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Height: 5'4

Location: Glastonbury, United States

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Re: Why is racism acknowledged but heightism not?

Heightism is not OK - obviously.

But there is also not a history of widespread enslavement, lynching, murder, imprisonment, etc. based on height.

From a pure standpoint of fairness, heightism and racism are equally unfair. But the history racial violence is much, much, worse than the history of height-based violence. Any short kid beat up on the playground knows there's some, but it was never, as far as I know, any nation's stated purpose to eliminate or enslave short people.

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Topic: Why is racism acknowledged but heightism not?

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Re: Tall guy asks a bunch of women if they'd date a guy shorter

I'd love to see the same questions asked of single women 20 years older than these girls. All of a sudden, height is less important, and being a non-shitty human with a good job is more important.

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Re: Miserable vs Successful short men

I guess I am in camp B, but that does not mean I don't or haven't had many of the Camp A thoughts and feelings.

The problem is that Camp A is self-reinforcing. You might be a spectacularly artistic, creative, kind, athletic or intelligent person - a least a partial counterweight to being short. But if you cover those fine attributes in poisonous anger at the world nobody will ever see them.

I'm 5'4". I'm happily married for 20 years with 2 kids, at the top of my field professionally, a paid off house, money in the bank, etc. So it might just be that Camp B is self-reinforcing too. Lest you think I am some fluke, I have two college friends here in town of similar height, both similarly successful.

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Re: I was not meant to be short, doctors stole my height.

Try to get past blaming your mom.

I have had that feeling too sometimes, that I was not meant to go through the pain of being a short man. Also, when my mom was pregnant with me the prevailing medical advice at the time was to drink a glass of wine a day. So she did. I don't have fetal alcohol syndrome or anything like that, but later, when I became a doctor, I did find some research that says women who drank modestly while pregnant tend to have children with a shorter final height. And my brothers are 5'7" and 5'10" while I am the runt at 5'4".

So, blame the doctors, blame my mom - whatever, I can't change it. My mom is an incredible person who always put her family first and put me through college, and told me I could do anything I put my mind to. Am I going to forget about that because she did what she was told while pregnant? No.

Just keep swimming, Nemo.

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