if parks and rec was still being made they’d do a bit where ron swanson has to wear a pronouns name tag and it’d just be “???/???” And it’d cut to a talking head of him going
“I’ve been a fool all this time. It’s bad enough the government knows my name, but now they want to know my gender? So I’m not letting them know my preferred pronouns. As far as I’m concerned, no one in this building should refer to me at all.”
Other Parks and Recs gags on this vein:
Some “anti-pronoun” bigot shows up. April proceeds to honk a loud airhorn whenever they use any single pronoun (e.g. ‘they’, 'someone’, 'we’, 'that’, 'I’.)
Tom decides to be gender queer to pick up “the she/they crowd”. backfires and he only gets masc he/theys. has a sexual crisis when he realises he might be not be straight
Leslie spends the entire episode trying to make the BEST pronoun pin. every scene she’s wearing one of increasing ridiculousness. by the end of the ep it’s a sparkly abomination so large that it defeats any sense of convenience and taste. after the episode’s resolution she defaults to a simple, tasteful she/her pin.
someone is like, “I just don’t get it, what’s the point of acting like a gender you aren’t?” And Andy comes in like “well, like Judith Butler writes, all gender, even all clothing, is a performance.” Everyone stares and he’s like “gender studies 101 baybeeee!!”
he finishes the ep off with a rock performance in drag
“There’s some stuff about me that I’d been ignoring for a long time. I’m afraid of that stuff. But its part of who I am. As long as I know the shape of my soul, I’ll be all right.”
thinking about the fact that from a human’s perspective crowley is just some skinny middle aged goth dude with dyed red hair and a face tattoo who drives an almost hundred year old car to his complete opposite aesthetic boyfriend’s bookshop nearly every day. why? because he can, that’s why.
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