Post by Heightism Report on Aug 18, 2017 0:48:11 GMT
https://www.reddit.com/r/short/comments/6ubg88/challenging_heightistbody_shaming_behaviours/
This guy is openly challenging heightism, and if he wants to continue doing it in the way he sees fit, I'm in his corner. However, he still is tone-policing other short men.
"It's important to challenge this behaviour, especially if you see feminist women doing it, and explain exactly why this sort of attitude is toxic. It's important not to fly off the handle, though- and body shame women back, or shame their preferences (if you take this path you'll never get them to question at least why they hold them), or something similar. That won't help. It's important to empathise but also say, "I think it's really a result of gender roles..." or something similar. And not lose your shit over it."
First off, I'll say that you shouldn't fly-off the handle every time because it's good to use a multitude of tactics. Each situation should dictate the proper manner to respond to heightism. However, this belief that you can diplomatically offset all forms of heightism in a docile manner is absolutely false. A lot of the feminists etc who are against all forms of body shaming except heightism against men can't relate emotionally unless you give them a taste of their own medicine. For the first few years I challenged heightism, I went with the diplomatic approach, and sometimes, all that did was create a comfort zone where the bigots knew I wasn't going to challenge them. When I started bringing the heat, they often back-pedaled, ran and hid by blocking their accounts, deleted their tweets, and so-on. Often, when feminists and others turn the heat-up on their adversaries, it becomes a widespread meme and millions of people will have their back. However, even short men who address heightism are still in the business of depriving other short men of the full gamut of their emotions. We should be angry at the way they world treats us. We should want to defend ourselves by any means necessary. We deserve to tell people who disrespect us exactly where they should go. Like I said, this guy is doing good work by challenging heightism, but he's just not quite to the point of awareness where he understands not to engage in rhetoric stating that we need to be nice little boys. There is a time for every emotion, and in-order to make true progress, we need a variety of tactics so that we can hit people from every direction with the truth.
This guy is openly challenging heightism, and if he wants to continue doing it in the way he sees fit, I'm in his corner. However, he still is tone-policing other short men.
"It's important to challenge this behaviour, especially if you see feminist women doing it, and explain exactly why this sort of attitude is toxic. It's important not to fly off the handle, though- and body shame women back, or shame their preferences (if you take this path you'll never get them to question at least why they hold them), or something similar. That won't help. It's important to empathise but also say, "I think it's really a result of gender roles..." or something similar. And not lose your shit over it."
First off, I'll say that you shouldn't fly-off the handle every time because it's good to use a multitude of tactics. Each situation should dictate the proper manner to respond to heightism. However, this belief that you can diplomatically offset all forms of heightism in a docile manner is absolutely false. A lot of the feminists etc who are against all forms of body shaming except heightism against men can't relate emotionally unless you give them a taste of their own medicine. For the first few years I challenged heightism, I went with the diplomatic approach, and sometimes, all that did was create a comfort zone where the bigots knew I wasn't going to challenge them. When I started bringing the heat, they often back-pedaled, ran and hid by blocking their accounts, deleted their tweets, and so-on. Often, when feminists and others turn the heat-up on their adversaries, it becomes a widespread meme and millions of people will have their back. However, even short men who address heightism are still in the business of depriving other short men of the full gamut of their emotions. We should be angry at the way they world treats us. We should want to defend ourselves by any means necessary. We deserve to tell people who disrespect us exactly where they should go. Like I said, this guy is doing good work by challenging heightism, but he's just not quite to the point of awareness where he understands not to engage in rhetoric stating that we need to be nice little boys. There is a time for every emotion, and in-order to make true progress, we need a variety of tactics so that we can hit people from every direction with the truth.
