Phoebe Maltz Bovy is a former editor of the Sisterhood blog at the Forward. Her writing has appeared in several publications, including The New Republic and The Atlantic. Her book, “The Perils of ‘Privilege,’” was published by St. Martin’s Press in March 2017. She has a PhD in French and French Studies from New York University, and has read a lot of 19th century French Jewish newspapers for a 21st century American.
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
By Phoebe Maltz Bovy
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Opinion Donald Trump, Anti-Semitism and the New Socialism of Fools
Here’s a little history for those just joining us: What’s long distinguished anti-Semitism from most other forms of oppression is that this form of bigotry presents itself as an anti-oppression ideology. The anti-Semite doesn’t (in his or her view) hate Jews because ugh, Jews. Rather, the anti-Semite believes Jews to be an all-powerful force, a…
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Life So, Um, About the White Female Vote…
Like so many (but not enough) American woman at this moment in time, I sobbed my way through Hillary Clinton’s concession speech. What I feel is despair. And it’s a multifaceted despair: at what it means (women’s-health-wise, for starters) for the GOP to have Congress and the presidency; at what Donald Trump’s win specifically indicates…
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Life White Women Helped Elect Trump. How Should White Jewish Women React?
With news emerging that white women preferred Donald Trump to Hillary Clinton, it’s tempting, if you’re a white woman horrified at what’s just happened, to start on a reckoning, or whatever one wishes to call that social-media self-flagellation that so many of us turn to when things seem horrible and we feel helpless at fixing…
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Life How Do I Feel Voting For a First Female President? Angry (and J’Accuse-y) that it Took So Long
As I hope many of you did as well, I voted for Hillary Clinton this morning. I wish I could say that this was a moving, overwhelming, emotionally fulfilling experience. But… not so much? I was beyond excited to vote for Clinton – for someone with her experience, qualifications, and positions on numerous issues. But…
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Life Why Ann Coulter’s Pro-Trump ‘4 Grandparents’ Tweet Is So Scary for Jews
Right-wing personality-shall-we-say Ann Coulter tweeted her wishes that “only people with at least 4 grandparents born in America” could vote, because then, Trump would, she believes, win the election. Coulter, who I will confess I’d mostly lost track of, in the blur of 2016 horribleness and 1990s revivalism, has evidently — see Cathy Young —…
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Life Men Ask the Important Questions: Is Hillary Hot Enough, or Too Hot, to be President?
Much has been said over the past few weeks – and rightly so – about the near-universal female experience of being preyed upon by men. What we hear a bit less about is the other version of what is, in either incarnation, a misogynist power move: men announcing that women are unattractive, as a way…
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Life Trump Official Compares Miami Voters to Moody Housewives
Trump official on tomorrow’s turnout: “It’s like predicting your wife’s mood. You have no idea what you’re going to get until you get home” — Joshua Green (@JoshuaGreen) November 7, 2016 At Bloomberg, Joshua Green reports on the election in Florida’s Miami-Dade County, with a doozy of a quote from one “Brad Parscale, Trump’s digital…
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Life WATCH (NSFW): Rachel Bloom and an All-Star Cast Sing an Urgent Reminder: Vote!
Did you have plans for Tuesday? Do they include… voting? They should! In a new Funny or Die video, Rachel Bloom of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend fame, along with a number of people who also look famous, use their platform to remind us all to vote. For Hillary Clinton. HOLY SH*T (You’ve Got To Vote) from Funny…
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