Feminine Chaos
Feminine Chaos
Radical Barbiecore
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Radical Barbiecore

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Kat and Phoebe discuss a young man's existential crisis over being rudely awakened by his girlfriend, the cultural significance of the Barbie movie, the hot pink aesthetic known as "Barbiecore", and the $5 million log cabin for a man and his dog.

Links:

The regretful Redditor:

https://www.reddit.com/r/sex/comments/151hlva/my_gf_woke_me_up_with_a_blowjob_and_i_kinda_like/

Kat on boundaries:

The usual palm tree
Of beejays and boundaries
The 25 year-old man who chastised his live-in girlfriend and gave her the silent treatment for "overstepping her boundaries" after she woke him up with a blowjob: does he even exist? Many men have weighed in on this point, some of them quiet passionately! Good for them. Personally, my position is more of the who-knows-who-cares v…
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Kat on Barbie and her millennial girlboss contradictions. https://unherd.com/2023/07/barbie-is-fight-club-for-women/

Barbiecore https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/25/realestate/barbiecore-home-decor-interior-design.html

The opposite of Barbiecore: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/14/realestate/cabin-restoration-ontario-canada.html

Phoebe on the dog cabin:

Close-reading the reruns with Phoebe Maltz Bovy
A dog cabin he built himself
The kitchen renovation era, in which we have arrived at week 9 of 7, has prompted a lot of thoughts. At first I was embarrassed to be fancy. (A homeowner and renovating, bring on the guillotine.) Then I was sad to not be fancier and thus able to move out during this kitchenless-construction-site atrociousness. That was the big picture. “Was” as if this …
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Feminine Chaos
Feminine Chaos
Problematic faves, dissident feminism, and poodle interruptions: this is Feminine Chaos, featuring cultural commentary from Phoebe Maltz Bovy and Kat Rosenfield.