A Garmina Goes To The Movies

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A Garmina Goes To The Movies Aug 30, 2019 21:47:04 GMT

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Post by Heightism Report on Aug 30, 2019 21:47:04 GMT

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This is how short people act when a movie company makes a poster that excludes them. The movie company knew good and well that the poster would not be sitting on the floor, thus, they know the "you have to be this tall" part of the poster would be up tall enough to disqualify some adults from being "worthy" of seeing their idiotic movie. Yes, the joke hinges on the notion that kids are not allowed to see the movie because it's Rated R, but they also wanted to be clever and prompt some of that "well meaning" fun that we've all been the victim of our entire lives. The self-deprecating fool in the photo is 5'1 and the cut-off line must be at around 5'5 or so, thus, there's no way this poster was only just directed at children. Just imagine how every short person who walks past this poster has to hear it from the "clever" tallers in the group. They all think they're so original and this poster is going to set-off contrived humor, slurs, and short people acting like court jesters. It's all in good fun though when tallers get to masturbate their ego at the expense of short people. OP says her bf took this picture, and playing the percentages, in addition to the camera angle, he is probably a taller, thus, I can't imagine how much of an egofest he had when this picture was taken. In this picture, the Garmina is doing exactly what she's supposed to do, which is pose and tapdance to the delight of the people who view her as a child.

Also, as a bonus, here she is in the comments section referring to herself as a dwarf
https://www.reddit.com/r/short/comments/cx8zhq/discrimination_51/eykz4pw

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HeightismAOS Full Member Posts: 225	A Garmina Goes To The Movies Aug 31, 2019 0:08:00 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by HeightismAOS on Aug 31, 2019 0:08:00 GMT What's funny is how a poster saying "you must be this thin to see this movie" would offend people. It's the double standards that are tiring.
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Aug 31, 2019 0:08:00 GMT HeightismAOS said:

What's funny is how a poster saying "you must be this thin to see this movie" would offend people. It's the double standards that are tiring.

That seriously is the major crux of this issue. If on one hand, you can't say anything that could even indirectly be considered offensive to certain groups without a social justice mob maliciously hunting you down, and on the other hand, you have a group where you not only excuse, but encourage people to use as a punchline, in addition to expecting the people in that group to prance around like court jesters, you create a serious disparity in society where the mocked group has no hope of ever addressing any concerns, up to and including incidents that have lifelong career implications or end in violence.

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A Garmina Goes To The Movies Aug 31, 2019 6:50:58 GMT

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First of all, A 5'1"woman calling herself a "dwarf" is ridiculous. I don't want to go off on a height categorization tangent but it seems like once again that woman over 5 feet and men closer to 6' than 5' have no problem self deprecating, exaggerating the degree of their shorterness , and downplaying the discrimination even shorter people face by garmining more often. I can visualize what you're saying about social circles, some dimwits will all point and laugh at the short 5'4" guy in the group very casually and it will go unchecked because short jokes are so acceptable that it almost seems like a common conversation starter or topic. Imagine how easy it was for the creator to make this without having to worry about offending anyone, and not only easy but they also probably took pleasure. Yippe I'm 5'5", I reach a generic benchmark so I can make bank off of this!!

And about the "egofest",sadly a lot of the "tallers" doing the mocking are probably 5'8-5'9 tops. Because of them making up most of the population, being so close to short but still surpassing this artificial cutoff they will partake in the jokes. I see short and tall men being used as a dichotomy too often when even average heighted men feel as privileged as truly tall men around shorter guys. It must be constantly blue balling that one moment they can be garmins and the "superior" men in the next .

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A Garmina Goes To The Movies Aug 31, 2019 22:35:00 GMT

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[/quote]It seems to me that the 5'7"-5'9" guys seem to be -after a long time - taking over the heightism narrative somewhat, which is not exactly what I expected, but actually should have expected. They're tall enough to feel superior to the very short guys and identify with the tallers and spout off the usual nonsense about "confidence" and being "insecure"
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I also think it has a lot to do with the fact that since heightism has gotten worse, the "close to average height" crowd is feeling the sting much more so than they used to, therefore, they're doing everything in their power to disassociate themselves with men who are shorter than they are. They definitely don't want to experience the all-out rag-dolling that extremely-short guys receive, so they want to loudly go on record flaunting the fact that they are superior to these shorter guys. The stakes are much greater for almost average height men than tallers who can completely ignore short guys, not be overtly heightist, and still benefit from the effects of heightism. Of course, many tallers get addicted to the undue accolades they receive and bring height into the conversation every time they see an opportunity to benefit socially, but they never live with the fear of being lumped in with society's whipping boys like average height men do. In this regard, average height men have a lot in common with short women because short women will do anything they can not to be grouped with short men. This is why they all suckle the teat of feminism instead of allying with the short men who face the same height-related hatred that they do. Short men understand the components of heightism more than any other group in existence, yet, short women have absolutely no desire to be grouped with the one subset of the population who have the most expertise in dealing with heightism. No one wants to be grouped with short men, which is why we get numerous seemingly contradictory groups unintentionally allying with one another in painting short men into a corner all alone.

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