#yes its cringey as hell and no amount of 'but isn't it GOOD to see ourselves on screen at all' can makeup for how false it feels
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Normalize non-binary characters who don't dress like total dorks. Normalize non-binary characters who don't remind you of the most exhausting person you knew in drama class. Normalize non-binary characters who look like they'd be happiest bombing around rugged terrain in a 1987 Ford Ranger Bigfoot Cruiser they restored themselves.
Normalize non-binary characters who've never painted so much as a toenail and have no inclination to do so.
Normalize non-binary characters who are hairy, heavy, sweaty, and whose favourite musical group is The California Raisins. Normalize non-binary characters who you can't identify from the other side of a warehouse by sight.
Normalize non-binary characters who look and act like a diverse group of people you might meet in your everyday life because god damn am I sick to death of shows getting praised for 'representation' that never stops feeling like a caricatured Other.
#non-binary#queer#enby#characters#yes I am watching Star Trek Discovery#yes its version of queer feels like it had to pass through six comittees of studio execs#yes its cringey as hell and no amount of 'but isn't it GOOD to see ourselves on screen at all' can makeup for how false it feels#I'm old enough to remember the 90s/00s and the first gay characters we were supposed to applaud for breaking barriers#they were all the same guy#the same catty sexless asshole#(Remember Second City's 'Sassy Gay Friend'? No? Man I'm old)#and it honestly did more harm than good because The Gay was always The Other#and rather than teach the lesson that 'a gay can be anyone around you'#it instead taught the world 'how to recognize a gay'#and even within the queer community we still internalize those fucking paradigms today#see: every self-doubt post going 'am I really [x] if I don't [y]#imagine how much freer the queer community would be if we hadn't internalized that sense of checklist gatekeeping#Am I really gay if i'm not an enormous tool like Kurt Hummel?#and so on#we don't take a lot of steps forward#we take a lot of steps sideways and call it progress because there's technically movement
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