I have never been discriminated or bullied because of my height. There, I said it. You have a close minded view of other people. You think the world revolves around and works the way you think it works for you. You will never accept if someone else doesn't have the same experience or motives as you. With that mindset, you will never accept other people's realities, and there is no opportunity to grow in your mindset. Thank you for telling me, the reason why I want to do this surgery, because you obviously know more about me than myself.
Don't get me wrong, height discrimination absolutely exists. And it may very well be the reason you or others do this operation. But don't be naive and put a blanket statement out like that, saying everyone does this surgery for one reason. You don't know me, I don't know you.
Quote from: ghkid2019 on August 17, 2020, 11:08:46 PMI have never been discriminated or bullied because of my height. There, I said it. You have a close minded view of other people. You think the world revolves around and works the way you think it works for you. You will never accept if someone else doesn't have the same experience or motives as you. With that mindset, you will never accept other people's realities, and there is no opportunity to grow in your mindset. Thank you for telling me, the reason why I want to do this surgery, because you obviously know more about me than myself.
Don't get me wrong, height discrimination absolutely exists. And it may very well be the reason you or others do this operation. But don't be naive and put a blanket statement out like that, saying everyone does this surgery for one reason. You don't know me, I don't know you.
Why are you so offended? Okay so then tell me why you don't like being short? I didn't say everyone wants LL because of height discrimination. I said it doesn't matter whether people want to do LL because they don't like being short or were bullied for their height because the root cause of it is the same. Shortness is a negative and unwanted trait. Height is on a linear scale so the lower you go the worse treatment you get and the more likely to get descriminated. If you're nearing on average then you're short but not short enough to stand out but hey if you didn't get bullied for your height then count yourself lucky. It's not because you are a stronger person. Descrimination doesn't just have to be bullying, it can be subtle and non-direct like not getting hired or promoted over taller people or people being dismissive to you, showing you less respect, harder to get dates etc. There's a reason why you don't like being short or shorter than everybody and whether it's bullying or not doesn't matter because being short is disadvantageous.
Quote from: carpetendro on August 18, 2020, 02:30:47 AMWhy are you so offended? Okay so then tell me why you don't like being short? I didn't say everyone wants LL because of height discrimination. I said it doesn't matter whether people want to do LL because they don't like being short or were bullied for their height because the root cause of it is the same. Shortness is a negative and unwanted trait. Height is on a linear scale so the lower you go the worse treatment you get and the more likely to get descriminated. If you're nearing on average then you're short but not short enough to stand out but hey if you didn't get bullied for your height then count yourself lucky. It's not because you are a stronger person. Descrimination doesn't just have to be bullying, it can be subtle and non-direct like not getting hired or promoted over taller people or people being dismissive to you, showing you less respect, harder to get dates etc. There's a reason why you don't like being short or shorter than everybody and whether it's bullying or not doesn't matter because being short is disadvantageous.
Did I say I was stronger? Did I say I was offended? I was just being very passionate and vocal, apologies.
I don't like being short because I feel ugly and uncomfortable in my own skin.
Take what I say with a grain of salt, I am young anyways.
1) workplace height discrimination is real, agreed. I'm sure if I entered the corporate world I would face heightism, don't plan to though.
2) conscious/subconsciously showing disrespect or less respect to short people is real, I do it as well, subconsciously and obviously I shouldn't. Agreed
3)dating preferences is not discrimination. It's a preference. Me not wanting to date a black person is not racism/discrimination. Me not wanting to date a down syndrome person is not disability discrimination. It's a preference. Women can date who the heck they want, a short date is just not some women's type. Not discrimination imo.
I do not feel discriminated at all, the worse was waiters underestimating my age because I was short. That's not discrimination, that's called being human. I have the height of someone younger than who I truly am. So it makes logical sense to assume I'm younger than I am. Being picked last for basketball games during school. That's not discrimination, that's logic. Height is important for victory in basketball, so it makes perfect sense, last thing I want is to be pitied for something irrelevant to the task at hand.
I simply want to do this surgery for 80% to be comfortable in my own skin. Not hate myself or feel ugly. Neurosis. Stop fixating on my height 23 hours in a day. And 20% for improved opposite sxx relations.
Height discrimination exists. I'm sure people look down on me and give less respect to me for being short. I know it will be harder for me to get a job or move up in ranks of I'm going into nepotistic careers (luckily I'm planning on doing something else). But these things are mostly trivial to me but they matter, but it definitely would not warrant or justify spending money and crippling myself to fix. I frankly will still be able to sleep well at night if these things happen to me, and I'll still have motivation in life.
Everything changes when you look at yourself in a dreadful way though.
Take everything I say with a grain of salt. I am young after all, and naive. I want to do this mostly for myself. Mostly.
Apologies for the angry post before as well.
HEIGHTISM IS A MYTH. WAKE THE FUK UP.
I guess I can post this here.
6ft+ Brendan Schaub Snob mocking short people who (wanna) do LL on Joe Rogan podcast.
At the beginning he talks about how tough life must be for someone who's 5'2/5'3.
Then they both wonder how crazy people who do LL must be, they have mental health issues + height dysphoria is a mental disorder.
-"Just get a skill, get funny" he says;
Contradicting himself (-"that's a tough life if you are that short", earlier).
Like the 6' guy won't have any skills or won't be funny, because it's super difficult to be funny if you're tall, and anyway, you'll make up for your crappy height with being funny and have a skill or two.
Short people go through this painful, expensive as hell, risky surgery hate their height. Hate it.
It's not only that women prefer tall men (which is generally true), we have a world filled with 'tall arrogant idiots' who have opinions on short people's issues/struggles with their height, criticize them, like in the video, and some even making fun of them.
Oh and by the way making fun of short people is alright, 'healthy' lazy fat arses who can't stop eating and get off their couch is not.
At least the guys in the comment section seem more reasonable and open minded.
Who cares about what a clown says?
After all he looks like so he can't give any advice about what a man should do to become attractive.
I absolutely "love" how guys who are all 6 feet and up tell shorter guys to "just do this" or "just do that." Yeah...when you're 6 foot and above you can do "this" or "that" and perhaps someone will take note. And getting this procedure done is certainly not solely to get women...but if you're 5'3" NO chick cares how funny you are or what "skill" you may have. Plain and simple. As a matter of fact, most women are offended that short men are even allowed to breathe the same air that they do.
When my wife and I were at a house viewing last year, the owner explained to us that the ceilings of the house were built extra high because of her husband’s height. Then she looked at us and said, “Given YOUR height, though, high ceilings are not really an advantage.”
(I’m 5’11”, and my wife is 5’6”.)
Quote from: NotSoBigBadBruin on September 17, 2020, 08:27:59 PMWhen my wife and I were at a house viewing last year, the owner explained to us that the ceilings of the house were built extra high because of her husband’s height. Then she looked at us and said, “Given YOUR height, though, high ceilings are not really an advantage.”
(I’m 5’11”, and my wife is 5’6”.)
Are u gonna get LL even tho ur married? What u gonna tell ur wife lol
Quote from: ghkid2019 on September 17, 2020, 09:32:34 PMAre u gonna get LL even tho ur married? What u gonna tell ur wife lol
I haven’t really decided yet. And yeah, my wife will definitely try to talk me out of it if I decide to do it. I guess it would make more sense for me (and my family) to simply move to a different part of the world where the average height is lower. As mentioned in another thread, I live in a city where only immigrants, like myself, seem to be < 6’1” (the official average male height is 184 cm). But again, I haven’t made up my mind yet.
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