Post by Heightism Report on Jan 1, 2019 20:30:12 GMT
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This is a long read, so I'll summarize it because it only has one portion that is relevant to heightism.
The article is written by a tall, lesbian woman who worked as a cable tech for a decade. Other than the political motivations for the post(which I'm going to ask everyone to refrain from making the focal point) The gyst of the article was to show how evil the men were at the houses she went to. (She paints the female sex workers she worked for as altruistic, and she paints a woman who answered the door almost completely naked as having made an honest mistake)
During the course of the entire article, she didn't voice any displeasure with being a tall woman, other than implying that it factors into her being mistaken for a man often. She did voice her displeasure with being referred to as "young lady."
During the course of the article, she speaks of the nightmare calls she had to go-on. During one of these descriptions, she states the following:
"Maybe my next job was a short little fucker who walked like a little teapot and who beat his kids. Sometimes you can tell. Some of us recognize the look in their eyes, the bite of fear in the air. He followed me into the office. And he rubbed himself against my ass when I leaned over to unplug the modem. I let it happen that time. Sometimes you know which guys you can’t fight back against."
And here we go. First, lets wrestle with the fact that she "just knows" that "short little fuckers" are prone to beating their kids. She doesn't need any evidence other than their appearance. This is coming from a woman who wrote a whole piece chronicling her struggles with being mistaken for a male. We're supposed to be sympathetic toward her for being mistaken for a man, but are also supposed to ignore the fact that she is hostile toward short men and judges their character based on their height alone. Also, she doesn't want to be referred to as a "young lady," but has no reservations about referring to short men in disparaging terms and assuming the worst about them just based on her prejudices stemming from their height. Also, as a six ft tall woman, she feels entitled to degrade short men for their height. I also find it extremely coincidental that the "short little fucker" just so happened to also be the one who rubbed against her ass. Due to the fact that she's A) Such a hypocrite B) Definitely has a pre-existing prejudice against short men, can we take any of her anecdotes at face value? None of her other stories included disparaging remarks about someone's unchangeable characteristics, and none of them contained negative assumptions about their character based purely on their physical characteristics.
It's sad that she decided to flaunt this narrative because her stories painted a nice picture of how blue collar people are treated by the general public and the companies they work for, but she decided to base her narrative on a hypocritical feminist slant that asks for sympathy while also denigrating short men. It doesn't take them long to show their true colors, does it?
This is a long read, so I'll summarize it because it only has one portion that is relevant to heightism.
The article is written by a tall, lesbian woman who worked as a cable tech for a decade. Other than the political motivations for the post(which I'm going to ask everyone to refrain from making the focal point) The gyst of the article was to show how evil the men were at the houses she went to. (She paints the female sex workers she worked for as altruistic, and she paints a woman who answered the door almost completely naked as having made an honest mistake)
During the course of the entire article, she didn't voice any displeasure with being a tall woman, other than implying that it factors into her being mistaken for a man often. She did voice her displeasure with being referred to as "young lady."
During the course of the article, she speaks of the nightmare calls she had to go-on. During one of these descriptions, she states the following:
"Maybe my next job was a short little fucker who walked like a little teapot and who beat his kids. Sometimes you can tell. Some of us recognize the look in their eyes, the bite of fear in the air. He followed me into the office. And he rubbed himself against my ass when I leaned over to unplug the modem. I let it happen that time. Sometimes you know which guys you can’t fight back against."
And here we go. First, lets wrestle with the fact that she "just knows" that "short little fuckers" are prone to beating their kids. She doesn't need any evidence other than their appearance. This is coming from a woman who wrote a whole piece chronicling her struggles with being mistaken for a male. We're supposed to be sympathetic toward her for being mistaken for a man, but are also supposed to ignore the fact that she is hostile toward short men and judges their character based on their height alone. Also, she doesn't want to be referred to as a "young lady," but has no reservations about referring to short men in disparaging terms and assuming the worst about them just based on her prejudices stemming from their height. Also, as a six ft tall woman, she feels entitled to degrade short men for their height. I also find it extremely coincidental that the "short little fucker" just so happened to also be the one who rubbed against her ass. Due to the fact that she's A) Such a hypocrite B) Definitely has a pre-existing prejudice against short men, can we take any of her anecdotes at face value? None of her other stories included disparaging remarks about someone's unchangeable characteristics, and none of them contained negative assumptions about their character based purely on their physical characteristics.
It's sad that she decided to flaunt this narrative because her stories painted a nice picture of how blue collar people are treated by the general public and the companies they work for, but she decided to base her narrative on a hypocritical feminist slant that asks for sympathy while also denigrating short men. It doesn't take them long to show their true colors, does it?
