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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2018 3:39:28 GMT
1 Use social media" Post information regarding height discriminations on facebook, youtube, instagram, tumblr, and other popular social media sites, bring up height awareness in chat rooms, like christian chat rooms, main chat rooms and secular chat rooms. Research 100 ways to advertise online to think of more ways on how to advertise in regards a social cause.
2.Use word of mouth. Tell friends and family about height discrimination, educated them. Tell professionals about height discrimination.
3.Organize yourself with like minded people. Find other like minded people who want to fight height prejudice and strategize on how to overcome this stigma. Have accountability partners.
4.Know your rights. Be educated on your legal rights. ANd learn about different methods to advocate legally through letter writing,, writing in forms of email, fax and registered mail. Keep all forms of written corresnpondence.
5. Hire a legal counsel. Hire a lawyer or a paralegal if you feel your human rights are violated.
6. Use differnt forms of legal writing if rights are being violated such as demand letter or cease and decease letter.
7. Offline ads: Put up flyers against height discrimination, in bullttin boards in libraries, coffee shops (ask first), Place flyers in peoples mailbox. Use billboard ads, radio ads, and magazine ads,
8. Hire a public relations firm to promote body diversity..and body acceptance ..place tv ads in local tv stations etc
9. Hire private investigator to gather evidence if you feel you are being discriminated.
10. Love yourself Know that your height does NOT define you.
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Post by anthony on Aug 22, 2018 5:32:51 GMT
Number 10 might be appropriate on an individual level, but the problem is that in OTHER PEOPLE'S MINDS, our height certainly does define us, and whether people want to admit it or not, other's opinions of us affect our own opinions of ourselves. Yeah, I was tempted to comment on this too. It isn't even just that other's opinions affect our own, it's the REAL ways that others who have an impact on our lives treat us, and rob us (and themselves) of our full potential. I told a story in another thread here about a company that stopped respecting my opinions and ideas when they found out how tall I was, and all but collapsed because of it. I don't feel like my height defines me, but the truth is that for other people, it does. Far too often. This is, in part, why it took me so long to figure out. I knew I was "short" but I never realized how important it was, and how big of a factor it was in how people treated me, the opportunities I've had, and the obstacles it has placed in front of me. I can love myself all I want, but a big part of my self-worth is related to my role and contribution to society, and indeed humanity as a whole. When I'm denied chances to maximize this, just because I'm short, it affects everything, not even just me. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2018 10:52:32 GMT
I am experiencing the same type of marginalization that you desribed Anthony. I am not denying the plight of short people. I know too well how heightism negatively impacts both our professional and personal life. Although challenging I still want short people to love themselves. A lot of short people have internalized heightism. They believe that they are inferior because of how society treats them. They believe that they should be treated less than, not respected and often times are co conspirators in heightism. But the first step in defeating this type of prejudice is to have self worth. Just because someone is short doesnt mean someone is not valuable. In fact a short person can be more talented, intelligent and have better character than a taller person. Short people first have to believe that they deserve to be treated equally in order to combat heightism. Our self worth should not be determined on how people view us nor our circumstances. That is what heightist wants. Heightist wants to put us down. They try very hard to get us believe we are less than because of our height. That is why they continue to marginalize short people. But we as short people need to know that is a lie. We need to realize that a taller person doesnt mean someone is kind, intelligent,,talented etc.. all it means they are taller thats it.
I think that has been the greatest obstacle for short people. I think that if short people were able to maintain good self esteem we could unite and defeat height discrimination.
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Post by Heightism Report on Aug 22, 2018 16:02:51 GMT
SFTS' and Anthony's posts are powerfully-accurate as to what the true issues are. SFTS is right about stating most of the stipulations don't apply to us. Basically, Claire is borrowing a verbatim list of what other groups have done, but short people aren't afforded any of the considerations or accommodations of those groups because society is still in the stage of finding rationalizations and excuses to continue promoting heightism. We are also in a situation where people who are against social justice wholesale and beneficiaries of other movements are saying "the buck stops here" when it comes to the notion of taking heightism seriously. The anti-justice crusaders are using a Slippery Slope argument by saying "If we allow short people equal consideration, we're going to have to allow EVERYONE consideration. It will never end!" On the other hand, the other groups who have been beneficiaries of other movements don't want short people to have consideration because they want the focus to be on their own group and they see short people as a threat to their own power. For all of these reasons, short people aren't granted permission to use the tactics other groups have used.
Anthony is dead-on when he states that heightism has absolutely nothing to do with the self esteem of short people and everything to do with the actions and thoughts of heightists. There absolutely has to be an element of accountability in the fight against heightism and that accountability has to be aimed directly at the people who benefit from heightism. On the other hand, short people also need to be held accountable for their silence and absolute lack of participation in attempting to improve our place in society. All we're asking them to do here is post on an anonymous message board, and most of them don't even have the fortitude to do that. It's not our job to coddle sad sacks who can't even discuss their station in life with the few people who are willing to dissect these extremely-prevalent issues we face, it's merely our job to spread information. You can't force someone to have cajones by coddling them, you just have to do your best at providing them with information and hope that some of it eventually seeps in and shreds the cone of denial and self-loathing they've been living in.
Claire is right about us needing to expose the lies society tells us about how we're not supposed to value ourselves, but SFTS and Anthony are absolutely correct in pointing-out that it is the thoughts of other people that are driving this entire narrative, which leads to the spineless sad sacks, Garmins, pseudo tough guys, and white knights you see on Reddit. Like I said, we do need to expose the lies society has told us about how we shouldn't value ourselves, but the last thing we need is another self-esteem movement that is going to turn people into pseudo fluffdandies who try to pretend they aren't afraid of their own shadows by spouting-off watered-down motivational quotes instead of actually attacking the issue.
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