It will MAKE HISTORY
Makin’ history, people – a new tv show on the way with a – hold on to your chairs – a non-binary character. Are you verklempt?
US television network The CW has ordered a new pilot for a series that will feature a non-binary lead character.
Glamorous – which is written and directed by Jordon Nardino of Desperate Housewives – will make history when it airs as the first US television show with a non-binary lead character, according to Digital Spy.
The show will follow a non-binary character who lands an internship at a cosmetics company whose products they have criticised on YouTube.
I’ve got goosebumps.
Only…what does it mean? Not woman, not man, neither, non-binary, I know – but what does that mean? Not many people are fully “binary” in the sense of “conforming to the stereotypes that match their sex” – and what other sense can it have? It doesn’t mean intersex, so what can it mean other than not conforming to gender roles in every particular? Well big honkin’ deal; who does conform to gender roles in every particular? It’s just a new and more boring way to be self-obsessed, and we don’t need any of those.
Non-binary: a male or female person that does not match the stereotypes associated with their sex, and is also just… so woke.
To be totally honest, though, on TV there have been many instances of people who have conformed to stereotypes. The lazy writer finds it easy to write a stereotype, and the lazy audience instantly knows who that person is without having to work at it.
But I suspect that’s not what this refers to, having an ordinary person doing the ordinary things we all do that do not fit the stereotype. That might make people realize that the phrase cis- in reference to gender is just so much nonsense.