How Straight Women Became Uncool

May 21, 2026 edition

Writer and cultural critic Phoebe Maltz Bovy joins me to discuss her new book, The Last Straight Woman, an exploration of how heterosexual women became suspect — if not pitifully uncool — in progressive culture. We talk about everything from Tumblr-era feminism and the post-#MeToo recalibration of gender politics to the television se…