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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 · 20h

A not-paywalled post about the place of 'cancellation' art in 2025. phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/a-bit-of-a...

"A bit of a silly anachronism”

Cancel-culture art and the cringe it now inspires

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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 3h

What do we do with all the art conceived/produced/inspired during just before Trump's second term but released during it? phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/a-bit-of-a...

"A bit of a silly anachronism”

Cancel-culture art and the cringe it now inspires

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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 3h

What do we do with all the art conceived/produced/inspired during just before Trump's second term but released during it? phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/a-bit-of-a...

"A bit of a silly anachronism”

Cancel-culture art and the cringe it now inspires

phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com

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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 14h

YES!

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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 14h

Has anyone participating in the conversation tried to measure the level of impact a writer-influencer in New York doing some book recommendations at a meet-the-celebrity event could possibly have on the Middle East?

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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 15h

I have never been as sure of anything as I am that she's going to apologize and not wind up even doing the sponcon.

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

A not-paywalled post about the place of 'cancellation' art in 2025. phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/a-bit-of-a...

"A bit of a silly anachronism”

Cancel-culture art and the cringe it now inspires

phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com

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

A not-paywalled post about the place of 'cancellation' art in 2025. phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/a-bit-of-a...

"A bit of a silly anachronism”

Cancel-culture art and the cringe it now inspires

phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com

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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 23h

Halloween costume rather sorted itself out, I will add an element of "effortlessness" by not tracking down a black hat for the iconic Annie Hall outfit the rest of which is in my home.

Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 23h

Finding all the coverage of Diane Keaton as having been "effortless" a bit odd, I'm sure she put in effort in all sorts of ways, can we not celebrate the effort?

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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 23h

Canada Post appears to be struggling through long enough for the bras I ordered a thousand years ago to arrive. (And I'm sure all sorts of exciting bills and whatnot but more importantly)

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

Perfect dog! 😍

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 1d

i never relate to my dog more than when he’s just back from the groomer (he does not like the groomer)

a very puffy and fluffy and sleepy poodle lying on its side and falling asleep on top of a bed

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

So true. It's very, enough about the newly-freed human beings, let's check in on some legumes.

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Barb @barblahblah.bsky.social · 1d

Also I’m reading that headline as querying the health of the lentils, not necessarily how healthy they might be for us to eat?
I hope they’re healthy. Worrying about sick lentils is too much.

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

Momentous, hard-to-fathom events but also something for people worried they might be ODing on lentils.

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Elizabeth Nolan Brown @enbrown.bsky.social · 5d

huh

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

I close-read a rerun: phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/the-antifa...

The antifa episode of "Seinfeld"

Revisiting 1992's "The Limo" in 2025

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

Specifically: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH5_...

Seinfeld - George Reads O'Brien's Speech

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

An interesting scene as well for its own prescient reasons!

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

I can’t get the link to work but don’t remember if the term itself is mentioned, which it definitely is in O’Brien’s speech.

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

Almost certainly the only time Zionism is mentioned on Seinfeld!

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

OMG this article from the New York Times got a "content" label. Free the hot men in underpants!

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

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The most striking thing about “The Limo” is that it is never once mentioned that Jerry is Jewish. Much as “The Contest” never utters the word masturbation, the Seinfeld episode about Jerry and George inadvertently posing as neo-Nazis never outright states the reason this would be ridiculous. Is it that the humor comes from that which is not spelled out? Or is it that the show’s Jewishness was always tempered, lest it be too Jewish and alienate people who weren’t into that?** It’s something that struck me at the time (or if not at the time as in 1992 then in circa 1998 rerun rewatches), and that positively leaps out watching it in 2025.

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

I take the middle-ground position of cheap Bluetooth headphones exist (they're what I own) but also the no-cords thing was downfall of civilization stuff.

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

I close-read a rerun: phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/the-antifa...

The antifa episode of "Seinfeld"

Revisiting 1992's "The Limo" in 2025

phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com

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