Hmmm. Not sure this is one hundred percent accurate.
Elliot Page is back with a documentary that could completely reframe what we’re told is “natural”
In Second Nature, which Page narrates and co-produces, scientists explore more than 1,500 animal species that display same-sex behaviour, change sex, raise young in Queer pairings and organise themselves outside rigid male-female hierarchies.
Penguins. Albatrosses. Clownfish. Bonobos.
Turns out, the natural world never signed up to “biological reality” as it’s often weaponised.
Page put it bluntly this week: “This idea that nature is organized around a cis heteronormative system is just completely false.”
Well you don’t say. So is this idea that nature is organized around chess, or ballet, or the stock market, or figure skating. But the éclat fades out a little once you remember that there are a vast number of human practices and labels that nature is not organized around so it’s kind of odd to get all agitated about the fact that nature doesn’t have a human vocabulary.
Be careful out there.
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