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Phoebe Maltz Bovy

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https://phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com Writing a book about straight women for PRH Canada. Opinion ed., The Canadian Jewish News, and contributor columnist, The Globe and Mail. Half of Feminine Chaos, host of The Jewish Angle: thecjn.ca/angle

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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 7d

A Routledge appreciation thread: phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/frasier-x-...

Frasier x Hyacinth

The 1990s upward mobility plot

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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 1h

Thanks!

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 3h

RIP to a wonder.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 3h

Diane Keaton, famed for roles in “Father of the Bride,” “First Wives Club” and more, has died at 79

Diane Keaton, Famed for Roles in 'Father of the Bride,' 'First Wives Club' and More, Dies at 79 (Exclusive)

Diane Keaton has died at age 79, PEOPLE can confirm exclusively. The actress was best known for roles in movies like 'Annie Hall,' 'The First Wives Club,' 'Something's Gotta Give' and 'The Godfather.'

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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 1d

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Dr. Husband and Mrs. Bucket

-It’s 2025, and the NYT has discovered biological clocks.

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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 20h

An article that combines my interest in all-cotton undergarments with that which is of more general interest as well. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/s...

Underwear That Makes You Healthier?

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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 1d

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Dr. Husband and Mrs. Bucket

-It’s 2025, and the NYT has discovered biological clocks.

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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 1d

Fine.

Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 1d

By all means critique what you think you see. It just seems an odd bone to pick with someone for writing an article (in a Jewish pub at that!) saying that Jewish antizionists are *not* antisemites. I feel like there might be other people more productive to be arguing with on these matters.

Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 1d

Yes I did! I said "in part." It was an article about where two groups of antizionists differ *with respect to attitudes towards Jews* and not getting into who prioritizes which goal they hold how much. The thing you're disagreeing with isn't what I think and isn't in my piece.

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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 1d

I never said the thing you're disagreeing with? I'm saying that Jewish antizionists, like Jews who are not antizionists, tend not to take positions whose end point is 'a world without Jews'

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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks!

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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 1d

I just did an op-ed @thecjn.bsky.social specifically to define those terms!! thecjn.ca/opinion/pers...

The Manchester synagogue attack inspires 'her skirt was too short' antisemitism

I do not opine on this from some lofty arena where Jews are not targets. No such place exists.

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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know if she's a Republican, I do know that this is just a normal if not always delightful part of the working world.

Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 1d

As I said, it's not about needing to love Bari Weiss's management technique. It's about whether to attribute it to Elon Musk and to read something MAGA into it.

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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly. No one said it's an unstressful thing to happen at work but it's not some Muskian innovation!

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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know why this bothers me. I promise that it's not that I identify more with being on the asking than asked end of things because nope. It might be as quaint as this bothering me As A Jewish Woman. Be mad at people for legit reasons only please!!

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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 1d

YES. I'm not saying anyone has to enjoy being asked that question generally or by Weiss specifically but it is not sinister or new!

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Shaun McKinnon @shaunmckinnon.bsky.social · 1d

two men are sitting at a table with the caption what would you say you do here ?

ALT: two men are sitting at a table with the caption what would you say you do here ?

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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 1d

"Lori Husband, a psychologist in private practice in Nashville, runs a digital class for women in their 30s and 40s who are dating while facing a fertility deadline." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/w... ! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominat...

The Pressure of Dating With a Fertility Deadline

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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 1d

I know the law is to treat Bari Weiss's career trajectory as the key unlocking the universe but I'm pretty sure 'new boss asks employees to describe what they do and what is/isn't working at the company' predates DOGE.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

We don't know why RFK Jr. is talking about circumcision and autism. We've never walked a mohel in his shoes

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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway, I am trying to remain optimistic about: 1) Mideast peace and 2) a change to the Canada Post strike strategy that might permit the bras I long ago ordered (and, fine, other mail as well) to reach its destination

Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 1d

(People do realize this was a joke right, or am I now on an 'accounts that think Trump deserved Nobel' blocklist?)

Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 2d

They could even invent a special Worst Guy Good Point Nobel!

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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 1d

Thus the question mark at the end of my post title! It seems clear there is more spending on dorm decor happening. But it's less clear of subcultures themselves have changed that much.

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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 1d

It used to be chic to be faux-poor as a student. Has this changed, and is that why people are mad at hyperstylized pink dorm rooms? phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/the-end-of...

The end of the faux-poor college student?

Tuition: $70k, dorm decor: 'look what I scavenged!'

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