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What does it mean?
Authors are often stereotyped as looking like unusual or unappealing creatures.
In plain terms
Writers are expected to look like birds or fish.
What can you take from it?
Stereotypes often dictate how we expect creative people to look.

Where it applies

  • critiquing artists
  • social profiling
  • first impressions

Putting it to work

  • Question visual stereotypes
  • Avoid judging by looks

Questions to consider

  • Why do we associate jobs with specific looks?

Another view

It relies on absurd physical caricatures.

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