Things I think about as a short man

Man, they've really gotten to you. There's no way you should be thinking most of those things because they're outright silly. If you're not into horse racing, there's absolutely no reason to ever think about horse jockeys.

I can't believe they have convinced you to wear elevator shoes. You're screwing your feet up by trying to mask who you really are. Throw those things in the garbage. You need to be focusing on why you feel the need to wear manheels instead of actually wearing them.

The reason short men are still around is because a child's height is largely dependent on the height of the mother, so even with women's mentally-ill desire for tall men, their own genetics are often responsible for creating the next generation of short guys. Also, no matter how tall society gets, the height curve will just move up and the "shortest" people in the new curve will get treated with contempt. You can't eliminate the concept of shortness unless everyone is the exact same height.

I know that heightism is a bitter pill to swallow, and I certainly understand how you came to develop the thoughts you're having, but you need to focus all of that disgust on getting the heightism narrative out there because that's the only way things will ever improve. You're definitely going down the right road by posting on this forum though.

You do ask some good questions, such as why heightism isn't considered an issue. A major reason this is the case is because heightism affects men most harshly, and you're not going to get a lot of empathy for men these days. As a matter of fact, many of the times short women experience heightism, it gets written-off as sexism, and short women don't object to this because they know that anything that is labeled as sexist will get treated seriously.

Another reason heightism isn't taken seriously is because short men are punished by the same gender norms that feminists are supposedly trying to eradicate, but short men have no power, so no one cares about what we go through. Powerful feminist think-tanks have also cleverly classified discrimination against short men as female empowerment, so we're basically being used as sacrificial lambs and whipping boys in-order to empower women and disguise their hypocrisy.

Another reason is that people are putting their foot down altogether on social groups demanding respect. We didn't get started with the other social groups, and with all of the things that are changing in-regard to those groups, a lot of people don't like that change and are loudly dismissing the notion that any more groups should be recognized. This is their way of clinging to the past and defending tradition. This mentality is maddening because it doesn't even dismiss our cause based on its merits, it dismisses our cause on the basis that it is a cause.

Lastly, perhaps the most sad reason height isn't addressed is because short men won't work together. Most will suffer in silence their entire lives and not even post anonymously on message boards. Many will become Garmins, white knights, or other archetypes who beg for social scraps. These self-loathers will always head anti-heightism dialogue off at the pass and soothe the anxieties of the status-quo by shifting the blame back onto short men. I posted another thread today about Public Idiot #1 on R/short who actively works against short men who do address heightism, so that's another reason we can't generate our own power. There are more short men who work against other short men who address heightism than there are short men who actually address heightism. Let that sink-in for a while.

We certainly are in quite a fine mess here, but having this message board is a step in the right direction because we are the only legitimate ongoing heightism discussion anywhere in the world. We just need a few more posters to chime-in so we can help spread our narrative even further. Getting this conversation going is seriously the first step, so when enough short men decide that it's time to have our story heard, it will be a lot easier to figure-out what the next step is. Until more short men are onboard though, don't expect anything to improve.