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My Certified Pre-Owned Vagina Won’t Make Me Happy

Next Tuesday, I will get a certified pre-owned vagina. The paperwork should take around two hours, and I’ll forget which side to fill it up on for around three months. Until the day he dies, my dog will almost certainly try to gnaw on it, regarding it as a toy; my Roomba will attempt to sweep it up, believing it to be shmutz.

Many of my friends think I’m crazy. “Get a new vagina,” they say. “When you buy used, you don’t know who’s been in the thing.” This view is archaic, of course. Putting aside the insane depreciation–a vagina loses a couple grand the second it leaves the lot–they’re confusing “used” with “certified pre-owned.” My new-to-me vagina has been through a 29-point checklist, examined from the hood ornament to the part by the butthole. The flaps, the folds, the intake: all details have been scrutinized. And, Lord, was the test drive smooth.

Excuse me.

Mm?

This is weird even for you. It makes as much sense, but it’s just odd.

Hey, you know what’s nice about transgendered folks?

What?

They are fully and regrettably human.

Poor fucks.

 

Where There’s A Will, Soloway OR The Long, Dark Chu Of The Soul

This one’s just for the mean fucks out there: Andrea Long Chu on Jill Soloway’s book about Transparent. Remember the Pitchfork review of that Greta Van Fleet album? Or the New York Times piece about Guy Fieri’s restaurant? Well, this here’s the literary version.

Full disclosure: I have never seen an episode of Transparent–it’s apparently a weekly hour of Jeffrey Tambor in a dress–but familiarity with the source material is not necessary. Just luxuriate in the cruelty. Trust me on this one: read it.

A Poem By Caitlyn Jenner

First they came for the blacks
And I said, “The ones my stepdaughters are dating?”
And they said, “No,” so I didn’t care all that much.

Then they came for the Jews
And I said, “My lawyer?”
And they said, “No, not your lawyer,” so I was fine with that.

Then they came for the trade unionists
And I said, “What’s a trade unionist?”
And they tried to explain it, but I was thinking about lunch.

They they came for the transgenders
And I was like, “Hey now!”
And they said, “You honestly didn’t see this coming?”
And I said, “HE HELD UP A FLAG!”
This is not on me.