Ginny Hogan

Baltimore

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Additional Recession Indicators

1 week ago | mcsweeneys.net | Ginny Hogan

Everyone looks to the stock market to figure out if we’re heading into a recession. Sure, it has some info—for example, the market right now would tell us we definitely are—but that’s not the only recession warning sign we should be on the lookout for. If you know where to train your eyes, you’ll realize recession indicators are all around us. For example, any of the following might be a red flashing light: Taylor Swift starts a perfume line.
this is not traditional masculinity

3 weeks ago | mutual.substack.com | Ginny Hogan

The other day, I needed to pee at a Home Depot. The women’s bathroom was closed for cleaning, so I went in the men’s. I typically use whichever bathroom has the shorter line (it’s 2025!). Occasionally, someone will tell me I’m in the wrong one, but I go ahead anyway. No one ever stops me. It’s 2025! And it’s not like I pause to stare at the penises. I try to avoid looking, if at all possible. I’m very quick. I do it man-style, which is to say, I don’t even wash my hands. This time was different.
Does Cooking My Husband Breakfast Make Me a Tradwife?

1 month ago | thecut.com | Ginny Hogan

Photo: CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images I make my husband breakfast every morning. Even worse: I bring it to him. And when he’s working from home, lunch too. Maybe an afternoon snack. I don’t just do it — I insist upon it. If you’d told me ten years ago that I’d one day take full responsibility for feeding an adult man, I would have gagged, possibly cried, and reaffirmed my commitment to never getting married. It all started two years ago when we moved in together.
Democrats Unveil Their New Party Platform: “Democrats are the Problem”

1 month ago | ihopeyoumissedit.substack.com | Ginny Hogan

wrote this on Monday, now more relevant than ever xoxDemocrats Unveil Their New Party Platform: “Democrats are the Problem”Hey, it’s us, The Democrats. I know you think we haven’t been doing anything these last few months, but you couldn’t be more wrong. Al Green shook his cane that time, remember? And we held a protest outside USAID; it’s not our fault…
DOGE-Inspired Spring Cleaning

1 month ago | mcsweeneys.net | Ginny Hogan

Start with your closet. Identify all the T-shirts you haven’t worn in three years. Then throw away all your clothes, including the ones you’re wearing. Use a duster to clean off the top shelves above your bed. After that, tear down the shelves and blow them to smithereens. Do a blanket purge. A purge of all the blankets. You don’t need them. Flush all your prescription meds down the toilet. If you want them later, it’s not a big deal—you can just wade into the sewers to find them again.
What You Have to Believe in to Avoid Believing in Climate Change

1 month ago | mutual.substack.com | Ginny Hogan

In a way, climate change is the most difficult problem of our time. In another way, climate change is almost…too easy. In fact, climate change is responsible for such an enormous number of problems that it takes the burden off finding another explanation. But that doesn’t mean people haven’t tried. If you want to continue denying climate change while still offering an explanation for *gestures broadly* all this, here’s what you’d need to believe:Diversified workforces are necessarily incompetent.
Take Him Seriously, Not Literally

2 months ago | mcsweeneys.net | Ginny Hogan

Take him seriously, not literally. Don’t believe everything he says, but do believe the intention behind his words. Take him literally, not figuratively. He’s not much of a reader, so if he’s using flowery language, it’s not to impress you. It’s because there’s oil under those flowers. Take him figuratively, not metaphorically. When he says he wants to impose 25 percent tariffs on our two remaining allies, that’s a figure. He’s using math. But math isn’t a signifier for anything real.
Where Are the Resources for Eating Disorders and Pregnancy?

2 months ago | thecut.com | Ginny Hogan

Photo-Illustration: The Cut; Photos: Getty Five months ago, in my tenth week of pregnancy, I was out shopping with a friend. We noticed a woman much further along standing at the register. “It’s crazy that in a few months, you’ll be as big as her,” my friend said excitedly. I didn’t respond; instead, I felt a twinge of nausea — and not the familiar, first-trimester type I’d grown used to.
I want to want what I want

2 months ago | mutual.substack.com | Ginny Hogan

I’m almost seven months pregnant, and it’s fine. Earlier in my pregnancy, I got spooked by the reports of how pregnancy changes the brain. To be fair, those reports were relatively neutral: some changes were positive, some negative. But I still held onto some concerns, one of which was that if scientists had discovered pregnancy changes women’s brains for the worse, they wouldn’t report it out. It’s a bit too Charles Murray for the mainstream. I don’t think pregnancy makes women dumber, obviously.
Senator Susan Collins is Concerned

2 months ago | mutual.substack.com | Ginny Hogan

hey friends! thanks as always for being here. I’m teaching another virtual satire class 2/16 at 1 EST. Sign up now, the last two sold out! Also I must shamelessly plug my husband’s new substack on spirituality. And if you like my political content, I write the daily Sup newsletter for Betches. Enjoy this short satire piece!Senator Susan Collins wakes up in the morning with a furrowed brow. She is Concerned.