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<blockquote data-quote="Dire Bare" data-source="post: 7122944" data-attributes="member: 18182"><p>My initial response was an eyeroll that "hermaphrodite" is an offensive term to the LGBQT community, but after doing some poking around on the internet, looks like that is definitely the case . . . . but it is a real thing, and it isn't synonymous with "androgynous". </p><p></p><p>Androgynous means that someone has an overall physicality that is between masculine and feminine. Think the amazing actress Tilda Swinton. Being a hermaphrodite means that you literally have both sets of sexual organs. This is/was certainly a mythic construct in several world religions, but is a real thing too, both in the larger animal kingdom and the human species, although quite rare among humans. It's a literary and scientific term.</p><p></p><p>So, according to the older PHB, Corellon's physicality is in between masculine and feminine, AND he may literally be both male and female. Similar ideas, but not the same. Intersex does seem to be the preferred term now and is more inclusive than "hermaphrodite", both socially and scientifically, but it doesn't really have a medieval fantasy ring to it, it is a very modern sounding word (because, it is a very modern word).</p><p></p><p>WotC is probably right in removing the word hermaphrodite from their books, but I'll keep using it in my own campaigns . . . . not that Corellon's bits & pieces come up in table conversation often . . . .</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dire Bare, post: 7122944, member: 18182"] My initial response was an eyeroll that "hermaphrodite" is an offensive term to the LGBQT community, but after doing some poking around on the internet, looks like that is definitely the case . . . . but it is a real thing, and it isn't synonymous with "androgynous". Androgynous means that someone has an overall physicality that is between masculine and feminine. Think the amazing actress Tilda Swinton. Being a hermaphrodite means that you literally have both sets of sexual organs. This is/was certainly a mythic construct in several world religions, but is a real thing too, both in the larger animal kingdom and the human species, although quite rare among humans. It's a literary and scientific term. So, according to the older PHB, Corellon's physicality is in between masculine and feminine, AND he may literally be both male and female. Similar ideas, but not the same. Intersex does seem to be the preferred term now and is more inclusive than "hermaphrodite", both socially and scientifically, but it doesn't really have a medieval fantasy ring to it, it is a very modern sounding word (because, it is a very modern word). WotC is probably right in removing the word hermaphrodite from their books, but I'll keep using it in my own campaigns . . . . not that Corellon's bits & pieces come up in table conversation often . . . . [/QUOTE]
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