Not a Babylon Bee story

Headline: ‘Halle Berry apologizes for considering transgender role after backlash’

See, actors aren’t supposed to play characters they are not. Berry is not transgender, therefore, she may not play a transgender in a movie.

Last week, several actors promised not to do animated movie voices for characters they are not. Ethnically not. Someone was taken under fire for playing a Vietnamese character, when the actor was not Vietnamese. An animated character (cartoon, really) then, must be played by an actor who is the same gender and ethnicity.

Those rules do not count for every role or ethnicity, though. Surprise, surprise, surprise, as Gomer Pyle would say. And, speaking of Gomer, Jim Nabors should never have played the affable, straight, Gomer.

The film and TV industries find nothing wrong with Nabors and other queer actors playing straight characters, but get all out of shape when the opposite happens.

For a long time now we have been badgered and battered with so-called “equality,” but the reality is, those doing the yelling intend to define what the word means,