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Post by Luro2020 on Apr 18, 2017 20:43:14 GMT
Like Ive said I'm 5'9, i was at a carnival,I was intimidated by a ride and the operator said "you alright little man?", he was 6'1 ish 300 pounds,was it a heightist crack or do people call you "big man", I can't pinpoint, was it a covert heightist remark? I said something to the other operator said "it was just a joke bro",same bs short men deal with. Is it getting this bad that at a totally average height men get called short?
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Post by Luro2020 on Apr 18, 2017 21:04:01 GMT
This could show the worsening of heightism.
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Post by luro2020 on Apr 18, 2017 23:28:35 GMT
No he was african american descent, and like 300 pounds. Usually it's big black guys that call you little man at carnival but still, this is unsolicited heightism, looking at r/short now, I really see no hope, garmingetton.
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Post by luro2020 on Apr 19, 2017 2:34:45 GMT
I mentioned his race because tattoos and shaved heads both are associated with caucasians, and alot of african american males will say "little man". No, he didn't have either.
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Post by luro2020 on Apr 19, 2017 2:38:05 GMT
The point i was trying to make is it would be easier to describe him if I used race, since we need to give a face to heightists.
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Post by Heightism Report on Apr 19, 2017 12:20:15 GMT
What he said was certainly heightist, condescending, and disrespectful. There is no context to use "little man" as a compliment. He was basking in his own supposed superiority by "doing you the favor" of making sure you didn't need his guidance. People see us as incompetent, helpless fools who can't stand on our own two feet, and when they offer this type of "help," they're doing so in the same way a parent would roll their eyes at a child who is old enough to put his shoes on by himself but keeps putting them on the wrong feet.
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Post by Luro2020 on Apr 19, 2017 15:37:17 GMT
While I totally understand that, he had been operating rides all day and kids are called little man at carnivals, it could have been a force of habit slip forgetting who was standing in front of him, but it's highly unlikely
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Post by Luro2020 on Apr 19, 2017 15:42:10 GMT
This is one reason r/short is lost,they love to label average guys as more height obsessed and insecure than short men and mike5f4 is really guilty, when plenty of average guys experience less heightism,the infighting is ridiculous, heightismreport,why do you think short guys love to pick on average men because I'm sick and tired of "lol average guys are so insecure and short people are great confidence"?
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Post by Luro2020 on Apr 19, 2017 15:44:10 GMT
Heightism to a lesser extent, especially if they are clearly below 6 feet like 5'9-5'10 from that experience I had
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Post by Heightism Report on Apr 19, 2017 16:50:44 GMT
This is one reason r/short is lost,they love to label average guys as more height obsessed and insecure than short men and mike5f4 is really guilty, when plenty of average guys experience less heightism,the infighting is ridiculous, heightismreport,why do you think short guys love to pick on average men because I'm sick and tired of "lol average guys are so insecure and short people are great confidence"? One reason they waste so much time worrying about average-height guys is because they fall for every distraction that they encounter because they subconsciously don't want to cause trouble(Garminism) and they are absolutely terrified at the thought of people perceiving them in a negative light. Challenging average-height guys gives them an outlet to keep the focus off-of heightism, which keeps them safe from being punished for speaking-out against the people who are actually the issue. -They don't want to challenge heightists because they fear they'll be labeled with a complex, so they opt to act like "one of the good ones"(Garminism) and are distracted by policing those who do fight heightism -They won't challenge women because they fear that they'll be labeled sexist, and they think that white knighting will help them, so they get distracted by worrying more about "being welcoming to women" than they do about getting the facts out Basically, no matter their age is, they are a bunch of socially-immature, terrified, beaten-down cowards and look for something to fight against so they can feel like they're being macho and so that they can take the focus off-of the real issue. They absolutely refuse to challenge tall men who despise short men or women because they fear them and don't want to make them unhappy. Since they don't have the cajones to challenge the people who are the problem, they're focusing on average-height guys who they perceive as weak and are using them as a prop to make themselves feel better about the fact that they do absolutely nothing to combat the onslaught of hatred and dismissal they receive as the result of heightism. They don't have to fear average-height guys as much as they do tall men because they don't have to worry about them rallying-together like tallers automatically do, and they don't fear average-heighters as much as they do tall men in general so they are more comfortable in challenging them. This is the same reason they will challenge those of us who fight heightism and won't challenge heightists. Essentially, they do idiotic nonsense like challenge average height guys and anti-heightism folks because of fear, cowardice, and to fight-off having to feel like they are total door mats. It's really pathetic. |
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