Chapter 14: Poolhouses and Podcasts & Chapter 15: Girly Men

Brad comes home from Washington D.C. with Kip, his Peloton instructor. Kip is short, immortal, gender-homoflexible, and wearing leather pants. They are moving into the poolhouse together. They are starting a podcast called Poolhouse Confessions.Brad had never wanted to do a podcast with Jebra.Jebra turns her heartbreak into a Medium essay titled Marriage and the Patriarchy: My Quasiplatonic Journey. It receives seven claps. "I ugly-cried into a roll of bamboo toilet paper, whispering: Decolonize your feelings, Jebra. Decolonize."Then Literaleigh needs help with her history homework. The topic is D-Day."Why is no one wearing a dress? Why is no one fat? Did they not have mascara back then?"Jebra visits her aura reader Ricardo, who tells her that testicles are becoming soft jewels and it's the dawn of a glorious matriarchy. She isn't sure how she feels about this.