Documentary Film: Short and Male (2008)

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crap man.This documentary itself is the biggest fking heightism for short adults.

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Thanks for posting this.  Can't believe I never knew about it before, especially since that's where I got LL.  It's kind of cool to see video of the old hospital.  That's all that's left of it, since it got torn down.

The Chinese patient they interviewed didn't have enough money for the surgery, but he got it done anyway.  I don't know if he told them up front or just couldn't pay the bill after, but he was working off his debt as an employee while I was there.  Maybe some people thought he looked good/western, but a Chinese girl patient there said he looked like he had chicken legs and t-rex arms from lengthening too much.

And the foreign patient they interviewed was none other than old forum Admin.

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I first heard of this when a classmate at the end of high school hung next to the chalk board a newspaper clip of the main guy with the quote "I'm short, horny and pissed!", then wrote on top of it "Kilokahn in 20 years."

Ended up watching it a year later.

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Quote from: KiloKAHN on November 09, 2020, 07:40:14 AMI first heard of this when a classmate at the end of high school hung next to the chalk board a newspaper clip of the main guy with the quote "I'm short, horny and pissed!", then wrote on top of it "Kilokahn in 20 years."

Ended up watching it a year later.

Wow, that's so mean. I'm assuming they used your real name. Did they know you were self-conscious?

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Some more information about Short and Male (at least what I know).

The first website about heightism was www.shortsupport.org (no longer operational). It was run until 2011 by Steven Goldsmith (5'2" , the middle guy in the elevator shot of the 3 NOSSA members here). shortsupport.org was a rather bland website, but became the first website to address heightism and be a helpful resource for shorter people. It did have a section on cosmetic leg lengthening with the external fixator, the decade (2000-2009) when CLL was relatively new. This CLL section drew a lot of interest and traffic, not just shorter people, but also taller adults, especially those in the below average to average range.

After shortsupport.org went down, Joe Mangano (5'4" guy in the documentary) started a new website: www.supportfortheshort.org . It was a more "in your face" and "unconventional" approach to fighting heightism. Joe is also opposed to CLL, so you won't find anything helpful on CLL there. The last time it was updated was in early 2020, so I'm not sure if it's still running anymore.

supportfortheshort.org has some information on the cast of Short and Male, mostly summarized in this webpage: www.supportfortheshort.org/nossa-files.html
NOSSA (National Organization for Short Statured Adults) was founded in 2005 and got some publicity from Short and Male, and may have exceeded 50 members at it's peak. But interest declined and by 2011 it was effectively dead, and officially dissolved in 2013. Joe Mangano sure has a grudge against the former president of NOSSA, Matt Campisi, as Joe exposes Matt's corrupt and criminal history. Also, Matt Campisi's real height is 5'5" (not 5'6" as stated in the film) - people lie about their height on dating sites and also on the media.

Short and Male also did produce a few somewhat popular catch phrases, like "I'm short, horny, and pissed" and "A short guy who's sensitive is in deep sh*t". Also, the guy who 'grew' from 4'11.5" to 5'2" with CLL in 2005 is Akash Shukla. He eventually married a 5'0" Indian woman in 2017 (see my post a few posts up for more details). I do feel one reason the NOSSA guys messed up was that they ignored the short women. There is a lot of interest among women fighting heightism, as women are 4 to 5 inches shorter on average than men. Short women may not experience dating discrimination as bad, but definitely face height discrimination in the job market more severely. It's also the best chance for short men to find a date with short women. But the NOSSA guys only focused on short men with a chauvinist attitude and literally excluded all short women.

I'm also curious what happened to the young child Graham who was getting HGH shots. He would be an adult by now, but I cannot find any information on him.

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I'm curious how Tom's doing nowadays.

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Quote from: The Dark Knight Rises on November 12, 2020, 04:34:43 AMI'm curious how Tom's doing nowadays.

If you search "tom rubin beverly hills" or something similar, Tom Rubin has his own law firm in Beverly Hills, CA. You can find his LinkedIn profile, which states he started his own law firm since January 2012. From 2014 to 2016, he wrote a self help book about overcoming failures, and did a comedy routine on it in Las Vegas, but the reviews on his Las Vegas comedy show were not good (search "tom rubin las vegas").

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Quote from: Stryder2021 on November 14, 2020, 06:40:51 PMIf you search "tom rubin beverly hills" or something similar, Tom Rubin has his own law firm in Beverly Hills, CA. You can find his LinkedIn profile, which states he started his own law firm since January 2012. From 2014 to 2016, he wrote a self help book about overcoming failures, and did a comedy routine on it in Las Vegas, but the reviews on his Las Vegas comedy show were not good (search "tom rubin las vegas").

Haha that's true



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