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Phoebe Maltz Bovy

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Phoebe Maltz Bovy

@BovyMaltz

Opinion editor, The CJN, co-host, Feminine Chaos Book: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/745513/t…

Toronto

phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com

Joined December 2021

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Phoebe Maltz Bovy
@BovyMaltz
Jun 13
Did I just, after all manner of dithering in interviews, elevator-pitch THE LAST STRAIGHT WOMAN?
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
@BovyMaltz
Jun 12
Replying to @BovyMaltz
I think it can be... healthy? fun? as a straight woman to just at least fleetingly forget about what *you* look like or how your looks compare with other women's and simply look at men.
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
@BovyMaltz
Oct 27, 2022
Dating discourse is so repetitive because people can't seem to just establish that 1) it's fine to have absolutely any preferences/boundaries but 2) in most contexts it's gratuitously rude to announce who you find unattractive
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
@BovyMaltz
Oct 14, 2024
I am so happy to see ‘you don’t want a village, you want a maid,’ now exists in spelled out form.
Cartoons Hate Her!
@CartoonsHateHer
Oct 14, 2024
Today I write about how many parents who bemoan the loss of a "village" don't actually want one, because it would require them to interact with other people.
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
@BovyMaltz
Sep 5, 2024
Replying to @default_friend
I TA'd at NYU when in grad school there and I don't remember any hippies!!
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
@BovyMaltz
Oct 27, 2022
Replying to @BovyMaltz
Nobody needs to interrogate their preferences. But if your preferences are so restrictive you're not finding anyone to date, but would like to, you may want to do that? I don't know.
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
@BovyMaltz
Oct 24, 2023
I think the 'the hostages are actually having a nice time' truthers might be what causes me to full-on lose my mind.
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
@BovyMaltz
Oct 14, 2024
Replying to @BovyMaltz
The clue is in the fact that whenever anyone bemoans the absence of a village it's when they'd like someone else to swing by and take over the childcare/housework for a bit.
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
@BovyMaltz
Jul 17, 2022
Women in their 20s are referring to themselves as hot, really sticking it to a world that tells them otherwise
The New York Times
@nytimes
Jul 16, 2022
Hotness is no longer just in the eye of the beholder. It’s a mood. It’s a vibe. nyti.ms/3PwFmou
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
@BovyMaltz
Oct 14, 2024
Replying to @BovyMaltz
It's never manifesting itself as 'I'd like unpaid timeshare on looking after someone else's tantrum-having toddler.'
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
@BovyMaltz
Apr 2, 2023
I cannot imagine a healthy relationship whatever everyone's gender where one person is like, 'how dare I expect the esteemed [my partner] to do chores'
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Phoebe Maltz Bovy
@BovyMaltz
Mar 7, 2023
I just sped-read the piece and came to the very boring conclusion that everybody, philosopher or not, does what they feel like in life, then finds ways to justify it.
Wesley Yang
@wesyang
Mar 7, 2023
Agnes Callard felt a moral duty to harm her children rather than remain in a marriage that she "no longer felt I was aspirational about." newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
@BovyMaltz
Oct 15, 2023
I am unfortunately now obsessed with this. And if you counter (some do) that Jews shouldn't aspire to having a 'home', that being cosmopolitan is our superpower, where does this fit with a worldview where settler equals invader equals gentrifier etc etc
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
@BovyMaltz
Oct 14, 2023
Replying to @BovyMaltz
Someone posted something recently (who? where?) asking where on this planet a Jew would not be considered a settler and this is an entirely fair question.
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
@BovyMaltz
Mar 5, 2024
Where do they think Jews should live? They don’t, is the answer.
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
@BovyMaltz
Apr 25, 2022
Replying to @kittypurrzog
Literally why I’m here, I knew it was coming