Phoebe Maltz Bovy
https://phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com
penguinrandomhouse.com/books/745513/the-la… Opinion ed., The CJN, contributor columnist, The Globe and Mail. Half of Feminine Chaos.
- Here is where literally everybody else gets to claim to be, as it goes, self-made.
- Do others not see this? There is a breathlessness to the discussion that I cannot not see.
- The absolute easiest way to signal virtue at this point in time is to flaunt one's 100% lack of association with Epstein. (Note re: men doing this, they could have still been up to whatever else with whomever else! It tells you very little!)
- Real throwback to the earlier MeToo days when men would be shouting from the rooftops about how awful it was what *that* man was up to... and then soon enough, they too would be exposed.
- Also bringing me back to the MeToo phenomenon of the same stories functioning as feminist galvanization and male titillation. There are many reasons men can't stop talking about how terrible terrible all those young girls girls girls, and they are not all savory.
- Aww, my first blurb.
- Tangential but: there is a phenomenon I've long observed online wherein many people imagine they're talking exclusively to 24-year-olds. It's most obvious in let's say gendered situations (women are presumed young and single which is weird when you're very neither) but carries over elsewhere.
- I have not been following closely enough to know whether the story is that Hillary is somehow implicated or if this is just, poor Hillary, has the woman not been through enough?!
- This is how I'd imagine it would go if I drove which is my answer to why I don't do that.
- This is what I was trying to get at (and will be returning to) re: that Canadian Jewish literary manifesto, "Land Back Here and Land Back There: A Jewish Literary Call"
- There are, I promise, ways to express support for Indigenous people in Canada that don't involve insinuating that one's fellow Jews don't belong in Canada.
- And more broadly: the expansive use of "settler." thecjn.ca/opinion/pers...
- It's really going to be 'wokeness is why Trump' vs 'antiwoke anti-Trump is why Trump' till the bitter end isn't it www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- I adhere to a secret third theory: pro-Trump people are why Trump.
- This is less about food specifically than about the 'make your every consumer choice a research project' ethos. It can become - appropriately - all-consuming.
