Feminine Chaos

Feminine Chaos

Open thread, coffee in plastic edition

Poor man's Jia Tolentino strikes again

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Phoebe Maltz Bovy
May 13, 2026
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Yeah I pay for my lemons. No I have not signed a pledge not to contribute to the NYT Opinion section until it rebrands as The Daily Worker. But sometimes I too get iced coffee in a plastic cup.

It’s never clear to me what you’re meant to do with that cup when it’s finished. The plastic bits say to recycle them, but there will still be bits of coffee in …

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