this headline has made me angry

[misdee]

grrr

surely it should say lost women , not dwarf.

agree - either way it's a crap title - "lost mountain woman" - oh a woman that lives in the mountains - "lost mountain dwarf" - blimey them mythical creatures do exist and they live in the mountains.

Not if you want to reference Tolkien.

yanbu
it is up there with the newspapers article about a woman's downs son

actually just seen one of the comments on the story

"A dwarf lost in the mountains how does that happen.Gimli would not be impressed"

i'm so sorry, but it's so awful i'm almost hysterical. i know that makes me a bad person but tbh it's the chihuahua that did it for me...
yanbu

Oh good god.

But it's the SUN. That's what it does.

Yanbu, but it is not surprising from that rag.

hahaha...but techincally she is a dwarf...she's under 4'10

is that what defines a dwarf? I know a girl who is only about 4.11" but her proportions are normal. I'd know idea there was a height definition. Isn't it a genetic syndrome something like Anach* starts with that.

Anyway, the sun is a load of shit. A woman can't be a woman. she has to be a babe or a harridan or a dwarf or an amazonian or a mother or a whore or a ball-breaker. something, anything, which makes her easier to judge and criticise.

Would that be Rebekah Wade's Sun?

Tbh I think the sexism is unintentional, if not imagined. The man bites dog of the story is that a dwarf got lost in the mountains. And she owns a tiny dog.

The condition is achondroplasia, btw.

I'm sorry, but that comment, "Why didn't she just ride her chihuahua to safety?"

PMSL

hilarious

some people are in perfect proportion dwarfism is sometimes just a genetic trait in a family...not always caused by a defect

ROFL@BitOfFun

sorry to miss the point of this thread entirely by splitting hairs! but there is a difference between being very small (even under four foot ten) and being a dwarf.

People with achondroplasia have shorter limbs and fingers in relation to their bodies.

A person of 4 foot 10" is just small. A person with achondroplasia has a one in two chance of passing on the achondroplasia gene to their offspring. Whereas a person of four foot ten is just 'small' and will pass on genes for not being tall.

I read that story and thought it was a bit uncalled for, as are the comments at the bottom of it.

I've just come across this and

(ds has dwarfism)