-but-not GOP pro-Weinstein moment:

Harvey Weinstein and the Death Rattle of #MeToo

If ever you need an example of how backlash politics makes for strange bedfellows, look no further than the unholy alliance between the MAGA Sphere and Hollywood’s most notorious Democratic sex offender…

2 months ago · 229 likes · 287 comments · Kat Rosenfield

As promised:

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