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Post by luro2020 on Jul 27, 2017 21:00:52 GMT
So I was trying to educate this woman on heightism, and when I was going into the specifics she kept repeating "I think everybody has problems" and i had to keep reminding her that the topic was heightism. She kept adamantly repeating this phrase and almost threw a tantrum, it shows how people get mad when the focus is on heightism, try to change the subject and use blanket statements to distract people from talking about heightism as in taking the focus away from short men and making it about "everyone", so basically this discussion shows one of the common ways people like to derail conversation when heightism comes up and that is by using the common phrase we all have heard "everyone has their issues" when they would stay on topic and not derail with other groups.
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Post by luro2020 on Jul 27, 2017 21:01:58 GMT
Threw a tantrum because she didn't want short men to have their issues recognized but wants equality for other groups (run of mill heightist hypocrite)
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Post by Heightism Report on Jul 27, 2017 22:18:44 GMT
You're absolutely right. That's one of their favorite lines to try to shut down any conversation about heightism. It's almost a fake "We're all in this together" argument meaning that since we all have problems, short men have no right to ask for heightism to be addressed specifically. If people who use this ridiculous argument were being truthful, they'd also make statements about how no one deserves their issues to be addressed, including women and racial minorities. The phonies who argue this "we're all in this together" nonsense are just using the
tried-and-true method of trying to paint us as oversensitive for daring to speak about our issues, but conveniently enough, they allow the causes that eradicate their own issues to continue unimpeded. I've heard that argument used hundreds of times, so I know exactly how you feel.
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Post by Heightism Report on Jul 28, 2017 4:14:01 GMT
Another thing that's extra frustrating about people with this attitude is the fact that we're not asking them for the world when we try to talk about heightism. All we want is for them to either learn something about our plight, state that we've given them something to think about, or add to the conversation by speaking about instances of heightism they may have seen, or something like that. At a bare minimum, we don't want them to use dismissive platitudes to shut us up immediately. However, even that is too much to ask. I think many of these people know deep-down that they think short men are inferior, and they feel as if we've caught their hand in the cookie jar when we speak of heightism. For this reason, they need to say anything they can to shut the conversation down because the last thing they want to do is have to hold themselves accountable for their thoughts and actions.
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Post by toughlimbs on Aug 1, 2017 16:09:15 GMT
Ask her how many times she went to the mall. I'm willing to bet that these tall male mannequins have been ingrained into her head for way too long. It's too late to make her change her worldview now that her mind is absolutely set on a required male height standard.
Did you ask her how she feels about her own height? I bet she would go her way to talk all about it, and listen to every word you say about her plights on her own height.
I noticed you keep talking about heightism to women. A lot of that resulted in her getting so angry that you just shattered her fetish male height fantasy.
Why do you talk about it to women? Just wondering.
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Post by luro2020 on Aug 4, 2017 18:09:07 GMT
The people I happen to be talking to are women, I'm not specifically trying to educate women but I have run into alot who will protect the status quo and like you said their height fetish fantasy because they don't like their bad behavior being criticized, since they realize their beliefs are the problems they check out because they've been inflated by whiteknights, the positivity crew, and garmins, so they have no one checking their beliefs. And yes, she would want people to talk about her plight but refuse to listen to short mens' plight like the rest of society! So basically, I haven't been specifically talking to women but a lot of them are the problem so they need to have their worldviews challenged, since society caters to them and the tall men they feel like they can get away with discrimintory and hypocritical actions.
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