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Post by Heightism Report on Sept 10, 2019 8:41:52 GMT
This movie looks like it's going to be atrociously cliche, and it's going to be torture watching it, but I'll take one for the team when it comes-out.
Judging from the trailer, the tall girl gets clowned about her height constantly, but her life becomes all sorted out when an exchange student who is even taller than she is Prince Charmings his way into the school. I mean, aren't tall guys the solution to all of the world's problems?
Lastly, you won't be surprised, but judging from the trailer, the movie includes a short guy who is in love with the tall girl, yet, she won't give him the time of day, but he acts like a good little boy and continues to orbit her when she gets the tall guy she "deserves." In typical short guy trope land, the short guy has a moment of full-on Kevin Hartenstance when he rides his bicycle into a car while serving as the tall girl's safe guy friend. Just before he rides his bike into the car, he says "I just want to make sure you don't get hurt." The punchline is that the guy is unable to protect her from being hurt when he can't even keep himself from being hurt while riding a bicycle at slow speed. Hmmmmmm...That wouldn't be the old "short men are unfit protectors" narrative in play, would it? Is anyone surprised that they couldn't make a movie about tall girls without making a mockery of short men?
The trailer also reveals the short guy asking her why she won't date short guys, thus, this is an indication that she outright refuses to date short men. It's going to be interesting to see how they frame her as the victim for this and how they blame men for her dislike of short men.
If this movie goes full cheesecore and makes her end-up with the short orbiter at the end, it will be done in rushed fashion without undoing any of the damage they caused by making a mockery of the short guy the entire time. However, short men will be told that this is a positive portrayal because the short guy gets the girl in the end, and the fact that she ends-up with him out of pity will be dismissed and we'll be pointed-out as agitators for bringing this to light. However, I strongly doubt that they will make her "settle" for the short guy because teenage women are the definite target audience for this movie, and they would completely alienate this audience if they paired the tall girl with a short guy at the end. I could be wrong, but my suspicions are that any plot twists will not frame the short guy as the prize at the end. At-best, they'll pair the short guy with someone else, and at worst, they'll reveal some character flaw within the short guy that justifies her rejection of him and of short guys as a whole.
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Post by HeightismAOS on Sept 15, 2019 3:52:02 GMT
Apparently (now that the flick is out), she ends up with the short friend at the end.
The narrative I've seen going around is that the short guy is essentially a creepy loser who somehow got the girl instead of leaving her alone. People are also mad that the protagonist did not snag a suave tall man in the end, and therefore this movie is misogynistic because it shames women for chasing tall guys or something (even though the film is also about shaming men who don't date tall girls).
But had the movie portrayed a short guy rejecting her, the circlejerk would then be, "Look at those insecure shorter men with their Napoleon complexes, always too insecure to date a tall girl." And had her orbiter been a tall guy instead, he would be the gentle giant who was always there for her rather than perceived as some stalker/harasser.
Needless to say, from what I've seen, it looks like Netflix messed up here. Many of the tall female viewers I've seen wanted the girl to end up with a tall guy (all the while rejecting men based on height). This "I want to have my cake and eat it too" fantasy has been denied.
To me, the message of this film is essentially "beggars can't be choosers." If you're going to complain about being a tall girl, don't expect people to not question why you judge men based on height. Having said that, the short guy looks like a chump in this film so I'll pass. I like seeing short guys portrayed like how 5'3 Wolverine was in the comics and cartoon. It's ironic how the more progressive a society becomes, the lamer the short dudes in media get.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2019 4:59:06 GMT
Just watched the trailer. How come every time a short guy is positively represented somewhat they never go the full extent of the movie? Also the hypocrisy that surprises absolutely no one here still is amazing. How can anyone buy into the "He got her at the end, that's all that matters" logic that you so astutely pointed out when that constitues <10% of movies? It's simply math, if the short man is portrayed as the needy best friend who tries to wk the girl for 90 minutes of the movie, how is that a positive thing?
It makes me roll my eyes how easily people are controlled by and will be controlled by their emotions about height, this doesn't even look 1% positive because he looks like a goddamn laughingstock the entire movie, clearly intentionally. Almost everyone knows if they throw in that 15 minutes of positive spotlight for short men, virtually every short man will overlook all of the other portrayals. Why do consistency and positive portrayal of short men have to be mutually exclusive in this movie?
As an inference of mine, they have to make sure us short men stfu by making the protagonist pathetic. The only positive thing is the end of the movie, and nothing will be learned exceptt for stereotypes that were already in the minds of the masses about us.
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