For those who aren't familiar with it, FX recently announced a new direct-to-streaming series on Hulu, titled "Y: The Last Man". It's based on the 2000s-era Brian K. Vaughan-written Vertigo comic book of the same name, where an incident occurs that kills every mammal with a Y-chromosome on the planet - except for one dude named Yorick Brown, and his pet male capuchin monkey. With half the population instantly dead, you can imagine that chaos ensues, especially when you factor in that a good majority of infrastructure support jobs are handled by - you guessed it - men. (And that's not even taking into account the death of uncountable species across the world as they will no longer be able to procreate, the destruction of food supply, etc).
You can see the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EEQ5Lj-cXM
Obviously this series was written back before the huge push for inclusivity started, so its comic book iteration is not as horribly woke as it could be, but I'm just waiting for the shoe to drop on the TV version. Obviously, nature and genetics don't give two shits about your fee-fees and what you identify as, so that means if they go the full nine yards on this they're either going to have to:
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Ignore the existence of trans people entirely,
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Break the narrative and have it do something stupid like leave M-to-F trans alive but sterilize them,
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Downplay the whole event by claiming it killed "trans-women" as well, or
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Accept that M-to-F transgendered people genetically aren't women and lean into it and just show them as dead as well.
Somehow I think it's probably going to be option 2 or 3, but if it catches traction then the amount of salt this show is going to generate could season the world's popcorn for decades to come.
I don't think anyone's going to watch it. Nobody wants to see a bunch of women on screen, acting like men, doing things that women don't do in real life. This is on the same level as having all the adults die, and then all the kids (without any education) acting like adults and pretending to be doctors, lawyers, politicians, etc and somehow making it work. It's on that 1980's level of disbelief where some entity spends billions to develop a smart car/bio enhancements so that it can be used to fight petty crime in one city.
The reality is a bit different. They've had shows where all the women left a town and the men carried on without them for months. But the reverse was never attempted. Although there was that one survivor series where they pitted the men versus the women, and the women were basically going to die, so they had to split the teams and mix them up. The most bizarre aspect was the women while running out of food, did absolutely nothing to get more, they simply lounged on the beach and kept digging into their supplies. They didn't even build a shelter.