It's Pat
Was He/She/It a Republican or a Democrat?
shareThey. I don't think there was much awareness of nonbinary back then. The sketch wouldn't work today.
shareSince there was an entire series of sketches about the person, and everyone got exactly what they were referring to, then yes there was plenty of awareness about people like that!
The only difference is the humorless world some people are trying to create where this has to be a seeerrrious issue rather than, you know, just life and the way people are.
Obviously there were people like that. Very few people were identifying as non-binary back then, though, and most people didn't even think of that possibility. That's why there's two possibilities people talk about in the sketch, man or woman, male or female.
My point is, today she might just be considered non-binary. You wouldn't be deciding between the two. Back then, it was only male and female, he or she. They wasn't a possibility in peoples' minds.
It's always been only male and female. "Non-binary" wasn't a possibility in people's minds because people were less susceptible to pseudoscientific bullshit back then. The present-day non-binary nonsense is nothing more than a woke social construct that has nothing to do with biology.
shareIt would still be funny today, but our Communist oppressors would take away SNL's freedom to air that sketch.
share"They" is plural. A person can't be "they".
The "Pat" sketches still work great. In fact, they're even funnier now, with all the delusional crap there is about "nonbinary" today. The only thing unrealistic about the character is that he (?) or she (?) is a nice person, which is counter to what we now know about those who inflict their trans lunacy on the normal people who surround them.
"Pat" is irrelevant to this movie, anyway, because those sketches came about several years following the period depicted.
"They" is plural. A person can't be "they".
Oh yes. They can be "they".
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Just one of the myriad of scenarios where "they", "them", "their" etc are not plural.
A person can be a they when they want to be, or when they need to be.
"The sketch wouldn't work today."
It could still work and still be funny (I dont mean this version of PAT but A version) but too many people would be offended by it. Too much backlash for a comedy bit. I think thats the goal though.
People in 2024 are unsure more than ever of the rules for androgynous persons. People could still relate to the bit.
I should have added "as originally written". It could be rewritten in a few different ways to make it relevant to modern audiences.
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