“Yet I’m Still a Man”: Disability and Masculinity in George R.R. Martin’s <i>A Song of Ice and Fire</i> Series
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article examines three fantasies concerning representations of disability and masculinity within George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series. Specifically, I argue that within the fictional realm of Westeros, the treatment of Tyrion and Jaime Lannister reveals the cultural fantasies that influence how male characters with disabilities are defined, perceived, and treated by normate (non-disabled) characters. Tyrion and Jaime both subscribe to and challenge Westerosi fantasies that are projected onto individuals with disabilities—namely, the notion that individuals with disabilities are grotesque or monstrous, the belief that disability is a marker of immorality or divine punishment, and the stereotype that individuals who are disabled are emasculated or impotent. All of these cultural fantasies influence the marginalized status and positionality of characters like Tyrion and Jaime, and reveal normates’ anxieties concerning both bodily fragility and the maintenance of the hegemonic status of normate embodiment.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".