Bryan Scribes
3 min readJun 25, 2022

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A Mildly Inconvenient Proposal for the Modern Man

Over the last 24 hours, I have seen a lot of gentlemen offer their opinions about women upending their lives and re-configuring their whole ass college and professional careers in order to relocate to states that offer some semblance of body autonomy.

I don’t know why it took a Supreme Court ruling (that shocked absolutely no one) to get all of these lovely lads crawling out of the wood work. But I guess we can circle back to that another time…

Instead of doing what this country always does in times of virtue signaling: where we tell women all of the ways that they can fundamentally uproot their lives to make us (the boys) feel better about the trials and tribulations we have to theoretically experience from afar; I would like to offer an alternative:

If we’re now going to weaponize where we live…

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Consider the following:

Wyoming: population 581k. 1 Rep, 2 Senators, all Republican.

Alaska: population 724k. 1 Rep, 2 Senators, all Republican.

North Dakota: population 770k. 1 Rep, 2 Senators, all Republican.

South Dakota: population 896k. 1 Rep, 2 Senators, all Republican.

Or, if you really need more people in your life…

Montana: population 1.09M. 1 Rep, 2 Senators, all Republican (Fight me, Jon Tester).

West Virginia: population 1.7M, 3 Reps, 2 Senators, all Republican (Fight me, Joe Manchin).

And the best part? The math is simple!

It would take less than 6 million men willing to totally uproot themselves, and relocate to one of those states and fundamentally change the political landscape on a national scale.

6 states + 6 million sacrificial lambs + 12 senators + 8 reps = 1 Super Majority!

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There are about 150 Million men living in the United States. And, let’s be real, it’s not like you’re doing anything important.

California has 40M people. New York has 20M people.

Texas has 4 cities with over 1M people. California has 3.

Are you one of them?

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Worried about how you could possibly afford to move across the country at a moment’s notice, all for someone else’s rights?? Never fear! I’m told there are 11 Million jobs available right now, and this economy has never been better. I’m sure your new employer will also help you with your relocation, you’d practically be moving for free!

So go ahead! Be the hero you’ve always wanted to be! Take one for the team!

Don’t think about this as a complaint about representation. Think of this as a mildly inconvenient proposal of martyrdom:

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Start packing!

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Bryan Scribes

Theatre kid, turned creative writer. Interested in fantasy fiction and sci-fi, short stories and novels. I’ve also written a few plays. They’re not very good.