I doubt most people would understand the struggles of millions of men or more (Male < 5′6″), since they didn’t grew up with all the negative reinforcements, got into fights in school since (5'5")s are “easy to take on”, socially secluded being (5'5")s and the only way to circumvent this evolutionary disposition is to become the class clown (aka:
Loud personality), all of which is pertinent to being vertically challenged and worst of all; to face a society that's rife with heightism especially in today's postmodern era.
The 30,347 women (mean age 34.02, SD 11.42) and 29,285 men (mean age 37.81, SD 12.94) who participated in the survey answered the question, “How do you feel about your height?” by choosing one of these response options: “I wish I were taller,” “I wish I were shorter,” and “I feel okay about my height.” Although “feeling okay” may be a better measure of “contentment” than “satisfaction,” we defer to the keyword “satisfaction” that is more common in medical literature.
Looks like people as tall as (6'5")s are quite satisfied with their height even with the constant back pains and what not since society tells them everyday how tall,lucky,sexy,rich? etc etc they are constantly feeding them positive reinforcement wherever they go all the while facing positive discrimination virtually anywhere and anytime.
Strong inverse association between height and suicide in a large cohort of Swedish men: evidence of early life origins of suicidal behavior?https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15994722There were 3,075 suicides over an average follow-up period of 15 years. There was a strong inverse association between height and suicide risk. In fully adjusted models, a 5-cm increase in height was associated with a 9% decrease in suicide risk.
Not only does your chances of suicide increase but your depression as well, who would’ve thought!
Size Matters Stature Is Related to Diagnoses of Depression in Young Military Men.http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2158244014542783We hypothesized that in young military men, where physical prowess was important, short stature might constitute a risk of depression and that this risk would be specific to depression and not to other prevalent mental disorders such as anxiety.
Evolutionary theories suggest that depression has evolved as an adaptation to insurmountable adversity or defeat. One prediction stemming from these models is that individual attributes associated with defeat in a given social environment could be risk factors for depression.
Seems short and plight/defeatist/damaging has a correlation.
For Every Inch Taller You Are, You Make $800 More Per Yearhttps://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/05/the-financial-perks-of-being-tall/393518/
While every additional inch appears to be an advantage, some inches are worth more than others, according to one recent study. Among men, the sharpest jump in earnings the researchers documented was between 5’4” and 5’6”. They found that the returns on height begin to plateau around 6’0”.
No negatives, even if you are 7 foot tall. The
point is it isn't
detrimental at 6'+ but the
converse, I'll leave it to you to decide.
Standing tall pays off, study finds.https://www.apa.org/monitor/julaug04/standing.aspxThe findings suggest that someone who is 6 feet tall earns, on average, nearly $166,000 more during a 30-year career than someone who is 5 feet 5 inches--even when controlling for gender, age and weight.
Ahh, the back pains and constant 24/7 aches, the cars/planes/beds/
*insert infrastructure* which doesn't
accommodate the 6'+ doesn’t seem too bad now does it?
E-Harmony.com Discriminates Against Short Menhttps://heightism.blogspot.com/2007/03/e-harmonycom-discriminates-against.htmlEharmony most definitely discriminates against shorter men. I applied
ages ago and was told I'm part of the 20 percent they can't match.
Out of curiosity, I decided to try signing up for the site with the same answers,
and different heights. I went once with my real height and my real answers, and got
the same message(despite personal growth in the last year or two, my legs have
stayed the same). However, with the exact same answers, I set the height as 5'11"
and was immediately welcomed to the site. I think this is very clear proof the site discriminates against short men before they even join, and personally I think there should be legal action taken to bring
this to light. This would NEVER be allowed if a site discriminated on race or
religion, but this has somehow been accepted? I don't think this should be allowed
to continue.
Oh you poor sweet summer child, talking about personal growth and shxt. I wish I was as innocent and naive as him back in my childhood days, but alas such things are inevitable. You either deal with
cognitive dissonance or you become disconsolate and pessimistic in nature, in either scenario the 6'5" guy is being
irritated about why everyone asks him "do you play basketball" or "how's the weather up there" while his dopaminergic system is getting flooded with positive hormones since it's associated with
positiveness and not
negativeness.
Very Short Men Have Fewer Sex Partnershttps://fivethirtyeight.com/features/very-short-men-have-fewer-sex-partners/ (replace xx with ex)
Although this was conducted
anonymously online, the results are not surprising that <5'6" get
fewer partners in relationships. But that's not the point though is it?
LoL being “
Extremely tall” doesn't make any difference in partners contrary to being "
Very short", good luck convincing otherwise.
Height, social comparison, and paranoia: An immersive virtual reality experimental studyhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4067741/
An established correlate of social rank is height. For instance, taller people are more likely to have achieved higher educational attainment, hold jobs of higher status, have higher social esteem, earn more, and report higher levels of well-being. Height is often regarded as conveying authority. An illustration can be seen in seating arrangements: people seeking social dominance put others in lower chairs. Therefore we tested the effect of altering height on paranoia. It was predicted that lowering an individual's height in a social situation, in comparison to his or her normal height, would lead to perceptions of lower social rank and greater levels of paranoia. It was predicted that increases in paranoia would be fully mediated by changes in social comparison.
We lowered the participants' height by around a head. Mostly this was not consciously noticed by participants. The results were very clear: lowering of height led to more negative evaluations of the self compared with others and greater levels of paranoia. The changes in paranoia were fully mediated by the changes in social comparison. The study provides a strong demonstration of the importance of social status to the occurrence of paranoid fears. It supports the theoretical idea that paranoia builds upon perceived vulnerabilities of the self.
So the short of it is they put virtual reality gear on people and gave them questionnaires about their sense of self and security, they've conducted this twice and the second time lowered their conceived height by maybe 3-6 inches and all of a sudden the people started to feel vulnerable, less secure and confident. No biases since they didn't even noticed that they shrank.
Guess neuroticism is next on the list not to mention dying, earning less, getting beaten up, having less sex or no sex, and so forth.
We have to
fight for everything it seems, whether be it for society/women/jobs/etc.
And people have the
audacity to ask or allude to why short men are
angry/Napoleon complex/short man syndrome well fk you that’s why.</rant>
Feel free to correct any biases I may have constructed while writing this.
