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The Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient is a measure of the linear relationship between two variables $X$ and $Y$, giving a value between +1 and −1.

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Pearson correlation binary vs continuous [duplicate]

I keep seeing that we can't use Pearson correlation for binary variables but I don't understand why. If instead of a binary response, I have multiple (>2) categories, then it's obvious - we are unsure …
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