lol..sxxist remark.
What exactly was "sxxist" about what he said? This entire statement:
Dating is easy (maybe more than tall women, not average though) and as social life gemerally, has to do with your character and your overall appearance.
So if you are not less than 5-5.1 ft you are exagerating a lot about the cons.
Women don't face heightism, they are judged for much about their appearamce but not for their heights and no man will reject a short woman who is good looking for her height.
Is supported by scientific evidence. Short women do not face the same discrimination, mockery, humiliation, or all-around oppression as short men do. The reason why is that humans are a sxxually dimorphic species and short stature is a feminine trait (in mammals, females of the species are almost ubiquitously smaller than males; this is the case with humans).
When a man is short, he is considered to have broken an unspoken sociocultural norm derived from an evolutionary axiom - namely, that men are supposed to be large, at least as large as the other men around them. This is why heightist offenses, such as insulting remarks, physical aggression, and other forms of attacks against short men tend to become more frequent and more intense the shorter a man is.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1691114/Abstract
Recent studies have shown that, in contemporary populations, tall men have greater reproductive success than shorter men. This appears to be due to their greater ability to attract mates. To our knowledge, no comparable results have yet been reported for women. This study used data from Britain's National Child Development Study to examine the life histories of a nationally representative group of women. Height was weakly but significantly related to reproductive success. The relationship was U-shaped, with deficits at the extremes of height. This pattern was largely due to poor health among extremely tall and extremely short women. However, the maximum reproductive success was found below the mean height for women. Thus, selection appears to be sxxually disruptive in this population, favouring tall men and short women. Over evolutionary time, such a situation tends to maintain sxxual dimorphism. Men do not use stature as a positive mate-choice criterion as women do. It is argued that there is good evolutionary reason for this, because men are orientated towards cues of fertility, and female height, being positively related to age of sxxual maturity, is not such a cue.
While this other statement by him:
For women as you, the only con is not taking you very seriously and not geting much respect and maybe less money on work.
Nothing else.
is also supported by scientific evidence
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9438783Abstract
The use of (costly) growth hormone (GH) treatment in short children is often justified by the assumption that short stature considerably reduces quality of life in adults. We tested this assumption in 5 groups of short adults: 25 patients with isolated GH deficiency; 17 male patients with childhood onset renal failure; 25 women with Turner syndrome and 26 patients who were presented as a child to a paediatrician for idiopathic short stature. A group of 44 short individuals with presumably idiopathic short stature, who had not been presented to a paediatrician for short stature, was sampled from the general population ('normal shorts'). We measured quality of life in terms of socio-economic variables, the Nottingham Health Profile and time trade-off. The mean height of most groups was close to the 3rd percentile. The chance of having a partner was low for all groups, except for the normal shorts. Problems with job application were only reported in Turner syndrome. The scores on the Nottingham Health Profile were all within the normal range, but GH-deficient adults had a higher score on the domain energy than normal shorts. Women with Turner syndrome, individuals with renal failure, and those with idiopathic short stature had a wish to be taller, with an estimated reduction in quality of life of 2-4% (time trade-off). As the normal shorts did not show any sign of a reduced quality of life, we falsify the assumption of a direct relation between short stature and quality of life. The complaints of patients with idiopathic short stature around the 3rd percentile seem to be the result of unsuccessful coping strategies.
That is, when it comes to women, the only ones who reported dissatisfaction with their lives or a reduction in their overall quality of life were the women who had been "presented to a pediatrician for short stature", i.e. they were taken to a doctor to examine why they were so short, whereas the short women who were NOT taken a doctor were perfectly fine and reported absolutely no problems with their lives. So it's much more reasonable to conclude that statistically speaking, it's more likely for women who develop height neurosis to develop it out of purely narcissistic self-image problems rather than sociocultural discrimination in the form of physical or emotional bullying/oppression.
Additionally, short men are TWICE as likely to commit suicide as men of average or tall stature:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/height-and-suicide/Swedish researchers say short men may have a higher risk of suicide.
"We found a twofold higher risk of suicide in short men than tall men," they write in the American Journal of Psychiatry.
The men were followed for an average of 15 years. During that time, they had 3,075 suicides.
"Taller men had a much lower risk of suicide than shorter men," write the researchers.
They only focused on suicide risk among men aged 18-49. The results can't be applied to older men or to women, write the researchers.
No such correlation (between stature and suicide rate) exists for women. How can that be, if women have it "just as bad" as short men on average?
Could it be that women are just psychologically stronger than men on average and are therefore better able to cope with heightist bullying and oppression? No, because studies show that women attempt suicide more often than men (though they're less likely to actually kill themselves):
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3539603/Suicide is an important public health problem worldwide, especially due to an increasing rate of suicides committed by violent methods. This study compared and assessed the methods used in suicide attempts (but no completed suicides) as undertaken by men and women and investigated the possible role of gender in the selection of suicide method.
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The study results indicate that women as a group more frequently attempted suicide rather than actually committing it, whereas men were more likely to complete suicides and choose more violent suicide methods; thus, women are the “attempters” and “survivors” of suicide attempts.
And you can bet than if hordes of women were attempting suicide over their height in our gynocentric world, we'd have global multi-billion dollar anti-heightism campaigns fighting to end heightism with the same fervor that LGBT lobbies fight for transgender acceptance.
So the simple answer is, short women, on average, just don't have the problems short men do in life. Men are not rejecting or stigmatizing women for being short because it's not considered an indicator of genetic inferiority for women. You aren't getting lambasted by hordes of people (mostly women, specifically black women, which in a hilarious twist you claim to be) on Twitter calling for the genocide of short men (see Heightism Exposed twitter page).
Overall, I hate to break it to you, but if you're having bad experiences in the dating world and otherwise, your ethnic phenotype (again, I assume you're a black woman, if I recall correctly you said you were) is almost certainly the culprit, NOT your height. It's not exactly a secret that Black women are very heavily stereotyped as being masculine, aggressive/belligerent, uneducated, trashy, etc in society. So-called "Black features" (dark skin, large, flared nostrils, curly hair, etc) are considered physically unattractive as well as well, so if you have these features, that's also a pretty likely reason why you've had bad experiences. Note that none of this is intended to cast aspersions on you; it's only an enumeration of common sociocultural beliefs held by society at large.
I'll be frank. I have no doubt that there does exist some limited subset of women who have suffered height-based discrimination to a similar extent that some particular short man has. Maybe you are one of those women, though I HIGHLY doubt this; you're much more likely a histrionic playing up mild teasing about your height for attention. But to say that in GENERAL short women suffer to the same degree as short men is simply incorrect. That kind of assertion is more akin to sxxism ("me too-ism") than what Body Builder said.
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