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Post by Heightism Report on Aug 20, 2019 8:04:09 GMT
At the beginning portion of this video, I was thinking of posting this in the Gold Star forum. He addresses the flaws with the Napoleon Complex myth, puts the blame on tallers for creating it, and just generally takes the right approach in addressing heightism.
However, most of the second half of the video is encompassed with him bragging about getting laid, boasting about athletic prowess, and other such typical platitudes that short men are told to spout. He abandoned all of the good work he did in the beginning of the video by telling short men to take an individualistic approach to addressing heightism instead of challenging the very notion that short men are discriminated against. Athletic short men who are good at sex have existed for eternity, and none of that has done one bit of good in eradicating the stereotypes, hatred, and discrimination that he talks about in the beginning of the video. None of his conquests or abilities will do anything to challenge the Napoleon Complex myth, and as a matter of fact, people will just diminish his achievements by saying that they are proof that he is "overcompensating," and use them as proof that he has a Napoleon Complex. To the ever-increasing amount of people who buy into this myth, nothing a short man does will ever eradicate their biases against short men, on the contrary, everything short men do will be spun in such a way that is strengthens their hatred for short men. You don't keep a group of people in their place with a bigoted stereotype, and then all of a sudden decide not to be prejudiced anymore because a few of the stereotyped people are good at frisbee and report that they routinely give women orgasms. However, this is the type of horsefuckery that short men such as the one in this video have bought into. This guy was almost there, but I guess he flew too close to the sun with the truth he dropped in the beginning, thus, had to backtrack with a serving of chest-pounding and machismo. This happens more often than not when short men discuss heightism. They start off on the right track, but get uncomfortable with the raw truth and try to disguise it by puffing their chests out. This is the direct result of a lifetime of being told that your problems don't matter, in addition to being emasculated on a constant basis, therefore, when a short man speaks of heightism, he almost immediately feels the need to play damage control, and he usually either does this by being a Garmin and self-deprecating, or, trying to re-score manhood points with a bunch of canned Alpha Male rhetoric.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2019 22:53:20 GMT
It's funny because the transition from this 5'3" guy talking about heightism to machoism happened in seconds. Imo he was trying to give solutions to heightism and for being short in the second half but knew he would be insulted in the commments if he didn't backpedal and speak out. This is what I don't get. I see tons of "being short" videos, and they always have to list exceptions to the rule (Spudd Webb in this video for instance), talk about what comebacks to use when they get insulted, make being short a positive thing and list all the disadvantages of being tall or find a way to leave people who think short men should die and worse things out.
And really, "short man" mentality? This makes it sound like he wants short men to have to work harder and likes the shade he gets. Maybe it's because he's so used to it being on the extremely short side that he doesn't want to question why the "mentality" would be a thing in the first place?
Btw Admin, where did everyone go? I'm not accusing anyone of anything , but how come when I joined, there were 4 people making posts but now no one posts?
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Post by Heightism Report on Aug 24, 2019 3:54:32 GMT
It's funny because the transition from this 5'3" guy talking about heightism to machoism in seconds. Imo he was trying to give solutions to heightism and for being short in the second half but knew he would be insulted in the commments if he didn't backpedal and speak out. This is what I don't get. I see tons of "being short" videos, and they always have to list exceptions to the rule (Spudd Webb in this video for instance), talk about what comebacks to use when they get insulted, make being short a positive thing and list all the disadvantages of being tall or find a way to leave people who think short men should die and worse things out. And really, "short man" mentality? This makes it sound like he wants short men to have to work harder and likes the shade he gets. Maybe it's because he's so used to it being on the extremely short side that he doesn't want to question why the "mentality" would be a thing in the first place? Btw Admin, where did everyone go? I'm not accusing anyone of anything , but how come when I joined, there were 4 people making posts but now no one posts? You saw the exact same thing I did in the video and in other videos that talk about heightism. The trope of listing celebrities is one of the most foolish heightism minimization tactics because not only can everyone not be the less than one-percent of people who become celebrities, but those celebrities are constantly ridiculed about their height by announcers, fans, and others. Besides, even Prince spoke of how no matter how famous he became, he was "still short" in the eyes of society. If Prince, Tom Cruise, Bruno Mars etc. don't reach mega-superstardom without facing the same stigmatizations the rest of us endure, why are self-appointed Youtube gurus acting like being good at frisbee and poker(which is what the guy in the video bragged about) is somehow going to eradicate the effects of heightism? You're also correct in calling-out this "short men mentality" tactic when the real issue is "Society's mentality about short men." We shouldn't have to play poker, frisbee, hopscotch, or tetherball to "fool" others into respecting us, especially considering society already has chosen what it believes about "short man mentality." As a matter of fact, most people who see this video are going to say that his pursuits in fitness and picnic games are "just proof that he he a short man's mentality," and their beliefs in this realm state that short men are "insecure children who pump themselves up to trick others into believing they're real men." Until beliefs like this are addressed, nothing we do can ever diminish the stigmas we face. As far as why everyone on the forum disappeared, there approximately four of us who do all of the posting, thus, activity comes and goes in waves. We certainly want more participation here, but some of us get so tired of hearing ourselves speak that our posting lapses from time-to-time. We certainly want more posts filtering in here, and more people posting, but that just has not happened, especially as of late. I know that the regular posters are happy that you are here(me included) but they're just not vocal lately. Your posts are definitely not being ignored either. Feel free to post as much as you'd like, and we're not like other places on the internet, thus, you can always feel free to contribute to and revive old threads that date back to the forum's launch.
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