Relatively recently, the West birthed a revolutionary idea: Human beings have two disconnected sexual distinctions. Every individual possesses a sex; additionally, as it turns out, each boasts the sex he or she perceives themself to be — AKA “gender identity.” And sometimes, that secondary sex is no sex at all. Such is the trail we’ve blazed as humans; have Western bears caught up? Yes, according to a contemporary cartoon.
Would gender identity have adherents if everyone was surgically unaltered and nude? The answer is evidently also affirmative, as bears are fully unclothed. Despite absolutely exposed unmentionables, they’re wholly attuned to internal identity. So goes the situation at Cartoon Network at least, where TV-Y7–rated program We Baby Bears will soon showcase characters who don’t buy into the binary.
From GLAAD.org:
[W]e Baby Bears is back with another LGBTQ inclusive episode just in time for Pride Month! …
In (episode) “Polly’s New Crew,” the bears reunite with their old friend Polly the Pirate Captain. …
The trio of furry folx arrive on Polly’s ship with a new friend named Box. One pirate begins the introductions:
“I am the great Winnifred — she/her. Actor extraordinaire.”
Winnifred is in good pronoun-proclaiming company. A baby bear makes that clear:
“Our crew also has a new addition — meet Box! They use they/them pronouns, and they make an exceptionally good quiche!”
Polly — a parrot, as you might assume — is glad to be with birds of a feather:
“I use they/them pronouns as well!”
Box and Polly high-five over their gender nonconformity.
Curiously, despite the prominent parlance of “I use ______ pronouns,” personal pronouns are words one demands others employ. Still, the concept has colossally caught on — as have broader gender-identity dictates:
Utah Public University’s ‘Inclusive Style Guide’ Forbids Students to Say ‘Biologically Male/Female’
Woke vs. Bloke: An Elite All-Boys School Will Allegedly No Longer Call Them ‘Boys’
Christian Church Leads Prayer to the ‘God of Pronouns,’ the ‘Great They/Them’ Who Breastfeeds
Wokedom’s Newest Confection Takes the Cake: Introducing ‘Cake Gender’
Harvard Trains Medical Students to Treat Transgender ‘Infants’
State University Tells Students It’s Wrong to Say ‘Female’ or ‘America’
Major News Outlet Reports on Nude Transgender Singer and ‘Her Peniso’
Back to We Baby Bears, GLAAD notes that a May episode featured “trans actress Dominque Jackson.” As for what led to a nonbinary box named Box, it was the personal evolution of employees:
On “Polly’s New Crew,” the We Baby Bears team shared that, “During the production…a few crew members came out with they/them pronouns, and we felt that it was important to reflect that in the show. Our show team values representation because it’s something everybody on the show deeply cares about, and that’s why we aim to cast LGBTQ talent like Alok Vaid-Menon, Harvey Guill?n, and Dominique Jackson.”
Alok made news in April with an appearance in Brides Today magazine:
And now, Cartoon Network is hitting headlines for hailing a new era’s dawn — one in which bears, like people, may be neither girls nor boys.
-ALEX
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