{"id":17911,"date":"2011-10-19T11:56:45","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T16:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=17911"},"modified":"2013-11-09T05:18:35","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T10:18:35","slug":"disability-symbology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/10\/19\/disability-symbology\/","title":{"rendered":"Disability Symbology"},"content":{"rendered":"

Re-posted in honor of Love Your Body Day.<\/em><\/p>\n

This symbol is the international symbol for persons with disabilities<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"451px-Handicapped_Accessible_sign.svg\"<\/p>\n

It looks pretty straightforward.\u00a0 Descriptive even.<\/p>\n

But check out this symbol that I saw at a T.J. Maxx in California:<\/p>\n

\"Picture1\"<\/p>\n

Notice how the second symbol represents people with disabilities as active and independent.\u00a0 There are motion signs and the figure is pushing its own chair.<\/p>\n

The comparison reveals how much the first represents them as passive and helpless.<\/p>\n

UPDATE! <\/strong><\/span>In the comments thread, Penny added a link to the symbol they use at the Huntington Library<\/a> (Pasadena, CA):<\/p>\n

\"1303416595_1213e0c8fb\"<\/p>\n

For\u00a0 more posts on symbology, see our posts on traffic lights with female figures<\/a>, stick figures and stick figures who parent<\/a>, and default avatars<\/a>.<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Re-posted in honor of Love Your Body Day. This symbol is the international symbol for persons with disabilities: It looks pretty straightforward.\u00a0 Descriptive even. But check out this symbol that I saw at a T.J. Maxx in California: Notice how the second symbol represents people with disabilities as active and independent.\u00a0 There are motion signs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[345,23622],"class_list":["post-17911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-disability","tag-social-construction-symbols"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17911"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58644,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17911\/revisions\/58644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}