Why can’t this billboard artist talk about heightism?

I have to comment on your beliefs that women and homosexuals are not oppressed. I feel as though we should refrain from those types of statements because the number one tactic people use to shut us down is distraction. What I'm referring to is they love to find some side issue that isn't relevant to heightism, and make that the focal point. If you exclaim that certain groups are not oppressed, especially if those groups are widely embraced as victims of discrimination, you've just shot yourself in the foot because no one is going to listen to anything you say after that. In addition to that, the few allies we have hold differing beliefs across the political and social spectrum, thus, there is no reason to create divides between the few allies we have by shoehorning other belief systems into heightism discussions. This is why I'm always urging everyone to always keep the conversation about heightism and heightists without attacking other groups wholesale. Sure, I don't believe in letting others dictate what we discuss, but I also don't believe in lobbing sofballs that deniers can easily use to shut us down. Truthfully, they'll find some other avenue to shut us down, but at-least in those cases, we'll be able to point-out their flawed logic and won't be providing them with a gift wrapped distraction that they will successfully use to sabotage the discussion.


On the main topic of this post though, the reason heightism isn't the subject of these billboards is because short men don't even have the cajones to even admit that heightism is a problem. Society doesn't change status-quo ways of thinking unless people who are harmed by the status-quo cause enough of a disruption by shining light on the discriminatory narrative perpetuated by the status-quo. Short men can't even be bothered to step out of the shadows enough to even write anonymous posts on message boards, and many live in denial and develop false personas, thus, society has no motivation to address heightism. They figure that if short men are ok with being discriminated against, there's no reason to turn heightism into an issue that everyone takes seriously.