The CHH Holiday Reading List

Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah! Here's some stuff to read on your PRECIOUS PHONE

First of all, for all my fellow half-Jews, today is both Christmas Eve and Hanukkah Eve, and I feel like we need a special word for that. Unfortunately, the language with the most “special words for things in no other language” appears to be German, so maybe we’ll pass.

Why is it a shopping bag? Because we LOVE A GOOD DEAL? Fair.

Anyway, as a highly holidaypilled individual, I will be taking a few days off of publishing articles. But I did want to compile some of my best articles, some free, some of which you might have missed if you’re new, in case you find yourself with some precious Phone Time on this blessed combo holiday.

Family/Culture

• What’s Wrong with Boys? about the way that privilege and sexism-focused messaging is ineffective for children

• The Female Friends who Disappear, about female friends who “ghost,” and my history of ghosting

• My Proposal to Scrap Emotional Labor and my alternative for a peaceful division of chores and tasks within a marriage

• Being a Perfect Parent Isn’t Edgy, my rant about parents who claim to be counter-cultural by doing things that are recommended by the AAP

• Let Children be Fancy Again, another rant about why fancy holiday parties should include children

• The Vibe Shift Against Dogs, about the tyranny of unleashed dogs and their irresponsible owners

Sex/Relationships

• How Men Can Dress Sexy, my fashion guide for men

• The Woman Cosmo Told Me I’d Be, about the sexually free adult woman I imagined myself becoming as a teenager, based on Cosmo in the 2000s

• Everyone Had a Crush on Dan, about a socially-enforced crush that my entire fifth grade class had on an unsuspecting boy

• The Reality of Female Intrasexual Competition, about female intrasexual competition and the weird time in history where we had to pretend it wasn’t real

• Part 1 and Part 2 on my study of the sexual behaviors of wealthy men

FREE!

• Chapter 10 or Chapter 1 of my book, Will There Be Free Food? a collection of true comedic essays about my time in the tech scene (They can be read as standalone stories.) The rest of the book is for paid subscribers.

• An interview with the person behind an accidental viral Beanie Baby

• The past 4-week archive of Many Such Takes

• My article about Trump as the ultimate sassy biotch

• Why I’m Obsessed with Lonely Young People, one of my first viral essays about my struggles making friends and why I have so much interest in lonely young people today

Other Substacks to Follow

• Family Stuff, if you like my parenting content

• Infinite Scroll, if you like my hyper-online content

• I Might Be Wrong, if you like my general humor content

• Taleen Voskuni, if you like fiction and romance

• Stella Tsantekidou, if you like my culture content

• Close-reading the reruns with Phoebe Maltz Bovy , if you like my content on women’s issues, culture and humor

• Feminine Chaos, if you like my content on women’s issues, culture and humor

• Many Such Cases, if you like my content on gender, sex, and online stuff