Post by Heightism Report on Mar 17, 2017 20:31:28 GMT
www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=2677153
An average height guy who seems in-tune to the nature of heightism, and even provides sources, speaks of the plight of short men and is greeted with the typical nonsense that all of us are too accustomed to.
The first comment completely ignores the sources and shifts the blame back onto short men by evoking the "short men are insecure" stereotype as a means to mute the empirical evidence and protect the status-quo by putting the blame on short men.
"No one hates short guys, people hate insecure guys. It just happens that for many, that is the cover for their insecurity.'
The links he provided literally proved that there is hatred against short men, but I guess the dumbass toad who responded blames short mens' supposed insecurity for that hatred. I guess that as short men, we all got together and forced society to discriminate against us, all so we could have an excuse to blame our inferiority on. This is seriously the logic that this fool used with that idiotic comment.
Next comment:
"I don't have a problem with short guys but as has been said, when someone is obviously insecure about their height it's obvious."
Of course! The egalitarian who ONLY has a problem with short guys who have legitimate issues. The problem with these statements is that people are indoctrinated to believe that short men are insecure by nature, and everything a short man does is assumed to be linked to his insecurity. Even when we just passively mention a heightist comment someone made to us, it is assumed that we must be insecure. We can't report the facts without fictions about insecurity being invented on the spot.
"Don't think they hate short men. just prefer tall men"
There we go with the standard "It's just a preference" argument. Once again, the links the OP provided show some of the effects of the bigoted beliefs that help to fuel these preferences. These preferences are largely-based in the belief that short men are incapable, incompetent, unmanly, weak, insecure, and not real men.
"If it bothers you that much, move to asia."
OP isn't even short, he's just pointing-out that short men have a rough time in society, but yet, people still can't resist the opportunity scold short men, EVEN THOUGH THERE ARE NO SHORT MEN PRESENT. This is another tactic that we see day-in and day-out. People will scold ghosts so as to create a straw man argument to defend against, instead of discussing the topic at hand. Having the focus of the topic diverted is one of the most prevalent issues we deal with in these discussions. It's ridiculous.
And then, of course, we have the idiotic confidence speech
"It depends how you look at it, nothing can affect you unless you allow it to. You can't change other people's behaviour but you can change how you react to it."
The links that OP posted had nothing to do with a short man's reaction, they chronicled the behavior of women and tall people. This behavior on their part was done pre-emptively before a short man had a chance to react. This is just more blame shifting nonsense.
There is plenty more in that thread to dissect, but I'm glad I found it because it is a prime example of the way every heightism discussion gets hijacked by slight-of-hand nonsense. This is the exact type of template we are counteracting by having this forum to discuss heightism in an intelligent manner.
An average height guy who seems in-tune to the nature of heightism, and even provides sources, speaks of the plight of short men and is greeted with the typical nonsense that all of us are too accustomed to.
The first comment completely ignores the sources and shifts the blame back onto short men by evoking the "short men are insecure" stereotype as a means to mute the empirical evidence and protect the status-quo by putting the blame on short men.
"No one hates short guys, people hate insecure guys. It just happens that for many, that is the cover for their insecurity.'
The links he provided literally proved that there is hatred against short men, but I guess the dumbass toad who responded blames short mens' supposed insecurity for that hatred. I guess that as short men, we all got together and forced society to discriminate against us, all so we could have an excuse to blame our inferiority on. This is seriously the logic that this fool used with that idiotic comment.
Next comment:
"I don't have a problem with short guys but as has been said, when someone is obviously insecure about their height it's obvious."
Of course! The egalitarian who ONLY has a problem with short guys who have legitimate issues. The problem with these statements is that people are indoctrinated to believe that short men are insecure by nature, and everything a short man does is assumed to be linked to his insecurity. Even when we just passively mention a heightist comment someone made to us, it is assumed that we must be insecure. We can't report the facts without fictions about insecurity being invented on the spot.
"Don't think they hate short men. just prefer tall men"
There we go with the standard "It's just a preference" argument. Once again, the links the OP provided show some of the effects of the bigoted beliefs that help to fuel these preferences. These preferences are largely-based in the belief that short men are incapable, incompetent, unmanly, weak, insecure, and not real men.
"If it bothers you that much, move to asia."
OP isn't even short, he's just pointing-out that short men have a rough time in society, but yet, people still can't resist the opportunity scold short men, EVEN THOUGH THERE ARE NO SHORT MEN PRESENT. This is another tactic that we see day-in and day-out. People will scold ghosts so as to create a straw man argument to defend against, instead of discussing the topic at hand. Having the focus of the topic diverted is one of the most prevalent issues we deal with in these discussions. It's ridiculous.
And then, of course, we have the idiotic confidence speech
"It depends how you look at it, nothing can affect you unless you allow it to. You can't change other people's behaviour but you can change how you react to it."
The links that OP posted had nothing to do with a short man's reaction, they chronicled the behavior of women and tall people. This behavior on their part was done pre-emptively before a short man had a chance to react. This is just more blame shifting nonsense.
There is plenty more in that thread to dissect, but I'm glad I found it because it is a prime example of the way every heightism discussion gets hijacked by slight-of-hand nonsense. This is the exact type of template we are counteracting by having this forum to discuss heightism in an intelligent manner.
