Phoebe Maltz Bovy
@phoebebovy.bsky.social
https://phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/745513/the-last-straight-woman-by-phoebe-maltz-bovy/ Opinion ed., The CJN, contributor columnist, The Globe and Mail. Half of Feminine Chaos.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/745513/the-last-straight-woman-by-phoebe-maltz-bovy/ Opinion ed., The CJN, contributor columnist, The Globe and Mail. Half of Feminine Chaos.
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I wrote about context collapse in beauty discourse generally, and, specifically, in the difference of opinion between a beauty-and-fashion influencer and an anti-McMansion architecture critic on how much Woman ought to do with her appearance.
Ah, agreed in that case!
February 12, 2026 at 5:33 PM
Ah, agreed in that case!
I think there's something to the idea that the very specific thing of appending "white" to one's general woman-bashing came from the left, even if misogyny itself certainly didn't come from any one political side.
February 12, 2026 at 5:28 PM
I think there's something to the idea that the very specific thing of appending "white" to one's general woman-bashing came from the left, even if misogyny itself certainly didn't come from any one political side.
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right, so, some quite insane professional news from me: last month I went to Paris to interview Gisèle Pelicot about what happened to her, and what her life looks like now - out in print on Sunday
February 12, 2026 at 2:46 PM
right, so, some quite insane professional news from me: last month I went to Paris to interview Gisèle Pelicot about what happened to her, and what her life looks like now - out in print on Sunday
They lay such delicious eggs too, it’s terrible.
February 12, 2026 at 3:46 PM
They lay such delicious eggs too, it’s terrible.
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Not paywalled but some preview all the same.
February 12, 2026 at 2:14 PM
Not paywalled but some preview all the same.
Not paywalled but some preview all the same.
February 12, 2026 at 2:14 PM
Not paywalled but some preview all the same.
On straight women feeling like gay men. phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/on-the-who...
On the whole Olivia Colman 'gay man' thing
As you have probably caught on, two of my main preoccupations are British television shows and female heterosexuality.
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February 12, 2026 at 1:53 PM
On straight women feeling like gay men. phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/on-the-who...
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I wrote about how personal crisis veers into the absurd when your travel steamer gets recalled: lacachette.substack.com/p/indignity-...
Indignity and Indignation
There’s been a cursed sentence floating around the Internet this week, courtesy of an orthorexic influencer who used to write quite interesting things about fashion before the disorder (and the sponso...
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February 10, 2026 at 3:27 PM
I wrote about how personal crisis veers into the absurd when your travel steamer gets recalled: lacachette.substack.com/p/indignity-...
Note that I'm not even getting into (though I have in other @thecjn.bsky.social columns and podcasts) the specifics of *how* antisemitism is fought/defined in different contexts. I literally just mean, here, having such an apparatus.
February 11, 2026 at 1:51 PM
Note that I'm not even getting into (though I have in other @thecjn.bsky.social columns and podcasts) the specifics of *how* antisemitism is fought/defined in different contexts. I literally just mean, here, having such an apparatus.
I took a critical look at a movement whose stated goals I rather self-evidently support. phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/the-be-nic...
The 'be nice to Jews even though you DESPERATELY don't want to' movement.
On the fight against antisemitism
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February 11, 2026 at 1:49 PM
I took a critical look at a movement whose stated goals I rather self-evidently support. phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/the-be-nic...
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‘Antisemitism Czar’ sounds like a terrifying archetype from Yiddish folklore.
February 10, 2026 at 6:45 PM
‘Antisemitism Czar’ sounds like a terrifying archetype from Yiddish folklore.
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Two people I could listen to all day in one great conversation. Much needed dopamine on a grey, rainy day.
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Jonathan Kay: The end of the era of antisemitism 'czars'
Podcast Episode · The Jewish Angle · 10/02/2026 · 30m
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February 10, 2026 at 6:38 PM
Two people I could listen to all day in one great conversation. Much needed dopamine on a grey, rainy day.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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...a column from yours truly on the very same topic. thecjn.ca/opinion/opin...
thecjn.ca
February 10, 2026 at 9:13 PM
...a column from yours truly on the very same topic. thecjn.ca/opinion/opin...
New for @thecjn.bsky.social: a podcast with Jon Kay about antisemitism envoys thecjn.ca/opinion/cana... ... and
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February 10, 2026 at 9:12 PM
New for @thecjn.bsky.social: a podcast with Jon Kay about antisemitism envoys thecjn.ca/opinion/cana... ... and
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My eighth grade boyfriend attempted to court my mom by repeatedly doing South Park impressions at her.
www.cartoonshateher.com/p/when-i-was...
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February 10, 2026 at 1:08 PM
My eighth grade boyfriend attempted to court my mom by repeatedly doing South Park impressions at her.
www.cartoonshateher.com/p/when-i-was...
www.cartoonshateher.com/p/when-i-was...
If he can point to a moral panic (and he could!) he could claim that this explained his own persecution, when yeah no, not so much.
February 10, 2026 at 3:34 PM
If he can point to a moral panic (and he could!) he could claim that this explained his own persecution, when yeah no, not so much.
This is why my meta-thought re: MeToo itself is that it went too far and not far enough. Except specifically re: Epstein where it was 100% precisely correct: at last, punishment for things always known to be bad but not punished prior.
February 10, 2026 at 2:08 PM
This is why my meta-thought re: MeToo itself is that it went too far and not far enough. Except specifically re: Epstein where it was 100% precisely correct: at last, punishment for things always known to be bad but not punished prior.
There were suddenly all these Bad Men, some who'd done horrible things, some not-great things, some nothing at all. It served his interests to present his very much first-version case as part of a third-version sex panic.
February 10, 2026 at 2:02 PM
There were suddenly all these Bad Men, some who'd done horrible things, some not-great things, some nothing at all. It served his interests to present his very much first-version case as part of a third-version sex panic.
What I'm saying is that I don't think the 'Epstein offered to help the MeToo'd men' story tells us that there was a vast misogynist conspiracy, as much as it tells us that Epstein saw an opportunity to make the specifics of his crimes opaque.
February 10, 2026 at 2:01 PM
What I'm saying is that I don't think the 'Epstein offered to help the MeToo'd men' story tells us that there was a vast misogynist conspiracy, as much as it tells us that Epstein saw an opportunity to make the specifics of his crimes opaque.
Epstein and the MeToo'd men. phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/the-ladder
February 10, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Epstein and the MeToo'd men. phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/the-ladder
There just has to be a threshold past which underpants don't improve. But emperors, clothes, etc.
February 10, 2026 at 2:25 AM
There just has to be a threshold past which underpants don't improve. But emperors, clothes, etc.
I have now looked up these underpants. I did not know underpants could cost that much, let alone men's ones! Over 100 euros for a pair of underpants, because they are *Swiss.* OK.
February 10, 2026 at 2:23 AM
I have now looked up these underpants. I did not know underpants could cost that much, let alone men's ones! Over 100 euros for a pair of underpants, because they are *Swiss.* OK.
I'm trying to think about the big-picture significance of this Epstein stuff but am stuck on the part where he buys Woody Allen nearly $10k worth of *men's* underwear as a gift.
February 10, 2026 at 2:18 AM
I'm trying to think about the big-picture significance of this Epstein stuff but am stuck on the part where he buys Woody Allen nearly $10k worth of *men's* underwear as a gift.
I don't think it's healthy to have a constant discussion of 'we are so hated, everyone hates us so much.' I think of the time they'd have a 'don't be bulimic' speaker come by the middle school, thereby introducing the concept to some. But also: many people really do hate Jews!
February 9, 2026 at 10:04 PM
I don't think it's healthy to have a constant discussion of 'we are so hated, everyone hates us so much.' I think of the time they'd have a 'don't be bulimic' speaker come by the middle school, thereby introducing the concept to some. But also: many people really do hate Jews!