Atypical Icon Flashcards
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Beginning of realistic depictions of dwarfism
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- 17th century
- artists portrayed real types of dwarfism
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Negative stereotypes of dwarfism (3)
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- Magical creatures
- Unrealistic, objects of ridicule
- Caricatures of masculinity, non-threatening
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Hypertrichosis
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- people don’t believer they are werewolves
- face covered by hair, looks non human
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Hermaphrodite
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Has both genders
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Intersex
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- NOT a hermaphrodite
- neither gender fully developed
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3rd gender
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- androgyn
- either identifies as both or neither
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Mermaid (2)
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- disease that is connected to the concept of mermaids
- mermaids and sirens are NOT interchangeable
