Experiencing heightism as a short woman

Hi, Claire. Welcome to the forum. Short women certainly do experience the things that you have mentioned. However, most short women write all of these things off as sexism. Many do so because they are ignorant of heightism, and others do so because they know that anything framed as sexism will experience a plethora of support, while heightism is treated as joke, and others just don't want to be grouped into a cause that would have them classified as allies with short men. The reason I'm saying these things is that it is a good thing when a short woman realizes that the problems she faces are stemming from her height.

I tend to agree with you that most people "know of heightism but they purposely ignore it." Society makes it blatantly obvious that it believes tallness is superior to shortness, thus, anyone who acts as though this concept is a completely foreign issue is either a complete ignoramus, or, outright lying. If they can't see that short people are disrespected, they certainly can see that tall men are outright worshiped, thus, it doesn't take an observational genius to comprehend who the haves and have-nots are. Calling people out on their denial of this easily-observable fact is pretty much square one in addressing heightism and we certainly need to call this behavior out.