This is such a short guy thing to post.
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I don't understand the need for hating on short men and body shaming. We should come together to hate on men for their character.
I'm 165cm (5'4")
Everything I say is a short guy thing to say
I can't believe so many men are insecure about being me. I'm me and it's pretty damn cool. The feeling of fresh grass on my chin in the spring... the cover of mushrooms when it rains... the company of leprechauns... I see only pros and no cons
Ya but I bet you've never felt the abrupt bliss of donking your head on a doorframe.
That dude doesn't even know the pleasure of having his knees jammed into the seat in front of him on a plane.
He's never seen the top shelf either
I'm 5'3 and I've seen plenty of top shelves. I just have to climb shit to do it.
Does it count if you're running into a vehicle side mirror instead of a doorframe?
I’m 6’3 and tall to most people, but fit under most doors just fine.
Basement stairs can fuck right off though I’ve done that lotsa times and it managed to be a surprising painful thing every time.
Also I think I’d laugh if someone said and if the short guy things to me, I get called things like string bean and “big guy” by bros who don’t know me.
have you ever been to europe?
Lol. But here, have some actually great benefits I wish I had:
- The bed is long enough (u don't need a custom made)
- cars are great (u don't need to imitate a giraffe to half-assed see the world outside, or take the seat out)
- you can kiss a woman while... Errr..you know. (Not trying to pull her nose out of your bellybutton first)
- clothes actually are your size (you dont need 12xl shirts, just so the arms fit but you can also go camping with your tent)
- airplanes are cheap (u dont have to buy 1st class just to not fold yourself in the middle)
- doors are OK (u dont need to duck. Which u learned through pain)
But there are also benefits...like having a better oversight over crowds and. Err....yes.
Here's more benefits:
- you can wiggle your feet in the air when sitting on a chair
- adjusting car seat is always easy; just pull it all the way to front
- you can eat her ass while standing
- you can have a nap even on two person couch
- you don't have to buy a huge pickup even if your dick is small
- you can work in the mines and have innate knowledge about metallurgy and smithing
Wait, what was the topic again?
I lold at the last one 😁
But seriously...beside the silly "men shall be tall" (why even? To protect others from lions?) There aren't many benefits to being taller than average.
And my largest downside: I'd love a woman that's taller than me. But there aren't many...
Seriously the biggest benefit is that I always fit in places and never feel cramped
Oh yes...in some buildings, where the ceiling is very close to my head, I feel very cramped and hate it. Had to move through cellars where I had to basically crouch. Ugh.
Actually I just remembered one minus: tall people are used to not bumping their head on low things. Once I was visiting a museum where they have an old house with really low door ways, low even for me and I was constantly knocking my head because I am not used to having to crouch.
Another benefit is slightly longer lifespan as the heart doesn't need to work as hard for blood to travel as much distance.
You missed the "everyone thinks you are there just to reach things for them". Women in particular seem to feel entitled to my reach. The few men that ask are either walking with a cane or sitting in a wheelchair.
Even my Wife, 5"4"/163cm has no problem interrupting me from whatever I'm doing to reach things for her. Despite having 3 step stools in the house just for her.
But if it gets to be too much of a hassle and pisses me off, I start asking her to pick things up off the floor for me because she's closer to it. She then has a fit because I'm making fun of her height, and then she stops asking me-- for a while.
Oh yes...if I'm alone noone ever talks to me (resting bitch-face-syndrome), but when I'm shopping with wifey, I get asked at least once per trip to fetch shit off a shelf.
But also yes, exclusively women or handicapped men. A "normal" guy would probably rather die than ask another guy for help.
Wifey rarely asks though, she actually prefers a step-stool or whatever before asking for help.
You learn to cope or you get mad. I'm glad you coped with being Frodo's brother.
I don’t think a lot of men are insecure about 5’4. I think it’s more the 5’7 to 5’11 guys that are insecure. Better to be abnormally short than average.
This kinda reads as a list of things an obviously butthurt person would say
A chunk of them would just be pretty hilarious to say to me as an obviously big guy
Yeah I'm 6'5 the short memes would be actually funny.
Sorry about the back pain.
Enjoy the aeroplane seats.
Took me a while to understand that it wasn't a conversation between a woman and a man.
I just don't understand why men don't do fun things with their beards like the 1800s
like c'mon you're telling me you DONT want to shave it into giant kitty whiskers?!?! BOOOORING :/
like look at this photo and tell me that this isn't an unexplored art form

Heart shapes at the very least!
Reads like what someone thought would rage bait someone else
Relax, it's not that deep.
I'm so glad I'm not short. Short guys just get shit on so much. Been at parties where someone just out of nowhere says "You'd be hot if you wasn't short". Like imagine that for anything else "you'd be hot if you wasn't black". "You'd be hot if you wasn't in a wheelchair" just getting shit on for genetics.
Same girls also cry murder if somebody says something about a fat girl, which is in their control.
Uh-oh! Is that gendered double-standarts? Nah, must have been the wind.
This has got to be a weird american thing i s2g i have never ever in my damned near 50 years heard that shit.
Yeah, my idea of being a 'man' includes the part where you wingman for your shorter buddies.
(in the context of 'everyone is single and out to mingle')
Some chick (or dude, or w/e if your bro is amenable) comes on to you at a bar?
Chat them up a bit, introduce them to your unironically very cool and awesome shorter friend, tell them a story about the one time bro made you look like an idiot, then metaphorically hand the mic over to him, etc.
Call it anti-chad type bro behvaior, I dunno.
Like, to me, thats what 'Bros before Hoes' means.
It means you don't personally scour the field yourself, there has to be some sense of equity.
Don't make the problem worse, instead, try to be part of the solution.
For the shorties out there.
Own yourself, short king, and people will be drawn to you like magic. It’s not confidence, it’s loving and accepting yourself. That’s all. Self-love creates a gravity for more love.
Anyone so shallow that they would judge you by your height is someone you don’t want be involved with. As soon as you get to know someone, their appearance ceases to matter and all that is left is the human being underneath. Consider those situations bullets dodged.
As a short dude myself I wish this were true. I’m confident and have accepted my fate. Yet even when I thought we were grooving and clearly compatible I’d still get hit with “sorry you’re not tall enough,” even when she was like 5’0. I don’t know how the hell I got lucky to get my wife, but she’s clearly the exception not the norm.
I mean yea.
But we need to accept life is harder for short guys. If you just want to get laid, harder. If you want a promotion, harder. If you want to be treated nicer, harder.
All those things you said help and are good. But not not pretend hightism doesn't exist.
I don't care about being short. The hypocrisy pisses me off. At least you can do something about being fat.
Cool. What life style changes should I make to get taller?
'There is a form of socially acceptable discrimination against a subset of people based around a fundamental intrinsic element of those people that they are totally incapable of changing.'
'Chin up, be strong, don't let the bastards get you down!'
Oh so ... not a situation where we maybe need or could benefit from a serious society-wide discussion of this problem, the solution to this form of bigotry is uh... its a personal responsibility.
Got it.
@sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com honey, I thought better of you than that. 🥺
Maybe you could think about what I say, then.
I understood it and agree with the societal premise underneath. However, you put words in my mouth that I did not say or imply. As someone who claims to also be autistic, I expected better from you. I would encourage you to read what I said again, and think about what I did say rather than an imaginary thing I did not say.
Oh I'm doing this thing called paraphrasing, to illustrate how what you're saying sounds to people who are not you and may not think the same way as you do.
Had I intended to actually quote you, I would have used
actual quote formatting.
Do you agree or disagree that shaming of shorter men is a socially acceptable form of bigotry?
Can you see how you proposing an individualistic solution to that, where you likely would propose a social solution to other social problems... is something of a double standard?
(As an example, men openly shaming/insulting overweight women)
Finally: My paraphrasing of what you said is in fact accurate. You suggested that the solution to this problem is for men to just be confident in knowing that bigots are bad people.
Cool, but that doesn't stop the bigotry.
If I talk about how great guacamole is, I am not talking shit about poutine, I am talking about how great guacamole is.
For now I will assume you are having a bad day and that is why you are attacking internet strangers over imaginary arguments. Whatever you are going through, I hope your day gets better.

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