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Re: I wish I was a little bit taller

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Post by whatshisface »

snake_plissken wrote: post #14

Straight out of GATTACA. I cringed pretty hard when the image at the top loaded; was not expecting this kind of story, was expecting a missive on the song from the 90s. Also, this story reminds me of a passage, among many, from the Deus Ex timeline wiki ( https://deusex.fandom.com/wiki/Timeline ): "Antoine Thisdale, an un-augmented oil rig worker sues for the right to have both of his fully functional natural arms am…

If there was a surgery that made people look white, I wonder how many people would get it.

Re: I wish I was a little bit taller

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Post by phpthrowaway99 »

whatshisface wrote: post #25
tcfhgj wrote: post #5

> 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.

Just because there's a gap doesn't mean someone is being discriminated against. Shorter men could have self esteem issues that cause them to perform a little worse or fight for salary a little worse.

I worked in sales for a decade. I was better than top 1% at it nationwide. I'm 6'4". Was that because people just love buying from a tall person, or was it because I felt comfortable walking up to anyone and everyone since I was taller than them?

Re: I wish I was a little bit taller

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Post by voisin »

whatshisface wrote: post #51
snake_plissken wrote: post #14

Straight out of GATTACA. I cringed pretty hard when the image at the top loaded; was not expecting this kind of story, was expecting a missive on the song from the 90s. Also, this story reminds me of a passage, among many, from the Deus Ex timeline wiki ( https://deusex.fandom.com/wiki/Timeline ): "Antoine Thisdale, an un-augmented oil rig worker sues for the right to have both of his fully functional natural arms am…

If there was a surgery that made people look white, I wonder how many people would get it.

I have read that there are many things people do in Japan to lighten their skin as this is perceived as more beautiful.

Re: I wish I was a little bit taller

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Post by mikrl »

rahimnathwani wrote: post #47
mikrl wrote: post #37

I wish I was a little bit more able to comfortably sit on an average office chair. I recommend the Haworth Very for taller folks. At the max height my femurs actually sit slightly above the horizontal plane containing my knees so I don’t feel boxed in.

I am a touch above 5'3". I've used a Haworth Very for the past ~5 years. My wife now has one, too. With this chair: - My feet can touch the floor, even without shoes - The armrests can move down to the place where my forearms naturally rest - The armrests can point from my elbows to the front corners of my keyboard - I can sit for long periods without my any discomfort

Oh that’s really cool! Seems like it’s just a well designed chair for most heights.

I agree on all of your points. Bless the designers for saving our back/knees/hips etc!

Re: I wish I was a little bit taller

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Post by whatshisface »

phpthrowaway99 wrote: post #52
whatshisface wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

Just because there's a gap doesn't mean someone is being discriminated against. Shorter men could have self esteem issues that cause them to perform a little worse or fight for salary a little worse. I worked in sales for a decade. I was better than top 1% at it nationwide. I'm 6'4". Was that because people just love buying from a tall person, or was it because I felt comfortable walking up to anyone and everyone sin…

If that were true, you'd have to explain how they got the self-esteem issues in the first place if there wasn't discrimination.

FWIW, I have known a lot of people in sales and it's not confidence that makes you good - that's just a stereotype - but the ability to make the other person feel like you have their interest in mind. Sure you have to be willing to approach someone but without the ability to establish a connection, the confidence would be misplaced. It also seems like anyone can train themselves out of cold call anxiety.

Re: I wish I was a little bit taller

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Post by job_suche »

alienchow wrote: post #50
rocket_surgeron wrote: post #3

Tall people die younger, have more joint and back pain, and have trouble finding shirts that fit. See a shirt in a store? On me a L is a belly shirt and an XL is a baggy belly shirt. I’m tall and wish I was average and I’m not even “super tall” just 76”/193cm. I straight up feel sorry for people taller than I. They end up on crutches before dying in their 60s. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1600586/

I'm very much below the national average height for my gender. After a while you'd start hoping that conversations occur at your eye level instead of flying over your head. Practically everyone I know from the same gender and half the other gender are taller than me. It's difficult to quantify the psychological impact of always having to metaphorically wave your hand in the air to get attention. Or when you invite fr…

You can see my other post. I am also quite short. However I do not have this experience you are conveying here. I think it is a matter of attitude, more than height. Of course being a quiet guy who is 190cm would be better than being a quiet guy who is 165cm.

Re: I wish I was a little bit taller

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Post by teddyh »

whatshisface wrote: post #51
snake_plissken wrote: post #14

Straight out of GATTACA. I cringed pretty hard when the image at the top loaded; was not expecting this kind of story, was expecting a missive on the song from the 90s. Also, this story reminds me of a passage, among many, from the Deus Ex timeline wiki ( https://deusex.fandom.com/wiki/Timeline ): "Antoine Thisdale, an un-augmented oil rig worker sues for the right to have both of his fully functional natural arms am…

If there was a surgery that made people look white, I wonder how many people would get it.

Ask the star-bellied sneeches.

Re: I wish I was a little bit taller

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Post by echelon »

sys32768 wrote: post #46

After my divorce, I dove into the hetero online dating community and discovered that many men lie about their height in their online profile. This is more common among men because many women do in fact want a taller man. Similarly, men and women both often lie about their age in order to help their profile sneak around age filters used by others. But the lying about height is pathetic and always backfires, often spec…

Why is it pathetic? Men have a smaller pool to date from unless they get out of the filter bubble. They're wagering they can still win despite the physical statistic.

It might create noise on the other end, but they are heavily incentivized to lie.

Re: I wish I was a little bit taller

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Post by bhedgeoser »

kmm wrote: post #19
tcfhgj wrote: post #5

> 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…

> a 2013 study conducted in the Netherlands found that women were taller than their male partners in just 7.5 percent of cases Isn't that entirely to be expected just because men are on average taller than women? As a very quick 'n dirty numerical check, if you pick pairs of numbers from two normal distributions with means that are 2 standard deviations apart, only in 7.8% of the cases will the number from the distri…

How did you calculate that? (7.8%)
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