ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Let's wrap up Femcel Studies.
In Part II, we explore how a post-Femcel internet has cultivated an appetite for online stalking, emotional scarcity, and sexual competition, and why this has left us in a crisis of disembodiment.
We also spotlight two of the freakiest writers working today – Sheena Patel and Sayaka Murata – whose estranged heroines reveal what happens when romance loses its grip on reality.
Expect questions like: is love entertainment? Is celibacy anti-establishment? Do anime boyfriends and emotionally unavailable men have more in common than we think?
Show Notes:
- he needs me by The Femcels
- Post-Femcel Femininity by Virginia Karnstein
- I’m A Fan (2022) by Sheena Patel
- Fandom with Sheena Patel by Literary Friction
- Pillion (2025)
- Sayaka Murata: The Cosmic Novelist by The Gentlewoman
- Convenience Store Woman (2016) by Sayaka Murata
- Vanishing World (2025) by Sayaka Murata
- Sayaka Murata Inhabits A Planet of Her Own by Wired
- ‘Marriage feels like a hostage situation, and motherhood a curse’ – Sayaka profiled in The Guardian
- The rise of mixed-orientation marriage by Impact
- What’s going on with straight women? by Dee Salmin
- To Rest Our Minds and Bodies (2025) by Harriet Armstrong
- Mimetic theory of desire by René Girard
- Doomers in Love by Mana Afsari
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