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Limb lengthening surgery is becoming more popular

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Re: Limb lengthening surgery is becoming more popular

#11

Goliath the Philistine was six cubits and a span. The internet tells me that 6'0" is the manlet cutoff. He should have either embraced his original height, or asked for a discount since the doctor was two inches short of the mark.

I'd imagine one can only lengthen their limbs so much before they end up looking like a Japanese spider crab.

Re: Limb lengthening surgery is becoming more popular

#12

Goliath the Philistine was six cubits and a span. The internet tells me that 6'0" is the manlet cutoff. He should have either embraced his original height, or asked for a discount since the doctor was two inches short of the mark.

I'd imagine one can only lengthen their limbs so much before they end up looking like a Japanese spider crab.

Japanese spider crab is aesthetic compared to many of the abominations coming out of elective surgery these days.

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#14

Do you think remote first companies will be at an advantage because physical biases like height, age, and weight have less signal to form against?

Maybe, but many remote-first companies eventually hold in-person events. I recently met the folks on my all-remote team for the first time, and it was a little jarring to see the differences between expectation and reality.

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#15
This could be helpful to people who wants to enter some kind of jobs who need more height (like being a police agent in some European countries), but I find a huge thing for other reasons.

For what it means to dating, I think the requirement to be at least 6 feet tall for US women would disappear due to statistics (the mean male height in the USA is 5'9"). Heck, some guys who are 5'7" or 5'9" says to those women they are 6 feet and they believe it; It's more a psychological thing than a real preference as a have seen.

Re: Limb lengthening surgery is becoming more popular

#16

Do you think remote first companies will be at an advantage because physical biases like height, age, and weight have less signal to form against?

Maybe, but many remote-first companies eventually hold in-person events. I recently met the folks on my all-remote team for the first time, and it was a little jarring to see the differences between expectation and reality.

I would also argue height advantages do not really factor in until one reaches leadership positions. At that point the job probably dictates being in person at least part time.

Re: Limb lengthening surgery is becoming more popular

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe, but many remote-first companies eventually hold in-person events. I recently met the folks on my all-remote team for the first time, and it was a little jarring to see the differences between expectation and reality.

I would also argue height advantages do not really factor in until one reaches leadership positions. At that point the job probably dictates being in person at least part time.

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Re: Limb lengthening surgery is becoming more popular

#18
That's incredibly sad, the comparison to boob and nose jobs is apt. It's a symptom of a sick society when people are so insecure about their bodies they feel they have to undergo unnecessary surgery to fit in.

My cousin had this procedure done almost 30 years ago, but she was pathologically small, at a height which makes it hard to function.

Re: Limb lengthening surgery is becoming more popular

#20
I find these subtle, yet extremely intense neuroses we see so often in Western cultures fascinating. The patient remarks on one TikTok video in particular that seemingly tormented him. I had never once thought a few inches height difference in a couple was odd or even worth remarking upon and yet there seems to be this vast, largely untapped sensitivity in men being short. Similar things for sexual activity (incels) and breast size (breast augmentations are by far the top cosmetic surgery). They all seem to be little things people joke about sometimes but which have disproportionately negative effects on the butt of the jokes' psyches. I wonder if this is unique to Western/materialistic cultures or more widespread. Whichever, I am sure the scale of social media makes these neuroses worse.
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