Are there any older women here? Because I have a lady question: my cycles are suddenly a couple days shorter (31 days to 28 days or so.) I'm still ovulating. Someone tell me this isn't perimenopause I'm only 36 aaaaah

Today I wrote about why everyone's favorite color is dark green all of a sudden. www.cartoonshateher.com/p/turns-out-...

Today, I wrote about the villain at the intersection of Karen, wine mom, millennial liberal white woman, and cat lady: the reviled HR lady. www.cartoonshateher.com/p/hr-is-the-...

Only people who sew/knit/craft understand how important it is to have a very mediocre show on in the background at all times

My husband and I finally tried out Fair Play, the game intended to make invisible labor visible and to equitably divide domestic labor. Our experience was interesting since my husband is the neurotic one. www.cartoonshateher.com/p/bad-husban...

Today, my Trump impression on the division of domestic labor and the mental load. Link in replies.

Today I wrote about the Thoughtful Gesture Industrial Complex--new things people are expected to buy to be good spouses, partners or parents--and the fact that almost all of this is astroturfed from TikTok. www.cartoonshateher.com/p/dont-get-s...

Today, I was featured on Noah Smith's Substack with my piece about how I'm secretly a weeb for Ireland. www.noahpinion.blog/p/im-a-weeb-...

Today, I was featured on Noah Smith's Substack with my piece about how I'm secretly a weeb for Ireland. www.noahpinion.blog/p/im-a-weeb-...

My take on the idea that "boyfriends are embarrassing" is that pretending to be indifferent or hateful toward men is often just another way of signaling that you're hot--so hot that you don't even have to like men to get their attention. www.cartoonshateher.com/p/boyfriends...

Today, i wrote about the "word of the year" in 2025, an infamous teen meme called 6-7, and the 1998 meme "sloosh" that felt eerily similar. www.cartoonshateher.com/p/before-67-...

Today, I wrote about the men who find the act of wearing a Halloween costume painfully embarrassing, and how this relates to a larger scheme that hinges masculinity on trying as little as possible. www.cartoonshateher.com/p/the-eterna...

My love language is receiving 45 Apple gift cards for $50 each and having you read the serial numbers to me immediately

One of my favorite fun facts is that in 2006 Tucker Carlson was on MSNBC doing a segment about asexuality. I've been told this isn't ideal for the "get to you know you" game on the first day of work though?

Very astute @cartoonshateher.bsky.social blog - love this coinage:

Today I wrote about "temporarily embarrassed high school bullies," or people who have never been particularly cool but use politics, ideology or other causes as an excuse to give all the atomic wedgies they always dreamed of. www.cartoonshateher.com/p/on-tempora...

Today, a FREE article on how my husband thinks all food at restaurants is communal and I stand outside my culinary McMansion with a taser www.cartoonshateher.com/p/im-a-food-...

Today, I wrote about how the loneliness epidemic isn't about men, or women, or even how society is built, but about choices we all make every day to avoid socialization, effort, or embarrassment--and how it's too easy to make these choices. www.cartoonshateher.com/p/the-loneli...

so much of the media view of D/s doesn't understand this; the majority of it is basically giving the sub permission to do what they already wanted to do, giving them a safe and judgement-free zone to want it and do it

I thought I hated being the sexual aggressor because I was unconfident with my body. But even after I learned to love my body, I still hated being the one to initiate sex or (God forbid) REQUEST a sex act for my own enjoyment. cartoonshateher.substack.com/p/my-permiss...

Today, my first article that I asked my parents not to read. I examined how my sexuality works (and the sexuality of other straight women) and how this relates to almost all depictions of female sexuality in media. www.cartoonshateher.com/p/my-permiss...

Today, my first article that I asked my parents not to read. I examined how my sexuality works (and the sexuality of other straight women) and how this relates to almost all depictions of female sexuality in media. www.cartoonshateher.com/p/my-permiss...

People may be laughing at "cringe middle aged liberal women" at the No Kings protests for being insufficiently edgy or radical, but if your movement can't appeal to women like Sharon and Dawn, it won't win. www.cartoonshateher.com/p/your-prote...

People may be laughing at "cringe middle aged liberal women" at the No Kings protests for being insufficiently edgy or radical, but if your movement can't appeal to women like Sharon and Dawn, it won't win. www.cartoonshateher.com/p/your-prote...

Would anyone like their photo to be featured on my Substack tomorrow? I am defending the "cringe middle aged" women who attended No KIngs and if anyone would like to be the poster child for this group please let me know lol. I promise I will not make fun of you!

About a year ago, I quit a very unsuccessful 13-year career in tech to be a full time SAHM/writer. One thing I didn't expect: I would become obsessed with work. www.cartoonshateher.com/p/quitting-m...

Obviously, NotAllMen, but today I wrote about the men who like feminine women, but find every aspect of femininity annoying or stupid (except boobs.) www.cartoonshateher.com/p/you-dont-l...

Obviously, NotAllMen, but today I wrote about the men who like feminine women, but find every aspect of femininity annoying or stupid (except boobs.) www.cartoonshateher.com/p/you-dont-l...

What radicalized me? Being told at 15 that I would have to wear the same plastic retainer in bed with my husband for the rest of my life

The stereotype that married men demand porn star edgy kinky sex from their exhausted wives just isn’t true. Women generally are the ones with the elaborate kinks. www.cartoonshateher.com/p/sex-with-y...

Trump voice: nobody fingers anymore. We used to have lovely fingering. Darling, please give me the Place, we're going to use finger, okay? And we're going to use finger very gently. Now they don't use finger, they use disgusting things the likes of which nobody has ever seen.

Yes. I used to think women did BDSM to meet their partner’s porn-addled fantasies but the Reddit BDSM advice sub is all women wondering how to get their male partners to dominate them

I regret to inform you that the “emotional labor” brigade is now coming for consensual marital sex www.cartoonshateher.com/p/sex-with-y...

I know I’m an “internet microcelebrity” but every time someone irl asks what I do I say I’m a writer and they are so unimpressed/bored. They probably think I’ve been “working on” (aka thinking about writing) a vampire novel for the past 10 years

Taylor Swift has gone full MAGA, and it’s even worse than that: she likes men. www.cartoonshateher.com/p/ive-been-p...

CHH has done a typically very sharp writeup of this phenomenon but this image in particular has killed me open.substack.com/pub/cartoons...

I always found this funny with trad divisions of labour where they're like "the woman takes care of the children and the home, and the man protects them" and it's like ok but one of those is a real job that actually happens and the other one is something you imagine while watching an action film

Pit bulls are disproportionately responsible for the deaths of many young children--more than other known hazards like button batteries--and many of these attacks are completely random and unprovoked. www.cartoonshateher.com/p/pit-bulls-...

I kind of agree. I’m pretty anti iPad but family movie feels really wholesome and nice?

I wrote about the one upmanship on Mom Twitter and ask if maybe I’m just wimpy for finding some of it distasteful. www.cartoonshateher.com/p/when-does-...

You’ve probably heard that women don’t want to date men in their 20s because they don’t have enough resources, emotional maturity and stability. There’s overwhelming evidence this isn’t really true on the whole. www.cartoonshateher.com/p/men-arent-...

My latest Trump/Elmo impersonation, for 10 minutes straight. www.cartoonshateher.com/p/elmo-inter...

Sneak peek of tomorrow's Elmo/Trump interview audio

Today, a more political post than what you'd expect, but I wanted to cover the myriad of people who think either 1.) the Democrats are doing just fine and don't need to change anything or 2.) the thing they need to change is their one favorite issue. www.cartoonshateher.com/p/the-democr...

After a decade of constantly being fired, I found myself in a "dream job" with....no job responsibilities. Here's how I kept my job for three years without working. www.cartoonshateher.com/p/how-i-kept...

After a decade of constantly being fired, I found myself in a "dream job" with....no job responsibilities. Here's how I kept my job for three years without working. www.cartoonshateher.com/p/how-i-kept...

I think enough time has passed that I can admit I’d be really ticked off if I was in a Febreze commercial and unknowingly blindfolded in a room full of garbage

Today, my favorite outfits I wore, bought and sewed in September, plus a sale on annual subscriptions! www.cartoonshateher.com/p/fashion-fa...

Putting less effort into your appearance will not read “fashion elite” or “old money” if you aren’t actually in those groups. www.cartoonshateher.com/p/you-look-b...

Even if “fashion insiders” are too busy to wear mascara or nail polish, nobody will mistake you for one because you eschew these things. www.cartoonshateher.com/p/you-look-b...