Post by Fightforheight on Nov 15, 2018 3:10:29 GMT
Hello, i've been lurking on this forum for awhile, i might register, but i wanted to make my first post as a guest. I didn't really know much about heightism until i started reading about it on the internet a year ago, but it's becoming more clear to me every day and how in denial most people are. I'm 5'8", not what some would call objectively short , but I still see the double standards and have experienced them myself. I just want to share my observations about height. Here are some things I've learned about heightism.
-It's everywhere, including in the english language, in advertising, marketing, sometimes overt and sometimes not so, but yet it's ignored
-Short men are always told to drink milk and eat veggies so that they "grow up to be big" when height is 80 percent genetics
-Tall or just taller men expect me to move out of their way on busy streets and get annoyed when I don't (Can't imagine how much worse this is for men under 5'6")
-People, even strangers of a short man can joke about his height without any social repurcussions when any other group wouldn't tolerate it
-Tall man doing masculine things=man short man doing the same= little guy, angry napoleon
-If you say anything about heightism in real life or online and you tell people you're short when discussing it online, they label you with these same double standards, criticize you for bringing it up, and possibly say you have a complex (it happened to me a few times in real life). If you encounter heightism and try to vent about it, no one will validate that your experiences happened.
- A short guy only has to do one bad thing and he gets labeled with a complex, but a tall man can screw up numerous times and his height won't be pointed out
-Tall guys to society are almost are what women are to white knights, everyone will defend a tall man in an argument or scuffle, physically or online, just as a white knight will for women
- When I try to talk about it in a calm way with people in real life, they get very defensive, give me responses that don't make any sense in the conversation and can't seem to stay on the topic of height. It seems to be a very touchy subject for them
-The people who claim to not be heightist online, always seem to label someone with a napoleon complex at some point and sometimes even more quickly than "non-heightists"(I've seen this many times on twitter and other places with heightism exchanges
Online, Short people alwayspolice other short people because they don't want them to make other short men "look bad". Not sure if i'm explaining this one well but short men are afraid if other short people speak out, they will be labeled so they shame anyone who talks about heightism
There is a plethora of statistics on wikipedia on heightism in the workplace and elsewhere, but conveniently no one knows anything about these statistics
Feel free to tell me what I left out.
-It's everywhere, including in the english language, in advertising, marketing, sometimes overt and sometimes not so, but yet it's ignored
-Short men are always told to drink milk and eat veggies so that they "grow up to be big" when height is 80 percent genetics
-Tall or just taller men expect me to move out of their way on busy streets and get annoyed when I don't (Can't imagine how much worse this is for men under 5'6")
-People, even strangers of a short man can joke about his height without any social repurcussions when any other group wouldn't tolerate it
-Tall man doing masculine things=man short man doing the same= little guy, angry napoleon
-If you say anything about heightism in real life or online and you tell people you're short when discussing it online, they label you with these same double standards, criticize you for bringing it up, and possibly say you have a complex (it happened to me a few times in real life). If you encounter heightism and try to vent about it, no one will validate that your experiences happened.
- A short guy only has to do one bad thing and he gets labeled with a complex, but a tall man can screw up numerous times and his height won't be pointed out
-Tall guys to society are almost are what women are to white knights, everyone will defend a tall man in an argument or scuffle, physically or online, just as a white knight will for women
- When I try to talk about it in a calm way with people in real life, they get very defensive, give me responses that don't make any sense in the conversation and can't seem to stay on the topic of height. It seems to be a very touchy subject for them
-The people who claim to not be heightist online, always seem to label someone with a napoleon complex at some point and sometimes even more quickly than "non-heightists"(I've seen this many times on twitter and other places with heightism exchanges
Online, Short people alwayspolice other short people because they don't want them to make other short men "look bad". Not sure if i'm explaining this one well but short men are afraid if other short people speak out, they will be labeled so they shame anyone who talks about heightism
There is a plethora of statistics on wikipedia on heightism in the workplace and elsewhere, but conveniently no one knows anything about these statistics
Feel free to tell me what I left out.
