Earthman, your Mickey Mouse is one big stupid dope!
This week on Deep Thoughts About Stupid Shit, Tracie delves into a forgotten sci fi gem from her Gen X childhood: Wolfgang Petersen's 1985 film Enemy Mine. A commercial flop when it debuted, Enemy Mine never quite reached cult classic status, in part because it is a sci fi film that's remarkably light on space battles and much more interested in theology, interpersonal relationships, dignity, and parenting.
This film is also the pop culture that first introduced baby Tracie and Emily to the idea of nonbinary individuals. The heroic agender aliens (that reproduce asexually to the confusion of Dennis Quaid's Will Davidge) seem like prescient cultural commentary in a sci fi film forty years removed from our current political "discourse" about whether gender is binary. If only more people had seen this little-known film when it came out, perhaps they may have learned that truth is truth.
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We are Tracie Guy-Decker and Emily Guy Birken, known to our extended family as the Guy Girls.
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