Feminine Chaos
Feminine Chaos
Tone Police, Capital Ws, and Ivy League Disemvoweling
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Tone Police, Capital Ws, and Ivy League Disemvoweling

Phoebe's lurking in Facebook mom groups inspires a deep dive on tone policing: what it is, why it's used, and whether it killed Alexander Hamilton. (It definitely did.) Then, a discussion of language conventions: the Washington Post's controversial decision to capitalize the "w" in white, and one college graduate's disavowal of her family wealth complet…

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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.