Saturday, November 06, 2010
MAKE IT SO
robbi cohn
http://trickster108.blogspot.com/2010/11/make-it-so.html (http://trickster108.blogspot.com/2010/11/make-it-so.html)
I had forgotten about this show, entitled, "The Outcast". It's about a race of androgynous aliens who need Captain Picard and the rest of the Enterprise crew to solve a space conundrum. In the pursuit of solving this mystery, Commander Riker and one of the aliens, named Soren, are thrown together into what develops into a most unusual yet prescient situation.
The denizens of Genia (interesting, given that this show revolves around gender issues) have evidently, according to Soren, evolved past a gender binary and are now essentially androgynous. It turns out that Soren is a "throwback" to days when gender WAS binary and she identifies as female. Of course, she and Riker develop a mutual attraction and therein lies the problem and the plot. Not only have the Genians evolved past gender binary, but it's now taboo to exhibit pre-androgyny behavior.
QuoteAnd then there's that chorus telling us we can be...and should be... cured. What a load of crap.
To be fair, some of can be cured.
The cure, for some of us is called SRS.
Simples.
(But I will always support my brothers and sisters who continue to think differently)
From my perspective you gotta love the strangely appropriate choice of name for these creatures.
By an alternative spelling of the same pronunciation they would be Jennia! - Somehow a race of intersexed beings one of whom identifies as female always spoke rather deeply to me. I wonder why? ;D