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Monday
Nov082004

Like Canada, but sexier--much sexier.

Everyone’s so down on the red states for, well, being red, but no one has talked about the other great schism in our country: the men vs. the women. The majority of men voted for Bush, while more women went for Kerry. What can we conclude from this statistic?

Isn’t it obvious? The men must go.

Sorry, guys, you had your chance. You could have voted for Kerry, but Bush reminded you of that bully from junior high who sent you notes in class that read “meat me after school so I can kick yur ass”and who invited everyone but you to his pool parties; you secretly always wanted him to like you and now he does because you voted for him hooray! You are totally going to his pool parties now! You can play Marco Polo with Dick and Karl! And then George will be all, “Dick, heh heh,” and you’ll laugh, “Good one, George,” and you’ll put up your hand for a high-five and he will totally high-five you!

“But I didn’t vote for Bush,” I’m sure some of you will protest. Well, neither did I, and I’m stuck with him. If you had talked more of your men-friends into voting for Kerry, we wouldn’t be in this mess. If, just once, you had turned down the volume on your porn rental and said to your friends, “Dude, we have to make sure Bush doesn’t get reelected. He will send this country straight into the toilet, bro. Right? Dude,” you could have changed the course of history. But no! You had to find out why those lady plumbers helping Amber with her faulty massaging showerhead were so erotically dressed! And what were they doing to her with that plumbing snake? Wow!

So here’s what I suggest: we come up with some equitable division of the states—I don’t care how we split it up, as long as I don’t have to move. The men get to live in Circle-Jerkania or Enormous Penisland or whatever the hell they want to call it. Bush will be their leader, and as such will rationalize getting into all kinds of cool wars where tanks can shoot buildings and go BOOM and SCRROOOSH and he can illustrate his reasoning with his Hot Wheels collection. As for the women, we will live in our country, Gynomerica, where Kerry will lead his people (he will call us his “Angels” and we will get all red-faced and giggly) into a future of untold peace and prosperity. We will have four-day work weeks, because working is good, but let’s not get crazy about it. The women can marry each other, if they so choose. The ones who don’t lean that way can visit the men whenever they want, and then drive back in their electric cars to their clean and quiet neighborhoods. And when our male neighbors from the South (or wherever) attempt, as they undoubtedly will, to invade and occupy our great land, we’ll unleash our military, whose finely honed powers of Shaming will emotionally devastate the enemy and cause them to retreat, weeping, back to their lean-tos*. Who's with me?

(*In my imagination, men can’t even get their acts together enough to build houses.)

Reader Comments (45)

Well, I think it sounds allright, but do gay men get to live in Gynoamerica. You will need someone to decorate right?
November 8, 2004 | Unregistered CommenterJustin
Count me in.
November 8, 2004 | Unregistered CommenterMia
Let me be the first to sign this petition - and also to volunteer to send my husband. He can be the mayor of Footballville or Golfopia.

See ya in Gynomerica!
November 8, 2004 | Unregistered Commenterchristy
I think I might actually leave Canada to move to Gynomerica.
November 8, 2004 | Unregistered Commentersarah


Can I come if I get an operation?



November 8, 2004 | Unregistered Commenterdr. dave
Yes! Exactly!
November 8, 2004 | Unregistered CommenterJenny
God, Alice, you are BRILLIANT. I'm all over this. Before I dreamed of the Momume, but a Momune in Gynomerica is WAY BETTER!
November 8, 2004 | Unregistered CommenterMir
I blame the women for Bush's re-election. If you would have just stopped thinking of yourselves for 2 seconds and offered up your bodies for free sex to any and all "undecided voters" if they would promise to fucking DECIDE already and vote for Kerry, then we wouldn't be in this mess.



November 8, 2004 | Unregistered Commentersac
It's a beautiful

idea

, and here is one to make it extra beautiful-er
November 8, 2004 | Unregistered CommenterSheryl
Sorry, I become incoherent when I'm excited.
November 8, 2004 | Unregistered CommenterSheryl
Why? Why does everyone dog the South? We aren't THAT bad!
November 8, 2004 | Unregistered Commenterwindylou
Sorry, I can't give up my Kerry-voting husband--he hasn't finished the kitchen remodel yet, for one thing. And frankly, I don't even think I'm acquainted with any male Dubya supporters. (Wrote "Bush" initially, then thought better of it.) I'm afraid I can't quite succumb to the temptation of even satiric generalizations.

Besides, the Shaming has already begun.
November 8, 2004 | Unregistered CommenterVictoria
Aren't there more women than men in this country? Wouldn't that make it ... ummm ... the women's fault?

I don't know about Footballville or Oprah-town; I just want out of this red state.
November 8, 2004 | Unregistered CommenterRobert
I'm just hoping that some of us Kerry-votin', phallus-havin' folk will be allowed to stay in Gynomerica by requesting asylum. Because you know that the bully also stuck firecrackers in places they shouldn't go, and I don't want to be there when he graduates from cats to shoes.
November 8, 2004 | Unregistered CommenterNew Blue Shoe
I understand how the rational men were outnumbered by the NASCAR men. I just don't understand how they pulled themselves away from the television long enough to vote.
November 8, 2004 | Unregistered CommenterZieak
Does this mean we'd have to set Lynne Cheney, Karen Hughes, Katherine Harris, Condi Rice, and Ann Coulter adrift on a raft and tell them to fend for themselves?

'Cause I'm for that.
November 8, 2004 | Unregistered CommenterLOD
Woohoo -- I'm in! My daughter and I are packing as we speak (seeing as we currently live in Texas, otherwise known as The Reddest State On The Planet).

One thing, though -- can we bring my husband? He's English and therefore couldn't vote -- but if he could, he would have wholeheartedly voted for Kerry, seeing as Bush makes him physically break out in hives....

...lemmeno.
November 8, 2004 | Unregistered CommenterKaren
This is a brilliant proposal! Rock on!
November 8, 2004 | Unregistered CommenterDaria
Yay for blushing! I am totally a Kerry Angel! *cracks up*
November 8, 2004 | Unregistered CommenterKaralin
Where do I sign?
November 8, 2004 | Unregistered Commentersveedish
Oh, you know I'm there.

Especially fond of the four day work-weeks.
November 8, 2004 | Unregistered Commenterelswhere
Would it work if the men came to visit us in Gynomerica instead? Imagine how tacky our shoes would be after a visit to Circle-Jerkania, and besides, why should they get our tourism dollars?
November 8, 2004 | Unregistered CommenterJoolie
i'd just like to comment that my roommate, a few weeks before the election, had a dream about making out with john kerry*giggle* *blush*

November 8, 2004 | Unregistered Commentervena
I'm voting for YOU in 2008!
November 8, 2004 | Unregistered Commenterlizardek
Teeheehee.

Thanks for that!

November 9, 2004 | Unregistered CommenterCoralie

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