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When Size Doesn't Matter In MMA (Unexpected Knockouts)
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1 | 938 | by TheDestroyer |
Started by Suarez223
Does Height Matter? Asking Twitch Girls
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0 | 984 | by Suarez223 |
It's always the undesirable women who have the most requirements
"I am a big girl who is currently working on that. There is so much for you to find out. If I am interested I will hit you up. Please be atleast 5'8 and taller. I have to be really drawn to you for me to look past your height if your 5'7. Also be between the ages of 33 and 38.
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Anyone here prefer taller women or women taller than themselves?
Anyone here prefer dating women taller than themselves? I don't mean taller with heels on, but taller in general? Anyone successfully date women who are taller? I'm new here by the way. I registered to ask this question. |
1 | 857 | by ShortyDooWop |
Started by admin12
Heightism Related Resources
This is just a list of resources for those who want to learn a bit more about height related bias: Support For The Short (Active) - http://www.supportfortheshort.org/ The Social Complex (Abandoned) - http://thesocialcomplex.tumblr.com/ Heightism Report (Twitter Feed) - https://twitter.com/heightismreport?lang=en This list will be updated pending submissions. We may turn this into an article at some point in the future. |
0 | 1,218 | by admin12 |
Why this 6'3 Asian girl never dated a short guy
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0 | 870 | by McGruff91 |
Started by joshbaskins
She told everyone under 5'10 to leave
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0 | 1,221 | by joshbaskins |
5'3 UFC Champion Demetrious Johnson and his wife
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0 | 1,374 | by ShortyDooWop |
Started by tumD
Heightist SNL Skit
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0 | 848 | by tumD |
Started by TheDestroyer
Terrance Ruffin, 5'5 Bodybuilder
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0 | 808 | by TheDestroyer |
Have there been any advances in Leg Lengthening or Stem Cell Therapy?
I'm asking this out of curiosity. I used to follow the diaries of Leg Lengthening patients on a forum called "Make Me Taller". Some of these patients have now had their surgeries 15 years ago before it had entered mainstream consciousness. While LL isn't considered a socially acceptable surgery, enough of these operations are going on worldwide including here in the U.S. and some high profile magazines and news shows have done stories on it. There also used to be a blog called "Natural Height Growth" that tracked advances in post-puberty growth research but it has since been disbanded. Now that Leg Lengthening is almost 20 years old as an "acceptable" surgery (I know it started in the 50s) and there is so much competition, why hasn't the price come down and why have there been no ground breaking innovations as of late? |
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Measure Of A Man (1988 Chicago Tribune Article)
Measure Of A Man
Original Article Here - http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1988-11-06/features/8802130273_1_short-men-tall-shrimp
``He`s terrific,`` I said to my single friend, Carol. ``He`s attractive, sexy, smart, honest-and an achiever.`` She put her glass of chardonnay on the coffee table. ``That`s some combination.`` ``He`s tender,`` I continued, ``compassionate.`` She leaned forward. ``Sound like a dream.` ``He owns a condominum and drives a little black BMW.`` She hopped to her feet. ``Go on! Go on!`` ``He knows how to uncork wine. He even cooks: shrimp remoulade, kinugoshi.`` Her eyes were ready to pop out. ``How tall is he?`` ``I don`t know. What difference does that make?`` ``He`s short, isn`t he?`` ``Who cares?`` I felt my voice rising. ``He has a terrific sense of humor. He`s what you`ve said you always wanted.`` She picked up her glass. ``He`s a shrimp, isn`t he?`` It seems slightly absurd, but the question, ``How tall is he?``, is almost always one of the first questions a woman asks about a man she hasn`t met yet. How honest, smart, compassionate don`t come close. A man can spawn a world-class orchestra, oversee a 200-room luxury hotel, think numbers like an IBM computer. But the answer to ``How tall is he?`` will be the deciding factor in whether she wants to meet him. It would be tempting to chalk all this up to women`s historic desire to be protected. But now the topic of height seems to be cropping up everywhere. Should Dukakis stand next to Bentsen? Should he sit down, stroll around? And there`s more. One tall man I know insists that for every inch under 5 feet 10 inches a man loses $5,000 a year: ``He can have everything else going for him, but if he`s, uh, short, fame and fortune will usually be out of reach.`` It sounded like the old blemish game to me, the one that goes ``She`s so sweet, devoted to her mother, captain of the volley ball team, but she`s a little, uh, chunky.`` In real life women are as apt to fall in love with and marry short men as tall. In real life, some women prefer short men. Marjorie, promiscuous in her salad days, swears that they alone focused their complete amatory attentions on her: ``Tall men are so sure of themselves, so high and remote. No matter what dumb things they say their words come from a higher order. Short men make much better lovers. Sure, some are cocksure, but for the most part they try harder and do better.`` It`s very human to want to be physically attractive, no matter how that attraction is perceived. In my early teens all sex scenes were censored, so instead of showing cleavage the female stars wore iron-fortified bras that kept the breasts pointing toward heaven even when the women were on their backs. My friends and I, thinking we were anatomically deprived, swore we`d never make love lying down, even on our wedding night.
This idea that tallness equals superiority seems just as nutty. And the stakes are so much higher. Sure, tall men are better at playing basketball and removing cobwebs from ceilings. But does any reasonable person really believe that height has anything to do with intelligence, competence or the ability to make love or sign treaties? Does anyone know or care how tall Einstein or Beethoven or Pasternak was? If logic prevailed, the answers would be a flat no. So who is perpetuating this myth? Deciding to do my own research I tucked measuring tape and notepad into my purse and headed to a cocktail party. There was no hesitation. All the men were happy to tell me their measurements right down to a tenth of an inch. But when I whipped out the tape my sense of the ridiculous hit a banner high. Not only short men but also tall men had added, on the average, 1/2-inch to their height. So it`s true. Men truly believe that every additional inch will get them more money, more beautiful women, happier times. And for the most part the women concur. Only one person struck a different note: ``Remember,`` said a 6-foot, 4-incher, ``when people equate being tall with being better, their expectations are very high. You try to meet those expectations, and of course you can`t, so everyone ends up disappointed. In the long run I think it would be easier to be short.`` Which brings me back to Carol. Despite her wariness she finally agreed to meet the humorous, successful, smart, short man I had described. She expected nothing to come of it, and her first thought on seeing him was, ``If I married this man I`d be wearing flats and searching for nickels the rest of my life.`` But first impressions are fleeting. On their second date she stopped seeing the outside of the package and started seeing the inside. On the third she decided it was true: This gentle, whimsical, attractive man was everything she`d been looking for. Today they are as close as two people can possibly be who are still housed in separate bodies. Maybe someday small and compact will be the ideal. After all, computers, designed for state-of-the-art efficiency, have gone from big to small in a blink. We have micro- this and mini- that, with not less but more intelligence stored on smaller chips than ever before. Maybe as the planet ages and the food chain weakens and the air becomes thick with pollutants, people who eat less, who take up less space, who breathe less air will be the most valued. Maybe small will be beautiful. |
0 | 866 | by ant675 |
Started by stumpyBump
I'm short "but"...
Why is it that when short people describe themselves, usually some kind of talent they have, then tend to follow that positive with a "but"... I don't personally do this, but many do. "I'm short BUT I am an amazing piano player" "I'm short, BUT I can dunk and am crazy on the basketball court" "I'm short, BUT I do fine with women" This implies that short is a negative, but moreso, that the person in question has internalized the idea that short = inferior. I get it when someone refers to me as "the short guy who dresses fresh", however in that case, they are describing me the way the remember me because my height stands out. In that case, it's not negative. You don't need to "apologize" for being short nor do you need to perpetuate the idea that short = inferior.
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0 | 1,063 | by stumpyBump |
Chuck Todd, The Most Powerful Journalist In The US Is 5'2
From Meet The Press. Chuck Todd is Just 5'2
He is also happily married.
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Started by heraculas
Growth Hormones?
im new to all this. |
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Tall People Read Short Stories (Height Discrimination) WATCH THIS
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0 | 1,020 | by joshbaskins |