Even Hollywood Is Growing Tired Of Pronouns

There’sthismic-droplineinthetrailerforLeonardoDiCaprio’snewfilm,“OneBattleAfterAnother”:“It’snotthathard,they/them.” WhenmyhusbandandIhearditintheaters,wecouldn’thelpbutshootoneanotheralook.Weweren’toutraged;frankly,wewereexhausted. Thatzingerwasclearlywrittentoearnbrowniepointsfromawokecrowd,butitlandedlikeaprepackagedcorporateslogan.Anypotentialhypefromtheactionmovietrailertankedthewayanadvertisementdoeswhenittriestoohardtosoundlikeamovement. Butthat’swherewe’reatnow.EvenHollywoodtrailershaveavirtue-signalquotathatwriterstypeintoscriptsasproofthatthestudiohaspassedideologicalinspections. We’renottheonlyonestiredofit,apparently,sincethewholenotionofnon-binaryidentitiesappearstobecollapsinginonitself. SociologistEricKaufmannrecentlypublisheddataonXthatwentviral,showingthatthenumberofyoungpeopleidentifyingasanon-binary“genderidentity”—andeventhoseidentifyingsexuallyas“queer”—hasdroppeddramatically. Credit:@e