Feminine Chaos: The Feed

Kat and Phoebe are joined by Jessa Crispin, literary critic and culture writer, to talk about dewy ingenues, the young-adultification of literature, and why that one guy on Book Twitter was screaming about worms. Links: * Jessa on age gaps in the Boston Review: Pathologizing Desire [http://bostonreview.net/gender-sexuality/jessa-crispin-pathologizing-desire] * Jessa's essay [https://themorningnews.org/tob/superrooster/the-underground-railroad-v-normal-people.php] on the Underground Railroad vs Normal People, both for children * David Bowles' epic "disgusting worms" Twitter meltdown [https://twitter.com/DavidOBowles/status/1333639895903055873] * Kat's 2017 (but still relevant) primer for understanding YA's internecine conflicts: The Toxic Drama on YA Twitter [https://www.vulture.com/2017/08/the-toxic-drama-of-ya-twitter.html] * Jessa's website [http://www.jessacrispin.com/] Get bonus content on Patreon [https://open.acast.com/public/patreon/fanSubscribe/3334580] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for privacy and opt-out information.

Phoebe and Kat discuss Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States, now cancelled for intellectual pick-up artistry. Is putting your best foot forward a violation of consent? Will the stigma against duplicity-in-dating usher in a new era of unwashed, farting suitors who start every relationship by confessing their worst sins? Then, the ladies talk about the liberal feminists who are forcing women everywhere to endure lousy sex, and the murder mysteries that soothe the soul in the midst of dreary quarantine. Links: The Obama-as-predator take [https://twitter.com/daily_barbarian/status/1329114703533137922/retweets/with_comments] that broke Twitter Refinery29: We Need To Know Who The “Ethereal Bisexual” Woman Was In Barack Obama’s Memoir [https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2020/11/10179447/barack-obama-memoir-ethereal-bisexual-woman-meaning] Louise Perry at Unherd: Is casual sex immoral? [https://unherd.com/2020/11/is-casual-sex-immoral/] Phoebe at The Globe and Mail: Surviving the pandemic with murder mysteries [https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-forget-a-vaccine-im-surviving-the-pandemic-thanks-to-murder] Get bonus content on Patreon [https://open.acast.com/public/patreon/fanSubscribe/3334580] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for privacy and opt-out information.

Kat and Phoebe discuss the cultural appropriation controversy surrounding a Toronto-based broth bar, and whether having your lunch made fun of in fourth grade is a source of permanent trauma. Then: is this equal pay controversy between two LA Times food critics as simple as it seems? (Spoiler: Nope, it never is.) Links: * Phoebe on the cultural appropriation of broth: No Soup For You. Can you even culturally appropriate… | by Phoebe Maltz Bovy | Nov, 2020 [https://arcdigital.media/no-soup-for-you-6f3f3303faa0] * LA Times Responds to Accusation of Paying Discrimination [https://la.eater.com/2020/11/17/21571364/los-angeles-times-latina-food-critic-pay-discrimination-patricia-escarcega] Get bonus content on Patreon [https://open.acast.com/public/patreon/fanSubscribe/3334580] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for privacy and opt-out information.

Kat reviews the very controversial French film Cuties ... Sexuality without sex ... The hypothetical specter of a pedophile watching this movie ... “Photogenic feminism” and the stories about women the media ignores ... Phoebe: Being constantly chased by men is not feminism’s main concern ...

Can a 30-year-old be "too young to know better"? ... Typecasting young people as woke political radicals ... The revolution devours its adults ... The inevitable disaster of reopening residential colleges ... The strange case of Aaron Coleman ...