WWE's short man program

So, let me get this right. They take an Olympic wrestler, gloss-over the fact that he was an Olympian as a storyline, and instead, heroes, villains, commentators, and everyone else involved decides to unify on degrading him for his height, and now, the storyline they're running with is that short men need to embrace their height. They spend all of that time making insults and snide remarks that indicate short men have nothing to be proud about in life all because they're short, and now, they're trying to signify that short men need to learn to be proud of their height. To them, it's up to short men to feel proud of their height, even though this ilk believes short men have no reason to have any pride whatsoever. This is just more of the hypocritical foolishness short men are supposed to endure. Short men are just supposed to let people, society in general, institutions, and in this case, mega-billion dollar entertainment entities contradict themselves from one moment to the next, and use us as target practice no matter which angle of approach they're using. The implication of this storyline is of course the belief that short men live sad, unfulfilling lives, and sit around sulking all day without doing anything productive in society, thus, their sick-and-twisted idea of social justice is that it is ok to degrade short men in the way that they have done to this former Olympian because short men deserve it. You don't get to all-out demoralize a group of people and then throw them some scraps with a cheesy after-school special moral about "being proud of who you are."

Just like you said, now, all we have to do is kick back and wait for all of the Garminsmithing to begin. Changing his name to Shorty G gives them a portal into making his height even more of a punchline now. It's the same old story again-and-again.

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Let's also point-out how hard WWE hypes their "Be A Star" anti-bullying campaign, yet, they have reduced a former Olympian to a prop to be used for schoolyard insults, while everyone who gets anywhere near the spotlight in the WWE just laughs uncontrollably at the tired short jokes everyone recites on an endless loop. Let's also remember that kids are a substantial percentage of WWE's viewership, so what message do you think kids are receiving from a promotion that is anti-bullying, yet, encourages all-out bullying of short men? The tall kids absolutely love having their first taste of superiority, while the short kids are getting a crash course in the lifetime of ridicule, hatred, smugness, and flippant distaste that they are going to be greeted with.

Wow, this is disenchanting. They make it sound like he didn't even have a say in the name "Shorty G", but of course he knows how not self-deprecating will go so I can understand why he would be a garmin. This is just more subliminal and overt programming for fans of all ages that short men are supposed to be the class clowns of the world, and you should bow down to your tall overlords. On the other hand, the amount of outrage on twitter is a really good sign people must have at least somewhat of a clue about the short double standard if they can see how this is bullying.

I also could not agree with "I think the fact that WWE has reduced a 5'8 Olympian to having a name like a soundcloud rapper does not bode wel. Imagine if you were an actual super short male, without a ripped physique and an amateur wrestling background. If Gable is Shorty G, what are you?" more.
Since a lot of grown men watching WWE are much shorter than 5'8", not ripped, and clearly not olympians, they're taking in a really horrible message from this campaign that t signifies that they are worthless to society and will be policed into laughing at themselves to a much higher degree than an average heighted WWE star who was reduced to "Shorty G". Like I said though, the downpour of support on twitter could not be more positive, and these people had no obligation to speak out against this, so it alludes to awareness of heightism at some level.

Don't get me wrong, the support is a good thing for sure, but let's remember that these people are mostly fans of "Shorty G," and they're protecting him more so than they are short men as a whole. Kevin Hart was hailed as the savior of all short men because he's rich and famous, but if you'll notice, heightism hasn't gotten any less severe all throughout Hart's fame, which doesn't surprise any of us here because Hart is as Garmin as can be, but regardless, his fortune, fame, and support have done nothing to diminish heightism. Jose Altuve continues to be one of the greatest players in baseball, yet, heightism hasn't improved since he has been in the limelight. In this WWE instance, at a bare minimum, like you said, at-least people are speaking-out against this wrestler being height-shamed, so that's a very good thing, but it's too bad that their support for short men ends with a 5'8 wrestler and doesn't extend to everyday short men who are much shorter. On the rare occasion when people support short men in circumstances like this, their support is extremely limited in that it only extends to that specific situation. We'll certainly take any support we can get though, and if it ever becomes commonplace to defend short celebrities against height-shaming, we might be able to make some progress. This is a good first step, but this momentum needs to be immediately intensified or this circumstance will just disappear, the support will go dormant, and business as usual will return.

You're exactly right in pointing-out the "5'8 isn't even that short" stipulation many are using to defend him. If they cared about heightism, they'd say something like "Wow, if a 5'8 guy is getting that much heat, imagine how bad this is for guys who are even shorter." None of the comments indicate any concern about short men as a group; They merely are presented in defense of the 5'8 guy in question. For these reasons, it's evident that the support starts and ends with Shorty G, while other short men who are wrestling fans are not granted consideration, nor, is anyone concerned that kids will mimic the short-bashing they see, nor, is anyone concerned that short boys will absorb and internalize the heightism that they see applauded in the WWE. There are people who are calling this out in the sense of generalized bullying, but none of them are articulating a desire to give short men consideration in society. When they paint all bullying with the same brush, they don't have to accept the fact that short men are granted a whipping boy status that remains unaddressed wholesale, and the other thing they accomplish by rubber-stamping all bullying as the same is they don't have to throw any heat toward tall men or women, who are either the beneficiaries and/or the main perpetrators when it comes to heightism against short men. Anytime you want to deny some consideration to a group, you just boil all of the nuance out of their situation so that you can lump them in with other issues, which serves to only give them half-assed "addressed by association" justice in society.

Wow! Those are really outstanding points, thus, a lot of the backlash is just self-preservation. This whole "He's not even that short" thing is just a way to send the hatred on down the line to the objectively short guys who they see as "deserving" of this level of condescension and mockery.