This is both amazing and profoundly irritating – the exact writing equivalent of that thing artists do – you know, how they’ll mess up anything that’s on expensive paper and planned in every single detail but get them doodling during a boring lesson and suddenly they’re Michel-bloody-angelo.
Buzz from the Honey Nut Cheerios box is a trans guy
look
He’s got a stinger, and only the worker bees have those. And what are all of the worker bees? Female.
Males do not have stingers. But it’s clear Buzz is portrayed as a boy. My conclusion? A happy trans dude living life and eating cereal.
Thank u for your time
this is an excellent observation but I’d like to add: bees don’t fall into the same gender binary as we have in western culture. There isn’t just male/female.
as you’ve shown here, there’s workers, drones, and a queen. the queen is obviously the female, the drones are males, but … worker bees are a little different. since science is a broad, highly flawed, and extremely cisnormative field, researchers looked at worker bees and basically went “well, there’s boys and there’s girls, and these bees can’t impregnate the queen, so They Must Be Girls!”
In reality, they are technically neither. Since they’re bees, they don’t care what we think and it doesn’t bother them, but in human terms, worker bees are technically nonbinary.
or, rather, non-bee-nary 🙂
so to summarize with what everyone else has added, Barry B Benson, every bee in the Bee Movie, Buzz the Cheerios bee, and just about every bee in pop culture that is a worker bee is nonbinary.
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