I wish I was a little bit taller
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#22At 5'9 Im comfortable with my average height. Sure, had I been taller Id probably be perceived differently but these are things that cannot be changed (till now). Since I'm comfortable with my height I rarely think about this but I'm sure shorter guys may have it more on their mind than I do. Im genuinely curious though, with extending the length of the femur, wouldn't that make the body change proportions? Aren't taller folks consisting of larger/longer bones overall? How would that affect center of mass and balance?
I found that confidence can overcome a few inches in height and good communication skills can overcome the advantage taller people have, well, except for dating stuff...
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#23> According to a 2009 study of Australian men, short guys make less money than their taller peers (about $500 a year per inch); are less likely to climb the corporate ladder (according to one survey, the average height of a male Fortune 500 CEO is six feet); and, for the cis and straight among us, have fewer romantic opportunities with women (a 2013 study conducted in the Netherlands found that women were taller than…
But they have less cells that could become cancerous?
This. Short people live longer.
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#24"I wish was a baller, I wish I had a girl, if I did I would call her". Sorry first thing that came into mind when reading the title.
You're not the only one.
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#25> According to a 2009 study of Australian men, short guys make less money than their taller peers (about $500 a year per inch); are less likely to climb the corporate ladder (according to one survey, the average height of a male Fortune 500 CEO is six feet); and, for the cis and straight among us, have fewer romantic opportunities with women (a 2013 study conducted in the Netherlands found that women were taller than…
>Short guys aren’t so much discriminated against as they are precluded from stuff: like dating certain taller people, or making your frosh-soph basketball team.
Another one in the hall of "writers who don't read their own articles," this was the sentence preceding the one about the wage gap.
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#26When i was in elementary school, a classmate had something wrong with the growth plates in his femur, and the solution at the time was to basically do this surgery but at 2mm a week. He spent all of third grade with pins in his left leg and a permanently semi-healing femur that would get cracked open a bit further and a bit further...
he missed a LOT of school, because he basically couldn't function for 48 hours after the next increment was done.
The alternative was that his left leg would be 8" shorter than his right, so it was probably the right thing to do, but good lord it's not without cost.
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#27"I wish was a baller, I wish I had a girl, if I did I would call her". Sorry first thing that came into mind when reading the title.
That's most likely the intent of the headline, pop references are normal.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not sure where you live, but it’s called LT in my region.
I'm ideally a medium tall (MT) but that size is a unicorn (doesn't exist). LT sometimes doesn't look too baggy but they're so rare I don't even bother searching for them in most clothes stores. When a store has a big and tall section it's literally big AND tall, not normal and tall. If you are 2m (6'7") tall you better weigh 300lbs if you want a shirt that fits.
Is it such a surprise that customization is required to accommodate three standard deviations? People of that height aren't comfortable in every automobile, either.
If you're really fishing for tall sympathy on this thread, of all possible threads, you might want to avoid the word "normal"...
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#29They could give teens growth hormone instead. I guess now that late adolescent gender transitions are becoming accepted, and since they already give growth hormone to little people, that's the next step.
Re: I wish I was a little bit taller
#30At 5'9 Im comfortable with my average height. Sure, had I been taller Id probably be perceived differently but these are things that cannot be changed (till now). Since I'm comfortable with my height I rarely think about this but I'm sure shorter guys may have it more on their mind than I do. Im genuinely curious though, with extending the length of the femur, wouldn't that make the body change proportions? Aren't ta…
A lot of those statistics about men being the taller ones in most pairings come from the fact that men are taller than women on average.