Heightism Ignored When Child With Dwarfism Bullied
Feb 20, 2020 21:14:41 GMT
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Post by Heightism Report on Feb 20, 2020 21:14:41 GMT
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This story is making the rounds, and all of the feedback has been in-favor of the child, but all of the commentary focuses on the child's disability and refuses to acknowledge that heightism was an integral cause. The bullying incident discussed in the article are height-related, but still, people don't want to discuss heightism.
"Bayles told SBS that she arrived at school to find female students "patting him on the head like a puppy" and making comments about his height.
"She was patting him on the head like a little puppy. My daughter and I looked at each other and we made signals to him to ask if you are right, and he was like 'no' and he was looking at me horrified, like 'don't make a scene mum,'"
The thing is, even if this child was not living with Achondroplasia, he'd still be receiving the same treatment. However, since people take bullying disabled people seriously and they celebrate heightism, everyone is freed from the responsibility of having to reconsider their prejudiced beliefs about short people. This is just par for the course for us. Every time heightism blatantly happens, there will always be a relative privation argument that derails any chance we have of considering the related heightism. When short kids who don't have dwarfism are bullied, we're not allowed to discuss heightism because the incident gets grouped-in with "all bullying." They throw it into a pile of generalities so we can't specifically address the related heightism. In this case, the heightism in the related bullying was explicitly stated, yet, we're not supposed to discuss that element of the bullying because this child also has a disability. There's zero chance that this child would escape bullying if he was the same height and didn't have a disability, so it's the pinnacle of denial to pretend as though height is not a factor in the treatment this child receives.
Also, I try to keep my personal business out of my posts these days, but the way I discovered this article offers too much relevance in this case. The way I discovered this article is a high school classmate posted it on social media. This particular classmate has a child with Down Syndrome, thus, we can see why she is interested in this story. However, I know for a fact that she has only dated tall Chads in her day. Once again, personal preference in dating is not always equivalent to heightism, but knowing what we know about most women's preferences, the women who chase tall Prince Charmings almost always hold negative sentiments toward short women, and knowing what I know about this particular woman, I'd have to say that she doesn't buck this trend in the least. I don't recall if she ever made outwardly heightist remarks, but I recall vividly how she used to borderline worship tall men who would make the most mundane comments that had zero merit whatsoever. You just simply do not reward one group with that amount of unearned adoration while not degrading the group on the other end of the spectrum.
To add to this already twisted tale, in the comment section of that social media post was another high school classmate who was showing support for the "little dude." Let's discuss his resume for a moment. This particular tall was once in a bar when a tall stranger started mocking my height, and when I snapped back on him, both he(my high school classmate) and his tall roommate took the stranger's side instead of having my back. That of course ended my personal association with those two, but that's the way it happened. In addition, several years ago, I was in a conversation with this same tall, and he accused a mutual classmate of ours as having a "Napoleon Complex." He said this in a private conversation that just involved the two of us. It's always telling when people can't hold their heightism against one particular short man back when speaking to another short man. These days, this guy always posts self-praise about his art on every social media site in existence, even though he doesn't even create any new art, he just merely recycles his old stuff to try to get attention for it. This is the guy who accuses short men of having a complex, yet, I guess he thinks his own behavior is a-ok. With that being said, I'm not buying his support of the "little dude" who is the subject of this post when I have direct evidence proving that he would be the first in-line to bully the short kid in question.
Neither he, nor the woman I mentioned have any ground to stand-on when it comes to presenting themselves as wokletons when it comes to bullying incidents. This isn't some thing where I can only be 90% sure that these two are hypocrites, especially in the case of the guy I'm talking about; Because in this case, I have smoking gun proof.
This story is making the rounds, and all of the feedback has been in-favor of the child, but all of the commentary focuses on the child's disability and refuses to acknowledge that heightism was an integral cause. The bullying incident discussed in the article are height-related, but still, people don't want to discuss heightism.
"Bayles told SBS that she arrived at school to find female students "patting him on the head like a puppy" and making comments about his height.
"She was patting him on the head like a little puppy. My daughter and I looked at each other and we made signals to him to ask if you are right, and he was like 'no' and he was looking at me horrified, like 'don't make a scene mum,'"
The thing is, even if this child was not living with Achondroplasia, he'd still be receiving the same treatment. However, since people take bullying disabled people seriously and they celebrate heightism, everyone is freed from the responsibility of having to reconsider their prejudiced beliefs about short people. This is just par for the course for us. Every time heightism blatantly happens, there will always be a relative privation argument that derails any chance we have of considering the related heightism. When short kids who don't have dwarfism are bullied, we're not allowed to discuss heightism because the incident gets grouped-in with "all bullying." They throw it into a pile of generalities so we can't specifically address the related heightism. In this case, the heightism in the related bullying was explicitly stated, yet, we're not supposed to discuss that element of the bullying because this child also has a disability. There's zero chance that this child would escape bullying if he was the same height and didn't have a disability, so it's the pinnacle of denial to pretend as though height is not a factor in the treatment this child receives.
Also, I try to keep my personal business out of my posts these days, but the way I discovered this article offers too much relevance in this case. The way I discovered this article is a high school classmate posted it on social media. This particular classmate has a child with Down Syndrome, thus, we can see why she is interested in this story. However, I know for a fact that she has only dated tall Chads in her day. Once again, personal preference in dating is not always equivalent to heightism, but knowing what we know about most women's preferences, the women who chase tall Prince Charmings almost always hold negative sentiments toward short women, and knowing what I know about this particular woman, I'd have to say that she doesn't buck this trend in the least. I don't recall if she ever made outwardly heightist remarks, but I recall vividly how she used to borderline worship tall men who would make the most mundane comments that had zero merit whatsoever. You just simply do not reward one group with that amount of unearned adoration while not degrading the group on the other end of the spectrum.
To add to this already twisted tale, in the comment section of that social media post was another high school classmate who was showing support for the "little dude." Let's discuss his resume for a moment. This particular tall was once in a bar when a tall stranger started mocking my height, and when I snapped back on him, both he(my high school classmate) and his tall roommate took the stranger's side instead of having my back. That of course ended my personal association with those two, but that's the way it happened. In addition, several years ago, I was in a conversation with this same tall, and he accused a mutual classmate of ours as having a "Napoleon Complex." He said this in a private conversation that just involved the two of us. It's always telling when people can't hold their heightism against one particular short man back when speaking to another short man. These days, this guy always posts self-praise about his art on every social media site in existence, even though he doesn't even create any new art, he just merely recycles his old stuff to try to get attention for it. This is the guy who accuses short men of having a complex, yet, I guess he thinks his own behavior is a-ok. With that being said, I'm not buying his support of the "little dude" who is the subject of this post when I have direct evidence proving that he would be the first in-line to bully the short kid in question.
Neither he, nor the woman I mentioned have any ground to stand-on when it comes to presenting themselves as wokletons when it comes to bullying incidents. This isn't some thing where I can only be 90% sure that these two are hypocrites, especially in the case of the guy I'm talking about; Because in this case, I have smoking gun proof.
