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SupportFortheShort.org!
A new website exposing an old attitude - Heightism.

Banning Short Men from marriage agencies violates human dignity  The Brunei Times
At least Korean men still have a pair.

Are Short Guys Dateable?  The Stir
Short guys viewed as less than human.

DRC:  Displacement and Discrimination - the lot of the Bambuti Pygmies  ReliefWeb
Pygmies genocided because of their height. 

Southwest Boots thin Passenger  Aol
Slim woman forced to take another flight to accommodate fat kid who took up 2 seats.

Tom Cruise Guardian
The grim truth is that Tom Cruise is a short man.

Webmaster visits with Jimmy, Nora and Alan Au - WOW!  July 24, 2010
Short men finally have 1 store that they can shop for clothes in.

The Andy Griffith Show (Season3: Episode 7) 1962
Nothing intimidates like Tall height.  An oldie and a goodie from 1962.

Bad News for Short People:  Higher risk of Heart Problems  June 9, 2010  Sci-Tech Today
Is there anything but bad news for short people?
Police:  Ohio Woman Posed as Boy To Be With Girl
July 7, 2010 My Fox New York
Women pedophiles?! - Nah!  Only short men can be pedophiles.  Just ask CAMH.


6'4" Cop Bullies 4'11" Videographer as She Videos a BP Worker Taken Away in Ambulance   July 6, 2010 YouTube
This one was a nice bully.

Mendoza Eugnics Stalled as California Legislator Considers Deaf to be Defective Americans June 21st 2010 -
The Cutting Edge News
Mass protests and letter writing campaigns by deaf people.  We can't even get two intelligent short people together in the same room.

'Luda'-Chris Hamre Now 'Pwesident'-Elect 'Luda'-Chris.  And Mattthew Campisi is Treasurer
January 6, 2010
Webmaster Batting a Thousand.  His predictions are now "Officially" Confirmed

Women say, "I can't respect a guy who's shorter than me".  4/16/09  Relationships.blog-city.com
Imagine if they said they couldn't respect a man because of the color of his skin.

South Korea Stretches for Success  NY Times 12/23/09
Whether it's China or the US, there always seems to be people out to exploit the fear of being short.

Taking Sprinting to New Heights Slate.com 8/20/09
It's wonderful and beautful to see the Tallers living up to their potential.

NOSSA Buffoon talking about 'NOSSA Mission'
NOSSA, Inc. was formed after the webmaster's complaints to state agencies about nossaonline.org

Is 'Luda'-Chris Hamre the "Heir Apparent" - Matthew Campisi's "Maid in Waiting?
December 2009
Campisi up to his old tricks

Of Clowns and Giants
The Son-of-a-Beach does it again.  NOSSA enlists clown to lick the big man's boots.

'Short Men' Jibe boon for online retailers
Nov. 18, 2009
Yeah, we can tell how much they're "comforting" short men.

"Short Losers" controversy causes Misuda production team to resign & retail boom
11/18/09
Retailers exploiting prejudice against short men.

'Short' man's mental distress
11/12/09
Short Korean man files suit. 

Internet Hot over "Misuda" Guest's Loser Remark
11/12/09
17 year-old thinks short men are losers.

Not being Tall Gets You the Short End of The Stick
July 27, 2009
Just another way of saying short men are discriminated against.

Short People Earn Less
May 17, 2009
Angry short man states the facts

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Science Proves 'Size Does Matter'    (NEW)

Monday, 15 April 2013 14:43

BY GINA G. SCALA
NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

Sorry gentlemen, but size does matter; at least that’s the result of a new study.

The survey asked 105 young Australian women to rate attractiveness in men based on penis size, body shape and height, according to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.

Led by Brian Mautz, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Ottawa, researchers asked the women to view computer-generated, life-sized images of naked men.

The women were then asked to rank each image on a scale of one to seven on total sexiness; instead of assessing the three individual characteristics of penis size; body shape and height.

How well-endowed the male model was, coupled with his height, was a big influence on the model’s overall attractiveness, the survey found.

Read more . . .

Always the women.  Always expressed in terms of "a woman's choice".  Are you beginning to understand the psychology?
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"Short men should . . ."    (NEW)

Recently I did various Google searches for:

Black men should, Hispanic men should, Muslim men should, Chinese men should, Jewish men should, Fat men should, Bald men should, Tall men should, Gay men should, disabled men should, transgendered men should, old men should, ugly men should AND Short men should.  You know how Google tends to complete the sentence or phrase when you type a few words in the search box, right?  Well, you know what I found?

Click here for the answer . . .

Society's pure Hatred of Short men is mind-boggling.  What's even more mind-boggling is that Short men tolerate it.
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Height Affects How People Perceive Their Quality Of Life    (OLD)

Oct. 18, 2007 — Your height in adult life significantly affects your quality of life, with short people reporting worse physical and mental health than people of normal height. This large, peer reviewed study, which appears in Clinical Endocrinology, shows that adult height is linked to how good a person thinks their health is. Short people judge their state of health to be significantly lower than their normal height peers do.

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Read their lips:  "Short people judge their state of health to be significantly lower than their normal height peers do. "  Anyone shorter than average apparently is not "normal" in the opinion of the writer.
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ACTIVIST OF THE YEAR FOR 2006 STEVEN GOLDSMITH OF SHORTSUPPORT.ORG STILL ADVERTISING TO JOIN NOSSA!!!    (NEW)

May 10, 2013

It was January 15th 2013, approximately 4 months ago that Matt ‘The Ratt’ Campisi announced on the famous NOSSA blog that his NOSSA sham would no longer continue.  Four months ago.  All during this time the ridiculous looking NOSSA logo has continued to be displayed on Goldsmith’s home page along with the ironic, “Join NOSSA - make a difference”.  Does this tell us something?  It sure does.  It tells us that Goldsmith, the famous “Activist of the Year” for 2006 (Named so, by the famous NOSSA Scam Artist, security guard, nomad, Founder and CEO of ‘Agitatethesystem’ -  another probable scam, this one originally out of Babylon, NY going all the way back to the 20th Century – none other than the notorious Matthew Campisi formerly of Babylon New York, Pensacola Florida and probably many other ports-of-call.  Of course, it’s not fair to give Campisi all the credit for naming Goldsmith the “Activist of the Year”, some credit should be given to Campisi’s little stooge, Christopher Allen ‘Chrissy the Sissy’ Hamre.  He had a hand in the selection process I’m sure.) - does not even know that NOSSA no longer exists and it’s been 4 months since he could have found out.  Wouldn’t he have known 4 months ago if he was such a Great “Activist” for the short of stature?  As a matter of fact his website – shortsupport.org – hasn’t been updated since last year.  That is quite a long time for a Great “Activist” not to update his website.  The title bar of his website reads “Short Persons Support”.  Has this guy ever really supported the short in any way shape or form?  I mean what has he done?

Read more . . .

Time to call a spade a spade.
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NOSSA WEBSITE "REMOVED"    (NEW)

May 8, 2013

The website of NOSSA, the 'National Organization of Short Statured Adults' has finally been 'removed' from the Internet.

It all began way back in 2005.  In September of 2005 Matthew Campisi approached the webmaster asking him to be Secretary of the organization that he claimed he just began, the ‘National Organization of Short Statured Adults, Inc.’  Campisi selflessly appointed himself as president with his faithful sidekick, gofer, stooge and perpetual dupe Christopher Allen (‘Luda’-Chris) Hamre originally from San Diego California and thereafter residing in Brighton Beach Brooklyn, as vice-president.  Steven Goldsmith of shortsupport.org whose website originally hosted my essay – ‘Heightism – The Last Bastion of Discrimination’ agreed to be treasurer.  What the webmaster didn’t know at the time, was that the ‘National Organization of Short Statured Adults, Inc.’ was nothing but a fraud, a put-up job by the same two-bit petty con artist named Matthew Salvatore Campisi originally from Babylon, New York.

Read more . . .

Matthew Campisi's NOSSA sham has finally come to an end.
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Campisi “Agitates The System”    (NEW)
May 5, 2013

This is a post on alt.support.short from way back in 2007 –

Hey man,

I was wondering if anyone knows anything about a 'matt campisi'. A while ago me an ma group (rock group) got ripped off by some fuck in Long Island NY bookiing us for a gig named matt campisi. This cretin was an agent, but we didn't get any booking and the schmuck walked off with our money. I couldn't find the sob after that. I just noticed someone with the same name on some height blog with something called nossa. I want to find out if this guy is the same fucker that's got our money. If you know anything just drop me an e-mail at ***@yahoo.com. I'll bet we're not the only ones that got stiffed.

with gratitude,

Kevin

The president of the National Organization of Short Statured Adults, Matthew Salvatore ‘Matt’ Campisi actually responded on alt.support.short with this:

Hi Kevin

I am Matt from NOSSA. Honestly, I don't have a clue what you are talking about. I am from New York and you do have my name correct, but I'm afraid this is a case of mistaken identity. I am with a non-profit group that advocates on behalf of short statured folks. Hope this helps.

-Matt

However, we found this from way back in 1999:

Agitate The System, Is A New Independent Record Label, Based Out Of Long Island, New York. The Label Specializes, Specifically In The Genres Of Indie/College Rock, Modern Metal, Hardcore, Industrial, Punk, And Emo Rock Music. The Label Will Produce, Distribute, And Promote Releases From Artists On Contract. Artists Wishing To Submit Their Materials For Consideration May Contact The Label At, Agitate The System, PO Box 401, Babylon, New York 11702-0401 Or Call 1-800-401-0241. Be Sure To Check Out The Website At, http://www.agitatethesystem.com/, And Emails May Be Sent To, info@agitatethesystem.com. "We Hope To Bring Some Truly Talented Artists Some Real Long Term Exposure In This All Too Often Short Term Industry. We Hope To Change The Whole Idea Of Here Today, Gone Tomorrow Artists.You Can Trust That We Will be Putting A Great Deal Of Time And Effort Into Developing Our Acts For Long Term Staying Power," States, Matt Campisi, Label Founder And CEO. "We Are Very Specific Regarding The Genres We Are Focusing On, And We Hope To Bring About Advances In The Public Interest Of These Forms Of Rock. Agitate The System Is Hoping To Make A Real Dent In The Indie Rock World And We Won't Rest Until Our Artists Are Heard." If You Have Any Questions Or Would Like To Contact The Label, You May Do So At The Address, Telephone Number, And Email Listed Above.

Campisi lived at the time in Babylon New York.  He was the only Matt Campisi IN Babylon, New York.
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'Sirius,' Steven Greer's Film, Claims To Unveil Tiny 'Alien' Humanoid    (NEW)

By Lee Speigel Posted: 04/07/2013 9:44 am EDT  |  Updated: 04/11/2013 6:09 pm EDT

An upcoming documentary promises to show an alleged, tiny "alien" being that was found a few years ago in Chile's Atacama Desert. And when we say tiny, we're talking six inches from head to ET toe.

Don't be fooled by the apparent size of the creature in the picture above, as the following image shows its true 6-inch stature.

The film, called "Sirius," will also depict how readily available forms of alternative energy technology are what extraterrestrials may be using to travel here from the cosmically improbable distances between their home world and ours.

If this is all true, and that's a very big IF, it will certainly answer the ages-old question of whether or not humans are alone in the universe.

The force behind "Sirius" is Steven Greer, a former emergency medical physician. He's actively pursued avenues to get the U.S. government to reveal information about alien reality -- information that the powers-that-be have always maintained doesn't exist.

Read more . . .

You need to check out Dr. Steven Greer on Youtube along with "The Disclosure Project".  Please read the entire article.  We didn't see any short jokes.  No playing of Randy Newman's infamous song either. It's all right to be small; even 6 inches in height is okay - just as long as you're not a human.  Short Alien, no problem.                     _______________________________

NOSSA Fraud Matt Campisi “removes” Shoe-lift Ads from NOSSA Website.  (NEW)

April 15, 2013

From the famous NOSSA blog:

    NOSSA Website


    The NOSSA website will undergo changes in April 2013. Visitors will still be able to visit the NOSSA Forums and discuss heightism and related issues, however, other sections of the website will no longer be accessible. We thank you for your interest in NOSSA and encourage our visitors to explore the issue of heightism on our forums  . . .

The advertisements for ‘shoe lifts’ that were previously highlighted at the bottom of every page of the website of the National Organization of Short Statured Adults, Inc. for approximately the last 6 months have now been “removed” from the NOSSA website.  I guess Campisi got tired of “sticking it” to short people for not making him money and joining his pathetic NOSSA sham, or maybe he read the articles on this website from the ‘NOSSA FILES’ page, and decided enough was enough.  We’re wondering what other "charades" Campisi may have cooked up for unsuspecting people on the Internet both in the past and present.  We suspect that NOSSA was not the first, and we also suspect that it won’t be the last either.  We’re wondering if little Mattie has something else he’s using right now to rake in some bucks, or perhaps something he’s planning for the future.  In any case we’re glad to see the NOSSA website being phased out by the former Babylon New York native.  Short people have no need of pathetic two-bit scam artists like Campisi or incompetents like his stooge Christopher Allen Hamre.  Campisi now must go on to other things, that is, if he’s not incarcerated yet.
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Five People It’s Still Perfectly Okay To Make Fun Of    (NEW)

27 February, 2013

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Also, this story serves as an example of how, in the blogosphere/media, there are certain demographics you just can’t say negative things about without expecting swift and harsh pushback. We’ll call them “untouchables.” Some of these people are protected for obvious reasons (children, the physically impaired, etc) while the protection given to others may be more politically-minded. Either way, the list of who you “aren’t allowed to” joke about and/or criticize seems to grow by the day.

Despite this, there remains some people who you can still shit on with impunity. Certain demographic groups who can still safety be the butt of jokes without anyone giving a damn, and here are a few people it’s still perfectly okay to make fun of.

1. Short Men

The perpetual redheaded stepchild of the human race (not that there’s anything wrong with being a redheaded stepchild), men who are a few inches shorter than the average man are routinely discriminated against, bullied, and used as punchline fodder by everyone. What separates them from others who experience the same thing is that shitting on them never goes out of style, never becomes politically incorrect, and never receives any criticism other than “Awwww. Leave the midget men alone.”

While the “protection” given to other groups maybe be seasonal, “shitting on short men” is like a pair of Levi’s—safe, comfortable, versatile, reliable, timeless.

You don't even need to read the rest of the article.
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'A TALL ORDER'    




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"Heightism is definitely a form of discrimination, and it's one of the last acceptable prejudices," she says. "We glorify the tall and stigmatize the short. You would never walk up to somebody fat and just on a whim say, Oh, my gosh, you're so fat. How much do you weigh?' And yet I can walk down the street and hear over and over, Oh, my gosh, you're so short. How tall are you?'"   Read more . . .

The bias is right in your face.  Just look at the video.  One short person asked to be interviewed along with 5 Tall people.  Short person outnumbered 5 to 1; Six to one if you include 'Dr. Phil'.  Shouldn't it be 3 short people and 3 tall people?  It's all in your mind little man.
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ESQUIRE - THE HEIGHT REPORT    (OLD)

Tall men run faster, jump higher land more jobs, make more money, get more votes, and win more women.  But it's supposed to be a secret.

By Ralph Keyes

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Perhaps you remember Randy Newman's song 'Short People' - the one about short people having grubby little fingers and dirty little minds, got to pick 'em up just to say hello, no reason to live, and so on.  By his own testimony, its author meant no offense.  "It's just a joke," Newman explained when the song was released.  "You don't think it'll bother anybody, do?"

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"I don't get why people are so offended by it," he said.

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Perhaps if Newman had said similar things about Blacks, Hispanics, Chinese, Muslims, Jews, Gays, Lesbians, Women, Bald men, Tall people, fat people, etc. in a song, he'd understand.  Actually we think he already does understand, and did at the time.  Newman's song has probably done more to promote heightism, than anything else in the history of the world with the possible exception of Alfred Adler's labeling short men with his famous "Napoleon Complex".
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ABC News Wrong in Saying that Stigma Against Obesity is Last Accepted Prejudice   (NEW)

The Article Doesn't Even Mention Heightism

Calvin Wolf, Yahoo! Contributor Network
Jan 22, 2013

COMMENTARY | ABC News claims new studies indicate that stigma against obesity is the last socially acceptable prejudice. Obviously, none of the writers or editors associated with this story or its publication are short. Well, I am short. On a good day I, a twentysomething man, stand about 5-foot-6, about the same height as actor David Spade and perhaps a smidge taller than actor Jason Alexander. In fact, take a look at the roles played by most short actors, with the exceptions of Michael J. Fox and Tom Cruise. What do you find?

It doesn't take long for a layman to discover that short men are often used as crude comedy, being portrayed as inept, lecherous, or both. My wife and I love the CBS sitcom " Rules of Engagement," which stars Spade as the lecherous Russell Dunbar. The show routinely makes fun of Dunbar's short stature, with other characters referring to him as a "troll" or "gnome" for his inappropriate humor and crude pursuit of women. While the iconic character George Costanza on the hit '90s sitcom " Seinfeld" fared better, with his short stature being less frequently referenced, it was widely implied that his lack of height influenced his ineptness, both professionally and in romance. Short characters are more openly and more directly mocked than fat characters, with such invectives hurled at obese characters likely to lead to public outcry.

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It's gonna get worse.  A lot worse.  Worse is better - unless of course you're Matthew Campisi.
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From the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary:

Bitch - a malicious, spiteful, or overbearing woman  . . .

See below -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrZij36N3mg&feature=player_embedded



Judge Judy:  Because he has a big mouth I’m awarding you a judgement against him of $450.  Now you can take your blue shirt and go outside, and I’ll deal with the rest of them.

One of the defendants:  That’s funny.

Judge Judy:  See what happens when you’re short.

Audience (mostly women):  Laughter.

Judge Judy:  You tend to become aggressive, and nasty.

Same defendant:  Better watch him.  You never know what people do these days.

Judge Judy:  Well, aggressive and nasty.  You can’t account for any other reason for him to be aggressive and nasty.

Same defendant:  Maybe it’s because he’s short.

Judge Judy:  Maybe.  Maybe he’s your friend.  You said it.

Same defendant:  You said it first.  You said he’s short.

Judge Judy:  Four-hundred and fifty dollars.  Bert, put him out (referring to same defendant).

Anyone can degrade a short person – especially a short man.  Judge Judy is a role model for feminists, misandrists and others who hate men.  Her audiences are usually predominantly women.  The short man, as always, can be disparaged far more easily than virtually anyone.  How many women do you think take their cues from her?  The ONLY one there that was aggressive and nasty was the good Judge.  We're sure people can find more than one reason for the aggressive and nasty behavior of this woman.  We’ll leave it to you.  (Hat tip to ‘The Social Complex’.)
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This is What Social Justice Looks Like  (NEW)

The Button:



One email from Geoffrey Arnold accomplishes more than 7 years of bulls**t from a certain "organization".

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From 'The Social Complex':
Geoffrey’s Letter about “Never Date a Short Man”    (NEW)

Vendor was selling a "Never Date a Short Man" button.  She apparently felt women needed to be warned about the dangers of dating short men.
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Marcus Freeman Short Sentence: Maryland Stabber Told By Judge He'd Be 'Lunchmeat' Due To Petite Stature    (NEW)

Posted: 02/27/2013 1:54 pm EST  |  Updated: 02/27/2013 2:23 pm EST

One Maryland judge appears to have a height requirement for prison sentences.

The Capital Gazette has the details of why five-foot-one Marcus Freeman of Annapolis was spared a long sentence for stabbing his girlfriend, her friend and his own brother:

    “I’m going to take a little mercy on you, because I think you’re going to be lunchmeat in the Division of Correction,” said Judge Paul A. Hackner before handing down an 18-month sentence in county Circuit Court in Annapolis.

    Freeman, 25, of Newtowne Drive, previously pleaded guilty to first-degree assault and entered an Alford plea to second-degree assault stemming from a triple stabbing at Woodside Garden Apartments in Annapolis last summer.

    An Alford plea allows a person to maintain his innocence, while admitting the state has enough evidence to convict.

The judge didn't pull this reasoning out of thin air. Freeman's defense attorney argued that he'd grabbed the knife used in the stabbing in order to defend himself -- something he felt he had to do on account of his size.

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Do short men have a right to defend themselves? We think that they do, if legitimately threatened.  However, wantonly threatening to kill a family member merits jail time.  Some people have not yet served their time.
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UK Website Features Fun Height Bigotry Pin - Only $4.17   (NEW)

from 'THESOCIALCOMPLEX'

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In order to put this in context, you have to understand how this website works.  Essentially, NotontheHighStreet.com houses the products of thousands of independent retailers who wish to sell their wares in a broader marketplace.  So, one could argue that this website isn’t responsible for what goods are featured on it.  After all, they don’t produce any of the good themselves.

But wait a second.  Let’s look at the “Why Shop With Us” section of their site.

    We at notonthehighstreet.com carefully select every product for quality, style and originality.

    Our passion lies in discovering unique new products and we’ve spent a lot of time choosing the 50,000 or so products (and counting) that you’ll find here on our website and in our catalogues.

    We get hundreds of new products landing on our desks and popping up in our in-boxes every single week but we only select the very best. We insist on exceptional quality, so if it’s not well-made, it doesn’t make the grade. We’re style seekers too and are always on the lookout for beautiful design and detailing. And we don’t do ordinary – for us, it has to be original so we only choose products that inspire us.

    Why do we have such a strict selection process? That’s easy. It’s our way of making sure you’ll end up with a purchase you’ll love from the moment it arrives and for many years to come. Or a gift that will make you very popular indeed!

Wow!  They only choose products that “inspire” them?  Well then maybe we should start writing them short (no pun intended) e-mails, asking them what they find so inspirational about a metallic button which simply reads “Never Date a Short Man”?  

    notonthehighstreet.com,

    First Floor, Lion House, Red Lion Street, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 1RE

    info@notonthehighstreet.com

    (Please Be Polite)

And what makes this slightly more offensive, than it might otherwise be, is the fact that notonthehighstreet.com markets itself as a wholesome website.  They hand pick all of their venders and I couldn’t find any other types of products which could be viewed as even slightly offensive.  They don’t sell dildos or other sex toys (trust me, I checked).  They don’t sell racist joke books or Nazi memorabilia.  And I couldn’t even find so much as a “No Fat Chicks” T-Shirt in my size, or any size.  In fact, this pin is the ONLY thing I could find on this site which attempts to shame an entire category of persons.

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Imagine if the button advised women not to date men of a certain race or religion.  Can we imagine some lawsuits?
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Short Women In A Tall World   (NEW)

Posted: 02/27/2013 1:00 pm

Leslie Rasmussen  Creator of Marriage-Project.com

I'll admit it; I'm only five feet tall. OK, that's not true; I'm actually under five feet. I don't say that very often, because just admitting it, even to myself, is not easy. There aren't a lot of people my height; so, the majority of people don't understand what it's like being this short. In my life, I've heard every comment about my stature from, "You know, good things come in small packages," to "Wow, you're so tiny, I want to squeeze you." At 6 that was fine, but at my age, it's patronizing. Most people know better than to comment if you're overweight, but for some reason, height is seen as everyone's business. And the fact that most people think their comments are compliments, is like me saying: "That extra weight around your middle is so cute, like having a St. Bernard strapped to your stomach; I just want to pet it."

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My height also seems to give people the license to treat me like a child. I once climbed on a seat on an airplane to smash my luggage into the overhead compartment. The flight attendant watched me for a while and when I completed the task, replied: "Good girl, you did it." This happened last week and the flight attendant was in her thirties.

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I realize that everyone has something about themselves they'd change, something they feel puts them at a disadvantage in their life. Mine just happens to be obvious to everyone. Even being short, I married a great guy, had two fabulous kids and enjoy my work.

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She didn't say what her husband's height is.  Can we safely assume 6'10"?
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What Women Want: Will We Ever Stop Stigmatizing Short Men?    (NEW)

Jane Reynolds in Culture, Lifestyle 6 days ago

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Though its origin is much discussed and remains somewhat unclear, the term "heightism," discrimination based on height, and usually male height, was coined in 1971 by sociologist Saul Feldman. It is clearly something that still exists today. There is no denying that shorter than average men are stigmatized in the media, workplace, and particularly relationships; research shows that women prefer taller men. So will this stigma ever go away? Short answer ... no.

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Sounds like "Jungle Jane" doesn't want heightism to go away.  Oh well, there has to be ONE group we can safely discriminate against!
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Studies: Short People Are Dumb, Poor, Criminals    (OLD)
By Derek Thompson

May 7 2010, 12:03 PM ET

There are plenty of studies that claim it pays to be tall. A 2004 report found that each inch of height amounts to a salary increase of about $789 per year (controlling for gender, weight and age). Another concluded that taller people are flat out smarter. Indeed, no American president has been below average height since 1888.

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Update: Another study finds that shorter women make more money. Bakadesuyo concludes: "Looks like men get rewarded for what is deemed as masculine and women get rewarded for what is seen as feminine. Seems to make sense. I didn't say it was fair, I just said it made sense."

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It makes sense to discriminate against short men.  It's all in your mind little man.
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Why Short People Get Bullied at Work    (NEW)

Why do short people get bullied?

Do short people get bullied?

The seasoned workplace bully will pick out people who they think are vulnerable. If you are physically short then they may decide that you will not be able to retaliate in the immediate aftermath of the incident.

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Picking on the Short One: Workplace Bullying and Physical Attributes

The glorification of height:

When parents tell children that they need to eat their fruit and vegetables in order to grow big, it reinforces the belief that big is good while small is less. By the time you leave primarily school no one wants to be seen as being short. The girls are given a bit of a pass as it is clear that their average height is lower than that of boys. These prejudices grow with us until we reach the workplace. Therefore short people become less popular while tall people are idolized.

The lack of identification:

Height is a very fluid thing. In Asia the notion of being tall is very different from that in the Scandinavian countries. That means that there is no single group that brings “short” people together. A man that is 5.1” may be considered to be short but what about someone that is 5.7”? Do they count as being medium or short? The point is that it is difficult to advocate against this type of bullying if the victims cannot be identified as a group.

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Do short people get bullied?  YOU have to speak up.
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NOSSA FRAUD MATT CAMPISI NOW MOCKING SHORT PEOPLE    (NEW)

He does it right in our faces and doesn’t care.  The two-bit fraud and loser named Matthew Salvatore Campisi, aka ‘Matt the Ratt’, one of the worst specimens of humanity ever to walk planet Earth, is now directing more of his own brand of spiteful contemptuousness towards  short people.  The utter hubris and hypocrisy of this man is just unbelievable on its face.  The scum who fraudulently represented www.nossaonline.org as a legitimate incorporated non-profit from 2005-2006 – until my timely complaints to state agencies about Campisi’s fraud – and then after those complaints were made, tried to implicate me in what HE had done, is now openly mocking short people and insulting their collective intelligence on every page of his National Organization of Short Statured Adults COMMA INC. website.

On EVERY SINGLE PAGE of Campisi’s allegedly soon-to-be-defunct organization’s website we see the advertisement:

WHO ELSE WANTS TO BE 2.4 INCHES TALLER IN 5 SECONDS?  SHOP NOW

FEEL SHORT?  TRY SHOE LIFTS  SHOP NOW

The preceding is part of an advertisement for shoe inserts to make you taller and is also a link to the website that sells them.

Every page has this ad at the bottom, even the FAQ page where it reads:

NOSSA does not endorse any manufacturer of shoe lifts or height-increasing shoes. Instead, we encourage people to always strive towards accepting and loving yourself as you are...short height and all. Some people have reported to us that the use of these shoes caused a psychological dependence on them in some situations. For example, what happens if you have to take your shoes off at the airport?  What happens if you meet a woman and you eventually have to take your shoes off with her?  What happens if you have to go to a formal or special dress occasion with your office-mates (do you have to get the special formal shoes?) What if you go golfing with people you know?  Do you have to get the height increasing cleats also?  What if you go bowling?  Do they make bowling shoes also? The questions go on and on. We advise you to think very hard about it before you order lifts for your shoes. It's a big deal, and you'll be stuck with them if you do it. Plus you'll be denying a part of you that you have no reason to be ashamed of.

Campisi’s goal is to “stick-it” to all short people with this blatant hypocrisy.  He wants to “do a job” on short people.  He’s saying to short people – “F**K ALL OF YOU”!  Why?  Because short people didn’t join his “organization”, the organization that the webmaster forced him to start in November of 2006 with some very timely complaints to state agencies about Campisi’s fraudulent representation of the website www.nossaonline.org.  How many people would have the cahonas to go to a hosting company, start a website and then falsely represent it as an incorporated non-profit organization, then advertise for paid memberships in the fake incorporated non-profit and also solicit for donations to this illusory ‘NOSSA, Inc.’?  How many people guilty of such a thing, who were then found out, would attempt to “accuse the accuser”?   We would not put Campisi above fabricating evidence.  We would not put Campisi above lying under oath.  We would not put Campisi above anything, if it meant covering his own worthless backside.  What kind of an individual is capable of this sort of unscrupulous behavior?  I’ll tell you:  A very sick one.

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Campisi gets in his last shots at Short People.
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Height discrimination a concern    (NEW)

While discrimination of gender or race is prevalent, shortness is a valid problem effecting the workplace

James Popkie
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 3:54 am

Many different types of discrimination are given extensive coverage in our educational system and in the media. However, one incredibly common type of discrimination is often ignored: discrimination against short people.

It is ignored to the point where many people are not even aware it exists, and can’t even fathom shortness being a potential serious detriment to one’s success. In economist and sociologist Malcolm Gladwell’s book Blink, he talks extensively about the psychological bias that exists against short people, primarily in the business world, which can extend to how we basically judge others in social situations.

Shortness is seen, often at a subconscious level, as synonymous with weakness and a lack of confidence and power.

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Researchers he cited have found out that a person who is 6”0 will make, on average, over $5500 more per year than someone who is 5”5.

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Many people discriminate against short people without even realizing it: subconsciously thinking of them as a lesser human being because they are less in stature. Shortness can be related subconsciously to a lack of power, and thus our minds can be attuned to automatically judge short people as weaker without even realizing it.

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Oh they realize it all right.  Just go to twitter.
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Duke students to protest fraternity’s ‘racist rager’    (NEW)

By Dylan Stableford, Yahoo! News | The Lookout – Wed, Feb 6, 2013

Students at Duke University are planning a rally on Wednesday to protest a themed fraternity party that some are calling a "racist rager."

Photos from the party—held by Kappa Sigma on Friday—posted to Facebook showed students in traditional Asian attire. An email invite included stereotypical misspellings ("Herro," "Chank You") and an image from the film "Team America: World Police."'

Three seniors from the university's Asian Students Association posted fliers across Duke's campus showing the invite and photos. "If you're not outraged," a caption added to one of the fliers reads, "you're not paying attention."

“This is not just about Asians, one party or one frat,” Ashley Tsai, one of the seniors, told Duke's the Chronicle. “This is a consistent thing happening. We want serious things to be done by the student body and the university so that this never happens again.”

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Asians - like many other groups - don't tolerate this sort of thing.  Imagine what would happen if somebody wrote a song with the lyrics saying:  "Asian people got no reason to live".

Imagine.
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CAMPISI’S PERSONAL BLOG DISAPPEARS
February 1, 2013

The National Organization of Short Statured Adults, Inc. will soon be “disappearing” from the Internet.  

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Now Campisi’s own personal Blog at http://www.matthewcampisi.blogspot.com/ has disappeared into the night.  This is the blog on which Campisi displayed such wise statements as:

•            “Any bitch can spend a man’s money, ride in his car, lay up in his house, order off the menu and spread her legs . . ."
•            “ . . . You must fight till your enemies are eliminated”
•            “You are nothing but a bunch of low life vultures . . . each of you are nothing but excrement.”
•            How do I feel about Gun Control?  Break into my house one night and find out.
•            “Are you a Sunday Christian?  Do you treat people like shit all week and then bask in the word on Sunday?”

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Matt Campisi of the 'National Organization of Short Statured Adults, Inc.'  -- High-tailin' it outta town.   
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MESSAGE FROM A NO-NAME NOSSA PRESIDENT

From the famous NOSSA Blog:

Message from NOSSA President
Thanks to Brent and Shamil. Thanks to Mike (who I still believe would have made a superb President ;) Thanks to Chris Hamre  . . .

I am confident that new leaders will emerge and continue the cause. Hopefully, a new organization will spring forth from that. I wish any new blood the best of luck and hope that they are able to achieve great success. If NOSSA was nothing more than a seed that gave birth to new leaders, then I consider it a great success!

NOSSA President

Hamre WAS the president.  Apparently he abandoned Nossa.  Nothing is said about this.   Hamre has now disappeared into the night along with his brief and foolish videos.

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We’re about as sure as we can be that the person who wrote the above was once again none other than the two-bit petty con-artist named Matthew Salvatore Campisi age 35, originally from Babylon, New York. The old Nossa president who we’re sure is now the new Nossa president once again, is probably the only so-called “trustee” left.  We’re quite certain that the person who wrote the above is the same Matthew Salvatore Campisi who fraudulently represented the website www.nossaonline.org for well over a year as a legitimate incorporated non-profit organization, ingathered money under the false pretense of one, and attempted to implicate the webmaster in Campisi’s own actions after legitimate complaints were made to state agencies about the false representation of www.nosssaonline.org.  This is the same worthless sack of manure that has advertisements for “shoe lifts” on  his Nossa website, in direct contradiction to his so-called “organization’s” policy on height “enhancement” products as an in-your-face example of his contempt for the short people who were smart enough to stay away from him and his personal quest for funds and also his contempt for the people who have rightfully abandoned him.  This is the same Matthew Salvatore Campisi that keeps his nossa forums “private”; that’s “private” for his protection, not yours.  This is the same Campisi who, on his own forums uses an Avatar of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  An avatar of MLK in prayer.  This is to make people think that he’s sincere and deeply concerned about “his people”.  The only thing Campisi is concerned with is himself and his financial enhancement.

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This is just about the worst we've ever seen -



But what do you think?
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Broadcast of January 25, 2013 - Interview with Paul Cameron
Paul Cameron has a Master's in Communication from Ottawa University.  His Master's thesis looks at how short male athletes are represented in televised sport.  You can read Paul Cameron's thesis here.
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Matt Campisi of NOSSA – One last F*** You to Short People
January 23, 2013

We mentioned before about the advertising appearing on the homepage of the National Organization of Short Statured Adults, Inc. and that of course is the advertisement for “shoe lifts”.  This advertisement has been on every page of the NOSSA website for at least the last 3 months.  This is in direct contradiction to what NOSSA states on their FAQ page –

NOSSA does not endorse any manufacturer of shoe lifts or height-increasing shoes. Instead, we encourage people to always strive towards accepting and loving yourself as you are...

We think this is Matt Campisi’s last F U to short people.  Such in-your-face hypocrisy can have only one motivation, and that is hostility.  This is Campisi’s way of saying to short people, “You didn’t join my organization and make me money, so in parting, I’m going to show you what a fraud and hypocrite I really am.  If you don’t like it, go to hell”.  Campisi doesn’t care.  In a short time his website will be gone from the Internet, so who cares what people are going to think.  This is the way we picture this bum’s mind to work.  And we think we’re right on the mark.  What's even more poignant is seeing the ad at the bottom of the NOSSA FAQ page, where the above quote was taken.  If you haven’t seen the ads yet, better hurry up before the NOSSA website goes down for good.  The more short people that see what kind of in-your-face hypocrisy they’re dealing with here, the better.  His little stooge – Christopher Allen Hamre – must feel like a prize sap right now.  We think that Hamre finally realizes just a little bit of how this guy Campisi used him for the last 7 or 8 years.  It’s so sad.  The editor of shortsupport.org will now have to take down his “Join NOSSA, make a difference” ad along with the NOSSA logo as well.  We can only hope that the next organization for short people will not be a sham like this one was. 
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Is Matthew Campisi Feigning an Illusory Secretary?

From the famous ‘NOSSA Blog’:

Saturday January 19, 2013

NOSSA Secretary's Thoughts

I have to say that more so than NOSSA coming to a close, the thing that pains me is the reason behind it needing to do so and that is the indifference toward heightism and the fact that most people think it is a joke.
I would also like to add that while I was still holding my notions about how wrong heightism was inside, NOSSA was out there in the world in the face of overwhelming odds. I saw the documentary of the guys getting ridiculed in the streets. I knew that ridicule well because I still face it today. However, the guys from NOSSA were out there taking that ridicule voluntarily. That is something I will never forget. I had spoken out about how harsh the treatment I received was but was always met with harsh opposition, ridicule, and the blame was always placed on me for taking exception to the discrimination instead of on those perpetrating the discrimination. Therefore, the only tactic I could use was the "ignore it approach." At the time, I didn't know how wrong this was.
So thanks to guys like Matt who were out in the open doing the right thing. Thank you to Mike for extending your offer of friendship and being a warrior for the truth. It is still an extremely hard battle to fight and we are against great odds. Thanks to everyone who made NOSSA a pioneer in the effort with social justice. What I have learned is that the losing battles we fight courageously are far more worthy than the fleeting sense of peace we get by not fighting the same battle in exchange for a few moments of comfort here-and-there.
I really do see the people who speak-out about these issues as my brothers and sisters. So while the family name may be fading, that doesn't mean we can't continue the great family tradition we have cultivated here. It's sad to see this legacy coming to a close before a decade even elapsed, but all of you who got this momentum started, just know that your efforts weren't in vain. Thank you for having the courage, passion, and drive to bring the dialogue to a more equal and fair position. Society has benefited greatly from your efforts.

Peace and good vibes to you all

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There’s no doubt in my mind that this was written by Matthew Campisi pretending he’s the NOSSA Secretary.  You’ll notice there’s no name connected with this.  Campisi’s last “secretary” was Devin Love-Andrews.  And he has been gone since around September.  We think that’s how long Andrews has been gone because that was when Campisi removed the link to Andrews’ blog. That was also right about the time we figure that Campisi decided to throw in the towel.  Where did Campisi get this “secretary” from?  And why would Campisi even try to get someone to replace Andrews if he knew he was going to fold up this organization?  Well, we think we know.  Campisi has probably been feigning the identity of some new guy allegedly taking over for Andrews. Campisi would have a very difficult time finding someone who thinks on the same page as the person who wrote the above and who would be willing to actually be the “secretary” in a failing venture.  Geez, what a fricken con artist!!!!  I just never get used to this guy’s lies!  He’s always got a new one.  But I can always figure out that he’s lying.  “NOSSA was out there in the world in the face of overwhelming odds”, “I saw the guys getting ridiculed in the streets”.  Let me tell you, nobody but Campisi would write something like this.  Nobody.  One would think that Christopher Allen Hamre most likely would be the one to write something like this.  After all he’s been “with” Campisi for about 8 years now.  Do you mean to tell me that some newbie wrote this – somebody that Campisi “picked-up” for the last 3 months as Secretary?  And speaking of ‘Luda’-Chris, where is he?  He’s supposed to be the so-called “president”.  Why isn’t the so-called “president” making a statement?  Or is Campisi going to read this now and suddenly Hamre is going to appear on the Nossa blog at the last, and give a farewell speech?  Or maybe Campisi posing as Hamre too.  This is the problem for someone like Matthew Campisi of the National Organization of Short Statured Adults, Inc., you can fool some of the people some of the time.  You can fool a few of them all of the time.  But Campisi’s days of fooling us ANYTIME passed a long, long time ago.
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Broadcast of January 22, 2013 - The 'Napoleon Complex' Part II
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Questions    (From the famous NOSSA Blog)
January 18, 2013

We have been getting flooded with questions about our closing and we would like to answer a few here for you.

The organization will be closing permanently. This will not be temporary. The dissolution process will take some time but we expect it to be completed within a year. The website will continue for a short time but will eventually be shut down.

The reason is because NOSSA did not receive enough support from the short statured community in the form of memberships, donations, volunteers, and active membership participation. We could no longer continue to operate without your support.

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The organization that couldn’t attract members now gets “flooded with questions”.  By who?  All the short people who failed to join?  The Florida Division of Consumer Services?  The New York State Attorney General’s Office?  The Florida State Police?  The Sheriff’s Department?   Christopher Hamre’s mother?  Who???

It appears that, even in death – the death of Campisi’s one-time fake organization  - the organization that the webmaster forced Campisi to form back in 2006 after complaints to state agencies about fraudulent representation on the Internet, etc. – Campisi still – even now - cannot cease making false statements.

A lie is sad way to say good-bye.
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How men and women find a partner – the long and short of it    (NEW)
Jeremy Laurance Thursday 17 January 2013

When it comes to choosing a mate, both sexes are heightist*.

Men choose shorter females as partners and women choose taller males. That should cause no surprise: men are, on average, taller than women. But evidence shows that partnerships such as that between the diminutive jazz pianist Jamie Cullum (5ft 4 in), and the model Sophie Dahl (5ft 11in), are even less common than statistics would suggest.

In the first study to examine how partner preferences translate into actual choices, researchers analysed results for 10,000 couples across the UK. They found that in more than nine out of 10 couples (92.5 per cent) the man was taller than the woman. On average, men were 5ft 10in tall and women 5ft 4½in, a difference of 5½in.

As some women are tall and some men short, it would be expected that the height relationship would be reversed in some partnerships. On average, if men and women were randomly sorted into couples, one in 200 pairings would involve a woman who is taller than the man.

Yet in practice, that is true of only one in 720 couples. Jamie Cullum and Sophie Dahl’s relationship is rare indeed.Past research has suggested that taller men are more likely to be married and to have more children (except in societies affected by war). However being too tall, like being too short, reduces attractiveness.Unless, that is, there are countervailing factors. When 35-year-old Brazilian lawyer Fabiana Flosi, 5ft 10in in her stockings, married Bernie Ecclestone (5ft 3in) last year, observers wondered what attracted her to the 81-year-old billionaire Formula One chief.

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"Observers wondered what attracted her to the 81-year-old BILLIONAIRE"???
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NOSSA IS GIVEN LAST RITES – ANOTHER MATTHEW CAMPISI CHARADE?    (NEW)

January 15, 2013
From the famous NOSSA blog:

    NOSSA SET TO CLOSE IT’S DOORS

    It is with a very sad heart that we regretfully report that NOSSA - National Organization Of Short Statured Adults, Inc. will be closing it's doors. Over the next year the organization will be closing up shop and will no longer continue to operate. The main reason for this is due to a lack of support from the short statured community. Without support no organization can continue and unfortunately, NOSSA fell victim to this very basic truth. The website will continue for a short time but memberships and donations will not be accepted. The Board of Directors wishes to extend our deepest thanks to those folks who have supported us through the years. We are proud of what we have accomplished and hope that others will now take the proverbial torch and continue the work that was started. Comments and questions may be directed to us through our website. Thank you and please continue the fight!

About 3 weeks prior to this announcement Campisi posted this message on the famous NOSSA blog:

    2013 and beyond

    Thank you for your support for NOSSA - National Organization Of Short Statured Adults in 2012. We look forward to your continued support in 2013 and beyond. We will continue to serve as the voice for short statured people who are facing heightism and height discrimination and for other important issues facing short statured adults. We will be opening up our membership rolls once again in 2013. We have a few changes coming that will be announced shortly. We invite all our friends to share their thoughts with us on our websites and to continue to speak out against heightism.

Now how does a so-called “organization” state on December 24th that they “will be opening up” their “membership rolls once again in 2013” and then – only 3 weeks later – abruptly do a 180 degree “about face”, and state that their so-called “organization” “is closing its doors” and memberships will not be accepted?  How does a so-called “organization state on December 24th that, “We will continue to serve as the voice for short statured people who are facing heightism and height discrimination and for other important issues facing short statured adults . . .” and then, only 3 weeks later fold their hand and leave the room?!  This pathetic sham called NOSSA, Inc. was NEVER any “voice for short statured people”.  This pathetic farce was never anything but a farce.  And we are in the best position of all to see the facts as they are.

Campisi has pulled this sort of thing before.

We’re taking Matthew Campisi’s latest report with cautious optimism.  Too many times has Campisi cried “Wolf”.  Too many times has the fraud named Matthew Campisi made false statements.  The so-called “organization” that the webmaster literally forced Matthew Campisi to start with his legitimate complaints to state agencies about fraudulent representation on the Internet, and ingathering money under the false pretense of an incorporated non-profit back in 2006;  the so-called “organization” that criticizes leg lengthening and height increase products and yet, blatantly advertises right on their home page for elevator shoes; the man who actually attempted to falsely implicate the webmaster in Campisi’s own actions, now claims that he’s got a “sad heart”.  The poor dear.  

It is possible that Campisi is not lying this time, although way back in the spring of 2006 Campisi was also claiming victimhood and attempting to ingather the webmasters’ (and others) sympathy.  He also claimed at that time that NOSSA would not continue.  This was during the period that Campisi was fraudulently representing www.nossaonline.org as a legitimate incorporated non-profit not only on the Internet, but also to myself,  the editor of shortsupport.org, and very likely to Campisi’s little stooge, Christopher Allen Hamre.  How does an “organization” that did not even exist at the time, cease to continue?  At that time there was no ‘National Organization of Short Statured Adults, Inc.’ contrary to what Campisi’s nossaonline.org website was claiming.  I discovered in the late summer  of ’06 that ‘NOSSA, Inc.’ did not exist and shortly thereafter made complaints to state agencies about the website – www.nossaonline.org.  Campisi responded with allegations  which carried no substance.  They were blatantly false.  Not too long after this, Campisi’s original message boards that were hosted by a company named ‘Aimoo’ were then abandoned.  And we believe that they were abandoned for one reason and one reason only:  to protect Matthew Campisi.  On those message boards Campisi made more than one false statement and Campisi no doubt realized this.  So he decided to change companies.  With the second company Campisi decided to make posts “private”.  We believe that this was not done for any purpose other than to protect Matthew Campisi.

The few people who are genuinely knowledgeable about heightism I think can see that Campisi’s NOSSA was nothing but a sham.

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We also believe that Campisi’s video-making days are over.  We believe that he dares not show his face again.

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What is hopefully the end of a sad and pathetic chapter for the short-statured.
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Tom Cruise: If Arnold Schwarzenegger Can Be Governor, I Could Be President    (NEW)
Celebrity News January 9,2013 at 5:40 pm by Justin Ravitz

President Tom Cruise?

As the most famous Scientologist in the world, the 50-year-old actor fought for the cause of his faith with American and British leaders, and even imagined once himself in the White House -- at least according to Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief, Pulitzer Prize winner Lawrence Wright's new book.

As excerpted in The Hollywood Reporter, Wright reveals that the Jack Reacher star consulted with the likes of President Bill Clinton, a member of British Prime Minister Tony Blair's team, and several key members of President George W. Bush's staff-- lobbying for causes important to the Church of Scientology.

According to one account in Going Clear, Cruise once boasted to David Miscavige -- his mentor and the head of the Church -- about his discussions with Bush's team. Marty Rathbun, a former high-level member of the Church who has since left the faith, relayed the conversation to Wright.

According to Rathbun, Cruise slammed actor-turned-politician Arnold Schwarzenneger during the conversation: "If f--ing Arnold can be governor, I could be president," the star allegedly said. Said Miscavige: "Well, absolutely, Tom." A lawyer for the actor denied the exchange ever took place or that Cruise has any political aspirations.

The Going Clear excerpt also delves into the demise of Cruise's second marriage to Nicole Kidman. Cruise was "drifting" from the faith in the late 90s -- but spent five mysterious days inside the Scientology center in Hollywood in 1998. "He was not in good shape, spiritually or mentally," Rathbun is quoted as saying; at the time, he was in charge of "auditing" the star, subjecting him to an intense bout of spiritual and religious counseling.

According to Rathbun, Miscavige "blamed" Kidman, now 45, for Cruise's then estrangement from the Church. Wright explains that Miscavige "viewed [Kidman] as a gold digger who was faking Scientology. [Rathbun] says Miscavige was hopeful that if they portrayed Nicole Kidman as a Suppressive Person, Cruise could be peeled away from her."

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The article isn't bad.  It's the comments that you MUST read.  "Delusional shrimp" and "closeted midget" are just two of the many complimentary phrases used to describe Tom Cruise.  Wait till you read the comments on 'OMG!'.
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South Florida women — and men — audition for 'America's Next Top Model'    (NEW)

January 5, 2013|By Erika Pesantes, Sun Sentinel

Katrina Roth was as showy and proud as the peacock tattooed on her forearm. It was arguably model-like behavior — for America's Next Top Model, that is.

The 21-year-old, who goes by the name of Imani, said she quit her job as an Applebee's server and dyed her hair blond to audition Saturday for the reality show, which will also feature male models for the first time this summer season.

The casting call for 18- to 27-year-olds at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale drew 185 women and 122 men. Women were required to be at least 5 feet 7 inches tall; men had to be at least 5 feet 10 inches.

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No other requirements mentioned; only height. 
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Broadcast of January 9, 2013 - The "Napoleon Complex"
The webmaster discusses the fallacious so-called "Napoleon Complex"
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Infographic | Top 50 CEOs head and shoulders above the rest    (NEW)
PUBLISHED: 22 Sep 2012 00:04:00 | UPDATED: 02 Oct 2012 13:06:13

Edmund Tadros

The only two female chief executives of Australia’s 50 biggest companies aren’t just outnumbered by men but usually find themselves looking up at their male peers.

■ Financial Review Infographic | How tall are Australia’s CEOs?

Kerrie Mather, who is chief executive of Sydney Airport, is 160 centimetres (just shy of 5 feet 3 inches) tall, while Westpac Banking Corporation CEO Gail Kelly is a handspan taller at 171.5cm. This puts them on either side of the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ average for an Australian woman of 162.1cm.

But the average man is 176cm tall, well short of the average male chief executive. A survey of the CEOs of the top 50 listed companies by the Weekend Financial Review found their average height is 183cm – over 6 feet – and about 7cm taller than the average man today.

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Women CEO's are an exception to the rule.  They don't have to be tall.  Just as long as they're women.  It's all in your mind little man.
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Are You Short? Would You Ever Get Leg Lengthening Surgery?    (NEW)

I’m 5’7″, but growing up, my female friends were almost exclusively over 5’11″ so I just assumed I was on the shorter side of things until I got older and realized I’m a pretty average height, if not a bit above. Being half Peruvian, the majority of my paternal relatives are on the shorter side, so I had that reference; nevertheless, I wished to be taller. However, since this is purely a vanity dream, I cannot imagine going through leg lengthening surgery the way that Massachusetts woman Tiffanie DiDonato did–twice.

DiDonato, 32, has a form of dwarfism called diastrophic dysplasia which has led her to have a “typical size” torso and atypically short arms and legs; as a middle schooler, she was only 3’6″ tall. According to ABC News, she’d always dreamed of being tall enough to reach objects above her, cook and drive, but was never able to because of her height.

So, starting at 8-years-old, she underwent multiple leg lengthening procedures that led her to gain 14 inches of height, eventually bringing her to a height of 4’10″ (legally on the edge of Constitutional Short Stature). While it helped her gain even more inches than expected, it was an extremely painful process: the surgery involves breaking bones and forcing them to re-grow longer.

        “When I woke up, when it hurt so much, you freeze it, almost like if you scream it is going to hurt worse,” she said. “All you can do is kind of let the    tears fall and deal with it and suck it up and let it ride.”


Now, though, DiDonato is extremely pleased with her height now, and has a husband and baby.

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Why is it that many of these short women seem to need husbands 2 feet taller than they are?  (Just take a look at the photo in the article)
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NOSSA HOMEPAGE APPARENTLY DISPLAYING HEIGHT INCREASE “SHOE LIFT” ADVERTISEMENTS
January 4, 2013

One of the frequenters of our website mentioned to us that the famous NOSSA (that stands for National Organization of Short Statured Adults) homepage was displaying ads for shoe lifts to increase height.  We decided to check it out.  Sure enough there it was, this day, January 4, 2013.  

 NOSSA’s Frequently Asked Questions page states this:

NOSSA does not endorse any manufacturer of shoe lifts or height-increasing shoes. Instead, we encourage people to always strive towards accepting and loving yourself as you are...short height and all. Some people have reported to us that the use of these shoes caused a psychological dependence on them in some situations. For example, what happens if you have to take your shoes off at the airport?  What happens if you meet a woman and you eventually have to take your shoes off with her?  What happens if you have to go to a formal or special dress occasion with your office-mates (do you have to get the special formal shoes?) What if you go golfing with people you know?  Do you have to get the height increasing cleats also?  What if you go bowling?  Do they make bowling shoes also? The questions go on and on. We advise you to think very hard about it before you order lifts for your shoes. It's a big deal, and you'll be stuck with them if you do it. Plus you'll be denying a part of you that you have no reason to be ashamed of.

This is the website whose ad appeared on the Nossa homepage.  The ad is at the bottom of the page, right below photos of Nossa doofus Christopher Hamre.
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Short people face bias, disadvantages    (OLD)
By Megan Pearson on June 26, 2011.

Short people got no reason to live.

What if you were so short you couldn’t reach the top shelf to grab milk at Wal-Mart? As shocking as Randy Newman’s song is, some short people do feel like they’ve got no reason to live.

Anna Jones is a graduate from BYU.  She is beautiful, smart, talented, witty – and 4 feet 11 inches tall.

“I think people don’t think of me as being a real person,” Jones said. “They think I’m some sort of freak of nature that’s not their equal or a subtype of human being that’s not like them.”

Jones has a long list of disadvantages of being short.

“I can’t reach anything, I can’t touch the floor when I sit, and I think a lot of guys never considered me as someone they would date,” she said. “I think it’s definitely harder for boys to be short because girls can pass as cute and petite, but for guys, everybody notices. I’m sure they are much more discriminated against.”

David Hogg, 26, a senior majoring in exercise science, said being short while growing up wasn’t too bad at first.

“I remember the first day of seventh grade I got on the bus to go home and I walked to the back of the bus where all the eighth and ninth graders sat … and all the older girls were like, ‘Oh my gosh, he’s so cute,’ ” Hogg said with a laugh. “Because I was short I got to sit with all the hot eighth- and ninth-grade girls.”

But being short got harder as he aged. Hogg didn’t start growing until he was 16 years old. Until then he said he was bullied, pushed and teased.

“In eighth grade when I was 14 I was 4-foot-8 – super short – and I would get picked on a lot because I couldn’t do anything about it,” Hogg said.

Research shows the bias against short people continues throughout adulthood, especially when it comes to jobs.

In a collaborative message from professors in BYU’s Organizational Leadership and Strategy Department, they said there is definitely bias against short people in the workforce.

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Like we didn't know it all along.
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Remember Alexandra Wallace?  She was the UCLA student, who, back in 2011 made the Youtube video below - 'Asians in the Library'.




For displaying this video she was written up harshly in almost all of the major media in the U.S. and abroad.  According to various sources even a spokesman for UCLA denounced it:  "The comments on there are contrary to the values the university believes in," university spokesman Phil Hampton said.  Miss Wallace was forced to withdraw from the University and even received death threats.  Contrast the above video with the one below from "Comedian" Frances DiLorinzo about "Short men" -




For the first video you get ridiculed from one end of the country to another and around the World, get forced to withdraw from your college, and even receive death threats.  For the second one (as long as it's about short men) you get a whole lot of laughs and get paid good money for doing it.

It's all in your mind little man.  You should just - "Get over it".
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Ellen DeGeneres makes short jokes in JC Penney ad and angers some    (NEW)

Ellen DeGeneres ad December 7, 2012 By: Marci Stone

Thursday, a JC Penney commercial starring comedian Ellen DeGeneres angered some people because the commercial pokes fun at short people, or in this case…elves. The ad is for JC Penney and it stars comedian and talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres sitting at a table with three of Santa's elves. She looks large in comparison to the elves, and she asks them to produce more toys for a JC Penney contest, and accidentally makes several short jokes.

In the ad, Ellen DeGeneres says:

    I know this is no small feat.

    Well, it's a big deal.

    Who wants a cookie?

The elves slightly grimace after the first two statements, but Ellen moves on.

One group in particular took issue with this commercial. One Million Moms issued this statement:

Since April, JC Penney's has not aired Ellen DeGeneres in one of their commercials until now. A new JCP ad features Ellen and three elves. JCP has made their choice to offend a huge majority of their customers again. Christians must now vote with their wallets.

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Yeah, right.  She made "short jokes and "angered some".  But 'One Million Moms complaint' had nothing to do with the "short jokes".  See the video below -




Check it out on Youtube too.  Take a look at the comments.  Do you see anyone - ANYONE - railing about "short jokes"?
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FROM THE PTSD FORUM -
Adults Of Short Stature Being Bullied    (NEW)
Discussion in 'Symptoms & Other Disorders' started by James B., Nov 22, 2011.

Hello Everyone,

Very unfortunate incidents regarding severe hazing of smaller kids leading to suicide, has led me to post this thread.
It's for anyone of small stature who believes that their physical size is relevant to their trauma.

Being smaller automatically attracts weirdos and weaklings who want to have physical control or dominance, over another person.

Small people have long been one of the silent punching bags of society.

Being smaller as an adult, can lead to retaliation for having done a good job: it's very embarrassing to be "shown up" by a little person.(!)

Much of society does not see this stuff. It's hidden. The offenders seem cloaked in denial; society doesn't want to acknowledge another sickness in it's midst. it's too much: humans are beginning to look like sick out of control apes.

Much of society will never hear from those smaller adults being hazed or abused. They may have been coerced into silence w/ veiled threats of retaliation.

As the doors of bigotry have begun to be formally closed, those needing to prop themselves up, have had to delve into the fringes of society, in order to find something human to put down. Thus making themselves feel better.

This is why some feel that there is an increase in small statured adults being bullied:

1) the increase in highly insecure people, who have been handed their credentials due to their looks and socioeconomic background.

2) The criminalizing of certain hate topics, namely bigotry based on race (can't overtly hate them anymore!) and the criminalizing of bigotry based on gender.

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An awakened short man.  Most refreshing.
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Police Arrest "Tall Guy, Short Guy" in Connection with 11 Robberies    (NEW)

By Erin Sherbert Tue., Sep. 25 2012 at 8:27 AM

San Francisco police tracked down the two guys -- one tall, one short -- who they say are responsible for holding up a slew of restaurants, phones stores, and even a hot tub business over the last month.

Officer Carlos Manfredi says police arrested 40-year-old Ray Faar, of San Francisco, and 48-year-old Bryan Alexander, of Daly City, on suspicion of robbing 11 businesses between Aug. 18 and Sept. 16. The duo became famous, not just for their crimes, but for their size; one guy is 5-foot-6 and the other is 5-foot-11; police had some fun with this one, and named the robbery series "tall guy, short guy."

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"Think back to your days on the beat," a Royal Canadian Mounted Police manual once instructed.  "It was always the little guy that caused the trouble and caused the fight." - from 'The Height of Your Life' by Ralph Keyes.

Should be an open and shut case.
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Has Two-bit NOSSA Huckster Matt Campisi Gone into Hiding along with his ‘stooge ala mort’ Christopher Allen Hamre?    (NEW)

Recently, NOSSA (that stands for National Organization of Short Statured Adults) treasurer and its main knave, Matt ‘The Ratt’ Campisi, has made some abrupt changes to the Nossa website along with a few other doo-dads.  Campisi has “removed” (one of Campisi’s favorite words) the links from the Nossa website to:

Devin Love-Andrews’ blog
Campisi’s own pathologic blog
‘Luda’-Chris Hamre’s blog

Campisi has also “eliminated” (another one of Campisi’s favorites) any mention of the famous “Nossa Documentary” from the Nossa website and the Nossa youtube channel.  This is approximately the fifth time in five years that this has happened. In addition Campisi has also cancelled the previously “scheduled” ‘famous’ Nossa May 2013 Washington, D.C. protest that Campisi’s loyal stooge - 44 year-old Christopher Allen Hamre (previously of San Diego, California and at last report now camping out in – of all places – Brooklyn, New York) - had announced back in July.  Campisi also “removed” his multi-second tout videos and made his “backyard walk” video “Private”.  Apparently Campisi has reasoned that it’s time to hide his face again so that no one gets a good look at it.  

Campisi’s youtube channel -

has also disappeared into the night and can no longer be found.  Hamre – sometimes referred to as ‘Luda’-Chris - has also appeared to have gone MIA.  Hamre has not made an entry on his famous blog – Dontlookdownatme.blogspot.com – in 4 months. That can’t be a coincidence.  Perhaps he has given up in his quest to fulfill Campisi’s hollow and utterly ridiculous claim of him being “The World’s only true heightism activist”.  Or perhaps “president” Hamre has been given “orders” from “below” by Campisi to lay low for awhile and given some ham-handed reason for it, that only a rube like Hamre would believe.  Campisi is definitely laying low and we think we know why.  Whatever is going on, you can bet Campisi is behind it.  As far as ‘Sleazy Campisi’ goes though, there’s no doubt that something’s up with the tike who, back in 2005 and 2006, fraudulently represented the website www.nossaonline.org as a legitimate incorporated non-profit, ingathered money under the false pretense of one (some of that money donated by this writer), and after complaints were made to state agencies by the webmaster after discovering Campisi’s actions, counter charges were made, in an apparent attempt by Campisi to implicate the webmaster in Campisi’s own chicanery.  You can’t get any worse than this.  This is as bad as it gets – we think – or maybe I should say – we hope. With this individual one can never be quite certain that we’ve seen the worst.  Just when we think it’s as bad as it’s going to get, it gets worse.  We believe in our hearts that this man belongs in a jail cell, and we also think that’s it’s only a matter of time before he gets there, if he’s not there already.

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We fear the best is yet to come, or should we say 'the worst'.
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Broadcast of December 12, 2012 - 'The Plight of The Short Man' The webmaster discusses and reads the article below -

The Plight of the Short Man    (NEW)

Having spent every breath of my existence as a man of below average height, I'm well positioned to give a macro view of being micro. It is a tough life, and the worst part is that it is the one cosmetic defect no one has sympathy for.

You think fat people have it worse. Think again. Fat people have a buffet of folks taking up their cause. Books, magazines, support groups, after school specials, and all the daytime talk shows are constantly drawing attention to the way society treats the larden; especially those “big girls.”

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However, because any woman of any shape can always walk into any bar in the world at any hour and find a suitor, large women still have plenty of options (at least relative to short men). A sizable portion of males even prefer big women, so if the large lass lands a guy craving "more to love," she can eat her cake and be shaped like it too.

[Note there is no equivalent term of affection for short men. We aren't said to have "less to hate."]

What about fat men? While it might not be a picnic to be a fat gent, they are at least assumed to be jolly. This is why fat guys get to play Santa Claus; the bringer of joy to children everywhere. Meanwhile short men are left to play the tragic, wandering elves.

When it comes to judging appearance, one of society's quirks is the nonchalance with which women are free to admit they find short men unappealing. Consider how many commercials, magazine articles, and sitcom episodes you have seen unapologetically articulate the notion of women dismissing short men.  If I'd grown a millimeter for every slam of this kind, I’d be chronicling the perils of being 40-feet tall.

[Note how the media is harangued for "making women hate their bodies" and compare it to the silence about the media's bluntly negative take on short men.]

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Some truths from a short man.
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Profile of the Sociopath

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Manipulative and Conning
They never recognize the rights of others and see their self-serving behaviors as permissible. They appear to be charming, yet are covertly hostile and domineering, seeing their victim as merely an instrument to be used. They may dominate and humiliate their victims.

Grandiose Sense of Self
Feels entitled to certain things as "their right."

Pathological Lying
Has no problem lying coolly and easily and it is almost impossible for them to be truthful on a consistent basis. Can create, and get caught up in, a complex belief about their own powers and abilities. Extremely convincing and even able to pass lie detector tests.

Lack of Remorse, Shame or Guilt
A deep seated rage, which is split off and repressed, is at their core. Does not see others around them as people, but only as targets and opportunities. Instead of friends, they have victims and accomplices who end up as victims. The end always justifies the means and they let nothing stand in their way.

Shallow Emotions
When they show what seems to be warmth, joy, love and compassion it is more feigned than experienced and serves an ulterior motive. Outraged by insignificant matters, yet remaining unmoved and cold by what would upset a normal person. Since they are not genuine, neither are their promises.

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Irresponsibility/Unreliability
Not concerned about wrecking others' lives and dreams. Oblivious or indifferent to the devastation they cause. Does not accept blame themselves, but blames others, even for acts they obviously committed.

Promiscuous Sexual Behavior/Infidelity
Promiscuity, child sexual abuse, rape and sexual acting out of all sorts.

Lack of Realistic Life Plan/Parasitic Lifestyle
Tends to move around a lot or makes all encompassing promises for the future, poor work ethic but exploits others effectively.

Criminal or Entrepreneurial Versatility
Changes their image as needed to avoid prosecution. Changes life story readily.

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Know anyone who fits this description?
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Petite English teacher 'beaten to death by her 260lbs and 6ft 3ins pro bodybuilder boyfriend'    (OLD)

•     Prudence Hockley died on Christmas Day after beating   
•     Allegedly killed by boyfriend Johnnie Wiggins in Seattle   
•     New Zealand immigrant leaves 13-year-old daughter

By Mark Duel
UPDATED: 09:20 EST, 29 December 2011

An English teacher died on Christmas Day after being beaten to death by her bodybuilder boyfriend who then sped off in his car, police claim.

Prudence Hockley, 55, of Seattle, Washington, died after allegedly being beaten up outside her home by 48-year-old Johnnie Lee Wiggins.

They had built up a relationship over their love of fitness. She moved to the U.S. from New Zealand in 1978 and had a 13-year-old daughter.




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Ms Hockley died on Christmas Day at Harborview Medical Center from blunt-force trauma to the head, reported Woodinville Patch.

'It just is gut-wrenching, and it's so unfair. People have been robbed of a wonderful person' - Jill Jeakins

Wiggins was reportedly on supervised parole for crimes committed in Georgia and assaulted a corrections officer in Washington state in May.

‘I think we were all pretty shook up,’ her neighbour Miranda Meyer told KOMO News. ‘There was a lot of activity on Christmas Eve.’

Professional bodybuilder Wiggins is 6'3" and weighs 260lbs.


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From the Huffington Post --

Arianne Cohen

Are Tall People Discriminated Against?    (OLD)
Posted: 06/26/2009 2:28 pm

In short: Yes.

I get a lot of emails from average-height and short people asking why I bothered to write a book about tall folk, who earn $789 more per inch per year, have a longer longevity, and are slightly smarter. Do talls really need a cheerleader?

Let me tell you a story: At both my office and my boyfriend's apartment, the toilets are built so close to the wall that I cannot sit on them as their design intends, because my knees hit the wall. So instead I sit perpendicularly, at a 90 degree angle from the bowl, which, frankly, works poorly because the seat is an oval. This goes on a half dozen times a day. I've never told anyone this before, except all of you.

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Another big-time beneficiary of Heightism claiming victimhood.  Did you ever see a toilet bowl in ANY bathroom that was so close to the wall in front of it that you couldn't fit your legs no matter how tall you were?  Did you ever see a big-time publication like the Huffington Post deign to display an article written by a short person claiming discrimination of any kind?  (Incidentally, the webmaster challenged Ms. Arianne Cohen to a debate some time ago.  She has yet to accept the challenge.)

Time to wake up short people.
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NOSSA’s May 2013 Washington, D.C. “Protest” falls by the wayside  (NEW)
December 2012

It was back in July that ‘Luda’-Chris Hamre announced that NOSSA (that stands for National Organization of Short Statured Adults) - the “organization” that the webmaster forced Matt Campisi into starting by making complaints to state’s and federal agencies for fraudulent representation on the Internet and ingathering money  under the false pretense of an incorporated non-profit organization back in 2006 (some of that money belonging to the webmaster) - would host a veritable “March on Washington” scheduled for May of 2013, where all Short People could take part and protest side-by-side with the “Dyslexic Duo” (Campisi and Hamre).  Unfortunately Campisi recently announced (we think it was Campisi) on the famous NOSSA website that not enough interest could be gathered in the “short statured community” (like there is such a thing as a “short-statured community” at this point in time) for a famous protest to take place many months from now.  (It’s gone now, as are other so-called ‘NOSSA Updates’) I guess that isn’t quite enough time for one huckster and his stooge to get together a contingent of sophisticated activists to make a sufficient enough impression on the Government of the U.S. to pass laws to prevent discrimination against short people like you and me.  Either that, or it was just a scam to begin with, which is what I suspect.  Which begs the question of why depict such a charade in the first place?  Could it be that Campisi got the “idea” from the “100 midget march” and he wanted to “impress” people?

Oh shucks!  What’s a short man to do!?  One would think that a good huckster would have learned something after 5 years of nobody responding to a famous “Backstage ad” for a famous “documentary”.  One would think that ‘Luda’- Chris Hamre, the famous Californian who emigrated to New York City so that he could make $12 an hour in the mail room, and be used as a “front man” by one no less than Matthew Campisi, would have learned something – ANYTHING – in the last 6 years or so, while looking at the four walls of his one-room, Brooklyn apartment.

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Singled Out: Are Unmarried People Discriminated Against?   (NEW)

Feb 6, 2012 4:45 AM EST

From health insurance to housing, singletons get the short end of the stick. Maura Kelly explores the rights of the unwed.

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Activists say that unmarried people are systematically discriminated against. They pay more for health and car insurance than married people do. They don’t get the same kind of tax breaks. Co-op boards, mortgage brokers, and landlords often pass them over. So do the employers with the power to promote them. “Singleism—stereotyping, stigmatizing, and discrimination against people who are single—is largely unrecognized and unchallenged,” says activist Bella DePaulo, the author of Singled Out.

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“My argument is wider-reaching: why does anyone have to be part of any kind of couple to get the same federal benefits and protections as anyone else?” She adds: “People don’t notice singleism, and if their attention is called to it, they think there’s nothing wrong.” That’s why, for instance, car and health insurance companies get away with charging less for couples and families. “They can attract more business [that way],” DePaulo notes. In the process, they leave single people to essentially subsidize the benefit by paying more. “When married workers can add spouses to a health-care plan at a discount and single workers can’t add someone important to them, that’s discrimination,” says DePaulo.

The U.S. government not only turns a blind eye to the problem of “singleism,” but helps enforce it, activists say. Just look at Social Security. “A childless singleton can work side by side with a childless married person, doing the same job, for the same number of years, at the same level of accomplishment—and when the married person dies, that worker can leave his or her Social Security benefits to a spouse,” says DePaulo. “The single person’s benefits go back into the system.”

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And short men have one of the highest probabilities among all groups of NOT being married.  Yet another 'perk' for the Tall.
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Short Man Syndrome Explained    (NEW)

By Stanley C Loewen

'Short man syndrome' is a condition in which a person has to deal with a feeling of inadequacy which can come from a lack of height – or a perceived lack of height. This is particularly common in men who gain a lot of confidence and status from physicality and who often gain pleasure from being able to feel physically imposing.

Short man syndrome is an informal term and not a medical or psychological condition and goes by other names such as 'Napoleon complex'. Technically it is a form of inferiority complex in which the person attempts to overcompensate for their perceived shortcoming. The term is often used as a derogatory term also to describe those who are perceived as acting this way.

Symptoms

Thus the stereotype is that the smaller male with short man syndrome would be aggressive, likely to shout and talk loudly and seek attention and eager to prove themselves. Many people compare the typical short man complex to that of a smaller dog – which many note are often noisier and more aggressive than larger more docile dogs. Other personality traits have also been linked to Napoleon syndrome – for instance risk taking behavior and jealousy.

The term 'Napoleon complex' is used in reference to Napoleon Bonaparte who many believed conducted his tyrany and invasions as a form of overcompensation for his short stature.

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Amazing how short men are labeled with impunity. 
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The short end of the stick    (NEW)
doubly a lie

By  Lydia Thurman|November 28, 2012

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When it comes to relevant social concerns, there are obviously multitudes that any ethical and conscientious individual should consider. There’s AIDS and illiteracy and homelessness and climate change. There’s animal testing to be contested and un-fair trade coffee to be shirked. It can be exhausting and empowering, trying to save the world, and often such an external focus distracts from discriminatory issues that face Duke students today. But for those students unlucky enough to be shorter than the average American, there are very real issues of discrimination that deserve notice.

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A college student demonstrates a little awareness.
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Campisi “removes” all links to blogs on NOSSA website AND information on the Famous NOSSA ‘Documentary’
November 2012

Just a short time ago, NOSSA sleazebag Matthew Campisi once again “removed” the link to the famous alleged yet-to-be-filmed NOSSA Documentary.  This is about the 5th time in 5 years that Campisi has made mention of a “NOSSA Documentary” and then “removed” the link to that “mention”.  The famous ‘Backstage’ ad advertising for Models and Dancers to star in the famous documentary, is now inactive.  Said Campisi several months ago:

Got alot of work done today with the new nossa documentary. I think our supporters are really going to like this film. We are working with alot of good people who are really serious about challenging heightism and height discrimination.    

Apparently the large number of “good people” that Campisi claimed he was “working with” were just fabrications of Campisi’s mind.   Just like most things coming from Campisi and his NOSSA sham.  (Campisi is the one who fraudulently represented the website – www.nossaonline.org back in 2005 and 2006 as a legitimate incorporated non-profit organization, ingathered money under that false pretense, and then attempted to implicate the webmaster after the webmaster discovered Campisi’s fraud and notified more than one state agency.)  Also a short time ago, Matthew Campisi  “removed” the link to Devin Love-Andrews’ blog.  Devin Love-Andrews is or was Campisi’s loyal Secretary.  Apparently it’s more like ‘was’.  Campisi also “removed” the link to his own blog and that of his previously loyal stooge – ‘Luda’-Chris Hamre.  Hamre, by the way has not made one entry on his famous “Don’t look down at me” blog in several months.  It could be that he has taken a sabbatical as the “World’s Greatest Heightism Activist” as described by Matt Campisi.  As far as Campisi goes, when tike Campisi engages in behavior like this, this “removing” or “eliminating” (derivations of Campisi’s two favorite words – eliminate and remove) of several items at once, it usually means he’s attempting to cover something up, as he did in May of 2006, June 2006, and other times when he had something to hide.  Perhaps Campisi is in trouble with the law, which is no stretch of the imagination.  Campisi has seemingly demonstrated a ‘gun buff’, misogynist, anti-Christian, 'on the edge' type of mentality on his famous blog – matthewcampisi.blogspot.com with sayings like -

•         “Any bitch can spend a man’s money, ride in his car, lay up in his house, order off the menu and spread her legs . . ."
•         “ . . . You must fight till your enemies are eliminated”
•         “You are nothing but a bunch of low life vultures . . . each of you are nothing but excrement.”
•         How do I feel about Gun Control?  Break into my house one night and find out.
•         “Are you a Sunday Christian?  Do you treat people like shit all week and then bask in the word on Sunday?”

Well that should tell us something.  Judging from experience, it does seems that Campisi’s two favorite words are “eliminate” and “remove”.  We welcome you to take a good look at that blog and Campisi’s ramblings; we think you’ll find that it’s a study in pathology.

Campisi Blog

Don't be surprised if Campisi's wise sayings' disappear from his blog sometime soon or the entire blog makes a sudden and unexpected exit from the Internet in the near future.
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Beautiful People Are Boring [STUDY]    (NEW)

Stephen Bayley, The Telegraph    | Oct. 26, 2012, 6:44 AM

As scientists find that attractive people tend to be conformist, you have to agree that ugly has more fun.

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A group of scientists set out to discover whether physically attractive people also have appealing character traits and values, and found, according to Lihi Segal-Caspi, who carried out part of the research, that “beautiful people tend to focus more on conformity and self-promotion than independence and tolerance”.Certainly, while a room full of beautiful people might be impressively stiff with the whiff of Chanel No 5, the intellectual atmosphere will be carrying a very low charge. If positive at all.The grizzled and gargoyle-like Parisian chanteur, and legendary lover, Serge Gainsbourg always used to pick up the ugliest girls at parties. This was not simply because predatory male folklore insists that ill-favoured women will be more “grateful”, but because Gainsbourg, a stylish contrarian, knew that the conversation would be better, the uglier the girl.Beauty is a conformist conspiracy. And the conspirators include the fashion, cosmetics and movie businesses: a terrible Greek chorus of brainless idolatry towards abstract form. The conspirators insist that women – and, nowadays, men, too – should be un-creased, smooth, fat-free, tanned and, with the exception of the skull, hairless. Flawlessly dull. Even Hollywood once acknowledged the weakness of this proposition: Marilyn Monroe was made more attractive still by the addition of a “beauty spot”, a blemish turned into an asset.

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And yet, despite the evidence against, there has been a conviction that beauty and goodness are somehow inextricably and permanently linked. Political propaganda exploited our primitive fear of ugliness, so we had Second World War American posters of Japanese looking like vampire bats. The Greeks believed that beauty had a moral character: beautiful people – discus-throwers and so on – were necessarily good people. Darwin explained our need for “beauty” in saying that breeding attractive children is a survival characteristic: I may feel the need to fuse my premium genetic material with yours, so that humanity continues in the same fine style.This became a lazy consensus, described as the “beauty premium” by US economists Markus M Mobius and Tanya S Rosenblat. The “beauty premium” insists that as attractive children grow into attractive adults, they may find it easier to develop agreeable interpersonal communications skills because their audience reacts more favourably to them. In this beauty-related employment theory, short people are less likely to get a good job. As Randy Newman sang: “Short people got no reason to live.” So Darwin’s argument that evolutionary forces favour a certain physical type may be proven in the job market as well as the wider world.

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What does height have to do with 'Beauty'?  In a "beauty-related employment theory" wouldn't it be 'ugly' people who would be "less likely to get a good job"?  Such is the acceptability of heightism.  Just ask Randy Newman and Stephen Bayley.
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Firefighter settles sex discrimination case  (NEW)

www.dailymail.co.uk

A firefighter who was taken off active duty because she could not carry out her job due to her height today settled her sex discrimination case.
Katie Reid, 31, who is 5ft 1in tall, told an employment tribunal that she had been discriminated against at Preston Circus Fire Station near Brighton because equipment had not been adapted to help her carry out her job.
She claimed she had been sexually discriminated against because East Sussex Fire Authority had failed to take into consideration her height and the problems that would cause when she had to use fire appliances.
The former teacher told the hearing in Southampton earlier that she had been embarrassed and depressed because she felt she could not do her job and she felt other firemen did not want to work with her.
The tribunal heard she was taken off active duty last year after a colleague injured his back while lifting a ladder with her.
The hearing heard that Miss Reid had difficulty getting the right size of clothing, cleaning the fire engine and using cutting equipment on large vehicles.

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A woman learns a little about what it feels like to be a short MAN.  Too bad short guys can't sue for 'sex discrimination'.
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Don't Try to Reason with Unreasonable People (NEW)

Simple strategies for dealing with mean or crazy people
Published on January 20, 2012 by Dr. Susan Biali, M.D. in Prescriptions for Life

Are there people in your life that you try so hard to get along with, but you somehow always leave the interaction feeling disheartened, sad, angry, or demeaned? Are there people you dread running into or spending time with because there's just something about them that strips you of your power, either provoking you into acting "crazy" (when you normally are quite a sane, nice-to-be-around person) or somehow always managing to make you give up something that's important to your well-being?

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For the purposes of this article, here's a short list of the types of people I would lump into the "unreasonable":

•         Those you can't have a reasonable conversation with; they somehow twist your words or totally confuse you and then tell you that you're the one who doesn't know how to communicate
•         People who make subtly or overtly demeaning comments or say cutting things to you disguised as a "joke"
•         Those that don't respect boundaries and seem to enjoy stepping all over one after you've placed it
•         The types that aren't willing to consider your point of view or listen to your side of things (or just stare at you blankly, or laugh, or explode, when you try to explain "how you feel")
•         Bullies
•         Verbal or emotional abusers (these can also range from subtle to overt)
•         Manipulators
•         Liars

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What she doesn't say (and probably doesn't know - especially with respect to the short) is that if you're a member of a "vulnerable" group, you're likely to encounter these types of people and situations a whole lot more often.  
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Cold Case: Who Killed Eddie Gaedel?  (NEW)

The story of Eddie Gaedel’s one-time at bat as the only midget pinch hitter in big league history back on August 19, 1951 is one of baseball’s biggest travelers. We talked about it here yesterday.

A much less popular subject is the death of Eddie Gaedel nearly ten years later on June 18, 1961 in Chicago. Eddie’s mom found him dead in bed in his apartment on that date. He had a bruise and cuts near his left eye and bruises and cuts on his knees. The coroner’s report concluded that Eddie had died of a heart attack, probably caused by the trauma of physical assault upon his body in physical combat with an unknown other or others. The only fact ascertained by the police in their brief look at the case was that Eddie Gaedel may have gone to a nearby bowling alley the previous evening where he may have had too much to drink and may have either gotten into an argument at the alley or encountered an assailant on his walk home. From what I can tell, there was no real evaluation performed on Eddie’s blood contents in the sketchy post-mortem that followed. Almost everything about his death had been concluded by the Chicago police from Eddie Gaedel’s reputation as a heavy drinker and combative personality.

Since money was missing, the CPD concluded that Eddie Gaedel had been attacked and robbed, but that he was able to make it home before collapsing and dying. The “evidence” of missing money is not spelled out as a missing wallet, nor do the CPD reports jump out and say how they knew how much cash Eddie had on him in the first place.

Because of his “reputation,” the Chicago Police Department declined to investigate the death of Eddie Gaedel any further.
What? …. What?
Since when is “reputation” grounds for letting someone go off to eternity without justice while some other guilty person gets off Scott-Free of murder?

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"Think back to your days on the beat," a Royal Canadian Mounted Police manual once instructed.  "It was always the little guy that caused the trouble and caused the fight."  - from 'The Height of Your Life' by Ralph Keyes
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There Once was a Little Person Who Played in Major League Baseball  (NEW)

Daven Hiskey March 28, 2012

This man was 26 year old, 3 feet, 7 inch tall Eddie Gaedel.  Gaedel was signed by Bill Veeck to a Major League contract of $15,400 ($100 per game), which was the set minimum one could pay a little person performance act, per event. Gaedel was an evenly proportioned dwarf (the term for such a person at the time was “midget”, with dwarfs who were disproportionate in some way being called just dwarfs).

After reviewing several candidates, he settled on Eddie Gaedel, who already was something of a showman, appearing in circuses, rodeos, and the like, and was a member of the American Guild of Variety Artists.

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On Sunday August 19, 1951 before the second game of a double header against the Detroit Tigers, Veeck had Eddie Gaedel pop out of a papier-mâché cake and announce to the crowd of 18,369 that he was the newest member of the St. Louis Browns.  Initially people thought Gaedel being a member of the team was a joke and that he would not actually be playing.

When he stepped up to the plate  to lead off in the second game of the double header that day, to pinch hit for Frank Saucier, at first the umpire, Eddie Hurley, wasn’t going to allow him to bat.  However, Veeck showed the umpire Gaedel’s signed contract and the official roster for the team and he was allowed to lead off.

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Two days later, American League President Will Harridge voided Gaedel’s contract and he was out of a job.  Further, Harridge officially banned midgets from being able to play in the American League and removed Gaedel’s walk from the official records . . .

Eddie Gaedel died in 1961 after being beaten to a pulp on his way home after apparently being harassed by some tallers at a bowling alley.  No suspects were ever questioned in his death. It apparently wasn't worth the Chicago Police's time.  (Surprise, surprise.  Shades of Gary Coleman)
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It Happened to Me: I'm a Short Guy    (NEW)

I have found that many of the cultural inequities we traditionally assume are gender-based might have just as much to do with size as the seemingly inexcusable lack of a penis.

Allan Mott
Jan 30, 2012 at 10:00am

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The fact is that as a short man you can expect 8 out of 10 women to immediately dismiss you as a potential sexual partner at first sight, before you’ve had time to even so much as shout out a “Hey, pretty lady!” And chances are the remaining 2 out of 10 will only give you a couple of minutes to make your case before similarly blowing you off.

In my experience, women hate to hear this, because it makes their entire gender sound extremely shallow and superficial.
Whenever I’ve talked to female friends about this reality, the following conversation has inevitably occurred:

Me: Women don’t like dating short men.

FF: That’s not true. I bet there are a lot of women out there who love short guys.

Me: Have you ever dated one?

FF: No….

Me: Would you?

FF: (Uncomfortable silence)

According to the mega-bestseller "Freakonomics," short men are statistically less likely to receive any responses from their online dating profiles than any other demographic group. The fact that I’m averaging one a year on my OkCupid profile is actually me breaking the odds through the force of my tremendous personal charisma.
And, of course, there are exceptions to this rule that people love to bring up to dispute this thesis.
“Women love Prince and he’s tiny!” you’ll hear over and over again.
Great, all I have to do is go through life wearing 8-inch stilettos and be a musical genius who also happens to be the greatest live performer of his generation (seriously, I saw him last December). I’ll get right on that.

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See guys!  All you have to do is become Prince and your worries are over!
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Open carry laws make us feel more afraid    (NEW)

By Trevor Thrall
Friday November 2, 2012

Starting yesterday, those licensed to carry a concealed firearm in Oklahoma are now allowed to sport their guns for the world to see.They can show them off in either a fashionable belt or a shoulder holster, which I’m going to predict will be a booming market in the near future. Surely Louis Vuitton will have a case for my handgun by the time Texas catches on to openly carrying firearms.Because there are only 14 other states where this flashy use of weapons is legal, I do have to congratulate Oklahoma for its ability to go against the liberal grain at this point in time.And honestly, I am all for the right to bear arms in whatever way you please. I’m all for doing anything to keep the government from exerting too much control on personal choices. But just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.snipI don’t know why, but I have a hunch that Oklahoma is about to start seeing a lot of really short men with beer bellies flaunting their guns.

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Short men - the default group for negative characterizations - of any kind.
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Something fishy about 'small man syndrome'    (NEW)

October 31, 2012
Peter Spinks - Fairfax Science Columnist

Try as they might, scientists have been unable to find compelling evidence to support the 'Napoleon complex', the popular idea that shorter men are more aggressive than their taller counterparts.

Now, it seems, the complex may at least apply to certain types of fish, as well as other members of the animal kingdom, new research reveals.

In the same species, the scientists report, smaller males are sometimes more aggressive and prone to launching attacks against would-be intruders — despite the likelihood of losing in an all-out fight.

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Labeling fish with a "Napoleon Complex".  It's called "laying the groundwork" so that in a few years they can claim that there actually is a Napoleon Complex in short men and call it "scientific".  Wait till you see the video.  
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Heightism, Sexism and Statistics    (NEW)

Posted: 19/08/2012 12:13

This article will explain why statistical trends do not equal prejudice. It's quite dense, so let's get on with it! So I'm doing a few performances of a spoken word show, which I've given a deliberately controversial eye-catching title referencing Ricky Gervais. It's a trick to get people into the show; I actually talk very little about Gervais. I just use my experiences working on "Life's Too Short" as a jumping off point to talk about heightism in modern society.

One point I make is how hypocritical some comedy can be; for instance The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (not very topical, but a reference most people know) highlights a lot of good points about how black people can face discrimination, especially in affluent areas. However, at the same time in most episodes Will Smith relentlessly mocks his cousin Carlton for being so short. There is an irony in trying to defend one minority, while attacking another for an easy source of humour.

Another point I make is that the biggest reason I (or any other short heterosexual man) really cares about being short is that women prefer taller men. Short men are left on the bottom of the dating pile, and the secret to happiness is a loving relationship, right? So it's not surprising that short men are more depressed and tend to have a higher chance of committing suicide.

Now we get to the crux of why I'm writing this... after one performance an audience member took offence. Her accusation was that I was suffering from the very thing I was criticising; while trying to tackle heightism, I myself was being sexist.

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Stating facts is sexist.
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Police: Student robbed on Sandage Avenue  (NEW)

Student says he was cut by suspect during robbery

By Richard Escobedo
Posted October 5, 2012

Police are looking for two men who robbed a TCU student late Thursday night about a half mile east of campus, according to a Fort Worth Police report.
Chris Cresci, a freshman business major, said in a phone interview Friday that he was parked on Sandage between Cantey Street and McPherson Avenue waiting for a text message when two tall men approached his vehicle.
One of them knocked on his back window and tried to get into Cresci’s car, placing his hands inside an open window to unlock the door, he said.
Cresci said he noticed the man had a “long silver object which had a point on the end” in his hand. Cresci said he tried to stop the man from opening the door by pinning his arm against the man’s while trying to turn on his car to drive away, he said.
Cresci said he was unsuccessful as the man opened the door before he could get his car started.
“[The man] put his hands on my shoulders, and that's when he threw me out of the car,” Cresci said.

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Can you picture two short men approaching a car and throwing out two big men?
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Being tall is not as easy as you might think  (NEW)

October 9, 2012
By David Burnett

“How tall are you, anyway?”

I get asked this a lot by random strangers. It’s the “anyway” that gets me.

It’s not like I wear a T-shirt announcing my height, or run around exulting my tallness until I wear down the good-natured patience of strangers around me, forcing one of them to stop and ask. Literally almost every day I’m out in public someone asks me how tall I am.

Six feet, 6 inches if you must know. That’s 78 inches. 1.8 meters. 198 centimeters. When you’re asked to assign a number to your altitude on daily basis, you don’t forget that number, and sometimes you get creative when reciting it.

They don’t want to know my name. They don’t want to know my degree, my occupation or purpose for living. They want to assign a random tally to a total stranger they may never meet again. (Tall people have hopes and dreams, too, you know!)

How’s the weather up here? Ha ha, never heard that one before. Well little fella, confidentially, it’s going to start raining at your height in about 10 minutes. Did I play basketball? No; were you a jockey? (Apparently I’m the only tall person who never played ball.)

It’s not acceptable to do the reverse, by the way. I can’t say “How’s the weather down there?” or “How short are you?” That would be rude. Don’t think I haven’t thought about it.

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Beneficiary of Heightism tries to act like he's a victim of it.
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Infographic | Top 50 CEOs head and shoulders above

the rest  (NEW)

PUBLISHED: 22 Sep 2012 00:04:00 | UPDATED: 02 Oct 2012 13:06:13

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But the average man is 176cm tall, well short of the average male chief executive. A survey of the CEOs of the top 50 listed companies by the Weekend Financial Review found their average height is 183cm – over 6 feet – and about 7cm taller than the average man today.

As each generation tends to be taller than the previous – the average Australian man was 174.8cm in 1995 and 176cm in 2007-08 – the next crop of leaders may well have an average height approaching 185cm.

The survey found the leaders tended to be extremely tall. While men 190cm or taller make up only 3.2 per cent of the Australian population, they made up almost 20 per cent of the sample of 38 male chief executives.

These findings are consistent with a large body of overseas research that shows a tendency for tall men to end up in leadership positions.

A 2005 sample of Fortune 500 chief executives found the leaders were on average about 7.5cm taller than the US population.

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Just deal with it little man.  Are you jealous or something?
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New gym class A-Grow-Bics promises to add inches

to your height - but is it a tall story?

By Lucy Waterlow

PUBLISHED: 06:51 EST, 22 October 2012 | UPDATED: 07:17 EST, 22 October 2012

It sounds ideal for short men like Simon Cowell and Jamie Cullum who may want to be taller than the ladies in their lives, while petite women such as Kylie Minogue and Lea Michele could ditch their sky-high heels if claims from a new gym class are true.
Fitness chain Gymbox say they can have developed a workout that guarantees to make you taller. They are so confident of their claim, they even offer money back to anyone who tries it and doesn't grow at least 2cm.
Fitness trainer Pierre Pozzuto developed the gym class which involves a mix of pilates, yoga, strengthening and speed work - plus a session on a scary-looking 15th century-inspired rack.
Such implements were once used to torture people but Pierre insists it isn't a painful experience as it's designed to gently stretch the body once the muscles are warmed up.
Pierre developed the six week course because he was keen to increase his own height from 5ft 7.

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Sounds like a slightly taller version of Matthew Campisi. Two-bit frauds can come in all sizes.
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#1 on Google Search for "Short Men" -

Do Short Men Stand A Chance?

Heidi Muller

This is the infamous Heidi Muller article that "had" over 4,000 comments, many of them calling for the outright genocide of short men.  We could not find any of those comments still listed.  Currently we could only find 18 comments, and those ALL had a seemingly real persons' name attached to them.

Hmm.  Maybe we missed something.
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THE MOST OFFENSIVE JEREMY CLARKSON RANTS   

3rd October 2012
By James Moore

JEREMY Clarkson upset viewers yet again this week by insulting people with facial growths.
When the Top Gear host likened the Toyota Prius van to the Elephant Man it was just the latest in a long line of rants.
From cars to celebs to countries, he's got an opinion - usually offensive.
Here we recall some of his classic outbursts:
SHORT PEOPLE: “When you’ve finished using a car, put the f***ing seat back, so humans can use it afterwards.”
CYCLISTS: “Do not cruise through red lights. Because if I’m coming the other way, I will run you down, for fun.”
THE POLICE: “We live in the worst country in the world. At least we do for lazy, inefficient, office-bound police, whose response to an extraordinary rise in violent crime is to order more speed cameras.”
PENSIONERS: “They are by far the worst drivers. They are spiteful, dithering, old and in the way. They should have their licences taken away.”
WELSH LANGUAGE: “What’s the point of Welsh? All it does is provide a silly maypole around which a bunch of hotheads can get all nationalistic.”
SCOTS: “If the Scottish want to break away, I shall stand on Hadrian’s Wall with a teary handkerchief, and say: ‘Good riddance to the lot of you, and take your stupid bagpipes with you.’”
AMERICANS: “They are good at herding bison. The end.”
GERMAN SAT-NAV: “Only goes to Poland.”

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At least cyclists, the police, pensioners, Scots, Americans - and everyone else - are human.
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Day In The Life: The Morning Ritual In A Coffee Shop   

BY Palash R. Ghosh | September 20 2012 9:32 AM

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Watching people, I wonder and speculate about who they are, what they do for a living, what their lives are like, and what they worry about?
There is almost always this little old man sitting at the same table in the corner when I arrive. He has a bald head (covered by a baseball cap), a grey beard and he eats breakfast, while perusing the New York Times. I can't tell if he orders the same meal every morning, but I wouldn't be surprised if he did.
He seems too old to still be working – so I wonder if he's a retiree who can't stand inactivity and keeps a disciplined routine to avoid going crazy? Might he be an eccentric wealthy man?
When he finishes, he neatly places his paper in his backpack and silently exits – thus, he only “exists” in my consciousness for a few minutes every morning.
Another customer is a little man I call 'Louie DiPalma' since he vaguely resembles the character of that name from the classic TV sitcom 'Taxi,' He, too, is a creature of habit – he always orders four large coffees (presumably for himself and three of his colleagues at work) and departs. I dislike getting behind him in line, since it always takes so long to fill his order.
But, I wonder why he was chosen as a 'designated coffee-purchaser'? Are the other three people never willing to perform this task?
Or (improbably) does he drink all four cups himself?
Yet another customer is also a short man – a middle-aged fellow with greying hair and always neatly outfitted. He is quite elegant and austere, but he wears a grim visage. Is he unhappy? Angry? Bored? Or just very serious?
He is very prim and proper – and never smiles.
I know that many short men feel sensitive and inadequate over their lack of stature and seek to compensate through aggressive behavior – but this gentleman isn't like that. Perhaps he has resigned himself to his Lilliputian height and sadly accepts it.

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Author likes to notice heights - especially those sensitive, inadequate, over-compensating, never smiling, designated coffee-purchaser short men. 
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Indian men fall short on global measure 

ANI
London, October 02, 2012

The penis size of an average Indian when erect (4 inches) falls among the bottom four in the world, along with Thailand (4 inches), South Korea and North Korea (3.8 inches), a new survey of 113 nationalities has found.

The research suggests that the men from Britain (5.5 inches)
have bigger penises than those in France (5.3 inches), but are less well endowed than Germans (5.7 inches).

Men from the Republic of Congo (7.1 inches), Ecuador (7 inches) and Italy (6.2 inches) were found to be the most well endowed by the study.

The subject has been tackled by Richard Lynn, professor of psychology at Ulster University. The findings confirm previous theories of “race differences in penis length.” The study was published in Personality and Individual Differences, a journal.

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The population of India is 1.2 BILLION PEOPLE.
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'The Hobbit:  an Unexpected Journey' Trailer:  More

Short People Walking Around Again    (

Posted by Travis Woods on September 19th, 2012

Well, it’s finally here: the trailer for Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the first of his three-part adaptation of Tolkien’s The Hobbit.  And, after viewing the trailer, it our response is, well, mixed.

First off, the trailer showcases something of a lighter, sillier touch than the more serious Lord of the Rings trilogy.  We’ve got giants tossing dwarves and hobbits around, lots of physical humor, a slightly less ominous Gollum than we’ve seen before, and lots and lots of short people walking around, just like the last three films.

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"Giants tossing dwarves and hobbits around".  What could be more humorous?
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Short young men will not be recruited to Kazakhstan army 

Tuesday, 02.10.2012, 13:31

Kazakhstan’s Armed Forces are selecting only the most physically and mentally fit young men, preferably with higher education and professional skills, in an attempt to boost the Army's image.

Young men shorter than 165cm will not be recruited to Kazakhstan’s Armed Forces, KazTAG reports citing chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Commission Saken Zhassuzakov.

“There is a sufficient number young men to be conscripted, so we are working to form a new image of Kazakhstan’s Armed Forces by bringing the height requirements from 155cm to 165cm for ground forces and from 165cm to 170cm for air cavalry.   Besides, earlier men with insignificant medical lapses could also be recruited, but now there is only one requirement: they have to be absolutely healthy,” he told KazPravda on Friday, September 21.

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" . . .  there is only one requirement:  they have to be absolutely healthy", and of course NOT SHORT.

It's all in your mind little man.
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DATING WHEN YOU'RE A SHORT GUY   

When it comes to attracting women, height-challenged men often say they have a harder time. But with the right moves, romance lies ahead. Here’s the scoop.

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Challenge #1: Being short can wreak havoc with your confidence

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Challenge #2: In the online dating world, height can be listed as a mate must-have

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Challenge #3: Short guys aren’t always taken seriously

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And that brings up a valuable big-picture perspective: Height hang-ups are just that — another person’s issue, not yours. So if you do get rebuffed because of your stature, consider how Charles looks at the situation: “If a girl doesn’t want to date me because I’m shorter, I just think ‘Too bad for her. She’s missing out on me.’”

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Oh!  So true!!!  When you're socially ostracized because of your height, just think, 'Too bad for you'!, or discriminated against out of a job because of your height just think,  'Too bad for you, you're missing out'!

Wake up short guys
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Tall People are Happier than Short Men and Women   

Posted by Madeline Holler on September 30th, 2012 at 12:54 pm

You know how tall people always complain about how hard it is to find pants that fit? Apparently, that’s really their only complaint about, well, anything. A new study shows that they’re happier than the other famous pant complainers,  short people. In fact, even  not super tall people report being happier than short people.

In summary, shorties are struggling. (Is it all that time spent hemming pants?).

Results of a National Bureau of Economic Research found that both men and women who were above average in height reported higher levels of happiness. But it’s not just being tall that makes you smile, because the happy line starts at 5 feet 4 inches for women and 5 feet 10 inches for men — heights that a lot of us think of as just average-ish.

According to Sean Gregory, who reported on the study for TIME magazine, men who reported their lives as the worst possible were, on average, an inch shorter than average men. Miserable women were around a half inch shorter than average.

But why the bitterness, little ones?

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Why the "Bitterness"?  What makes the writer think that Short People are "bitter"?  Short people enjoy being an oppressed group.  Otherwise why would they be so silent about being abused?
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Past, present, pater   

Author struggles with what has and what will happen in search for meaning.

12 September 2012 | BRUCE DENNILL

Love Sex Fleas God – some of which is about being a retrenched, stay-at-home dad, some of which is about being raised by a Scientology-obsessed mother and some of which is about a lean period in between there somewhere where he was a hobo – is not the book Bruce Clark planned to write, but it became one of which he’s rightfully proud.

“It stemmed from me being aware that my kids and I were on divergent paths,” he says.

“There are times that you need to impart whatever wisdom you have. I’m 55 and I didn’t want to leave it too late.

“I also feel strongly about certain aspects of parenthood, and wanted to verbalise that. Losing my job hit me hard and my kids really saved me.”

How has this somewhat brutal catharsis shaped Clark’s potential career as an author?

“It was a tough learning experience,” he says, “and if I had to do it again now, I’d do it 50% quicker.

 I didn’t realise how much of the process was just sitting down and writing.

About a third of the time, I just expected the muse to arrive, and I’d sit there and read news online and check out Youtube.

“Eventually, my publisher gave me a deadline of 60 000 words by  a certain date.

I have a programme on my computer that works out word count schedules, and it told me that I needed to complete 908 words a day. So I started getting  up at 2am to work. And if I knew  I was writingrubbish, the editing process was still coming. That was like a long day at the proctologist...”

Clark’s difficult childhood – moved around from school to school and never settling, before leaving at Grade Ten level – means he doesn’t have an impressive education in the traditional sense. Yet Love Sex Fleas God is full of wisdom – a very different animal to school smarts.

“Wisdom comes from getting hurt,” smiles Clark, ruefully.

“If everything falls into place your whole life, you won’t learn anything.”

Scientology as it’s described here is a long way from excitable short men jumping on couches.

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This article is not about height, yet the attempt to differentiate short men from other men reveals itself.
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Short Men, Eww, They’re Genetically Deformed

September 25, 2012

Being short sucks.

I’m a 5’5″ (165 cm) tall, male. That is, I’m five inches shorter than your average American man who checks in at 5’10. Average Joe towers over me and a good chunk of the US female population does too.

How do I feel about being short? I’ll say it with feeling this time: It seriously sucks. It’s like walking around with the hashtag #DEFORMED tattooed on your forehead and the words “LOSER WITH BAD GENES” inscribed on your chest in a big, bold neon font.

Look at short people in Hollywood. Tom Cruise, 5’7″, and Jason Alexander, 5’4″, are probably the two most famous short actors. Tom Cruise is know for being a crazy maniac and Jason Alexander is famous for playing George Costanza on Seinfeld, an awkward/short/fat guy who can’t get women. Oh, and don’t forget Michael J. Fox, 5’3″, the guy with Parkinson’s disease. This is the Hollywood presentation of short people: crazy, unattractive, and sick.

Business and politics are run by tall people. The average height of a Fortunate 500 CEO is 6’0″ while another study reveals 90% of all CEOs are above average height. More interestingly, a myriad of studies from the United States and Britain show tall people are 70% more likely to be hired for a job than a short person even if the candidates are equally qualified. In politics, basically every modern US president has been above average height.  And this makes sense: Who wants to be lead by a little person? People want their leaders to be mentally and physically strong.

Tall, of course, wins in sports. The average height of an NBA player is 6’6″, and respectively NFL 6’2″, NHL 6’1″, MLB 6’1″. Taller men dominate competitive sports, duh. But what can be extrapolated from this data? This: If height is a huge advantage in professional sports, then this advantage also plays out in social sporting. In other words, tall men are favored in the contests of everyday life from pickup basketball to mini-struggles of social dominance at the workplace or a bar; particularly in the ritual of dating.

I asked a tall friend, 6’1″, if he ever wished he was taller. His response, “Only if I’m talking to a woman and another man is talking to her who is taller than I am.”

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Short man mixes facts with self-hate
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Hate Crimes
Criminal Law & Identity Politics
By JAMES B. JACOBS and KIMBERLY POTTER
Oxford University Press

Read the Review

What is Hate Crime?

    [C]rimes motivated by bigotry usually arise not out of the pathological rantings and ravings of a few deviant types in organized hate groups, but out of the very mainstream of society.

    Jack Levin and Jack McDevitt, Hate Crimes. The Rising Tide of Bigotry and Bloodshed

    We cannot talk about how much hate crime exists in the United States or what to do about it until we are clear about what a hate crime is. This chapter shows that the concept of hate crime is loaded with ambiguity because of the difficulty of determining (1) what is meant by prejudice; (2) which prejudices qualify for inclusion under the hate crime umbrella; (3) which crimes, when attributable to prejudice, become hate crimes; and (4) how strong the causal link must be between the perpetrator's prejudice and the perpetrator's criminal conduct.

Complexity of Prejudice

"Hate" crime is not really about hate, but about bias or prejudice. As we will see in chapter 3, statutory definitions of hate crime differ somewhat from state to state, but essentially hate crime refers to criminal conduct motivated by prejudice. Prejudice, however, is a complicated, broad, and cloudy concept. We all have prejudices for and against individuals, groups, foods, countries, weather, and so forth. Sometimes these prejudices are rooted in experience, sometimes in fantasy and irrationality, and sometimes they are passed down to us by family, friends, school, religion, and culture. Some prejudices (e.g. anti-Fascist) are considered good, some (e.g., preference for tall people over short people) relatively innocuous; but other prejudices provoke strong social and political censure (e.g., racism, anti-Semitism, misogyny).

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 ---  below are two posts from the same individual taken from 'Sociological Images' dated October 2011 --

Being a 5'1" male, I've seen the massive impact of heightism from a very personal level.  I've lost jobs, loans, friendships, and relationships because of my height.  When people look at/encounter me, very little goes through their mind other that reflection on my height.  Every semester there are at least 3-4 students that approach me on the first day of class and ask exactly how tall I am.  There is no aspect of my life that has not been affected by heightism.  I have no problem being shorter, but most other people tend to have a huge problem with my height.  I've even had people, on many occassions, threaten to kill me because they feel so uncomfortable with my height.  My partner and i are planning to start a family and i hope that the child will be female, simply because I truly believe that it is so much easier for a female to be shorter in this society then for a male to be shorter.  I don't want a potential son of mine to have to endure the daily harassment/judgement/ridicule that I have gone through my entire life.  More awareness needs to be made about heightism and its effect on both males and females.

    Many people have found it so incredibly offensive that a short man has a successful career, a beautiful partner, etc. that they hurl threats.  At least that is what I have tried to rationalize their behavior as....   It's just as present now in my 30's as it was in high school.  Random people that I pass on the sidewalk give me a nasty look and cuss; "short piece of sh1t", "little f*cker", etc.  If I ever say back, "what's your problem?" their usual response is something aggressive, death threats, etc.  I had a boss once that wasn't pleased with my sales numbers (several careers and years ago).  They were fine/okay numbers but nothing stellar.  He said flat out that if I didn't turn my act around he would beat me senseless behind the building.  He was a big man, physically, but a real jerk.  I just up and left the place and was lucky to find an adjunct position.  From what I understand, there are few protections, legally, for short people.  I think Michigan has a law that it is illegal to discrimnate based on height.  I can't remember though.  Probably the worst part of all this is no one understands.  I've tried to tell friends about the b.s. that goes on, but their response ranges from "get over it shorty" to "just don't let it bother you".  I'm not saying the stuff that happens to me is any worse then say, stuff that happens to other subjigated peoples, but it does suck.  Little People at least have groups and organizations to assist in getting them through.  Women have organizations to at least try to combat the many inequalities out there.  The same is true for many minority groups.  I don't know of a group for men that are around 5' in height.  There just doesn't seem to be any where to turn to or anyone that even tries to understand.  My partner tries to understand, but can't really.  Every day, every action is judged.  Every passerby, every colleague, every student, every instance and every interaction with anyone is based not upon who I am as a person, but moresoe how many inches I stack up to.

Innocuous isn't it?

(The writer of these two posts should have had the highest rated comments but didn't.   The two most highly rated comments about an article written by Geoffrey Arnold of 'The Social Complex' were written by someone (most likely a rabid feminist) railing about male patriarchy and racism, and one by a Tall woman "defending her turf".  It appears that when men begin to bring up issues about ANY kind of discrimination that they may face, the feminists come out 'in force' to play the 'Oppression Olympics'.)
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WOMAN REFUSED ENTRY INTO PRESTIGIOUS NEW YORK CITY NIGHT CLUB BECAUSE SHE WAS TOO SHORT!!!

Heightism - in stark contrast to all other prejudices here in the 21st Century - appears to be getting progressively worse and worse as time goes on.  I recently received the following e-mail from a now 'heightism aware' young model:

    Hello!

 I just read your article and was satisfied to see some awareness, that my thoughts and feelings on height discrimination truly are an issue in our society.. I am personally 24 years old, and I am in great shape. I have modeled before (print work) Ive also been on a tv show. I consider myself a 9.5 out of 10 as far as looks go - definitely much better looking than the average woman. But there's an issue: (I am only 4'11). All of my girlfriends rank just as high on the looks department, but fortunately for them most of them are at least 5'6 and up. I am definitely the much shorter one of the crew. We go out in New York City and generally club promoters and venues would want us in their events. However, there is a particular club in the Meatpacking District of NYC called Provocateur, known for their super-model crowd. My friends frequent this place, and I have avoided even attempting to go "specifically" because of my height. Women who are 5'6 or so are considered short amongst the other club guests. Last night, me and 4 of my beautiful girlfriends went out to dinner at a restaurant in which we had dinner with the owner. Soon after, we had plans  to head over to Provocateur, and the restaurant owner specifically said, she is beautiful and all but she's too short to get in. We tried anyway, I was dressed in a fancy Herve Ledger dress with my highest heels with which I'm still considered short in this tall NYC society, roughly about 5'3 with them on. My girlfriend even personally knew the girl at the door, and she went inside to privately speak to her, and the girl said that I was too short for this place regardless of appearance. Everyone on line was at least 5'8. I cannot describe how it made me feel. I was able to rationalize that i cannot take this personally because it is absolutely absurd, but how can I help it.. I woke up this morning unable to get over the fact that I was discriminated against last night, yet there is no way to defend myself or point fingers with some sort of back up. I would certainly greatly appreciate any other information or opinions on my personal experience regarding my height. Thanks so much for your article as well as the information provided in it.

    Best regards,

What's next, separate drinking fountains?!
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"Ladies, if you are single in New York after a certain point, there is nowhere to go but down."

Better make sure you grab that Tall Man now - otherwise you may have to 'lower' your standards.
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Hollister models fired for posting 'racist squinty-eye photos' online after being flown from America to South Korea for store launch   

By Daily Mail Reporter

PUBLISHED: 19:21 EST, 9 September 2012 | UPDATED: 05:24 EST, 10 September 2012

When American fashion line Hollister decided they would send a bevy of models dressed as lifeguards to South Korea to greet customers at the opening of their store in Yeouido, they were supposed to bring a feel of the surf-culture associated with the brand.Instead, they brought controversy after making racist gestures and obscene hand motions in photos with customers.

The male models, whose names and nationalities have not been released, were flown in for the grand opening of the Yeouido store and posed for photos with locals while shirtless wearing only red board shorts and whistles around their necks.

Korean newspapers reported that one of the models posted a photo to his personal Twitter account, showing him making 'squinty eye' facial expressions - mocking Asians - while posing in front of the royal Gueongbokkung Palace.

Blog KoreaBang reports that a Twitter user who previously worked with the model in question wrote 'please look at how many Asians liked that picture... Impressive'.  In response, the model from the photo wrote 'Hahahaha they ruhhvvvv ittt!' making fun of mispronounced English.

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Once the various photos were picked up by social media, many Koreans were offended and encouraged locals to boycott the store.

'I've got to go and return the clothes that I bought,' KoreaBang reported one complaint.

'I feel like we must at the very least start a boycott of Hollister. How deep is their discrimination against Asians if they have no problem taking such pictures and uploading them to social media for a laugh?' reported another.

Though the offending models were not named, the company announced that they fired 'the couple of associates involved' and posted a message regarding the issue on their Facebook page, though it no longer appears on the site.

'On behalf of our more than 80,000 associates around the world who cherish our core values and our culture of diversity and inclusion, we sincerely apologize for the offense caused by these unauthorized, ill-considered actions,' the message read.

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NOW COMPARE THE ABOVE WITH THE VIDEO BELOW -




The same South Koreans who find the American Hollister models so offensive, don't seem to mind the Sullivan School indoctrinating their young children with Randy Newman's infamous song "Short People".  Imagine if some American wrote a song entitled "Korean People" with words like, "Korean people got no reason to live", and made little Korean children sing it.

Imagine.
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"Think back to your days on the beat," a Royal Canadian Mounted Police manual once instructed.  "It was always the little guy that caused the trouble and caused the fight."
 
 - from 'The Height of Your Life'  by Ralph Keyes

Talk about "Profiling"!!!
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Say goodbye to your manhood   

September 7, 2012: 7:15 AM ET

As more women with successful careers experience financial freedom, are men becoming obsolete? A review of The End of Men: And the Rise of Women, by Hanna Rosin.

By Colleen Leahey, reporter

FORTUNE -- With a cocktail in hand at a Yale Business School party, Sabrina chats about her likes (red wine, Lady Gaga, and Angela Merkel) and her dislikes (short men, FDBs -- financial douche bags -- and immature texts from scorned exes). The green-eyed beauty could easily roll with Carrie Bradshaw's posse. She's single, poised, successful, and attractive -- "one of a kind" is how an old flame describes her.

Sabrina, 31, spent years working at various banks; she's been in and out of love and feels no real urgency to settle down: "What do I need a man for? I don't need him financially. I don't need him to do activities. I have lots of friends here. So fuck it."

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And so begins Hanna Rosin's The End of Men: And the Rise of Women, an exploration of the modern career woman and her effect on the economy, gender norms, and masculine self-worth. In 2010, Rosin published an essay of the same name in The Atlantic, hoping to answer her own question: What if modern, postindustrial society is simply better suited to women?

Her research uncovered that something "seismic had shifted the economy and culture, not only for men but for women, and that both sexes were going to have to adjust to an entirely new way of working and living and even falling in love." In her book, she works to explain how we got to where we are -- and what it may mean for life as we know it. Equal parts anecdote and sociological analysis (with a dash of statistics), Rosin serves a dish that may be hard for American men to digest. Though the title suggests it's a "girls rule, boys drool" tale, that's untrue. Rosin covers a wide range of subjects, all relating to gender, money, and love. Her motto? "There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are."

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The more that women become like men the more they seem to dislike men - especially short men.  It seems the more that gender norms become perverted, and the more masculine women become, the less they seem to want or need men - especially those pathetic short men.  We should all celebrate feminism shouldn't we?  The title of this article says it all - once again - especially for those dis-likeable short men.
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Rand Fishkin on the Irrational Biases of SEO


By Jasmine Henry, Published September 4, 2012

Playing by the rules won’t always get you ahead. Rand Fishkin, leading SEO expert, implores small businesses to consider whether their biases might be irrational. Turn out, women on major Internet dating sites have a tendency to focus on men who are 5’9” or taller, and inbound marketers also focus on some old schools of thought when it comes to optimizing their sites for search.

Fishkin’s credo in a keynote speech at Hubspot’s Inbound 12 conference in Boston of Choose Short Men, is a little weird but it worked. Sometimes removing irrational biases can yield exceptional results, just Fishkin’s female co-worker who ditched the bias and ultimately married her perfect match, who happened to be a man 1/2 inch shorter than her. We won’t be covering all of Fishkin’s 12 examples of irrational biases that can hold your company back from achieving amazing results, but we’ll share a few of our favorites:

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Choose Short Men.  We're not so sure about tall women.
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Regarding Heightism

I’m sick of tall people trying to relate to the misery of short people. “I would trade being 6’6” for being 5’6” in a heartbeat!”

Yeah, shove it up your second story ass, gigantoid. The simple fact of the matter is that, prima facie, society values taller people more than the vertically challenged. This is true in the workplace, in the bar, and (especially) in the dating world. Though it might not be as urgent as issues of race or class struggle, heightism in America is alive and well. You think you’d be able to see that from up there, but you’re probably too busy having sex to notice.

- a repost
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Anaheim high school cancels events found to be demeaning 
 

After complaints, 'Seniores' and 'Señoritas' events at Canyon High in Anaheim Hills, where students wore costumes demeaning to Latinos, are canceled.

By Robert J. Lopez, Los Angeles Times
August 22, 2012, 10:52 p.m.

"Seniores" and "Señoritas" events held at an Anaheim high school — in which students dressed as gang members and a pregnant woman pushing a baby stroller — have been canceled after officials concluded the activities were demeaning toward Latinos and their culture.

The events, which have been held for at least three years at Canyon High School, took place during senior activity week in June and were approved by campus administrators, according to school district officials.

The event was canceled after the Orange Unified School District launched an internal investigation in June in response to two complaints filed by former students.

"I conclude there was a lack of oversight/supervision and that the school administration should not have allowed this activity," Aileen M. Sterling, executive director of secondary education for the district, wrote in an Aug. 10 letter summarizing her inquiry.

"Even if strict guidelines were provided," Sterling said, "the result would still lead to hurtful and demeaning messages about the Mexican culture and to the students of the Mexican, Hispanic and Latino descent."

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 - There's a video associated with this too, just click on the link above.  Now take a look at this -



According to the person who uploaded this video, "This is the A Cappella group from Oak Park High School, in Kansas City Missouri, my old alma mater, singing Short People arr. by Simon Carrington, with words by Randy Newman. As sung by the King Singers"

Some of the comments:

• Y'all did great! Glad to see the tradition of excellence lives on!
• This is freaking sweet! Our choir is doing the same thing on Thursday but not to that level Very nice job!
• they were grooving... I heard a choir perform this today at my school I had to attend the concert for a class and do a report so I had to look the song up and find out more info ..... the choir at my school wasn't really into like this. Y'all were getting down!
• i love this song!!!! its fricken hilarious!

When other groups are demeaned, it's "Circle the Wagons" time.  When short people are demeaned, "its fricken hilarious!"
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WE RECENTLY RECEIVED THIS E-MAIL FROM ONE OF OUR HEIGHTISM-AWARE BRETHREN.  WE THINK THAT THE SITUATION DESCRIBED IS EXTREMELY RELEVANT AND PART AND PARCEL OF THE CONDESCENDING WAY THAT SHORT MEN ARE VIEWED AND TREATED IN SOCIETY, VERY OFTEN BY PEOPLE WHO WOULD NEVER DO LIKEWISE WITH ANY OTHER GROUP.  HIS STORY IS MULTI-FACETED, INVOLVING YOUNG WOMEN, FAMILY MEMBERS, AND CHINESE EMPLOYERS (IN CHINA) AND THEIR ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOR TOWARD SHORT MEN.  WITH OTHER HEIGHTISM-AWARE WEBSITES NOW ON-PAGE WITH THE YOUNG WOMEN - SHORT MEN - TWITTER PHENOMENON, THE INCIDENT DESCRIBED BELOW ONLY CONFIRMS THE FACT THAT YOUNG WOMEN - AND MOST OF SOCIETY - ARE FREE TO DISCRIMINATE AGAINST SHORT PEOPLE, AND PARTICULARLY SHORT MEN.  THANKS ERIK.

 

Hi Joe,

Your explanation for why other short men would get offended when I bring up heightism makes sense. I just thought that other people might take solace in knowing that they are not alone in facing discrimination. Regarding my professor, yes he most definitely revealed that he is a heightist yesterday. It was quite a shock to me, too, because he described himself as being very liberal and often talks about social justice so I did not think he would be a heightist.

In answer to your question, I am partially Scandinavian. I am also part Welsh, which is where I am told my short stature comes from. My Welsh great-grandfather was 5'3 and as a result my mother is at 5'0. My father is 5'10 and that mixture with my mom's height gave me an even 5'5. It's usually very awkward when I visit my half-siblings who all range between 5'10 and 6'4 (their mother was 5'10 also), and I usually get one of their friends asking me "What happened to you? Why are you so small when your siblings are normal sized?" when they see me :/

I attend a small private university called St. Olaf College. The first experience I had with heightism over here happened during a dance that took place in our dorm during my freshman year. The dance was very formal and everyone was required to dress their best, meaning most came in a tuxedo or a suit. Because our dorm had a ratio of 2 girls for every 1 guy and the coordinators of the dance wanted everyone to go, they placed a card in each of our mailboxes listing the names of both of the girls we were supposed to escort to the dance. I made myself look as well groomed as possible, as per the requirements and walked down to the dorm where my dates were supposed to greet me. Just as I get to the door I hear one of the girls saying to her roommate in a distressed voice "There's no way in hell I'm going with a guy that little, I'm staying in here. Just tell him I'm sick or something." I went back upstairs for a bit and almost didn't go but I decided to go back and knock on their door since the other girl didn't seem to have any objection. Anyway, the one girl who answered was dressed up and she lied and said her friend was sick and couldn't go. We then get in line in the main hallway behind the other pairs of dates (where I notice all the other guys have both girls at their arms) and progress down the hall as the dates were announced by a loudspeaker. After being announced each group would  have their photo taken by a professional photographer, and as soon as the girl and I are announced she says that she doesn't want to have her picture taken because it would look awkward that we're the same height in the picture. Then as soon as we get on the dance floor she sees a guy that she apparently knew and ditched me. Not long after I saw her getting a picture taken with the other guy.

That was probably the most humiliating experience of heightism that I have faced at this school. But of course there are the regular quips about my height. One that particularly stung the other day was when I was in the gym on campus lifting weights and a guy casually says to me "trying to compensate, huh?" I mean, why can't a short guy go to the gym just to be healthy? Why must I be compensating for lack of height by trying to be fit? It's like I'm damned if I do, damned if I don't.

By the way, that 'Short and Male' documentary you took part in (while having some parts in it I didn't like such as the comedy routine with the guy insulting his own short stature) resonated with me quite well. In particular, the section about the Chinese man who won a lawsuit against the company that discriminated against him based on height. I was in Shanghai last year as part of my university's 'Term in China' program and I worked under the table as a host at a club for a few days. But they then decided that my stature was a problem and fired me on the spot, telling me quite plainly that my short stature gave a bad impression of the place to the customers. I couldn't sue or anything since I'm not a Chinese citizen, but it really woke me up in realizing that heightism is a serious problem.

Erik

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THE HARVARD IAT

Here is a list of the current Implicit Association Tests listed on the Project Implicit website:

Gender-Career IAT 
Religion IAT 
Presidents IAT 
Age IAT 
Arab-Muslim IAT
Race IAT   
Asian IAT
Asian American
Gender-Science IAT
Weight IAT
Weapons IAT
Sexuality IAT
Disability IAT
Native IAT
Skin-tone IAT
    
The Height IAT was available on the Harvard.edu website in 2008.  It’s appearance coincided almost exactly with the initial airing of the Documentary – ‘S&M:  Short and Male’.  After a few months it disappeared.  It has not returned as of August 2012; yet all during this time the IAT for ‘Weight’ has been there, even though weight is largely a personal choice.  Gender appears not just once, but twice – ‘Gender-Career’ and ‘Gender-Science’.  It would seem that ‘Race’ appears not just once, but twice – once as ‘Race’ and possibly also as ‘Skin tone’.  Some other IAT’s that have appeared all during this time would be ‘Presidents’, 'Native', 'Arab-Muslim' and 'Asian'.
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BET YOU NEVER KNEW ABOUT

THESE -

tallwomen.org - The Ultimate Online Resource for Women who are 5'10" and over.
tallwomen.tv (Notice how the male of the species is depicted on the home page.)
Long Tall Sally - Tall is beautiful.  Clothes for Tall women.
SimplyTall.net - More clothes for Tall women.
LongElegantLegs.com - For women "graced" with height.

This is just the tip of the iceberg.  And you thought you had it bad little man.  We really have to see what we can do to help those "poor" tall women.  Well?!
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Is There A 'Battle Of The Sexes' When It Comes To

Height?   

Posted: 08/08/2012 3:58 pm Updated: 08/08/2012 3:58 pm

By: Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer
Published: 08/07/2012 07:08 PM EDT on LiveScience

For women looking to pass on their genes, it pays to be short. For men, tall is the ideal. The result? An evolutionary tug-of-war in which neither gender reaches their perfect height.

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In the same way, traits that harm one sex but not the other may not be "weeded out" by natural selection, Stulp said.

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Many factors play a role in mate choice, Stulp said, and height is only one. Nevertheless, research has found that people do care about height when picking a mate, he said.

"Asking people about their preferences for height and examining, for instance, the role of height in speed-daters, a reasonably clear picture arises: Taller men and average height women are on average preferred," he said. "Particularly women value height in their male partner."

Height is also correlated with income, attractiveness, education, health and longevity, Stulp said.

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"I think it is important to recognize that evolutionary processes occur in contemporary human populations," Stulp said. "Evolution did not stop at the industrial revolution."

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Tallness - it's always "Evolution", never Discrimination.
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WHY AREN'T WE ALL TALL?  



There’s a fair amount of social science and anecdata that tall males are more reproductively fit. More precisely, males one to two standard deviations above the norm in height seem to be at the “sweet spot” as an idealized partner (e.g., leading males). And, short men often have fewer children. Short women will pair up with tall men. Tall women will generally not pair up with shorter men. The question then has to be asked: why isn’t natural selection producing a situation where we’re all tall?

As it is, height is a highly heritable trait where there’s a lot of genetic variation present in the population. One hypothesis might be that short(er) people are simply individuals with a higher mutational load. In other words, there’s going to be variation in the load of deleterious alleles from person to person, and one’s value on quantitative traits (intelligence, height) is a reflection of one’s genetic fitness. There are problems with this model, starting with the fact that one you need to tease apart inter-population variation. Also, within families there doesn’t seem to be a correlation between height and intelligence, which you would expect to see if quantitative traits are reflections of variation in mutational load.

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Short people - just a bunch of "mutations".  (Don't refer to any other group that way though.  That's prejudice.)
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  12 Surprisingly Short Celebrities   

We see them in films, on TV, in concert, and in pictures, but we never really see celebrities face to face. That is why I always just assume people are tall. Not for any particular reason, we just create certain images of people in our heads and stick to it.

Well, I figured out I was wrong about many assumed heights I had configured in my head. The average woman in America is 5’4.6″ tall. All of the stars in this gallery are shorter than that, for sure. The average man in America is 5’10.2″. And believe me! Every single male star’s height in this gallery is well under that.

Check out the gallery to see which stars are surprisingly closer to the ground than you expected.


Tom Cruise:  The recently separated Cruise is known for dating and marrying taller women. His first wife, Mimi Rogers, was two inches taller than him; his second wife, Nicole Kidman, was four inches taller than him; and his third wife, Katie Holmes, was two inches taller than him as well. Maybe he needs to mess with some people his own size...

Nicole Richie & Joel Madden:  Let's hope for their children's sake that their "tall gene" skipped their generation, because mom Nicole Richie comes in at a slight 5'1" and dad Joel Madden is only bringing 5'7" to the table.

Javier Bardem:  Penelope Cruz's other half is only one in taller than her! Bardem is only 5'7", which is pretty short for a male.

Avril Lavigne:  Rocker Avril Lavigne comes in at a shocking 5'3".

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Same old.  
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Swiss footballer Michel Morganella has been

expelled from the London Olympics for

posting a racist message on social

networking website Twitter. 

Jul 30, 2012 - 19:20

Swiss Olympic team chief Gian Gilli said Morganella was being stripped of his Olympic accreditation ahead of Switzerland’s final group match against Mexico on Wednesday.
 
He “discriminated against, insulted and violated the dignity of the South Korea football team as well as the South Korean people”, Gill said through a translator at a news conference on Monday.
 
Morganella, a defender for Italian club Palermo, posted an offensive and threatening message aimed at South Korean people after Switzerland lost 2-1 to South Korea on Sunday.
 
Swiss daily Le Matin published images of a tweet from his account, which has since been deleted.

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Another athlete banned from the Olympics because of a hostile tweet.  We're wondering if any Olympic athletes have made hostile tweets against short people or short men in the recent past.  Probably not.  If they had, they probably would have been given the Gold Medal already by default.
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Iggy Azalea Embraces Her Pale Complexion,

Talks Small Packages & Big Chests [Video]   

Wednesday, Aug 1, 2012 10:05AM
Written by Cyrus Langhorne

Grand Hustle affiliate Iggy Azalea may be more pale than your average rapper, however, she recently addressed her body features and why she has learned to embrace them.

Iggy also revealed some adult advice her father dished out on her in relation to men.

"My dad always says, 'Wear the tallest heels you can and stand really close to short men. If they have a small d*ck, it'll shrivel up and if they don't then don't worry about it.

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Sounds about right for someone like Iggy Azalea and her "dad".
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London 2012: 2.13m Yi Jianlian is China's

flag-bearer   

China has picked basketball player Yi Jianlian to carry its flag at the London Olympic Games opening ceremony.

The 2.13m (7ft) NBA player will continue a tradition of Chinese flag-bearers coming - since 1984 - from the men's basketball team.

The team announced the decision at the flag-raising ceremony in the Olympic Village.

Officials hinted earlier the job would go to a "tall, handsome and influential" athlete.

"We can now tell everyone that the delegation's flag-bearer is China men's basketballer Yi Jianlian," Reuters news agency quoted Xiao Tian, China's deputy chef de mission, as saying.

Mr Xiao admitted there were multiple candidates, but said Yi was chosen after "comprehensive consideration".

In two online polls on Sina Weibo - one of China's equivalents of Twitter - Yi was actually beaten by 2011 French Open tennis champion Li Na and Athens Olympics gold medal hurdler Liu Xiang as the most favoured flag-bearer

But Xiao Tian said given the size of China's delegation, the job must go to someone who is "tall enough and famous enough", the official Xinhua news agency reported.

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There were Chinese athletes who were more "influential" than Yi JianLian, like Liu Xiang for instance.  There were certainly other Chinese athlete's who were better looking.  It is clear that Tall height was the most important variable here.  Nothing less than a 7-footer would do.  To those of you who like to blame "Western Culture" for everything including heightism - Wake The F*** up!
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Banned Greek triple jumper ‘bitter and

upset’ after racist tweet gets her kicked out

of Olympics   

By Chris Chase | Fourth-Place Medal – Thu, Jul 26, 2012 12:22 PM EDT

The Greek triple jumper expelled from the Olympics for sending a racist tweet about African immigrants and the West Nile virus is speaking out against the decision to ban her from competition in London.

Voula Papachristou was left in Athens by the Hellenic Olympic Committee after sending a tweet that read, "with so many Africans in Greece at least the West Nile mosquitos will eat homemade food." Her comment generated a minor uproar in Greece, then became an international story when Greek officials decided to kick her off the Olympic team.

The triple jumper issued a wide-ranging apology after the ruling was announced. Her tone turned defiant on Thursday when she spoke with Reuters about the decision:

"I have not slept at all and to be honest I am still trying to come to terms with what has happened. I am trying to stay calm otherwise I would lose control.

"I am thankful to my coach and family and so many other people who have stuck by me.... After so many years of hurt and sacrifices to try and get to my first Olympics I am very bitter and upset. But what has upset me the most is the excessive reaction and speed of the disciplinary decision."

Though it's probably not best to talk about how you may "lose control" -- I don't think that's taught in Crisis Management 101 -- Papachristou has a point. The reaction was excessive and the speed with which it was made suggests undue haste. It's strange; Greek officials are usually so prudent and judicious in their decision making.

She should be angry. There have been no reports of Greek Twitter guidelines or rules of conduct for athletes. Officials appeared to make an arbitrary decision based on political pressure. They said they banned Papachristou because they didn't want to "place Greece in a very negative light." The thing is, nobody would have known about this had they not banned her. It was an isolated story with no legs. Now it's in its third news cycle.

Papachristou can be angry, but she can't be surprised. When you make a statement that touches on race or religion or gender in a controversial way, the hammer can be dropped quickly.

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Imagine if she had made a tweet like some of the tweets about short men that appear on twitter -

I hate short men - Marz ‏@marz_o_mah
I hate short men - olivia.G. ‏@oliviasweird
I hate short men - Mookiee La Latte ‏@brownNfine
I can't date short guys cuz dey abusive n tall niggas dont respect them - Just Holly ‏@Holly_Hillz
short guys are never taken seriously in my eyes.  I will laugh at you or use your little short sweet ass lol - trouble ;) ‏@PiercedMySoul
I feel bad for short couples cause then they just breed short people. - Turn me into a Bird ‏@Treasurenochest

- if she had, she probably would have become the favorite for the Gold Medal.
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Want to carry the Chinese flag into

the Opening Ceremony? Better be

‘tall, handsome and influential’

By Dan Devine | Fourth-Place Medal – Tue, Jul 24, 2012 12:30 PM EDT

We're just three days away from the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, and the Chinese Olympic delegation has yet to reveal which of the 380 athletes who will represent the nation in 23 different events will be the lucky one chosen to carry the Chinese flag in Friday's gala opening parade. Thanks to a hint offered by one Chinese official, though, we know one thing — short stacks need not apply for the honor.

From Xinhua's Zhang Yongfeng:

    "You will get a pleasant surprise when the name of the flag-bearer is announced soon," Xiao Tian, deputy chef de mission of the Chinese Olympic delegation, said at Beijing International Airport while leading a team of Chinese officials to leave for London. [...]

    There has been a lot of guessing about who will carry the Chinese flag in London. Dallas Mavericks player Yi Jianlian, 2011 French Open women's singles winner Li Na, 2004 Olympic champion hurdler Liu Xiang, Olympic badminton champion Lin Dan and world champion swimmer Sun Yang are among the candidates for the flag-bearer.

    "The flag-bearer should well represent the image of China," said Xiao. "He or she needs to have an impressive record in sports, be tall, handsome and influential."

More on this later.
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Jacksonville convention celebrates height  

Posted: July 5, 2012 - 7:06pm  |  Updated: July 9, 2012 - 9:41am
By Matt Soergel    

Barry Umbs, at 6-foot-9, says that sure, tall people look down upon the more vertically challenged. When you're way up there, after all, you have to.

Still, they don't really, you know, look down on them in the figurative sense.

"We like 'em. But we can't eat a whole one," he quips.

Umbs, of Milwaukee, is chairman of a convention of tall people being held downtown this week. They're a genial bunch of men who are at least 6-foot-2 and women who are at least 5-10.

They seem to have a lot of fun being tall. Umbs himself has a T-shirt he likes: "When you're tall, you see it all."

Other tall conventioneers refer to another popular T-shirt: "No, I don't play basketball. Do you play miniature golf?"

Umbs explains: "When you're up here, you have to have comebacks."

This year's Tall Clubs International convention is at the Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront. About 110 towering people from across the U.S. and Canada are there to socialize, organize, raise funds, volunteer and sightsee.

It's also a chance to blend into the crowd.

Back home in New Orleans, Fred Florek (6-4) will always be "Big Fred." "Here," he said, "I'm just normal."

The average American man is 5-91/2, while the average woman is 5-4, says the Centers for Disease Control and Protection.

Those closer to those averages may think the tall get all the breaks. But life in the stratosphere can have its challenges.

Cars are tough. Movie seats too. Many beds aren't big enough. Doorways are hazardous. Airplanes are a big trouble spot, though the tall people said they're often steered toward exit-row or bulkhead seats.

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The poor dears.  We really have to see what we can do to help them.
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Malevolent Midgets   

Do short men really have rotten personalities?

By Simon Doonan | Posted Thursday, July 19, 2012, at 6:45 AM ET

When news of the TomKat split erupted a couple of weeks back, I braced myself for the inevitable. Just how long would it be before the media and the Twittersphere pointed accusing fingers at that mysterious, select group of individuals, that elite corps of which Tom Cruise, David Miscavige, and I are all such prominent members? Not long, as it turned out. Not long at all.

“Cruise and Miscavige are great friends. They are both short men, like motorbikes and are deeply into Scientology,” screamed the London Independent.

The Twittersphere was even more direct:

“Apparently Tom Cruise proposed to Katie Holmes standing on top of the Eiffel Tower. How paranoid do you have to be about your height?” quipped @theLastJedi.

“Tom Cruise is a creepy little midget. Congrats Katie Holmes, you dodged that bullet,” added @MaceyWaddington.

How horribly predictable it all is! Whenever things go awry, pundits the world over blame the short guy. Was Tom Cruise attempting to oppress and control his wife and daughter Suri? Quite possibly! Is that because Tom Cruise is a Tom Thumb and must therefore be an ill-intentioned control freak?

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Same old stupid bullsh*t.
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How Katie Holmes Took Control  

By Michelle Tauber
Wednesday July 11, 2012 08:00 AM EDT

Katie Holmes knew she had to make a drastic change.

The actress, 33, was increasingly unhappy in her five-year marriage to Tom Cruise as she realized "she no longer had the life she wanted, in terms of her career, her way of life, everything," a source tells PEOPLE in this week's cover story.

So she took action – quickly.

"Once she decided to go, she was done," says the source.

With help from her unflinching attorney father Martin, she orchestrated a secretive exit strategy that included moving into a new downtown Manhattan apartment, switching cell phones and keeping her megastar husband in the dark – until a bombshell phone call in which she broke the news to him.

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The media nearly always supports women and in a situation like the above almost always either directly or indirectly vilifies men - short or tall.  You know!  - feminism and all that?  And don't forget - Tom Cruise is short.  If the situation were reversed and it was Tom Cruise who sprung a surprise divorce on his wife, and "orchestrated a secretive exit strategy", you can wager dollars to donuts that People WOULD NOT have titled this article - 'How Tom Cruise Took Control'.  It would be disparage Tom Cruise time.  Oh wait a minute!  It IS disparage Tom Cruise time.  Whether it was Cruise doing the divorcing or Holmes, it's always the guy who's the 'bad guy'.  And this guy is a short guy. 
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Short Men, Meet the Man Making Clothes That Fit   

July 9, 2012
By Kurt Soller
at 1:57PM

The polos would nearly reach his knees. The pants had to be cuffed or hemmed. And the shirts, even the ones he liked at Steven Alan, were always too long to be worn untucked. At 5'8", Peter Manning isn't the sort of guy you'd see and think, Wow, he's little. But whenever he went shopping, that's what it felt like, even when he was ten-years-old, when he wanted bell bottoms. Until his mother told him, "Peter, by the time I shorten them, they won't be bell bottoms."

By current estimates, a quarter of American men are Manning's height or shorter, a size that means — length-wise at least — that the size S and XS garments sold at major retailers throughout the country will need alterations; if you're short yourself, you know how hard it can be to find inseams under 30 inches, the typical industry minimum. At age 44, this is the problem that Manning has dreamt his whole of fixing, both for himself and for others.

So, after two years of developing a line, he just launched Peter Manning, the brand, which caters to guys with a constant sizing dilemma. Numbered from 1 through 5, the clothes are for guys from 5'3" and 125 pounds up to 5'9" and 170 pounds. They're the sort of pieces you might find at the best store in your local mall: washed plaid shirts, chino pants, a sweater or two — basics, basically, made in foreign factories where Manning's hardest challenge was explaining his new sizing system. "You can’t allow for any nuance and everything has to be specified," he says. "Over and over."

Manning's growing customer base comes to him for this sort of attention to detail: Right now, as an online-only business at petermanningnyc.com, he's had orders in the hundreds for his first season, Spring 2012. He's hoping that number increases as he adds denim, wool sweaters, and a jacket for fall tailored by Martin Greenfield, which will top out at $695. Before that, most prices were under $100. "In the beginning, I didn't want to exclude anyone who might not be able to afford it," he says. But is a luxury line one of his goals? Absolutely. "I want short guys to go into a Barneys or Saks and ask where the Peter Manning section is." Like petites for women, but without so much stigma.

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Imagine - clothes for short men but without "so much stigma".   Why would there be a "stigma" associated with clothes for short men?  There is no "stigma" associated with clothes for Tall men, as a matter of fact, the stores are proud that they have departments for those "lofty" Tall men.  There are also more and more clothes for the "Large" too - you know - large, as in "overweight", those folks who choose to overeat and under-exercise?  But clothes for short men carry a "stigma".  We agree.  And we also agree that short men who are sick and tired of trying to find clothes that look good on them should check out Peter's website.

Petermanningnyc.com
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Thursday, June 28, 2012
RIP Nora Ephron   

Death.  Like taxes and the Kardashian sisters, it is unavoidable.  I don’t usually like dwelling on it, because it tends to depress me, particularly as I enter that sun-dappled grove called “After 50.”  But every now and then, some lives are worth examining at their natural end, because even though the sorrow is palpable, so is the sense that all of the beauty and laughter created by that creature when living remain in the wake of her passing.  That happened for me with Nora Ephron.

I can’t remember when I first heard her name, but it was probably around the time when I saw “All the President’s Men” with my mother on the Million Dollar Movie.  She mentioned to me that the short reporter played by Dustin Hoffman in the film was once married to a really good writer named Nora Ephron, who reacted to his cheating on her by writing a tell-all novel called “Heartburn.”


It was both loving and bitter, sweet and caustic, funny and tragic.  I was hooked. Here was a woman who could take her own personal humiliation and turn it into a publishing triumph, all the while making you laugh.  But make no mistake:  Ephron was a serious lady with a serious message, particularly compelling for someone like me who has a tendency to lose focus when life sends  curveballs:  “be the heroine in your story not the victim.”

Ephron is from my mother’s generation, someone who was on the cusp of the feminist movement and who might have considered herself a women’s libber but who preferred writing about bras (and how they were filled) than burning them.  She made the minutiae of a woman’s life into grand drama, including cooking, men, hygiene, men, handbags, men, plastic surgery, men, and men.  She was a navel gazer, that’s true, but unlike so many other women who write about women, she wasn’t convinced that we were the center of the universe or that men were simply the backdrop for our fabulousness.  Ephron loved men and women equally (short men named Carl Bernstein being the only exception) and made us love the worlds in which we intersected.

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She loved men and women equally  - except short men?  (Did she dislike short men or does the author of this article dislike short men?  You do some research.)
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SHOWBIZ: Roaring fun with Shrek   

24 June 2012 | Last updated at 09:04AM
SHOWBIZ: Roaring fun with Shrek
By Aref Omar

A flashy musical for the whole family, Aref Omar discovers that Shrek The Musical is child’s play

THE fairytale adventures of the grouchy green ogre with a heart of gold and his feisty princess bride come to life on stage in Shrek The Musical.

Based on the Oscar-winning animated CGI film from DreamWorks, the production features most of the prominent and integral scenes from the first film, including some word-for-word dialogue parts.

The audience last Wednesday evening at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre had a blast watching the ogre Shrek on his quest to save Princess Fiona from a dragon-infested tower for Lord Farquaad so the ogre could reclaim his swamp home from being overrun by exiled fairytale creatures. Shrek and the cursed Princess Fiona later fall in love.

They then had to foil Lord Farquaad’s devious plan to become King to realise their happy ever after ending.

The original film featured the voice talents of Mike Myers as Shrek, Eddie Murphy as his sidekick Donkey, Cameron Diaz as Princess Fiona and John Lithgow as Lord Farquaad.

With the musical, these characters retained their essence, with the stage actors providing similar depictions from the film versions, augmented by eye-catching costumes and makeup.

Prosthetics, padding and green body paint made Shrek believable and a furry donkey suit with hooves did it for the ogre’s pal.

But the character that stood out during the 150-minute musical was Lord Farquaad, whose short stature is conveyed by actor Merritt David Janes playing the villainous character literally on his knees.

Flamboyant and campy at times, the character never failed to elicit laughs from the audience, comprising mostly of families and children.

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They don't laugh at "Our Hero" - the BIG ugly ogre 'Shrek' -  but they laugh at the short man.  Short men should be banished to Bogey Land.
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Case Number: 2230 GEOFFREY ARNOLD AGAINST

THE DOMINION POST AND STUFF   

Council Meeting FEBRUARY 2012

Geoffrey Arnold has complained that an opinion column published by The Dominion Post in December 2011 and carried on the Stuff website is discriminatory and offensive. The complaint is not upheld.

Background
A column by Dominion Post regular columnist Rosemary McLeod that appeared on the Stuff website and syndicated to The Press has been the subject of two complaints to the Press Council.
The column, headlined on The Dominion Post’s section of Stuff, Short can be troublesome or seriously dangerous, discussed the behaviour of small dogs by making comparisons with short men.

Complaint
Mr Arnold, a New York resident, complained to the Dominion Post that the columnist was arbitrary and misguided and the column was a degrading assault on a group of individuals. He said it expressed a casual contempt for short people and encouraged prejudice which was demeaning to everyone.
He said the column was not clearly labelled as opinion and its publication was ‘reckless’.
Mr Arnold also complained that the column was inaccurate in comparing a high-profile New Zealand personality of small stature who was bankrupt and an American personality who was taller – and successful. He said the American had also filed for bankruptcy twice.
He questioned whether the column would have been published if it had referred to other minority groups, such as Black people or Jews.

The Newspaper’s Response
Editor Bernadette Courtney, replying for The Dominion Post and also on behalf of Andrew Holden, editor of The Press, said they were surprised that the complaint had come from the United States, a country that guarantees its citizens free speech. The columnist and the newspapers’ website were simply exercising that freedom.
She said the column appeared in the comment or opinion sections in both cases.
Rosemary McLeod was writing primarily for a New Zealand readership and the word ‘bankrupt’ had a different meaning in the United States. It was a fact that the New Zealand businessman referred to was bankrupt while the American was not.
The Press Council has previously upheld the right of columnists to provoke and be outrageous.
Ms Courtney said the columnist was not advocating prejudice against short men. “To equate what were light-hearted comments – a style familiar to regular readers – with prejudice against black or Jews is offensive.”

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It's "light-hearted" when short men are disparaged.  It's also "offensive" when short men start to think that they have rights like everyone else.
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TALL TALK WITH ARIANNE COHEN  

It’s been found over the last half century across different currencies and locales AND THE REASON FOR THAT IS IT’S BEHAVIORAL.  TALL KIDS, WHEN THEY’RE GROWING UP, THEY’RE OFTEN TREATED AS THE LEADER BY THEIR FRIENDS BECAUSE THEY’RE RELATED TO AS AN OLDER PEER.  SO WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU HAVE A 22 YEAR-OLD TALL INTERN WHO GOES INTO A NEW COMPANY, THAT INTERN IS OFTEN KIND OF MAKING ALL THE LITTLE DECISIONS, LIKE ‘WHERE ARE WE GOING FOR LUNCH’, AND WHEN IT COMES TIME FOR PROMOTIONS, THAT’S REALLY IMPORTANT BECAUSE THE BOSS GIVES THE PROMOTION TO THE PERSON WHO’S ALREADY PLAYING THE LEADERSHIP ROLE.

View entire clip . . .

Tall People:  Just 'Natural' Leaders.
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Justin Bieber Bans Selena Gomez From Wearing High Heels in Public?   
5:59 pm, June 13th, 2012

“Selena Gomez is one TALL order for vertically-challenged Justin Bieber,” begins a piece in the National Enquirer, which reports the teen icon flipped when his girlfriend showed up for a date wearing high heels.

The tab claims Bieber “couldn’t believe his eyes” when Gomez “turned up at his pad wearing five-inch platform shoes for a neighborhood dinner date.”

The Enquirer goes on to assert that The Biebs was so insecure about appearing shorter than her in public that he told her “mega-heels for a casual outing is flat-out dumb!”

A supposed pal of the couple tells the mag, “When Selena refused to change her high heels, Justin refused to dine out.”

Seriously?

NO.

Gomez wears heels all the time when she’s with Bieber, especially during highly-publicized red carpet appearances (see photo right).

This story is just idiotic.

Regardless, a rep for Bieber laughed off the silly tale to Gossip Cop, telling us it’s obviously NOT true.

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IMDB lists Bieber's height as '5'7".  Which means he's probably about  5'5".  Thank goodness for those elevator shoes!
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Treatise on "Short Man Syndrome"

I have been a sufferer of this condition for many years. Short Man Syndrome
is a very real ailment that plagues many of us of lesser stature. Jokes
about it are a common occurrence, but this post is written to serve as a bit
of an explanation and to spread knowledge to those who just don’t quite
understand.

Short Man Syndrome is not something you are born with. It is a condition
brought about by socialization. When I walk my 5’6″ self into a bar, I am
always on edge. Why? Because many a night have I tried to make my way to get
a drink in a crowded bar, and been shoved by those who either didn’t see me
or pretended to not see me. I’ve even been standing still, and had people
walk by who push me out of the way as an object rather than a person.


Anything irritating becomes exponentially so when experienced ad nauseum.
Eventually I would begin pushing back, partially as a warning, partially for
redemption, and partially to simply vent. That act of revenge has brought me
close to fisticuffs on several occasions, but no amount of physical pain
could ever equal the feeling of being treated as a second-class citizen.

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The webmaster is not the only one who knows that short people are "treated as second-class citizens.
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The playboy called Mr Ever Ready: Despite being short and violent, high society beauties from Monroe to Ava Gardner jumped into bed with Porfirio Rubirosa   

By Annabel Venning

PUBLISHED: 18:03 EST, 8 June 2012 | UPDATED: 19:26 EST, 8 June 2012

He bedded thousands of women, including such legendary beauties as Ava Gardner, Jayne Mansfield, Eva Peron and Zsa Zsa Gabor.

Not only that, he married the two richest women in the world, first Doris Duke, then Barbara Hutton, and bedded another millionairess, Tina Onassis, as well as queens and countesses.

In the Forties and Fifties no high-society party or jet-set gathering was complete without him. But as the many women who wanted to possess him discovered to their cost, it was this Latin lover who always possessed them.

Porfirio Rubirosa — Rubi to his friends — was good-looking, although at 5ft 8in far from tall . . .

The "short and violent" in the title is to get the reader to associate short WITH violent.  Clever, aren't they?
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Bartolome Hates Heightism (but doesn’t expect tall people to understand… this is “above” them)   

Posted May 15, 2012 by Bartolome La Verde in Pandora's Box

Imagine that you are five inches shorter than you are. Wouldn’t make that much of a difference, would it? You wouldn’t think…

But then, you never did. You never thought. You don’t have to think. You’re not short, and you’ve never experienced Heightism. You’ve never been treated like a kid by other adults, never endured the so-called “gentle” chiding or the ceaseless self-consciousness at concerts and protests. You’ve never lived my life, never faced the assumptions, the constant applications of diminutive names… you have NO idea.

I used to pray (back when I believed in God and even long after I stopped praying, I still hoped) that one day I would be as tall as the average adult, but I was 16… 17… 18… at 21, I pretty much stopped growing. Well, now… I’m taller than most women I know, but I’m shorter than most other men, even men and BOYS much younger than myself and guess what. No one calls them “baby,” or “honey,” or “sweetie.” No… they get respect, not diminutive little cutesie nicknames. So fuck them and fuck the nicknamers, too.

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Sounds like an awakened Short guy. 
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Men’s Health Week: Getting to the heart of the matter
 
By RUTH WALKER
Published on Sunday 10 June 2012 14:13

ERECTILE problems can be a sign of heart disease so don’t suffer in silence.

Happy Men's Health Week. Wait. I know what you're thinking. You're expecting to be nagged about going to the doctor more, aren’t you? Urged to grapple with your meat and two veg, checking for lumps and bumps, pain when you wee, anything else out of the ordinary down there. You don't need that sort of talk over your Lorne sausage on a Sunday morning. Moving on ...

But men's health is about more than prostate cancer and jock itch (yes, that is a genuine complaint, by the way – its proper name is tinea cruris, and it’s contagious so better get it seen to). Did you know, for instance, that men are twice as likely as women to suffer a heart attack? It's the single biggest killer of blokes under the age of 75 – 20,850 die prematurely from a dodgy ticker compared to a measly 7,408 women. Scottish men are even more at risk.

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Short men, too, are more at risk – 50 per cent more risk, in fact. For short, read anything under five feet five inches. The reason for this is not known, but it could be that smaller people have smaller arteries, which become more easily blocked. It could even be that short people – particularly short men – are discriminated against and therefore suffer more stress (short men are also more likely to commit suicide).

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"It could even be that short people - particularly short men - are discriminated against . . ."  Really?  I wonder what could have given her that idea?
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Does his height really matter?  
Publish Date: Jun 04, 2012

By Carol Natukunda

 “What!? She is dating that ‘ka’ short man?” exclaims one young woman, as she gossips with a friend, sitting in a taxi. “How do you kiss when he is so short? Do you bend? Not cool!” The two girls giggle, before bursting into laughter and making fun of their friend’s boyfriend.

 It must suck to be a short man in this world. It seems a little silly when you think about it. But it is real. Suddenly, height seems such a big thing among young women.

“I like tall guys. Just a few inches taller than me, makes me feel at ease. I am not ashamed to walk with him in public,” says Betty, a 24-year-old graduate.

Patra concurs: “Short men have issues. They think you look down on them and want to follow you around all the time. I have seen short men cheating on their girlfriends; I don’t know if they want to prove their manhood or something.”

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They think people "look down on them"?!
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NYPD to probe bullying link to suicide of boy, 12 
June 1, 2012

After being teased for being too short and too smart, a 12-year-old East Harlem boy is now dead. The final straw came when Joel Morales was teased about his dead father. His mother found the fifth grader hanging from a shower rod in the bathroom of their apartment at the Jefferson Houses on 2nd Avenue and 115th Street, at 11:30 p.m. Tuesday. A neighbor said the mother, Lizbeth Babilonia, cut her son down with a knife and had to be restrained before stabbing herself with the blade. Relatives said the young boy had been teased for months by schoolyard bullies, forcing him to be transferred from P.S. 102 to P.S. 57, but the bullies from the old school continued to torment him in the neighborhood. Relatives also say the family filed a police report, took out an order of protection against the ringleader of the fifth graders picking on Morales, had an intervention with the principal of P.S. 102, who met with Morales, his mother and the boys involved and the parents or guardians, to try and stop the bullying.

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A 12-year-old boy who hanged himself in his East Harlem apartment was driven to suicide by bullies who mercilessly teased him for being short and brainy, his heartbroken family said Wednesday.

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Teased for being too short and too smart?!  It seems that Tallers don't like it (even when they're 5th-graders) when the short-statured are smarter than they are.  I thought studies showed that Tallers are smarter than the short-statured, thanks to all that good nutrition and wonderful nurturing?  Do you mean to tell us that those wonderfully intelligent and all-around beautiful Taller kids are not secure enough in their own superiority not to harass and attempt to humiliate a short kid?!  Do you mean to tell us that those wonderful "gentle giants" have to bully a defenseless short kid in order to feel "adequate"?! 

Hmm.
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Backstage with NOSSA - or - 
NOSSEX, Lies and Videotape! 

Well folks here it is.  Click the link here.  This will take you, ahem, backstage – so-to-speak – with the Nosskateers.  Little Matt Campisi (You remember him.  He was the one who, back in 2005 and 2006, initiated the website www.nossaonline.org and fraudulently represented it as a legitimate incorporated non-profit organization, ingathered money under the false pretense of one, and attempted to implicate the webmaster in his twisted actions) and his sidekick ‘Luda’-Chris Hamre have turned Hollywood producers now, or should we say, Orlando producers.  They are currently planning to do a “documentary” about their at least 2 member organization.  Campisi and his loyal stooge are currently planning this major event for sometime this year (hopefully sometime before Nibiru hits.)

The cataclysmic event (not Nibiru) is scheduled to take place somewhere in Orlando Florida. (If Campisi isn’t in the slammer, that is.)  Campisi has been warning us about this potential catastrophe for the last 5 years.  And we’ve been warning about Campisi for the last 6.  It seems every year we see some manure on a certain website about some “documentary”.  Says the famous Backstage ad:

Seeking─2 Tall Males: slender, 6’+; 2 Tall Females: 5’10”+, slender; 2 Short-Statured Males: 5’6” or under; 2 Short-Statured Feales: 5'2" or under.

Note: Prefer people who are confident and comfortable with their body. Models/Dancers a plus. No prior experience required.

Did you catch the “2 Tall Males:  ‘SLENDER’, 6’+, and “2 Tall Females: 5’10”+, ‘SLENDER’? Notice that they aren’t advertising for just any old tall males and tall females, little Mattie and little Chrissy want them specifically to be SLENDER.  What happened to partnering with NAAFA, the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance?  What happened to just ‘average’ tall people?  Maybe ‘a few extra pounds’ Tall people?  No good?  The two little tikes want them to be SLENDER – Models/Dancers a plus.  That’s the key phrase – ‘SLENDER – Models/Dancers a plus’.  In little Chrissy’s video about the 2 New York cocktail waitresses that are suing for SEX DISCRIMINATION  (See it here.) for being released from their duties at the prestigious Standard Hotel ‘Luda’-Chris sarcastically mentions the two young ladies being released for their height.  Said ‘Luda’-Chris:

“ . . . were let go at their positions at the Standard Hotel in New York City.  Why were they let go?  Because they were too short.  They weren’t up to par as the Standard Hotel told them.  THEY DIDN’T LOOK LIKE MODELS.  THEY WEREN’T 5’11” AND 100 POUNDS, SO THEY DIDN’T MEET THE STANDARD HOTEL’S CRITERIA . . .”

Isn’t it strange that the two heightism fighters request that their 4 tallers must be slender –Models/Dancers a plus?  Hmm.  (Make sure to listen to ‘Luda’-Chris from 37 seconds – 45 seconds into the “video”.)  Well it appears that the two Nosskateers have their own preferences for the slim models too despite “Luda’-Chris’s apparent disdain for the Standard Hotel’s standards in wanting only the “Models”.  It seems that the two famous Nosskateers would also like to have some models.  (Laughing in the background)  I guess “average” Tallers don’t meet little Mattie’s and little Chrissy’s “criteria”; They want people who look like “Models” too.  Excuse me ma’am, are you a “Model”?  Then you’re just what the doctor ordered.  You see little Chrissy doesn’t like it when the Standard Hotel has a preference for folks who look like “Models”.  But when the world-famous Nossa (at least 2 members, if not many more) has a World-famous documentary to get out, they too want the “Models”.  What’s the old saying, ‘Do as I say, not as I do’?  It appears too, that little Matt Campisi might now be somewhere in the vicinity of Orlando. (Hopefully in the local hoosegow.)  Campisi long ago absconded from the confines of Babylon New York, Pensacola Florida and a few other places.  What a perfect setting for the long-awaited ‘NOSSA Documentary’!  At home in the land of Disney World with the likes of Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and all the rest of the famous cartoon characters we all know and love.  Pretty soon Disney World will have to add two more to their list.  Says Matt Campisi:

Got alot of work done today with the new nossa documentary. I think our supporters are really going to like this film. We are working with alot of good people who are really serious about challenging heightism and height discrimination.  

I wonder who all the “good people” are?  Elmer Fudd and Bugs Bunny?  Winnie the Pooh?  Bambi? Goofy?  Guess who the co-producers are?!  Why, none other than the Dyslexic Duo themselves -  “Law Enforcement” tike Matt ‘The Ratt’ Campisi and his stooge 'a la mort', Christopher ‘Luda-Chris’ Hamre!  All congratulations!  We are so happy that little Mattie and little Chrissy have finally made it to the big time.  Why, I think that I know some Juilliard grads that are going to be quite jealous of this one.  Maybe Hamre has finally made it out of the mailroom. The two tikes may even win an Oscar for Best Comedy of the Year.  Now I hope that they don’t blow it all though by making passes at the 2 Tall ‘SLENDER’ females.  Especially Campisi.  We think that little Mattie should give Chrissy a chance with the babes this time, although Campisi may have other things in mind.  Hamre sure does need it.  (They better not make their moves with the two Tall guys around though.  Tall men usually don’t appreciate it when little men try to put the hit on their women, even ‘SLENDER’ Tall men.)  We can see it all now.  We can picture the two Nosskateers with their producers hats on, barking orders to 4 “slender” good-looking Tall men and women  (Models/Dancers a plus) at the rate of $7.67/hour! (Minimum wage in Florida) Oh!  Can you just picture that historic moment?!  Most Tall people are notoriously reluctant to taking orders from short men anywhere on the planet at any time.  Can you imagine four slender 6’0”+ models taking orders from these two short men?! In Orlando to boot?!  Oh, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho!  You must admit though, that some young and up-coming models just might use it as a stepping-stone to even greater things!  It will sure look great on their resumes.  I was a Taller for NOSSA!    No?  Oh well.  Somehow though, I think that Campisi and Hamre’s film careers’ are going to begin with “Life begins at 80”.  Care to wait for 2060?  No?  Oh well, C’est la vie!


If you’d like to star in this “documentary”, please contact co-producers Campisi and Hamre.  They are currently standing by at Nossa Comedy Central.  It’ll look great on your resume.  You’d better be a “Model” though.

Says Donald Duck, “Watch for the NOSSA “Duckumentary”!!!  
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Is Lack of Height at the Bottom of Prejudice?   
By Henry Pierce

Pittsburgh Post Gazette
February 17, 1979

An article on the disadvantages of being short, in the February issue of Natural History magazine, reminded me of a study done several years ago by former University of Pittsburgh ombudsman Leland Deck.

Deck’s research showed tall persons get better jobs and higher pay than short ones, even if the work has nothing to do with physical appearance  or strength.

Deck’s study figures prominently in the Natural History piece, authored by Vanderbilt University anthropologist Thomas Gregor.

“Deck’s findings,” Gregor says, “suggest that economic prejudice against women, Orientals, Mexican-Americans, and other groups who are shorter than most American men may be partly explained as height prejudice, rather than simply ethnic and sex prejudice.”  (Women who are 5 feet 7 inches tall make the same money as 5-foot-7-inch men, for example.)

Other authorities have said much the same thing.  Sociologist Saul Feldman, for instance, has called American society “a society with a heightist premise:  to be tall is to be good, and to be short is to be stigmatized.”

But skyscraper worship isn’t confined to this country.  Gregor narrates his experiences among the remote Mehinaku Indians in Brazil where height is so prized that adolescents are encouraged to wrap their calves tightly in cotton strips and avoid sexual relations to increase their stature (the Mehinaku think sexual activity is weakening and that a short man is one who couldn’t resist his sexual  urgings in adolescence).

In a search through the Human Relations Area Files, a nationwide data retrieval system that provides information on a wide variety of cultures, Gregor found many societies that are biased in favor of tall men.  He found none that prefers short men.

“Although many societies other than the Mehinaku favor tall men,” Gregor notes, “only a few rival the Mehinaku in the strength of their distaste for short people.  Among these, we must surely count modern America.”

The height bias really isn’t surprising, however, in this country or any other.  It is learned almost from the moment of birth.

The first persons we encounter when we come into the world are taller than ourselves.  These tall figures, whom we soon come to identify as parents and later as teachers, are our primary authorities.  We are totally dependent on them.  For many years they teach us much of what we know about the world.

During most of our childhood, taller persons – persons who are not only taller than we but older and more experienced than we – exercise dominion if not authority over us.

Older – and hence taller – classmates outplay us on the athletic field and often display superior worldly knowledge.  By virtue of their age – which is generally accompanied by greater height – they are granted privileges denied their younger counterparts.

So it is not unexpected that tall persons get the breaks.  It may be the most universal, deeply embedded bias we have.

No argument.
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Calling someone fat could be made a HATE crime as girls as young as 5 'mentally and physically ill' over weight worries   

• Abusing someone about their weight should lead to prosecutions, MPs have said
•  One in four seven-year-olds have been on a diet

• Parents are being blamed for passing on their own body image worries to their children

• Self esteem and body confidence classes could be given to all children at school

By Sophie Borland and Martin Robinson
PUBLISHED: 20:04 EST, 29 May 2012 | UPDATED: 17:23 EST, 30 May 2012

Girls as young as five are wrestling with mental and physical illness because they are so worried about being fat, MPs have warned today.

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And now calling someone ‘fatty’ should be deemed a hate crime, these MPs say.

The Government should consider putting ‘appearance-based discrimination’ on a legal par with race and sexual discrimination, the report suggests.

The Equalities Act 2010 makes it unlawful to harass, victimise or discriminate against anyone because of their race, gender, sexual orientation, age, or disability.

The blueprint, Reflections on Body Image, recommends ‘a review into the scale of the problem of appearance-based discrimination’.

Read more . . .

Somehow the emphasis almost always seems to be on girls and women who suffer from obesity.  Height discrimination - which mostly affects boys and men, and which NO ONE chooses, seems to be strangely ignored.  We have to ask ourselves why.
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Why do fat women get more support than short men????    (OLD)
06-09-2009 @ 06:07 PM
  
Short men have the worst out of anybody...women and men disrespect you all the time but if you rebuttal, people claim that you have Napoleon complex.

If you are a fat woman, you can obviously just lose weight and their problem is solved but they seem to be so emotionally distress despite the fact their problem can actually be solved.

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Stating the obvious.
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What's Fair? Equity in Educational Practice    (OLD)
by Gary K. Clabaugh and Alison A. Clabaugh

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Short Stature

Height, particularly in men, is another physical attribute associated with negative stereotypes and discrimination. A 1992 study by researchers from Michigan State University demonstrated that short men are often judged inferior to tall men in several personal attributes. People tend to judge taller men as more socially attractive, higher in professional status, more masculine, more athletically inclined, and more physically attractive than short men (Jackson and Ervin 1992). Similar studies have found that short men often experience discrimination in professional settings. For example, short job applicants are not hired as often as taller applicants (Bonuso 1983); short employees earn less, on average, than taller employees (Loh 1993); and short political candidates lose elections more often than taller candidates (Gillis 1982).

Read entire article . . .

Just the tip of the iceberg.
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Size really does matter    (OLD)
Sunday 05 November 1995

Tall is the height of fashion - and the lofty of stature tend to be healthier, richer, more successful and more popular - yet they say the world isn't made for them.

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Height has come to signify much more than just our vertical sum of inches - or centimetres. Psychological assumptions about height (or lack of it) proliferate: short men are vulnerable to the Napoleon complex - would Hitler have been a megalomaniac at 6ft 2in? Tall women are ambitious and commanding - would Margaret Thatcher have been such an iron maiden at 4ft 11in?

Anecdotally, most people can probably think of an example to prove the point, yet psychologists say such suppositions are based on little more than popular myth. Select a handful of famous short men with a pathological desire for world domination and you have a profile, but probably not one that would stand up to close scrutiny.

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But the significance we place on stature predates the media age. Everyday metaphors reflect an age-old association between height and superiority: "head and shoulders above the rest", "walk tall", to "look up to" and "high and mighty". In contrast, the sayings "small is beautiful" and "the best things come in small packages" sound like lame reassurances.

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Cultural assumptions about the superiority of height may also explain why high-grade civil servants are taller. David Weeks, a clinical neuropsychologist at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital, has studied all the clinical and psychological literature on height written over the past 40 years. "It's almost unanimous that tall men have the advantage in job interviews and promotion," he says. "If you're faced with two candidates, the taller one will probably get the post because he's perceived to be the better at leadership qualities."

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If you're faced with two candidates, one White and the other Black, and the White one gets the post because he's perceived to be "the better at leadership qualities", it's called Racism.
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Women vs. Short Guys Revisited
Posted on October 7, 2011

Most posts I write get three comments. Women vs Short Guys: Dating’s Fiercest Battleground, my daring exploration of the dark world that is tiny dude daters, has received sixty-five. It’s been republished by at least five other outlets and been read by twice as many people as anything I’ve ever posted. Including the detective fiction starring my cat, Inspector Whiskerton, that went up briefly in the bleak hours following Valentine’s Day, 2010. So clearly, people are fascinated by the plight of single short guys, and I just had to revisit the topic.

Easily some of the craziest things you guys have said to me were a result of this article. Here’s ROSA, a woman who is, herself, short, and might therefore have some sympathy for similar men. Turns out, no.

 I am sick and tired of short men approaching me thinking that because I’m a short girl, I like short guys. I HATE SHORT GUYS! Just because I’m short doesn’t mean I don’t prefer the tall, dark, and handsome guys like the rest of us women. I really wish all men shorter than 6’2″ should be rounded up and shot.

Rounded up and shot, folks. Rounded. Up. And. Shot. Which is a practical enough suggestion, but where would we find all the shoeboxes to bury them in? ROSA, however, was not finished.

Us women should hold dating sites accountable and demand that they add fraud protection to stop short men from lying about their height. ANY man under 6’1″ IS NOT a compatible match for me. Men who lie about their height or try to conceal their height with elevator [shoes] should be arrested for fraud!

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I will tell you something now that is not at all funny and is certainly not a joke. Short men have emailed me and talked about committing suicide. Because of their height.

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And if you’re under six feet tall, have some decency and buy a good pair of lifts. You’re never gonna meet anyone looking like a freak.

Read entire article . . .

The last sentence by the author should tell us something.
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EPIC HEIGHTISM MOVIE!





By Geoffrey Arnold of TheSocialComplex.

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Dating: Women May Care More Than Men Who's Taller  
Posted: 05/18/2012 9:44 am

My phone gave a satisfying bing as a new message from OkCupid.com, the ubiquitous free online dating site, popped onto the screen: "LimeGreenRobot is checking you out!"

Apparently LimeGreenRobot liked what he saw, and sent me a message asking an important question to consider before even contemplating a first date: "Who is your favorite superhero? I like Captain Planet." He claimed to be college educated, appeared to be attractive, used correct grammar, and had acceptable taste in music -- everything I usually require from an online suitor before I respond. However, his profile said he stands at an elfish 5-foot-5, while I am an Amazonian 5-foot-10. What to do? Dare I dodge OKCupid's arrow and ignore a potential soul mate, just because of his height?

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"Women's cultural vision is being feminine, having a man big enough to make her feel protected. Many women hold this stereotype to a point where it excludes a lot of people they might be interested in otherwise," said Dr. Pepper Schwartz, a sociology professor at the University of Washington in Seattle, and the chief relationship expert for PerfectMatch.com.

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"Women view taller men as more likely to be physically dominant and potential protectors, which provides a feeling of safety," Dr. David Frederick, co-author of the study and visiting professor of psychology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, wrote in an email. "For some women, being with a taller partner makes them feel smaller, and it is not surprising that some women prefer this given the pressure on women to be slender." Evolutionarily speaking, women may have developed a preference for taller men because of the advantages height provides in male on male competitions, he added.

Frederick's claim is in keeping with the experience of Allison Hughes, 25, a 5-foot-8 book publisher from Washington, D.C., who found that dating shorter guys made her feel less confident.

"When I'm with taller guys I feel more feminine and sexy, whereas when I have been with a guy that's shorter than me, I feel Amazon-like and beastly," Hughes said. "Which I know is absurd, but it's just the conditioning I've been accustomed to, and it's hard to break from the norm."

Back in 2002, ABC News conducted an unscientific experiment to explore how willing women were to date shorter men. They lined up several short men next to tall men, and asked women to choose a date. They gave the short men exceptional résumés, including those for a doctor and millionaire venture capitalist. Despite their glowing qualities, the women always chose the taller men. Some said they would only choose the shortest of the bunch if they learned the taller men were murders or child molesters.

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We wonder what would have happened if a man of a different race was in the same line-up in the "unscientific experiment' conducted by ABC above, whether some of the women would say that they would choose him only if "they learned the others were murderers or child molesters"? 
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Height as a Proxy for Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Ability   

Andreas Schick, Richard H. Steckel

NBER Working Paper No. 16570
Issued in December 2010
NBER Program(s):   DAE   LS

Taller workers receive a substantial wage premium. Studies extending back to the middle of the last century attribute the premium to non-cognitive abilities, which are associated with stature and rewarded in the labor market. More recent research argues that cognitive abilities explain the stature-wage relationship. This paper reconciles the competing views by recognizing that net nutrition, a major determinant of adult height, is integral to our cognitive and non-cognitive development. Using data from Britain’s National Childhood Development Study (NCDS), we show that taller children have higher average cognitive and non-cognitive test scores, and that each aptitude accounts for a substantial and roughly equal portion of the stature premium. Together these abilities explain why taller people have higher wages.


And those dopey short people thought the World was discriminating against them!  Guess we know better now.
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Deluded Middle-aged Short Guy Responds to Seemingly Depressed 22 year-old Short Guy

RJ270 says:

I'm 22 and I'm about 5'6". Being a short guy is a curse. Being short has caused me to develop low self esteem and social anxiety. I do not feel comfortable under my skin at all. I usually try to avoid social situations and crowds at all cost. My dating life is practically non existent. Girls don't even look at me anymore. I had a handful of girlfriends way back in middle school and early high school. I haven't dated or gone out with a girl in nearly 2 years. In addition guys don't take short guys seriously. I don't like shopping for clothes. Finding clothes that fit can be a huge hassle and frustrating. I really hate being short.. =(

Hounddog20 replies:

" Hi RJ,

Being short is not the easiest thing in the world. I've been a short man (5'4" and starting to shrink since I'm old!) for 44 years. I'm also not going to tell you that it's all about confidence because you can't create confidence overnight. Here is a practical, but not easy to do, suggestion. Move to New York City.

It looks like you live in Alabama? Get out before it's too late! I've lived in NYC and in the deep south. The South is a beautiful, wonderful part of the country, but it's not a good place to be a short man.

There are lots and lots and lots of beautiful petite women in NYC. And 5'6" is plenty tall for them. And there are plenty of good clothing stores in NYC that are short man friendly.
I know that sounds a little bit like an extreme solution, but it really would help.

Set yourself a goal to move within a year. It will be the best thing you ever did. "
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About hounddog20:

 I'm 44 with a beautiful family, a great job and amazing home. So, my question is why can't I get happy and stay happy? Maybe it's because I'm 5'4" and totally obsessed with my height? And because I constantly worry about my kids being short.

View entire thread . . .

Not exactly the right short man to be giving advice.
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Bill seeks to scrap PNP height requirement   

By Jonathan de Santos | Yahoo! Southeast Asia Newsroom – Fri, May 11, 2012

Short but strong? You may now get your chance to become a policeman.

Senator Gregorio Honasan II has filed a bill to scrap the height requirement for Philippine National Police officers, saying it is discriminatory.

Under the current law, a male PNP officer have to be at least 1.62 meters (5'3") tall while female police officers must be at least 1.57 meters (5'1") tall.

"Although measures are being taken to correct the situation, heightism is still practiced in the Philippine National Police to the disadvantage particularly of minority or indigenous persons seeking employment who may have genetic make-ups different from other Filipinos," he said.

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How many times have we told you that Heightism is all a "Western" phenomenon?
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Standing tall and together for 13 years 
May 12, 2012

It all began with the idea of a get-together of those who can look at each other eye-to-eye and relax in such company. Thirteen years on, they still stand tall - carrying on the momentum they gained from the first meeting.

They are members of the association of ‘six footers’ in the state — the Tall Men Association (TMA). Founded in 1999, to assert the rights of tall people, the TMA now has a membership of around 3,000 and boats of five full- fledged district units.

This Saturday, the association is celebrating its 13th annual day here. The event, to be inaugurated by mayor I.P. Paul, will also witness the election of the association’s new state-committee.

With the increase in the number of members, the association took on social responsibilities and recently launched a welfare fund and micro finance projects to help out its less-affluent members.

Further, the TMA executive force is the most sought after private security force for crowd-management. Sporting yellow uniforms with black peak caps, they manage the rush and provide security to film stars and other celebrities.

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India's answer to America's and Europe's 'Tall Clubs'.  See their website here. 
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Councilor asks military to review height regulations   
Staff writer, with CNA

A councilor in Greater Taichung asked the Ministry of National Defense to review military service regulations on height requirements to enable men less than 1.58m tall to serve in the armed forces.

Councilor Wu Min-ji (吳敏濟) spoke on behalf of Huang Wei-hao (黃偉豪), a senior from the Chung Chou University of Science and Technology, who was rejected by the ministry when he reported for mandatory military service because of his short stature.

Huang, who is 2cm short of the minimum height requirement for military service, was also declared unqualified for alternative service, which was a big disappointment both to him and his family.

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Taiwan heightist?!  Impossible!  Only the West can be heightist!
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America's hatred of fat hurts obesity fight 

By Sharon Begley
Reuters
updated 5/11/2012 1:35:18 PM ET

One night when Lynn McAfee was 5 years old, her psychologically troubled mother left her at the side of a road as punishment for a now forgotten infraction.

In the minutes before her mother's car returned, the terrified girl looked toward the nearby houses on the suburban Philadelphia street and wondered if she should walk over and ask for help.

"But I didn't," said McAfee, 62, who is now the director of medical advocacy for the Council on Size and Weight Discrimination. "I didn't think anyone would want a fat child."

The stigmatization of obesity begins in preschool: Children as young as 3 tell scientists studying the phenomenon that overweight people are mean, stupid, ugly and have few friends. It intensifies in adulthood, when substantial numbers of Americans say obese people are self-indulgent, lazy and unable to control their appetites. And it translates into poorer job prospects for the obese compared with their slim peers.

It may be the nation's last, accepted form of prejudice.

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If it's wrong to discriminate and label the obese, whose eating and exercise behavior by and large are the cause of their own difficulties, then why is it OK to discriminate against, disparage, label and stigmatize short people - most especially short men - when they PLAY NO ROLE WHATSOEVER in their height?  And why do they always use fat women as an example?  What about fat men? When the media wants to stigmatize short men they almost always display the short man as FAT too, like the cover of the Brazilian Magazine below.  I guess it's OK to be a fat woman, but you better not be a fat man, especially, a fat, SHORT man.

The double standards are right in your face. 
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Short Men Viewed in Negative Light    (OLD)
By COLLEEN FITZPATRICK
Providence Journal
Scripps Howard News Service
From: THE FREDERICK POST
July 20th, 1983

They may be smarter, stronger, and funnier than their peers, but short men have a weaker self-image than tall men, and are viewed in a more negative light by women, according to a new book. Those are among the findings of a study by Henry Biller, a psychology professor at the University of Rhode Island, and Leslie Martel, a consulting psychologist in Connecticut. The study is included in their book, " S t a t u r e and S t i g m a : The Biopsychosocial Development of Short Males," published this year. "In the United States. . .we value not how you look, but what talent or ability you have," Biller said. "That's nice as a philosophy, and I think we should strive for it," he said. However, to assume "that one's body has nothing to do with the kind of success a person has is an illusion."

Biller ("5 feet 7 inches") and Martel ("5 feet 5 inches,") questioned 120 male students at URI, Yale and the University of Connecticut at Storrs from 1982 to 1984. The men were white, 17 to 22, mostly unmarried and had no health problems or physical defects. They were divided into three categories: short (5 feet 2 to 5 feet 5), average (5 feet 8 to 5 feet 10) and tall (6 feet to 6 feet 4 inches). Biller says the heights in between were not included so that the categories would be clear cut. The man of 5 feet 6 or 5 feet 7 is in "somewhat of a gray area," he said. "Our impression is, if you're a male who's 5 feet 6 or 5 feet 7, you have the problems of feeling short, but you're also probably going to be taller than half the women you typically encounter." As for the number left out on the upside - 5 feet 11 - Biller said, "Most people who are 5 feet 11 consider themselves as somewhat in the average range, or almost tall." In the study, the men were asked if they thought their height helped or hindered them socially; what their ideal height was; whether they felt comfortable standing in certain situations, such as in front of a group of classmates, and how important height was in finding a spouse. Researchers also interviewed in depth 20 short students. The results showed that short students were more dependent on others for guidance and direction, and more concerned with how others see them. "Short males have a less favorable self-image than their taller counterparts," Biller said. Most are unlikely to assume leadership roles, because that means being assertive and taking risks, which is incompatible with how they view themselves.

About 120 female classmates who were interviewed revealed "strong and consistently negative attitudes" toward short men, including beliefs that they are more passive, inhibited, insecure and incomplete than taller men. Tall men also viewed their shorter counterparts as "being significantly more immature, conforming, incomplete, dirty and not capable," the researchers found. All the men said they wanted to be taller. Short students wanted to add an average of 6.1 inches to their height. Those in the average group wanted to tack on 2.9 inches, and the tall students sought an extra 1.1 inches. Martel said the study, which drew on the work of other researchers, is the first to examine short men's perceptions of themselves. How can people overcome prejudices toward short men? Biller said that parents, teachers and employers must be aware of their biases. And, he said, mental health and medical professionals should understand that the behavior of short males may stem from feelings of inadequacy and low self-esteem. Being short can either "crush a person's ability to cope or enhance it in a creative way and allow him to make a unique contribution to society," Martel said. To compensate for their short stature, some men build up machismo along with their bodies, Biller said. Others develop their intellectual skills, while still others rely on humor to distract people's attention from their height.

We got this article from a website that sells elevator shoes.  We are not advocating wearing them, by the way.  This article was written in 1983.  It's 2012, and short men are getting a little tired of "developing their intellectual skills" and "relying on humor to distract people's attention from their height".  How 'bout we just call a spade a spade and state that society unjustly discriminates against short men and that short men, and short people in general should have the same rights as everyone else and that short people should fight for their rights the same way all the other groups have in the last 50 years or so, or would that be asking too much?
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2012 IIHF World Championships Video: Loui Eriksson Assists Twice For Sweden   

by Brad Gardner on May 6, 2012 11:09 AM CDT in Dallas Stars News

The entire young core of the Dallas Stars, as identified by Joe Nieuwendyk (Jamie Benn, Loui Eriksson, Alex Goligoski, Kari Lehtonen) continue to play on in the 2012 IIHF World Championships along with Richard Bachman, Tomas Vincour and Philip Larsen, and thankfully all remain healthy. Knock on wood.

Finland earned their second 1-0 shutout of the tournament yesterday but Kari Lehtonen sat and watched in favor of Petri Vehanen in net. With Finland looking like a strong bet to go far I'm sure we'll see Kari get some more action and it will be interesting to see how he performs in something akin to a high pressure situations.

Richard Bachman continues to sit in favor of Jimmy Howard for team USA - Who beat Canada 5-4 in overtime yesterday, thank you very much. Unfortunately you had to catch that one 7 hours tape delayed because NBC Sports needed to bring you hours and hours of pre-game coverage regarding short men riding horses around in a circle for two minutes.

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" Unfortunately you had to catch that one 7 hours tape delayed because NBC Sports needed to bring you hours and hours of pre-game coverage regarding short men riding horses around in a circle for two minutes."

Now even the Kentucky Derby is fodder for people who hate short men.  How coincidental this statement is coming on the heels of the article below.  The writer of this article seems not to like short men and the sports that their height allows them to take part in.  The writer of the article below doesn't even like short horses. 
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A short horse with attitude   
By Anne Patterson - Langley Times
Published: May 03, 2012 6:00 AM

For centuries, the ways in which short men have compensated for their vertical deficiency have been documented by historians. Many scholars and psychiatrists have concluded that the 5’3” Napoleon Bonaparte, considered one of the greatest military commanders of all time, was driven to dominate Europe in the early 1800s to compensate for his lack of stature.

Humans are not the only species affected by tape measure trauma, or Napoleon complex.  Our Haflinger horse, Starski of Marsoe, formerly known as Peanut, stopped growing when he reached 13.2 hands high. He began to exhibit symptoms of short horse syndrome as he approached middle age.

Affectionate and especially clever, he was a well-adjusted colt.  He was so cute, with his flowing white mane and tail, and large black eyes that peeked out through a wavy forelock, that nobody noticed his stubby little legs.  He played the cute card expertly, and carved himself a niche as the neighborhood chick magnet.

But as he approached maturity he began to show signs of what horse folk describe as ‘ponytude,’ code for stubborn, sneaky and generally devilish behavior.  Ponytude, equine psychologists now suspect, is really a form of short horse syndrome.

Looking back, I can see why he drifted into delinquency.  His herd mates, Mr. Bill and the Bluester, tower over Starski and are not above bullying their little buddy when he gets underfoot. On the other side of the fence are super-sized Warmbloods and Thoroughbreds, who look down their well-bred noses at him when he runs to greet them.

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"Mr. Bill and the Bluester, tower over Starski and are not above bullying their little buddy when he gets underfoot".  But Starski is the one who has the "complex" according to Anne Patterson.  Prejudice against short men now is such that even short horses are being labelled with "short horse syndrome". 
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The long and the short of it: 'Vertically challenged men live an average of two years more than taller ones'   
By Phil Vinter
PUBLISHED: 21:31 EST, 1 May 2012 | UPDATED: 04:46 EST, 2 May 2012

Being taller may be useful for changing a lightbulb or seeing over a crowd, but when it comes to living longer shorter men measure up best.

A study on the island of Sardinia has found that on average shorter men live for two years longer than their taller counterparts.

The research which involved tracking 500 males born between 1866 and 1915 on the small Italian island backs up the findings of 12 previous studies.

Sardinians are statistically known to live longer than people in the rest of Europe.

The study led by professor Poulain from Belgium and Dr Salaris from the University of Cagliari in Italy also found that men live as long as women in the municipality of Villagrande which boast the shortest population of the island’s 14 municipalities.

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Short men live longer, but they just have to get the "vertically challenged" in there.  They just HAVE TO berate short men.  After you click on the link to the article, make sure to take a look at the photo of the tall man looking "proud" and the two short men standing next to him dressed as if it were the year 1500 and ask yourself a question or two.
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No end to obesity epidemic, 20-year forecast shows

By LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer –  May 7, 2012


FILE - In this May 2, 2012 file photo, Washougal Mayor Sean Guard, left, coaxes Camas Mayor Scott Higgins to step on the scales during their weigh-in in Washougal, Wash. The mayors of the two neighboring towns are in a "Biggest Loser" style contest to see which of the two communities can lose the most weight. New government projections suggest roughly 42 percent of Americans will be obese by 2030. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The obesity epidemic may be slowing, but don't take in those pants yet.

Today, just over a third of U.S. adults are obese. By 2030, 42 percent will be, says a forecast released Monday.

That's not nearly as many as experts had predicted before the once-rapid rises in obesity rates began leveling off. But the new forecast suggests even small continuing increases will add up.

"We still have a very serious problem," said obesity specialist Dr. William Dietz of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Worse, the already obese are getting fatter. Severe obesity will double by 2030, when 11 percent of adults will be nearly 100 pounds overweight, or more, concluded the research led by Duke University.

That could be an ominous consequence of childhood obesity. Half of severely obese adults were obese as children, and they put on more pounds as they grew up, said CDC's Dietz.

While being overweight increases anyone's risk of diabetes, heart disease and a host of other ailments, the severely obese are most at risk — and the most expensive to treat. Already, conservative estimates suggest obesity-related problems account for at least 9 percent of the nation's yearly health spending, or $150 billion a year.

Continued . . .

The forecast predicts that by 2030, 42 percent of Americans will be obese.  Just think, when everyone becomes fat then discrimination against fat people will finally end! 
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- And here's more recent articles on the "Discrimination" faced by Obese Women

‘Obese women receive lower starting salaries’ | Firstpost

“It’s also becoming clear that the reasons for this prejudice appear to be related to our personalities and how we feel about ourselves, with attributions, such as ‘obese people are lazy, gluttonous, etc’ merely acting as self-justifications for the prejudice,” concluded O’Brien.

Obese women are discriminated against in the workplace; Heavier females denied jobs, offered lower salaries - NY Daily News

"The higher participants rated their own physical attractiveness and the importance of physical appearance, the greater the prejudice and discrimination," said O'Brien.

Obese women face job discrimination - The Times of India

"The higher participants rated their own physical attractiveness and the importance of physical appearance, the greater the prejudice and discrimination," said Dr O'Brien.

If you take the time to view many of the articles on this website where the media and so-called "experts" depict short men as inferior when they are discriminated against. and compare those articles with these articles on "discrimination" against obese women you sort of get the feeling that when it's women who are discriminated against, it's not okay, and is depicted as a wrong that needs to be righted.  When it's men who are discriminated against because they happen to be short, it's depicted as a joke, or as a sort of "natural" evolution, and sometimes short men are even depicted as having certain negative personality traits, and when short men are depicted this way it almost always is depicted in a disparaging tone that blames Short men for their problems.   It is quite obvious that there is a blatant double standard here that is being perpetrated not only by the media, but even by so-called "institutions of higher learning".  Time to wake up short men.
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Study: Obese Women Are Victims Of Employment, Salary Discrimination 
May 2, 2012
By Ruth Manuel-Logan



Women who are obese are already at risk for a slew of health issues. Now, according to a recent study published in the International Journal of Obesity, obese women are also faced with both employment and salary discrimination, when compared with their slimmer colleagues.

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Dr. O’Brien warns, “Our findings show that there is a clear need to address obesity discrimination, particularly against females who tend to bear the brunt of anti-fat prejudice, prejudice reduction interventions and policies need to be developed.”

Read entire article . . .

We challenge you to find a study published in the International Journal of Short Stature, claiming that, "short men are faced with both employment and salary discrimination, when compared with their Taller colleagues".  What's that you say?  There is no "International Journal of Short Stature"?  That's right.  And whenever or wherever it's stated that Tall Men earn more and are hired OVER short men, it's not derided as "discrimination" or "prejudice", but instead it's often claimed to make "Good evolutionary sense" or is in some way lauded and celebrated.  And being short is NOT a choice, whereas being fat IS A CHOICE.  It is most definitely a choice, and an unhealthy one at that.  It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see what's going on here.
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Lakewood Ranch High School Teen Starts T-Shirt Company for Tall Women 
4:27 PM, Apr 12, 2012




Manatee County, Florida - Around the McCord household, ladders are rarely needed.

"I'm around 5 foot 11 inches," says Jessica McCord, an 11th grader at Lakewood Ranch High School.

"I'm 6 foot 3 inches," says Jessica's mother Debbie.

This mother and daughter team come from a family of very tall women. Jessica's older sister Anna is 6'2" and so is her aunt Kristin.

"My father always says, 'Why try to fit in if you are born to stand out?'" says Debbie.

Read more . . .

It makes you wonder doesn't it, how so many consecutive occurrences involving Tall women have just sprung up out of the blue in the last month  - Brazil's leading magazine - 'Veja', "Everything is better from on high", National Stand Tall Week, Tall Girls - The Documentary, and now a Tall Teen starts a T-Shirt Company.  If you're not embracing it little men, then you have an anger problem and you may even need "anger management" classes. (Preferably administered by a Tall female therapist).
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TALL GIRLS - THE FILM



And you thought You had it bad little man.
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TALL DOCUMENTARY:  Tall Girls a story of giants   




An interesting documentary has just been premiered called Tall Girls a story of giants. The film premiered at Stand Tall Week (Women of New York Stand Tall: Stand Tall Week) during the week. The film chronicles the stories of tall girls and their determination to come to terms with their height.

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What I found startling about this film is the fact that the tall community keeps so quiet about their struggles. It took Edda 5 years to make the film because she doesn’t don’t like talking about what it really feels like to be so tall.

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"The "Tall Community" "keeps so quiet about their struggles" "?!  Notice the "warning sign" next to Michelle above.
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NATIONAL STAND TALL WEEK!!! - FOR THOSE POOR, UNFORTUNATE TALL WOMEN WHO EXPERIENCE SO MUCH DISCRIMINATION.



National Stand Tall Week Reminds You That Tall Women Are Smarter, Richer Than Short Women
Monday, April 16, 2012, by Kenzie Bryant

According to a press release from clothing brand Long Tall Sally, studies have proven that tall women are "richer, smarter and more powerful than their shorter counterparts." Specifically, tall people make approximately $789 more per inch per year than their shorter counterparts, and frequently incite "short envy" in those under 5'8",

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Yet tall women still suffer, apparently not aware of how good they have it—the same study reports that 72% of tall women in the US have downplayed their height in social situations, with driver's licenses and dating profiles at special risk for misrepresentation. To right this wrong, the vertically gifted are getting their own special awareness week—and here it is. Launching today, National Stand Tall Week has arrived to educate and empower the downtrodden—women over 5'8" who have yet to embrace their height and all the rewards that come with it.

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"To right this wrong, the vertically gifted are getting their own special awareness week . . ."  --  It would be laughable, if it wasn't so poignant.
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HEIGHTISM: IT'S ALL A WESTERN PHENOMENON! 




Now Heightism against Short People is proudly displayed on the front page of one of the leading magazines in Brazil.  Notice that the magazine doesn't only make the short man 'short'.  They also make him FAT, SLOVENLY, ANGRY, and NOT QUITE AS GOOD-LOOKING as the Tall Man.

"Do Alto Tudo E Melhor' can be loosely translated as, "Everything is better from on high"

A "evolucao tecnofisica" explica por que as pessoas mail altas sao mais saudeveis a tendem a ser mais bem-sucedidas can also be loosely translated as, "Evolution explains why Tall people are more successful".

Read the Translated article here.


We must credit TheSocialComplex and their sources for this Gem. 
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Scientists identify genes linked to Western African Pygmies' small stature   
April 26, 2012 in Genetics

If Pygmies are known for one trait, it is their short stature: Pygmy men stand just 4'11" on average. But the reason why these groups are so short and neighboring groups are not remains unclear. Scientists have proposed various theories based on natural selection, including that Pygmies' reduced size lowered nutritional requirements, helped them better handle hot climates, or allowed them to reach sexual maturity at an earlier age.

Now a new study of the Western African Pygmies in Cameroon, led by geneticists from the University of Pennsylvania, identifies genes that may be responsible for the Pygmies' relatively small size.

The work also provides evidence based on genetic signatures of natural selection to suggest why these groups evolved to be small, with signs pointing to hormonal pathways and immune system regulation as possible drivers.

"There's been a longstanding debate about why Pygmies are so short and whether it is an adaptation to living in a tropical environment," said Sarah Tishkoff, senior author on the study and a Penn Integrates Knowledge professor with appointments in the genetics department of the Perelman School of Medicine and in the biology department of the School of Arts and Sciences. "I think our findings are telling us that the genetic basis of complex traits like height may be very different in globally diverse populations."

Read more . . .
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The lengths that some short men will go to  

A newly emerged picture shows one trick Beatles drummer Ringo Starr used to appear taller, but he's not the only one with issues about their height

A freshly unearthed photograph of Ringo Starr from the set of the 1964 Beatles movie A Hard Day's Night reveals – yet again – the lengths some vertically challenged celebrities will go to "maximise" their height. The image – taken by Peter Allchorne, the props manager at Pinewood Studios, and being auctioned next month – shows the 5ft 6in Starr perched rather precariously on a stool with his feet on three concrete blocks.

Standing next to taller co-stars or partners has long been a bear trap for the shortest percentile of celebrities. It was the 5ft 11in Nicole Kidman who remarked upon being granted a divorce from 5ft 7in Tom Cruise: "At least I can wear high heels again." Cruise has long been the source of speculation when it comes to whether he deploys heel lifts – gel or foam shoe inserts that do exactly as their name suggests.

Read more . . .

She Loves You Yeah, Yeah Yeah -- but only if you're Tall
(See The Beatles first U.S. visit February 7, 1964 - here)
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Refilling the uncluttered heart
By MICHELLE MALTAIS
Los Angeles Times

Early in the summer of 2009, I was finally done. For real, this time. He didn't know it yet, but I did. And that was enough.

Years ago, I had promised myself that I would start having children no later than age 38. I was 36 that summer. It just wasn't going to happen with Mike.

In truth, Mike and I had been simulating a relationship for months. I fooled myself into thinking we would transition into something greater. He fooled himself into thinking I had given up that notion.

So, with that, I released myself into the wilds of Los Angeles, where dating as an adult is much more challenging than, say, in New York, where you simply cannot avoid bumping into people.

A move like that requires serious backup. So my girlfriends and I convened in La Jolla, Calif., for an emergency weekend of drinks, dancing and discussion. (My love life was legend among my friends, their photo albums randomly punctuated with glimpses of my heart failures - kept on life support long after they needed to be euthanized.)

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/04/20/3565976/refilling-the-uncluttered-heart.html#storylink=cpy
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When I contacted the company to find out why I had had better odds standing alone in the middle of the desert than on its site, I was told, "You're black, well-educated, tall and discerning. Wow, you're a tough match."

As if I didn't know that already.

But I convinced myself to try it again. I was honest with myself and prospective matches. I wouldn't make the same allowances I might in person. No one more than six years older, no children, smokers or short men.

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And here's more 'Absolute Proof'  
- courtesy of 'dictionary.com' -

Munchkin - a small or insignificant person . :  You're not going to let that munchkin push you around, are you?

Amazing isn't it, how the dictionary ITSELF disparages short people.  They even provide a sentence for you to show how it should be used to denigrate a short person.  No mention of "disparaging and offensive' like words that demean other groups. 

 'Midget' -  (not in technical use) an extremely small person having normal physical proportions.

"Not in technical use"?  Once again dictionary.com goes beyond the pale in condoning and promoting heightism.  If we get this from a dictionary, what do you  think we can expect everywhere/anywhere else?
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Heightism:  The Absolute Proof

Heightism is right in the dictionary.  Just view the definitions of all the “disparaging and offensive” terms below for all the different groups, and then view the definitions of “disparaging and offensive” words for short people.  The definitions were taken from Dictionary.com

The 'N-word'  Extremely Disparaging and Offensive .
a.  a black person.
b. a member of any dark-skinned people.

Sambo  Disparaging and Offensive.
1. a black person.
2. a Latin American of black and Indian or mulatto ancestry.

Coon  Disparaging and Offensive.  A black person.

Blackie  Offensive.  A black person.

Spic  Disparaging and Offensive.  A Spanish-American person.

Towelhead - an offensive term for a person wearing a turban

Kike - Disparaging and Offensive.  A person of Jewish religion or descent.

Hebe - Disparaging and Offensive.  A Jew

Gook - Disparaging and Offensive. A native of Southeast Asia or the South Pacific,
especially when a member of an enemy military force.

Dyke - Disparaging and Offensive.  A female homosexual; lesbian.

Bitch- Disparaging and Offensive.  Any woman.

C**t - Disparaging and Offensive.  A woman.

Faggot -  Disparaging and Offensive.  A male homosexual.

Fairy - Disparaging and Offensive.  A male homosexual.

Queer - Disparaging and Offensive.
a. homosexual.
b. effeminate; unmanly.

Wetback -  Disparaging and Offensive.  A Mexican laborer who enters the U.S. illegally, as by wading the Rio Grande.

NOW, view the definitions for the words, 'shrimp, 'runt', 'pipsqueak', 'shortie', 'squirt', 'mini-me', and 'sawed-off'  ---

Shrimp - Informal.  A diminutive or insignificant person.
Runt - A person who is small and contemptible: That runt causes most of the trouble at the meetings.  
Pipsqueak - Informal.  A contemptibly small or unimportant person; a twerp.
Shortie - Informal. A person or thing that is extremely short
Squirt - Informal. A youngster, especially a meddlesome or impudent one. A short person. An insignificant, self-assertive person, especially one who is small or young. 
Mini-me - a person who resembles a smaller or younger version of another person
Sawed-off - Slang.  Smallish; of less than average size or stature.

If you ever needed ABSOLUTE proof of the existence of Heightism, this is it.  Right from a so-called "dictionary".  Incredible isn't it?
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Carrying A Gun Makes You Look Taller

... and also like a merchant of death, but we hear that's really in this season.

For all those shorter men and women out hoping to look a little, forget about wearing vertical stripes, heels, or an up-do – new research suggests you should buy a gun. Daniel Fessler of the University of California, Los Angeles wanted to test out a hypothesis on humans' fight-or-flight instinct. Our brains are hard-wired to make risk assessments of other people almost instantaneously, and among the biggest factors that contribute to those assessments are the size and strength of competitors. Fessler figured that the presence of a weapon – just about the biggest indicator of a threat – might then make the person holding it seem taller than they actually are.

So, he went about accruing pictures of people holding one of four items – a caulking gun, a drill, a saw, and beautiful .45 handgun. Then, 628 study participants were told to gauge how tall each of the men were in each photo based on just their hands, and what was in them. Despite each of the models having similar-sized hands and being around the same height, the model holding the handgun was perceived to be taller than those holding the other items – 2.3 inches taller than the one with the caulking gun, 0.5 inches taller than the one with the drill, and 0.2 inches taller than the person with the saw. The participants were also told to report the "masculinity" of each model on a six-point scale, and, surprise, surprise, the model holding the handgun was reported as the most masculine. So you got that, short men with low self-confidence and feelings of masculine inadequacy? The next time you approach a lovely young lass (or lad, it's all good!) with romantic intentions, try packing a little heat.

Sounds like a Matthew Campisi-type situation. 
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More Good News for Tall Men  

Men’s height and their likelihood of committing suicide
Published on April 9, 2012 by Gad Saad, Ph.D. in Homo Consumericus

Height is an important trait when women evaluate the desirability of prospective male suitors. Of note, women are extremely unlikely to have a male partner who is shorter than them (see my earlier post here on this topic). Incidentally, I served as an expert commentator in the 2008 documentary titled S&M: Short and Male (I appear in the trailer around the 0:50 seconds mark). There are numerous benefits that accrue to tall people including the fact that they display greater satisfaction with their lives (see my discussion of this finding here). We also know that men’s height is correlated with occupational success (e.g., in politics and business). The good news for tall people (especially tall men) appears endless! In the immortal words of Rod Stewart, “Some guys have all the luck.”

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Gad Saad is his name.  A so-called PhD.  Not a peep about discrimination or prejudice against short men.  His support of Tall men appears endless.
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6 Reasons Why Tall People Are Better Than You

The average American man is 5'9 and the average American woman is 5'4. But being taller has its advantages. Here are the facts:

1. Tall People Earn More

A 2004 study revealed that every inch adds about $789 per year in earnings.

2. They Are Smarter

Princeton economists published a 2006 study identifying why tall people make more money. The conclusion, they're smarter than you.

"As early as age 3 -- before schooling has had a chance to play a role -- and throughout childhood, taller children perform significantly better on cognitive tests,"

"As adults, taller individuals are more likely to select into higher-paying occupations that require more advanced verbal and numerical skills and greater intelligence, for which they earn handsome rewards."

They also state that nutrition can play a role in both height and intelligence. Therefore, better nourished babies end up taller and smarter.

3. Tall People are More Attractive

A study at the University of Gdansk in northern Poland concluded that the ideal height of an attractive woman was 5'9 and 6'2 for a man.

4. Tall People are Leaders

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Tall people continue to earn handsome rewards.  And they don't even have to worry about getting arrested when trying to buy beer. 
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April 5th 2012.  More sh*t going down for the short. This 22 year old man went into a store to purchase beer. He is one year over the legal minimum drinking age. He displayed his ID. The store employees obviously displayed disbelief at both him AND his driver's license.  He got angry and said some naughty words. Who TF wouldn't?   He was not only denied his right to be served, but was arrested as well. All it took to get the police on the scene to make the arrest was a few naughty words spoken by a short man.

Said one mentally underdeveloped poster:

If he were smart he would get this video off of abc news and carry it around with him. Maybe get it sent to his phone or something. Then when this happens in the future show it to the cashier. Is it a pain in the butt for the guy? Yeah, I’m sure it is, but its better than going to jail for doing something that’s not illegal.

Such is the twisted room temperature IQ logic and the indignities directed at, and tolerated by the short man.

(Incidentally, the webmaster posted a comment that was not displayed.  He then posted a SECOND comment; the second comment was not displayed either.  Now he has posted yet a THIRD COMMENT.  And that one is nowhere to be found at this time as well.)

Read the ABC News article here.




This video was so interesting and so instructive that we thought we'd put it on the home page instead of on the Video's page. It's entitled "Tall People". Notice that there are 3 Tallers, consisting of 2 guys and a girl. Notice that the Tallers get fully 2/3's of the time of the video. The short guy, (who's blatantly depicted in the tall folks' segment acting like a jerk) gets to state his case all alone with the infamous and degrading Randy Newman song "Short People" playing in the background and he gets only 1/3 of the time. Notice that the short guy is all alone, no friend and no pretty girl for him.  Notice also that whether it's tall or short talking, there's always something TALL in the background.  And who's participating in his own degradation by taking part in this video?  That's right - A SHORT GUY.  You'd be hard pressed to find 2 proud short men and 1 proud short woman making a video telling Tallers not to harass, discriminate, socially ostracize them, not to get paid more for doing the same work, not to violate their personal zone of space or assault them, and otherwise showing even the smallest semblance of righteous anger.  You'd be even more hard pressed finding a Taller to act like a jerk in some short persons' video for the sake of short people.  The brief clip ends with, "Thanks for a very short minute of your time" - The short people.

It's all in your mind little man. You should just - "Get Over it".
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Voters view tall people as better suited for leadership 

Preference for tall leaders is an evolutionary throwback to a time when conflicts were resolved by violence, say psychologists

Nic Fleming
The Guardian, Monday 17 October 2011

It is not for nothing that top politicians are known as political giants or "big beasts". Voters see tall politicians as better suited for leadership, according to a survey of how people visualise their leaders. Psychologists believe the bias may stem from an evolved preference for physically imposing chiefs who could dominate enemies.

Dr Gregg Murray at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, was intrigued by the "presidential height index" – a previous finding that the taller of the Republican and Democrat candidates emerged victorious in 58 per cent of US presidential elections between 1789 and 2008.

When Murray and his colleagues asked volunteers to depict leaders and ordinary citizens, they drew the leaders taller.

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The results showed taller men saw themselves as better leaders in both cases, but that height did not affect the women's perception of their own leadership potential.

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Other studies suggest that tallness in others triggers a variety of subconscious positive associations, particularly for men. Most people seem to see tall men as more persuasive, impressive and capable than average.

Read entire article . . .

"Preference for tall leaders is an evolutionary throwback to a time when conflicts were resolved by violence, say psychologists"???  What, they're not resolved by violence any more???  What are our troops in Afghanistan doing today?  What about the U.S. Navy in the Gulf?  If people expressed a preference for White leaders, or male leaders, they'd probably call it racism and sexism instead of "an evolutionary throwback".  In other words kiddies, it's okay to be heightist.  Nothing we can do about it anyway.
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How much money does a 5'6" man need to make to be as attractive as a guy who is 6 feet tall?  
Eric Barker, Barking Up The Wrong Tree | Mar. 25, 2012, 9:30 AM

Via The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement:

Men who are deficient in one status category can compensate if they are high in another. Several studies of online dating have shown that short men can be as successful in the dating market if they earn more than taller men.

Hitsch, Ali Hortacsu, and Dan Ariely calculate that a man who is five foot six can do as well as a six-footer if he earns $175,000 a year more.

Original article . . .

You see short guys, all you have to do is make $175,000 a year MORE than Mr. TALL MAN and you're "In like Flynn".  Oh by the way, Errol Flynn was Tall too.
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Celebrity stylist specializes in making men appear taller   

Posted: 03/22/2012
By: Kimberly Kapilovic

Alan Au, Vice President and Wardrobe Stylist for "Jimmy Au's For Men 5'8" and Under," says his father's store is the first and still the only designer clothing store for short men in the United States.

At 3200 square feet, it's also the largest short men's clothing store of any kind in the nation. The store is specifically designed with the shorter client in mind making for a more enjoyable and comfortable shopping experience.

"Even our mannequins are custom molded at 5'8" to better display our collections," he says. "The store features a full service tailor shop including the ability to alter leather jackets. Our wardrobe consultants and tailors have been with us over 20 years and understand your needs.

"Jimmy Au's carries the largest range of sizes in tailored clothing and sportswear for short men in the U.S.

Read more . . .

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Bolivia has transformed itself by ignoring the Washington Consensus    

By breaking with orthodox prescriptions for progress, Evo Morales has helped to forge a new Bolivia centred on 'living well
Luis Hernández Navarro
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 21 March 2012 08.00 GMT

Gabriela Oviedo is a fashion model and TV personality. She is a 28-year-old brunette, almost six feet tall. Born in the Bolivian province of Santa Cruz, she was elected as the national beauty queen in 2003. In 2004, Gabriela took part in the Miss Universe pageant. There she was asked to name one of the biggest misconceptions about her country. In awkward English, she answered: "Um … unfortunately, people that don't know Bolivia very much think that we are all just Indian people from the west side of the country. It's La Paz, all the image that we reflect, is that poor people and very short people and Indian people ... I'm from the other side of the country, the east side, and it's not cold, it's very hot and we are tall and we are white people and we know English."

Gabriela's answer, heavy with racism, raised such a wave of outrage . . .

The author of the article mentions her Tall height.  She mentions her Tall height.  Her skin color mentioned once.  "Heavy with racism" -  but not with Heightism.
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The Short People Solution to Climate Change
Ronald Bailey | March 12, 2012

Short people are more climate-friendly argue researchers at New York University and Oxford University in a provocative new paper, Human Engineering and Climate Change, to be published in the journal Ethics, Policy and the Environment. This is not the first time that environmental concerns have motivated such a suggestion. For example, back in 1967 Technology Review published an article which argued:

A reduction in man's size might be compared to an increase in the size of the earth....Consider, as but one example, the relation of man's size to the facilities provided for his transportation. Smaller man could mean smaller vehicles, either smaller highway rights of way or greater capacity for existing highways, easier provision for off-street parking ... Similar benefits of smaller human size become apparent in buildings.

In 1984, the Washington Post in article on how to feed an allegedly overpopulating world cited futurist Graham Molliter as envisioning "an outer-limits scenario: using genetic engineering to produce smaller people--who need less food."

Read more . . .

Genetic engineering to produce smaller people?!  Not according to Jonathan Rausch!  How about rationing of food to the obese and the Tall? 
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Fashion Police: Men’s Oscar Style – Epic Fail
Tips and tricks to really look good in a tuxedo and bow tie
By: Gerit Quealy
February 29, 2012

I thought we were going to be talking about how to dress shorter men, when I began a conversation with Alan Au of the country's only short men's designer store, Jimmy Au's for Men 5'8" and Under . Being that it's located in Beverly Hills, you can imagine that they have quite the celebrity clientele.

Read more . . .

Read Gerit's lips, " . . . the country's only short men's designer store . . .". 
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Wisconsin's Wilson confident he can succeed despite short stature   
By Bob McGinn of the Journal Sentinel

Feb. 26, 2012

Indianapolis - The way Russell Wilson sees it, he's battling for all those people in all walks of life who have been told they can't do something.

"I believe the Lord put me on this earth to show tons and tons of kids across the world that anything's possible," Wilson, the former Wisconsin All-American, said over the weekend at the NFL combine.

"You know, I'm a 5-11 quarterback, but I believe I can make every single throw. Hopefully, I won't be done playing for another 15 years or so. Hopefully, I'll be a Pro Bowler. Who knows? Hopefully, a Super Bowl winner. And after I'm done playing I'd love to be a head coach or general manager."

First, Wilson must establish a toehold in the National Football League. Given the fact that he was measured at 5 feet 10 5/8 inches at both the Senior Bowl and the combine, he will have to convince a team that his height can be overcome.

Currently, the only NFL active quarterback under 6-0 is Seneca Wallace, the backup in Cleveland. In 2003, he measured 5-11 ½, weighed 196 pounds and ran 40 yards in 4.54 seconds. In nine seasons, Wallace has started 21 games and posted a passer rating of 81.3.

Read more . . .

I wonder if Russell ever heard of Fran Tarkenton - 5'10"  - 47,003 total yards passing - 6th on the all-time list ahead of 6'5" Vinny Testaverde, 6'5" Drew Bledsoe, 6'3" Dan Fouts, 6'2" Joe Montana, 6'1" Johnny Unitas and a whole host of other tallers.  Tarkenton also ranks 4th in Career Touchdown Passes thrown with 342.  
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Height, body size, and longevity: is smaller better for the human body?
Thomas T Samaras and Harold Elrick
Western Journal of Medicine

Martel and Biller reported that the socially ideal height for western men is 188 cm (6 ft 2 in) and rising.1 With advances in genetic engineering, parents will be able to control the heights of their children, and these heights are likely to increase with each new generation. Indeed, greater height and associated lean body mass are viewed positively by the medical profession and society. This bias is based on a few studies and our cultural values but ignores extensive data that indicate that shorter stature is healthier. We summarize our findings of more than 25 years of personal and literature research.​

Read more . . .

Tom Samaras offers some counter-evidence against the perpetual bigger-is-better mantra.
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Outrageous!    
The Social Complex
February 29,2012

    TSC: This is absolutely amazing.  That Leg-Lengthening Doctor on 20/20 seems to be acting incredibly unethically.  I don’t know if he has violated any rules of medical ethics, but I intend to find out.  He is apparently leveraging his appearance on 20/20 to extend special discounts for his cosmetic leg-lengthening procedure to short men with psychosocial problems.  Notice that this discount is only targeted at men with the most extreme cases of height dysphoria because they have to mention the name of a specific leg-lengthening internet message board in order to get the discount.

    Read the whole thread here: http://www.makemetaller.org/index.php/topic,4683.0.html

According to one article Dr. Paley has performed 650 leg lengthening operations.   650 X $85,000 =  $55,250,000.
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Height & Dating    (OLD)

This is the famous (or infamous, depending on how you look at it) 20/20 clip where short men are viewed by women behind a one-way glass.  The shortest man there at 5'0", a guy named Stu was rejected by ALL of the women, even when he was made 'God'.  The only way that the women would date him would be if the other guys in the line-up were "murderers, child molesters or psychotics". (6:25 - 7:15 into video).  It appears that short men are just a notch above the worst kind of criminals imaginable in the minds of some, or even many women.  And we don't even have to be criminals.  Imagine profiling Black men, or Hispanic men, or ANY men, like this.  And these women apparently had no compunction whatsoever about doing this - ON NATIONAL TELEVISION no less. 

This was the first time I had seen this clip in its entirety.  Credit Geoffrey Arnold and 'The Social Complex' with an assist.
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New York Man 'Grows' Six Inches Through Surgery  
ABC News
By DENISE MARTINEZ-RAMUNDO and BILL RITTER | ABC News – Thu, Feb 23, 2012

At five foot, six inches, Apotheosis was shorter than the average American male and very unhappy about it.

So he did something other men who feel short might consider unthinkable: he opted for costly, painful surgeries to make himself "grow" a total of six inches.

"I realized that the world looked at me a certain way that I didn't look at myself in that certain way," said the 37-year-old New Yorker, who goes by the pseudonym "Apotheosis" in online forums and asked that "20/20" not use his real name. "I wanted the way I felt about myself and the way the world felt about me to be similar."

Apotheosis is one of a "growing" number of men pursuing limb-lengthening procedures for cosmetic reasons.

Dr. Dror Paley, a renowned osteopathic surgeon at the Paley Institute at St. Mary's Medical Center in West Palm Beach, Fla., performed 650 leg-lengthening surgeries last year.

Most of Paley's patients have severe deformities or dwarfism, but he also sees cosmetic patients.

"The majority who come for cosmetic limb lengthening have what we call, height dysphoria. They're unhappy with their height," said Paley, adding that therapy has little effect on changing a patient's views. "It's one of the few psychologic-psychiatric disorders that you can actually cure with the knife."

That is precisely the reason why Akash Shukla, 25, decided to undergo the procedure. At age 18, the New Jersey man was devastated to find out that his final height would be 4'11 ½.

"I felt like my short stature was kind of causing a void inside me- an emptiness in my heart, if you will," he said.

Read more . . .Dr. Dror Paley, a renowned osteopathic surgeon at the Paley Institute at St. Mary's Medical Center in West Palm Beach, Fla., performed 650 leg-lengthening surgeries last year.

Most of Paley's patients have severe deformities or dwarfism, but he also sees cosmetic patients.

"The majority who come for cosmetic limb lengthening have what we call, height dysphoria. They're unhappy with their height," said Paley, adding that therapy has little effect on changing a patient's views. "It's one of the few psychologic-psychiatric disorders that you can actually cure with the knife."

That is precisely the reason why Akash Shukla, 25, decided to undergo the procedure. At age 18, the New Jersey man was devastated to find out that his final height would be 4'11 ½.

"I felt like my short stature was kind of causing a void inside me- an emptiness in my heart, if you will," he said.

Read more . . .

Akash Shukla, if you're not aware, "starred" in the same documentary as the webmaster - 'S&M:  Short and Male'.  He's now a happy camper at 5'2".  No mention of something called "Heightism".  Caution kiddies:  In order to have this operation you must have a rich daddy with a BIG bank account.  If you don't . . .

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'Apotheosis' - Brave enough to get his legs sawed in half.  Not brave enough to show his face or give his name.  How is it that some people with physical courage seem to have very little moral courage?
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Short 

This is a film about some short-statured guys.  

See videos page.
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Googling "short men"?  Expect to find Heidi Muller's famous article - "Do Short Men Stand a Chance?" - FIRST.  (OLD)

Here it is . . .

Short men should all be burned alive.  - "Rebecca"
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Check this new video out on the Videos Page from "MrVeesWorld" -
Tall guys vs Short guys (I ask a pretty girl what she thinks)  

Pretty girl starts out saying that she's "been with Tall guys who were jerks and short guys who were sweethearts", then listen carefully from 1:27 on.

Oh by the way.  This was Thailand, where the average height of men is about 5'4".  Heightism is all a "Western" phenomenon.  No doubt about that!
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Veterans spotlight: Vero Beach veteran served in France  
By Joe Crankshaw
Posted January 14, 2012 at 3:32 p.m.

VERO BEACH — The Rev. William Cantwell, 85, a retired Paulist priest, says the Army's efforts during World War II to make him a rifleman were only partially successful.

His ability with a typewriter finally got him a job inside, out of the weather. "I never fired my weapon at anyone," he said.

Born in Bloomfield, N.J., he graduated from public schools there in 1943, and went to try to join the Navy. He was rejected because of poor eyesight. He went to work for The Associated Press in the Newark office as a wire photo and Teletype operator. But not for long; the draft took him into the Army — it wasn't concerned about his eyesight.

Cantwell did his basic training at Fort Dix, N.J. and advanced training in Arkansas and Alabama. "They sent me to heavy weapons school for machine guns and 60 mm mortars," he said. "Everyone in my class had bad eyesight."

When President Franklin D. Roosevelt died, the Army told everyone in his unit under 6 feet tall to take a few days off, he said. "They only wanted tall men in the units on parade, so I went home for a few days."

Read more . . .

I wonder if they told all the Black guys, or the Hispanic guys, or the Jewish guys, or the overweight guys, or the bald guys, or the green-eyed guys, or the thin guys, or the guys with a cleft palate in his unit to "take a few days off"?  This was 65 years ago.

Wake up short men.
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Why can't this gentle giant rest in peace? The undignified fight over the skeleton of a 8ft 4in colossus exhibited as a freak in his lifetime   
By Annabel Venning

Last updated at 3:03 AM on 9th January 2012

He was so tall that he could light his pipe from a street lamp. He was said to be more than 8ft 4in (although his skeleton suggests he was actually nearer 8ft). His voice sounded ‘like thunder’, his hands and feet were immense and he had a gentle manner — when he was sober.

Charles Byrne, known as the Irish Giant, was the toast of Georgian London after arriving to seek his fortune at the age of 21 and being put on show as a freak.

People flocked to see him. Newspapers printed breathless reports of his astonishing size. The King and Queen received him, and the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire — the leading lights of fashionable society — took their friends to see Byrne.

But after a brief period of fame, the Irish Giant died.

A devout Catholic, mindful of the after-life, he left strict instructions that his body should be buried at sea in a lead-lined coffin: he was desperate that his remains escape the attentions of surgeons and scientists who were eager to dissect it and place it on public display.

But his last wishes were cruelly ignored and his worst fears realised when an eminent surgeon managed to snatch the body and put his skeleton on display in the Royal College of Surgeons — where it remains today.

Read more . . .

Take a good look at the photo in the article.  I wonder if anyone is concerned about the remains of the man/woman whose skeleton hangs beside that of Byrne?  That would be the small skeleton.  He or she obviously doesn't count as much - or at all.
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Using the Golden Globes to Shine a Light on Domestic Violence

1/16/2012

Actor Peter Dinklage poses in the press room with his Golden Globe award for best supporting actor. Dinklage used the forum to shine a light on an important issue.

Alyssa Rosenberg uses Peter Dinklage’s important moment at the Golden Globes last night to riff on important issues surrounding domestic violence of disabled people.

“I don’t know that most people know the other ways discrimination against disabled people plays out,” she writes. “Just 20.7 percent of people with disabilities participate in the labor force, compared with 69.3 percent of able-bodied people. Disability magnifies the impact and risk of domestic and sexual violence. And students with disabilities drop out of school at twice the rate of their able-bodied peers. These are critically important issues, and ones that I think often go invisible.”

This is troubling, obviously, and made more so by the fact that disabled people – like children – are going to have a much harder time communicating the fact of their abuse to people who might be able to help.

Worse, as with all abuse issues there are no easy answers to the problem. Most abuse occurs at the hands of trusted family and friends and authority figures. And it’s often hushed up both at the point of abuse and in the broader culture.

Read more . . .

Dwarves are a recognized disabled class.  Short people without dwarfism are not.
Dwarves have a community.  Short people without Dwarfism do not.
Dwarves are protected by the 'Americans with Disabilities Act'.  Short people who are not Dwarves are not protected by any law.
People feel sympathy for Dwarves.  Many of the same people feel nothing but contempt for average short people, especially short men.
Etc.
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Men over 6ft 'face a 24% lower risk of heart failure'  

Distance between hearts and branches of arteries may decrease stress, says U.S. study

By Sophie Borland
Last updated at 1:38 AM on 21st January 2012

They are said to be more desirable to women, more successful and more likely to father children.

And now scientists claim that tall men have yet another advantage – they are less at risk of heart problems.

Harvard researchers have found that those who are more than 6ft are a quarter less likely to suffer from heart failure than men just a few inches smaller.

They looked at the records of 22,000 male doctors in their mid-fifties who were subsequently followed over a 22-year period.

They each filled in an initial questionnaire on their height, weight and general health and then every year subsequently filled in surveys about any new medical diagnoses.

The study, published in the American Journal of Cardiology, found that 1,444 men developed heart failure which was about 7 per cent of the total.

But men who were 6ft or over (1.8 meters) were 24 per cent less likely to report having heart failure than those who were 5ft 8 or smaller (1.72 meters).

Read more . . .

Seeing 5'2" Kim Kardashian with 6'9" Chris Humphries would give any short man heart failure.
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Live concert etiquette   
Nikita Ramkissoon | 16 January, 2012 09:38

I have been to many concerts and experienced the awesomeness of watching my favourite bands on stage. From Muse and Coldplay to Massive Attack and Skunk Anansi, every show holds some special place in my heart. But some of those memories are tainted by the one or two horrid people who just made the experience unpleasant.

Here are a few things concert-goers should know.

1. Don’t shove. Let people through to get to their friends and family. We all want to enjoy the concert, don’t get grumpy or attack the person trying to find the people with whom they came to the concert. It just gets everyone upset. Even if there is “no space”, move over just a little. Be human.

2. If it’s a closed arena, please don’t smoke. There is nowhere for your smoke to go but into other people’s faces. It’s selfish, inconsiderate and not to mention illegal.

3. If you’re right at the front, there is no space for a mosh pit, so don’t make one. You can hurt other people, and all that it will result in is anger and maybe even disaster.

4. Don’t bring huge bags or hats that will either block people’s view, or take up precious space. Take only what you need.

5. Be kind to short people. It’s not their fault that their genes have an awful sense of humour.

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A back-handed directive whose real purpose is to disparage the short statured.  What group would tolerate this - and on a mainstream website no less?  (Timeslive.co.za  is a mainstream site out of South Africa.)
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Dwarf left paralysed after being thrown by drunken Rugby fan   
10:16AM GMT 12 Jan 2012

Police are hunting a drunken reveller wanted for random dwarf throwing after a man was left partially paralysed following an assault at a pub during the rugby World Cup.

Martin Henderson - celebrating his 37th birthday with friends - was thrown into the air by a hooded thug in a copycat of the shamed England rugby star Mike Tindall's behaviour in the summer.

Tindall was kicked out of the Elite Player Squad squad and fined £25,000 after a Rugby Football Union investigation into his drunken night in a dwarf-themed Queenstown bar.

In the copycat incident a month later, Mr Henderson suffered damage to nerve tissue in his spine causing his legs to go numb after landing on his back on the pavement.

Officers have now launched an investigation into the incident.

Mr Henderson condemned the hooded stranger yesterday (Thurs) after the cruel prank left him confined to a wheelchair.

He said: "From what I remember, there was only one person involved but it was very scary as I didn't know what was going on.

"I guess I was an easy target and the only reason I was picked on was because I am small.

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He knows it.  We know it.  And now - YOU know it.  Incidentally, when it's a short person who is the victim, the phrase "picked on" is often used in place of the word "assaulted".  Even the short statured have been conditioned to use it to describe assaults on their person.
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Broadcast of January 15, 2012 - 'Interview with Tom Samaras'
(Part I)
The webmaster interviews Tom Samaras, author of 7 books.  The findings of his research have been published in numerous papers world wide.  His books include, 'The Truth about Your Height' and 'Human Body Size and The Laws of Scaling'.  Mr. Samaras' is founder of 'Reventropy Associates', whose research focuses on the 'ramifications of a world population that is constantly increasing in height and body weight'.  Mr. Samaras is also a member of the World Public Health Nutrition Association.
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Can power actually make you feel taller?  
Power can make people feel physically taller, according to a new study.
January 10, 2012

A series of experiments conducted by American researchers confirmed that there is a relationship between feelings of power and our perception of our own height.

According to the research, from Cornell University School of Industrial and Labour Relations in New York, there is a physical experience that goes with feeling powerful.

Professor Jack Goncalo, who led the study, said: “Although a great deal of research has shown that physically-imposing individuals are more likely to acquire power, this work is the first to show that being powerful may actually make people feel taller than they are. We found that people literally perceived themselves as taller when they occupied a more powerful position.”

He said it raised the possibility that world leaders were less able to feel empathy and relate to “little people” because they actually felt bigger.

Similarly, short people might attempt to capture power by physically elevating themselves above others.

Read entire article here.

Apparently tall people don't have to "capture power by physically elevating themselves above others".   All they have to do is simply "be". 
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Size Does Matter   
8/22/11

No not that size discussion.  If you showed up looking for a discussion on THAT subject, please see this disclaimer.  Whew, I feel better now…moving on.

According to Wikipedia, the average American male is 5’10″.  Seriously?  I am six inches under average.  That’s right I am a guy that barely makes the American average for women at 5’4″.  So I was wondering, does it really matter?  There are your standard stereotypes of prejudice.  You know the ones; they are race, religion, and sexual orientation.  I call those the big three.  However, human beings love to categorize and judge all kinds of things.  If someone doesn’t “measure up” they are often ostracized in our society.  Male height is one of those areas.

There are many studies that show that shorter men are at a disadvantage in romantic circles.  In 2008, the news magazine show 20/20 did an interesting experiment.  They put men in a line-up that ranged in height, but had one man in the 5′ to 5’3″ range for each line-up.  In that experiment the women were told that the short men were uber-successful, or rich, or athletic.  It did not make a bit of difference.  On basis of appearance alone, the short men were snubbed heavily because of their height.  In my own experience, my dating opportunities were limited in college.  I was told numerous times, by women I was interested in, that they simply could not date someone that was shorter than they were.  Even shorter women were very often looking for taller men.  Cultural bias leans toward couples having the male be taller than the female.  It was a painful lesson in prejudice that I did not recognize at the time.  Does this cultural bias extend further than romantically though?

Continued . . .

"Mike's Take"
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Cuomo’s ‘short’ cut for fixing Medicaid   

By CARL CAMPANILE
Last Updated: 11:49 AM, December 29, 2011
Posted: 1:39 AM, December 29, 2011

Short people got no reason — to pump up their height on the taxpayer’s dime.

Gov. Cuomo’s administration is considering eliminating Medicaid funding for hormone-growth treatment provided to kids who have no medical reason to get it.

The move would save the state $10 million a year for a procedure most private insurers won’t even cover.

The bottom line: Taxpayers shouldn’t have to foot the medical bill to increase the height of people who are naturally short, officials said.

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"Short people got no reason . . ."  Even when it's a serious issue, they still try to make a joke out of it.  There almost always seems to be this excerpt from Randy Newman's infamous song lurking somewhere.
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A Christmas Gift
December 24, 2011
By Joe Mangano

Back in June of this year I was having a mechanical problem with my car.  The ‘Check Engine’ light went on along with an idle that started to fluctuate between being too low and nearly stalling out, and too high (car could travel 15 mph without stepping on the gas).  I took my car to the service department of the dealer.  They performed some “repairs” on my car and gave it back to me in virtually the same condition.  I paid over $1,000 for the “repairs”.  I took my car back the next day with virtually the same problem as before.  The day after that I was contacted by the service department that my car was ready.  When I looked at the new receipt, it read,

REPAIRED IDLE SCREW ON THROTTLE BODY – CONDITION REPAIRED

There were no further charges.  I knew though, that I had been taken for the previous $1,000+ in charges.  The service department of this dealer was sent a letter – a legal letter.  The head of the service department indicated that they were willing to go to court over the matter.  I then contacted my credit card company with a legitimate complaint.  I backed it up with correspondence from an expert mechanic that was experienced with the make and model of my car.  He basically corroborated what I had known all along, and that is that the service department had performed unnecessary repairs on my car; repairs that were not specific to the problem at hand.  

I received a letter from my credit card company today informing me that the temporary credit on my account was now a permanent credit.

I’m not going to state that I believe that the dealer tried to take advantage of me because of my height.  It certainly is possible – even probable – but I also know that this is the game many auto repair shops play.  Most customers don’t know anything about cars and many repair shops exploit this fact to charge them for repairs and parts that they don’t need, or even repairs that weren’t performed.  I disputed the charges and won.  They didn’t give an inch and I didn’t give an inch, but I stand in triumph.  With this personal victory of sorts coming as it does on Christmas Eve and also on the eve of a potentially portentous year as 2012 has been predicted to be, perhaps this is a positive omen not only for the webmaster, but for short people as well.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Supportfortheshort.org
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Hey Dudes!  Thinkin' about getting your legs lengthened cheap, outside of the U.S.?  Read these 2006 articles -

Long legs to remain fantasy for petite Chinese
By Clifford Coonan in Beijing
Monday 06 November 2006

China has banned the practice of leg-lengthening, a cosmetic surgery procedure popular among young professionals who believe height will help them to climb the career ladder, after a rash of botched operations has left patients disfigured.

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"Leg-stretching surgery for the image conscious has been banned by China's health ministry after a spate of botched operations," the Xinhua news agency reported.

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From now on, leg extensions may be carried out by hospitals that conduct at least 400 orthopaedic operations a year and offer post-surgery care and rehabilitation, and only on strictly medical grounds, the ministry said.

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Why little Miss Li paid a man £1,600 to break her legs
By Richard Spencer in Beijing

12:01AM BST 23 Sep 2006

A year ago this month, Li Ping, an attractive 23-year-old from Beijing, split up with her boyfriend, checked into a clinic and paid doctors £1,600 to break her legs, just because she felt a little on the short side.

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She is also an example of the dangers posed by an expanding and often unscrupulous private health care system in China, in which state-trained doctors can nowadays branch out for money with very little supervision or regulation.

Miss Li's legs failed to grow together properly. Despite the dramatic nature of the surgery, she was sent home in 20 days. Six months later she was in great pain and still unable to walk properly.

She is one of at least 10 cases of patients crippled by the same clinic, attached to the Fragrant Hills Hospital in western Beijing, which led to its being closed down this week and warnings from the ministry of health of the surgery's dangers.

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The transactions were arranged through a registered website , and the clinic did not fall under the ministry's supervision.

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Dr Xia Hetao, who runs Beijing's largest leg extension clinic and is now trying to repair the damage done to Miss Li and other victims, said that of his 150 patients a year, only five per cent suffered severe leg deformities.

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Xiangshan Hospital said that it had closed its leg extension clinic since the reports of injuries.

It did not explain why it allowed the hospital to be used by a web-based firm set up by an entrepreneur for operations carried out by surgeons with no specialist expertise.

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The entrepreneur, Zhang Chunjiang, is now said to be in hiding.

Read entire article here.

It's cool to get your legs lengthened dudes. 
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Two And A half Year Old Kid Is 54 Inches Tall  (NEW)

According to this video a two-and-a-half year-old boy named Karan Singh is the tallest toddler in the world.  He stands 4 feet 6 inches in height and weighs forty-five kilograms (99 pounds). He wears clothes that the average TEN YEAR-OLD wears.   His mother appears to be close to 7 feet in height.  The video was made almost 11 months ago.  Who knows how tall 'little' Karan is now.

See video here.

His mother is so happy - AND PROUD.
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Elisane Silva, one of the Tallest models in the World  (NEW)

Here's another video for you.  Elisane Silva is one of the tallest models in the world at 6'9".   She seems to receive nothing but awe, respect and admiration.  And soon she will be getting some of the green stuff.

See video here.

A girl can never be too tall to be a model.  She can only be too short.
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Fame Vs. Celebrity: A New York Story-Part 2    (NEW)
By Palash R. Ghosh | December 14, 2011 11:07 AM EST

Having lived in Manhattan for about twenty years, I’ve had my fair share of “encounters” with celebrities.

Many famous people -- singers, actors, politicians, athletes, etc. -- live in New York or visit here quite frequently, given that the metropolis is a global center for media, art, fashion, cuisine and finance.

In the beginning, seeing celebrities in the flesh was an exciting and exhilarating experience. However, as the years passed, I became more of a proverbial “jaded New Yorker” and realized that it was a routine thing to observe people who have been blessed (and, in some cases, plagued) by fame, wealth and celebrity.

As a result, I have seen or run into literally hundreds of celebrities -- ranging from global icons to the Andy Warhol ‘fifteen-minute’ variety -- in Manhattan over the past two decades.

Here are some general observations I have made about such celebrity sightings/encounters:

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*Most celebrities look worse in 'real-life' than they do in the newspapers or on TV and films. Typically, they are shorter, heavier and less attractive than you would imagine – indeed, make-up and studio lighting can do wonders for one’s pulchritude).

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David Bowie: When I was a child, David Bowie – in the guise of ‘Ziggy Stardust’ and the ‘Thin White Duke’ and other fanciful characters – was the biggest pop star in the world. He was so huge and popular that (as I recall), some critics believed he could supplant The Beatles in terms global fame and influence. Well, that didn’t actually happen, but Bowie has indeed carved out an extraordinary and stellar career.

I had read somewhere that he lived in downtown Manhattan part of the year, but I never dreamt I would ever see him in person – until, one afternoon I was sitting in an outdoor restaurant in Soho. I first spotted this little man across the street wearing an army fatigue jacket (despite the warm weather) and blue jeans, He also wore dark glasses and was carrying a rather large camera, hanging from his neck. He looked terribly familiar, but I couldn’t tell who it was.

Lo and behold, he crossed the street near to our locale -- I was flabbergasted to see that it was none other than David Bowie.

He was probably about 50 years old at that time but he looked exceptionally young, with a handsome face, sharp features and those unforgettable mismatched eyes.

But…. he was so short. He couldn’t have been more than 5-foot-5 or so. Having never seen him before in person, I was shocked and distressed by his tiny size. Perhaps I am biased against short people, but I couldn’t fathom how someone so small could dominate the merciless pop culture market for three decades.

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The author of the above article was "shocked and distressed" at David Bowie's "tiny size".  Why are people shocked and distressed when they see a successful short man?
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ALPHA MALE: Stylish Dressing for Tall Guys    (NEW)
Wednesday, December 07, 2011

Marc Streisand, GoLocalProv Men's Style Expert

In the West, men that stand greater than 6’3’’ are considered tall. This is considerably larger than other parts of the world, where a tall man is anyone above 5’10’’. While there are many advantages to height – picking up women and rebounding basketballs to name a few – several challenges also exist. Tall men must consider homes with higher ceilings, bigger cars, and need to constantly stay on the alert for short doorways and low hanging lighting fixtures. An additional challenge that comes with height is the selection of proper clothing to effectively use one’s height to build style.

The built-in advantage

Generally speaking, clothing tends to hang better on tall men than short men, especially men that are tall and lean. Well-dressed tall men command a presence, many CEOs and business leaders are tall.

Read more . . .

With several thousand Tall Men shops and Tall Men departments in stores around the country, does anyone wonder why clothes "hang" better on them?
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Which U.S. Cities Are the Most Vain?    (NEW)
Dec 15 2011 4:47pm EDT

LivingSocial commissioned a study on which U.S. cities are the most vain.

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According to respondent's self-ratings, the nation’s 10 vainest cities are: 1. Miami; 2. Chicago; 3. Atlanta; 4. Philadelphia; 5. Phoenix; 6. Los Angeles; 7. Seattle; 8. Washington; 9. New York; 10. Tampa-St. Petersburg.

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Some other statistics from cities around the country:

    New York City—not coincidentally hometown of bootylicious pop star Jennifer Lopez—tops the nation in butt implants, with one in 10 New Yorkers saying they know someone who has had the procedure.

    Orlando claims it has the fewest short men of any major city in the country.

    Philadelphia, known for its cheesesteaks, thinks it’s the fattest city, claiming to have more overweight residents than any other major metropolitan area in the country.
    Los Angeles, home of many a red-carpet event, which comes in at a perhaps surprising No. 6 on the vanity scale, nonetheless tops the nation in boob jobs and Botox procedures.
    Washington claims to have the most beautiful women and the lion’s share of bald men and metrosexual men, although what the ladies think of either or both is not clear.

Read more . . .

Ladies, now's your chance.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas - for everybody but short men.  Now if we were conspiracy theorists . . .
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Some fancy footwork    (NEW)
Sue Williams
From: The Australian
December 16, 2011 12:00AM
   
WOMEN have always loved bespoke shoes, but demand from Australian men kicked off only with the 1981 British television drama Brideshead Revisited.

It was then broken in by the 1987 movie Wall Street and is now enjoying a boost in popularity thanks to the stylish US series Mad Men. Or so says bespoke tailor John Cutler, who believes men have never been so keen to stand out from the rest of the crowd.

"People want to be individualised, they want something everyone else doesn't have," he says. "Men are now more aware of expressing themselves through clothes and shoes."

Although there aren't many bespoke shoemakers in Australia for men and women, there are a few with skills and passion passed down from previous generations, as well as others who have learnt the craft on college courses around the country. But the market is still patchy - two bespoke makers have closed in Melbourne in the past six months, saying demand is just too unpredictable.

And while some men are catching up to women in their interest in classy shoes made to personal specifications, we still have no one of the ilk of Prince Charles, who is said to own 50 handmade pairs, each costing more than £800. (He still wears a 1970s pair from John Lobb of St James.) So there's room for improvement. "You still see short men in white shoes with pointed toes and they look like clowns," complains bespoke shoemaker Levon Karapetyan. "You try, but it's hard to change that mentality."

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Bespoke shoes good for women AND men - that is - as long as they're not SHORT men.  Short men who try to look good are "clowns".
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A tall order 
by Georgina Chang todayonsunday@mediacorp.com.sg
04:45 AM Dec 04, 2011

I'm not shy to admit that I'm instantly attracted to tall and hunky men.

Yes, yes, qualities like honesty, integrity, courage and conviction matter, of course. But we're talking about first impressions here. And I'm not alone.

According to a recent survey by Lunch Actually on singles in Singapore, 70 per cent of women would not date a shorter man. Even though I'm one of these height-ist people, I'm quite astonished at the overwhelming percentage.

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Then again, I realise most Singaporean women are like me. As I'm only 5 foot 3 (when stretched to my full capacity), I don't think it's a tall order to ask for a man who is taller than I am. Especially since I like wearing 3-inch heels. So generally, we're not asking for a 6-foot hunk (though nobody would complain). He just needs to be at least 5 foot 10.

t does seem shallow and superficial to use height as a yardstick to decide if someone can be your partner. However, there are scientific reasons why women prefer taller men. It's all wired in our brains to ensure survival. For starters, the taller and hopefully stronger man is more intimidating to potential enemies.

So in choosing a mate, naturally as the weaker sex, we want someone to protect us. If some sleazy guy is perving at you in a club or at the mall, there's nothing like having your big brutish boyfriend saunter up and chase the perve away simply with a glare. I've experienced this before and, despite my fiercely independent spirit, it really makes me feel safe and secure.

Height represents health and vitality, and the propensity to breed children.

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We want tall strapping children bursting with vigour, instead of sickly and weak ones who get bullied in school.

Taller people are also judged to have better education and have more wealth.

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And this goes back to the woman's survival instinct. She wants her children to grow up with the best food, medicine, education, vacations and lifestyle. Surely you can't blame a woman for preferring to live in a nice house compared to a shabby one.

Read more heightism here.

Attention Short Men:  It's gonna get a whole lot worse, before it gets better.

Time to wake up.
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Top 10 Subtler Forms of Discrimination   
by Jay Karlson

While society has not completely discarded racism, sexism and homophobia, at least there’s some public awareness of those issues; other forms of discrimination occur every day and are recognized only by the victims.

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10.  Baldness
  9.  Ginger
  8.  Weight
  7.  Speech
  6.  Attractiveness
  5.  Name
  4.  Linguicism
  3.  Colorism
  2.  Ageism
  1.  Heightism*

* Boldface ours

Read entire article here.

Someone actually recognizes Heightism as number one.  Don't forget to read the comments section.
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A Vaccination Against Social Prejudice   

ScienceDaily (Dec. 1, 2011) — Evolutionary psychologists suspect that prejudice is rooted in survival: Our distant ancestors had to avoid outsiders who might have carried disease. Research still shows that when people feel vulnerable to illness, they exhibit more bias toward stigmatized groups. But a new study in Psychological Science, a journal published by the Association for Psychological Science suggests there might be a modern way to break that link.

"We thought if we could alleviate concerns about disease, we could also alleviate the prejudice that arises from them," says Julie Y. Huang of the University of Toronto, about a study she conducted with Alexandra Sedlovskaya of Harvard University; Joshua M. Ackerman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Yale University's John A. Bargh. The group found that the sense of security derived through measures such as vaccination and hand washing can reduce bias against "out" groups, from immigrants to the obese.

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The next time a short person shows up, just wash your hands - then call him a little shrimp.  
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People With Low Self-Esteem Show More Signs of Prejudice 

ScienceDaily (Feb. 23, 2011) — When people are feeling bad about themselves, they're more likely to show bias against people who are different. A new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, examines how that works.

"This is one of the oldest accounts of why people stereotype and have prejudice: It makes us feel better about ourselves," says Jeffrey Sherman of the University of California, Davis, who wrote the study with Thomas Allen. "When we feel bad about ourselves, we can denigrate other people, and that makes us feel better about ourselves."

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The next time you're feeling bad about yourself, just find a short person to denigrate.  It's okay, life isn't fair.
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People Confront Prejudice Only When They Believe Others' Personalities Can Change, Study Finds   

ScienceDaily (July 28, 2010) — Confronting someone who makes a prejudiced remark can be a good thing -- but not everyone does it. Researchers at Stanford University studied how and when targets of bias will speak up, and found that they're more likely to do so if they hold a particular belief: that people's personalities can change.

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Rattan also points out another implication: some areas of law are based on a belief that people who are the targets of bias should speak up. "In the law, speaking up in the moment is very important in terms of whether people can bring lawsuits and the strength of their claims, especially in sexual harassment law," she says. The implication is that if the bias was all that bad, the person would have confronted it. This study suggests that people may have many reasons for not speaking up when they're the target of bias, including their own beliefs about personality. "Maybe our standards should not start with the idea that all people want to speak up -- it may depend upon their beliefs about personality," she says.

Read entire article here.

Beliefs about personality?  Of course!  That's why no short people speak up!   
We should have known.
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Discrimination against Short Men.   

I was at work yesterday and some of the Nurses were laughing about a "short man" that was one of their patients.

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I will compare making fun of a short person, the equivalent of making fun of someone because they are black, or Asian, or white.  That person cannot change who they are.

Short men are discriminated against MOST of all.   Women are expected to be short.  A short Women can date a Tall Man.  However, a Short Man finds it almost impossible to date taller Women.  They are looked down upon and made fun of all the time.  Even short women make fun of short men.  It is seen as OK in our society.  Well I think it is WRONG.  In fact, I think short men should be considered a minority and given the same special civil rights as other minorities in our country, (i.e. blacks, Hispanics, American Indians).

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So I make this plea to adults around the USA to STOP the mean, hateful, discriminating remarks towards Short Men.  Just stop and put yourselves in their position.  It is just as bad as calling a black person a n......ger.   Stop now.

Jimbo

Read entire post here.

Some sane comments for a change, although it's going to take more than a plea to stop discrimination against short men.
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Do short guys finish last?   
By Cheong Poh Kwan
RazorTV
Sunday, Dec 11, 2011

It's official. Finding love is a tall order for vertically-challenged men in Singapore.

A recent study by dating agency Lunch Actually says 70 per cent of the 640 women surveyed will not even consider romancing a shorter man. Only 14 per cent said they will go out with a guy who was shorter than them, while another 16 per cent cannot make up their minds.

Women in Hong Kong and Malaysia have also reported a similar preference for tall men, or in other words, a systemic bias against shorter men.

Earlier in May, a study by Dr David Carrier from the University of Utah also found an association between a man's height and strength; and the findings suggest that women are wired to choose taller males, as they need stronger and more powerful mates to protect them and their children from danger.

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Women in Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia just as heightist as American women.  (Don't try this short guy's approach though.)
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Short can be troublesome or seriously dangerous
ROSEMARY MCLEOD
December 8, 2011

Mothers should warn their impressionable daughters to be wary of short men. They're nothing but trouble.

In Wellington, diminutive Terry Serepisos is an example. We believed his property empire was worth $200 million, but in September he was bankrupt, which made his appearance as the master on TV's The Apprentice last year look daft. Donald Trump, whose successful format this is, is 6 foot 2. You catch my drift.

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But shortness in men is a disadvantage in the workplace, where the most loathsome person I ever worked for was both short and a nudist. You were plagued by intrusive visions of him, pink bits jiggling, on the volleyball court. Ugh.

Research shows tall men get the promotions, and in romance, too, short men have problems. No-one wants a lover she feels she has to mother, or who feels he has to dominate her with incessant rooster crowing and wing flapping. Short men, research has shown, are jealous types, which is all you need to know.

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Welcome to the World's most acceptable prejudice.
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Concert Review: Randy Newman With the Cleveland Orchestra at Severance Hall   
Posted by Michael Gallucci on Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 8:57 AM

In the spirit of year-end list-making, the best concert performance of 2011 is a two-way tie between Jimmy Buffett and Glee Live! in Concert!

No, no, redact that. Such high accolades belong to Randy Newman and the Cleveland Orchestra.

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Throughout two separate hour-long sets, Newman elicited laughter from select members of the audience and orchestra alike. “Quite an orchestra you have here; they’ve chosen not to accompany me on this one,” Newman complimented before launching into “Short People,” his surprise 1977 hit and call-to-fame.

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What's gonna be next - a "Short People" symphony in E flat major with a choir and soloists?
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Old Man: A Happy Birthday Randy Newman Playlist   
By Craig Hlavaty Mon., Nov. 28 2011 at 1:00 PM

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Newman's catalog has always challenged us, because it's completely real, dropping emotions into his short songs that few people have been able to express since. The typical American themes of money, race, love, class warfare he laid bare, sometimes using coarse and offensive language.

Younger artists have been covering Newman's stuff lately too. Justin Townes Earle and Robert Ellis cover "Louisiana 1927" live as well, though Ellis' is a little more rocking than Earle's reverent take. That song and his "Short People" get covered the most, the latter because well, it's funny.

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Disparaging short people is always "funny".
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Hats Off to Randy Newman   
The thoughts of popular music's bravest songwriter on his 68th birthday
Monday, 28 November 2011

There are many reasons to love the music of Randy Newman, who turns 68 today. For starters he’s a renowned ironist and a caustic wit who is nevertheless capable of being as emotionally straight as any heart-on-sleeve singer-songwriter.

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In the 1970s he looked a little like Woody Allen crossbred with Gene Wilder, and even though nowadays he has a more distinguished air he can still be as funny as both used to be. I love him for all those reasons but mostly because I can’t think of another songwriter who dares to be so utterly, irredeemably dislikeable in the honourable pursuit of snaring human nature at its truest and grubbiest. There is a kind of grasping neediness in almost all writers and performers that Newman simply doesn’t possess. Few other artists have displayed the strength of purpose to inhabit the skins of the kind of characters who people songs such as “Rednecks”, “Short People” and, more recently, “A Few Words in Defence of Our Country“ and “Korean Students". 

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"Hat's Off to Randy Newman".   Now there's irony for you.
" . . . irredeemably dislikeable . . ."  Now there's some truth for you.
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Bachmann: Roots Song On Fallon Sexist, Demands NBC Apology

First Posted: 11/23/11 11:32 AM ET Updated: 11/23/11 02:59 PM ET

Michele Bachmann has spoken out and demanded an apology for the song played by the Roots, the "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" house band, when she was introduced as a guest Monday night. Bachmann called the song, "Lyin' Ass Bitch" by Fishbone, sexist and a sign of Hollywood's bias.

She was unaware of the significance of the song's title at the time, she said, but was later angered to hear its meaning.

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It seems, they don't want no "Lyin Ass Bitches" 'round there.  It's all in your mind Michele.

Oh, by the way; here's a photo of Michele and her hubby.  Don't want no short men 'round Michele.
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Black Friday/CyberMonday Deals for Big and Tall Men   
Big Tall Direct Offers Substantial Discounts for the Holiday

DALLAS, Nov. 25, 2011 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Big Tall Direct, one of the largest online websellers of clothes for the big and tall man, has announced some terrific values for the holiday season. These are available for the Black Friday/CyberMonday selling period.

50% Savings on Dress Shirts, and Long Sleeve Knits

40% Savings on CUTTER & BUCK

60% Savings on Extra-long Neckwear

40% Savings on core knits WITH POCKET.

Big Tall Direct is one of the oldest and largest online resources for the big and tall man who wears sizes to 10XL Big or 6XL Tall.

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10 EXTRA LARGE BIG or 6XL TALL.  I just went to a well-known department store to look for dress shirts and couldn't find one regular size small, not one - let alone a 2XS or 3XS or 10XS. 
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Gene Shortage Might Lead to Shorter Height, Study Says   
In two separate groups, shortest people were missing copies of genes
November 23, 2011

By Maureen Salamon
HealthDay Reporter

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 23 (HealthDay News) -- Tall or short, it's long been known that genes account for much of a person's height. Now, scientists have found that short people actually might be missing copies of certain genes, which can leave them significantly smaller than average.

Studying DNA from more than 11,000 children and adults, an international team of researchers learned that those of short stature -- defined roughly as falling into the shortest 2.5 percent of their peer group -- had an excess number of rare deletions, or missing copies, of specific genes.

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Several limitations might affect the validity of the study results, the authors acknowledged. One is the fact that children whose DNA was evaluated had initially undergone genetic analysis for other reasons such as developmental delays, autism spectrum disorders and multiple birth defects. So it's possible that those with many missing gene copies are likelier to have conditions leading to poor growth, the study said, but the replication of results in a more representative population suggests the findings can be generalized to others.

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Researchers hurry to find a "reason" for short people.  (If they know the "reason" why people are short, then maybe they can discover a way to get rid of them.) Isn't medicine remarkable?
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Broadcast of November 22, 2011 - 'Questions to Ask Yourself'

The webmaster discusses the new Heightism Flyer.
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Moustache is the fuzz word now   
November 17 2011 at 07:07am
By Yusuf Omar

Many great men in history wore moustaches with pride. Heroes like Hulk Hogan and Chuck Norris disposed of shavers.

Great minds such as Shakespeare and Albert Einstein twirled their curly moustaches as they pondered. Merv Hughes, the legendary Australian pace bowler, had massive handlebars which rustled in the wind.

The late lead singer of Queen Freddie Mercury’s moustache can be bought on eBay. Any woman with memories of the 80s will get weak at the knees when they reminisce about Tom Selleck’s brown, sometimes black, Magnum P.I. moustache (arguably the most charismatic moustache in history).

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There have also been many powerful, yet infamous men, who donned the public patch, like: Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin and Saddam Hussein, “who was, well, so damn insane,” snickered Stash.

“Sometimes short men grow one because it gives them a feeling of strength. That is where the Hitler or Mugabe style moustache emanates from,” said Stash.

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When 6'3" Tom Selleck wears a moustache it's 'charismatic'.  When short men wear moustaches they're just trying to be dictators.
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Exclusive! Revenge Star Ashley Madekwe Spills What's to Come in Season 1   November 11 at 07:31PM EST by Whitney Ricketts

British actress Ashley Madekwe is a quadruple threat: actress, model, trained dancer, and fashion blogger.  We caught up with the talented Ashley to chat about her Revenge character, also named Ashley (Davenport), and what we can expect in the coming episodes of ABC’s breakout show.

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Despite her innocence, Ashley is no shrinking violet. Arguably the most stylish character on the show, Ashley is ironically dressed to kill in every episode. When asked what her favorite thing has been to wear on the show, Ashley gushes: “It would be that Alaia dress from Episode 10.” Spoiler alert: an orange Alaia is coming our way next week!

And about those ever-present high heels, the 5’8” star says: “I make no concessions for short men.”

Read entire article here.

Sounds like another heightist starlet.
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Broadcast of November 10, 2011 - 'Heightism Speaks II'
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Victims of Short Man Syndrom Attack get sued by attacker!

November 14, 2011
(taken from 'shortmenareugly.wordpress.com')

My sister lives in Salt Lake City and in the parking lot of an Albertsons parking lot (At the time it was an Albertsons, now it is a Fresh Market) her and her husband were the victims of an attack by a short guy with short man syndrome.

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What happened was the short man was parked in the stall to the right side of my Sister and Husbands minivan. For some odd reason he was loading groceries in the back seat of his pickup truck instead of inside the back like the rest of us do.

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Her husband approached him and was a little angry and after asking him to move, he told her husband to”F*** Off”. Her husband shoved the short man out of the way and admits he said to him “move out of the way asshole.”

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Heightism is getting more and more blatant.  Wait till you read the rest of this article and the other articles on the same page.  (The webmaster wrote a comment there, but we don't think they'll have the courage to post it.)
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He's not short on mishaps 
By Joyce Lim
The New Paper
Tuesday, Nov 15, 2011

Steven Khoo is often asked what he does for a living.

"I play basketball," is his reply.

Their response: "Only?"  Yes. Only.

Khoo is a professional basketball player, and, at 26, is one of the stars of Singapore Slingers, Singapore's only professional basketball outfit since 2006.

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"(My friends) are always curious about my job as a basketball player and some of them think that I am like a celebrity as I get invited to social events and media interviews," Khoo shares.

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He has a publicity manager to help him get appearances in parties and at social events like product launches to improve his profile.

Oh, and he is dating a model.

Did she date him because he's a professional basketballer?

Khoo says no, adding that she was introduced to him by a friend.

Being 1.9m tall probably helped.

A survey by dating agency Lunch Actually showed that most Singaporean women prefer taller men.

Khoo, who is 90kg and plays in the forward and power-forward positions on the court, says height is not a factor when it comes to dating.

Indeed, the shortest girl he has dated could see only his chest when standing next to him.

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Height is not a factor when it comes to dating because, "the shortest girl he has dated could see only his chest when standing next to him".

 Insulting the short man's intelligence is another wonderful pastime.
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Letter from The Netherlands: Tall people being given short shrift

A glimpse inside the Tall People's Club, where problems such as low-hanging shops signs and leg room on transport can be shared if not solved
Mark Smith Guardian Weekly, Tuesday 15 November 2011 09.01 EST

Sounding ever so slightly resentful, John Hekelaar says: "The Germans got there first." He's referring not to the pick of poolside sun loungers, but rather to the establishment of an organisation defending the interests of an oft-neglected minority: tall people.

Hekelaar, 64 years old and 2 metres in his socks ("I'm one of the shorter ones," he confesses) is president of the Dutch Klub Lange Mensen, literally the Tall People's Club, which was established in 1958 by "some tall guy in Amsterdam" and has been campaigning on behalf of the vertically extravagant ever since. Today, the club has some 2,000 members nationwide and serves as a forum for problem-sharing and -solving. You're welcome to join, regardless of nationality, as long as you meet the minimum height requirement: 1.8 metres for women; 1.9 metres for men.

But hang on a minute. Isn't being tall a desirable thing, a sign that you're one of Darwin's straight "A" students? Why on earth is a bunch of people who've won the genetic lottery standing around feeling sorry for themselves?

Well, because they can't always find somewhere to sit down, for one thing.

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And that's just transit. Town planning is another bugbear: "Low-hanging traffic signs and shop awnings can be very dangerous," confides Hekelaar. "We keep hitting our heads.

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Tall people being given "short-shrift"?!  Oh no!  C'mon folks!  Let's see what we can do to make those poor unfortunate Tallers more comfortable.  (Check out the 6 and half foot plus guy in the photo with his arm around what appears to be a short woman.  She'll only date a short man if there are only murderers and child molesters around - Oh, and don't forget the psychotics.)
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More Good News for the Short-Statured -

How The Herman Cain Allegations Are Redefining Sexual Harassment    (NEW)
By Larissa Faw

The sexual discrimination allegations against presidential candidate Herman Cain demonstrate how confusing the concept of sexual harassment has become in the workplace. How can referencing a woman’s height, as Cain claims he did, be construed as harassment?

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Make reference to a woman's height in the workplace and get accused of sexual harassment.  Harass, mock, demean and disparage a short man and get some good laughs. 
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Short Man Syndrome    (NEW)
Android Apps November 6, 2011

Short Man Syndrome

Is short man syndrome driving you to act smaller than you are?

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The roots of short man complex

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Short man complex stems from value judgments about being taller or shorter than others. Value judgments are subjective (that is, they come out of how you see the world).

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Getting a new perspective on height

So when people around you seem to value a taller physical stature over a shorter physical stature, and you are a person of (relatively) shorter stature, it's not so surprising that you sometimes, or often, 'feel small'.

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Hypnosis is a fast and effective way to deal with short man syndrome.

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Article recommends hypnosis to short men to help them deal with that awful 'Short Man Syndrome'.   How 'bout we hypnotize the non-short NOT to discriminate?
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International Reaction to Higgins Win 
Irishtimes.com
Charlie Taylor

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The electoral success of Michael D Higgins was well received, even if it did give some media organisations a golden opportunity to hark back to stereotypes about leprechauns.

Much of the commentary focused on Mr Higgins' humble background, his poetry and his intellect but there were also plenty of references to his short stature too.

Referring to "the little man who resembles a bard or a leprechaun, depending on your point of view", the Spectator  said he was "the least unprepossessing" of the seven candidates.

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The Washington Post  noted that "local satirists sometimes depict him (Higgins) as an elf, hobbit or leprechaun talking in riddles and verse".

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"Some voters said they were initially sceptical of Higgins' short stature, which had been the butt of many jokes,"

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When the shorter man wins an election, he's usually the older candidate. 
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Wes Welker specifically asked for "little people" to be the waiters at his party 
Posted by Sean Tomlinson under What the hell? on Nov 10, 2011

Short people have it rough. They’re always climbing step ladders to reach into cupboards, and they’re not allowed to ride the good roller coasters.

Wes Welker has a diminutive stature for an NFL wide receiver (Welker’s only 5’9″), so he’s suffered through this tragic life. But somehow he’s still fought off all the short jokes to haul in 29 career touchdowns and 6,617 receiving yards in seven seasons as a starter in New England. Even exceptional short people need to feel tall, though, and when he held a preseason party for his friends and family back in September Welker knew exactly how to feel like a giant for a few short hours.

Welker contacted a catering company and specifically asked for some “little people” to be included on the service staff for the party.

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Wes Welker:  No involvement in dog-fighting rings; No wife-beating; No drug charges; No weapons charges.  No criminal record.

But he's still short.
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Remembrance Day:  The Army Of 'Dwarfs" Who Fought In The Trenches of the Somme  
By Ewan Palmer
November 10, 2011

The International Business Times is marking Remembrance Day with a series of forgotten stories of war.

In the Great War tens of thousands of men deemed to short to join the British Army formed their own unique units and became known as the Bantam Battalions.

"The citizens of LeHavre weren't prepared for the bizarre sight that greeted them after a British troopship arrived in the harbour in January, 1916...They were about five feet tall, miniature Guardsmen, more like mascots than fighting men."

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Less than half of them would return home.

Unfortunately for these soldiers - whose story is one of the most unusual chapters in the British Army - the reward for their bravery and determination to fight for Britain during the Great War, as well as the constant ridicule, has largely gone unnoticed.

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"You have to remember that nobody expected the war to last very long," recalled Cyril Wright, to Sidney Allinson, author of 'The Bantams, the definitive work on the unique group of fighting men. Wright was one of the frustrated 5 ft. 2 inchers who were originally refused the privilege to fight for his country.

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Men like Wright at first were unable to sign up regardless of health or strength and were not even asked to take a preliminary examination.

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Short men had to have their own Battalions, very much like Black soldiers did in America.  This way if they messed up on the battlefield, they'd only get other little shrimps killed.
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Broadcast of November 4, 2011 - 'Heightism Speaks'

The webmaster discusses the acceptability of heightism in the media.
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Do Short Men Rule The World?
By Palash R. Ghosh October 31, 2011

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A recent column in Britain’s Daily telegraph newspaper described Sarkozy and Berlusconi as “pygmies.”

Sarkozy’s midget-like height has long been discussed in European media. Reportedly, he is extremely sensitive about his small stature and reacts angrily to any aspersions about his tiny frame.

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Sarkozy was embarrassed when during an event at the D-Day beach in Normandy, he stood next to the much taller American President Barack Obama (6-foot-1) and Prime Minister Gordon Brown (5-foot-11) of Britain.

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In March of 2010, Cameron allegedly made a remark about “hidden dwarfs” when discussing a photograph of himself and Sarkozy.

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In April 2010, the German–based car rental company, Sixt, placed an advertisement which explicitly made fun of Sarkozy’s height.

Under a picture of a French hatchback, the slogan read (translated into English from German):"Do the same as Madame Bruni, choose a small French model.”

Jean-Philippe Doyen, the president of Sixt in France, defended the ad at the time by saying: "These advertisements are entitled to be funny and we need to inject a little fun into our business after such a difficult period experienced by many of our clients."

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Those evil, little short men are ruining the world again.  Just ask Raheel Raza.
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'This was not an easy decision': Kim Kardashian files for divorce from Kris Humphries after just 72 days of marriage (that's $250,000 earned every 24 hours) 

   Kim releases statement and insists 'we still remain friends'
    Kris 'only found out Kim was filing for divorce a few hours ago'
    He is 'devastated' and wants to fight to save marriage
    Couple made a reported $18m from August wedding
    Reality star tweets to plug new business venture

By Chris Johnson

Last updated at 8:07 PM on 31st October 2011

Kim Kardashian has spoken out in the wake of the bombshell news she is divorcing Kris Humphries, insisting she had hoped the marriage would 'last forever'.

The 31-year-old reality star said it was 'not an easy decision' after filing for divorce from NBA star Kris, 26, after just 72 days of marriage on the grounds of 'irreconcilable differences'.

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Kris, meanwhile, says he is devastated by Kim's decision, with TMZ claiming he only learnt she was divorcing him this morning.

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Big Man gets his ego hurt for a change.  He only "learnt" it this morning.
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Casual Male has big plans for new e-commerce site DestinationXL.com   
The site includes big and tall men’s apparel from its five other stores.
October 28, 2011
Allison Enright
Senior Editor

The Casual Male Retail Group Inc. is taking a new approach to its e-commerce business by enhancing the tools and features on its five existing e-retail sites, while also launching a sixth site, DestinationXL.com, that aggregates the merchandise sold on all the sites. The company says it will launch within a month an aggressive and targeted marketing plan to draw new customers to DestinationXL.com.

Casual Male Retail Group, No. 330 in Internet Retailer’s Top 500 Guide, sells apparel for tall and large men across e-retail properties that include Casual Male XL, Rochester Big & Tall and Shoes XL. The company describes DestinationXL.com as a one-stop-shop concept designed to make big and tall men’s shopping more convenient and enjoyable. The company, which operates more than 450 retail stores across its brand names, also has opened 10 DestinationXL retail stores so far this year and says it will open 10 more by the end of the year. Those retail stores also sell merchandise from across its retail properties.

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Casual Male is obviously following in the footsteps of 'Men's Wearhouse (who just opened their first store in Manhattan for those poor, unfortunate, deprived Tall Men.  See article below) in catering to the needs of Tall Men everywhere.  Oh, its so wonderful!  It's so beautiful!

What's the matter "little man"?  Are you jealous or something?
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Does the political edge always go to Mr. Big & Tall?  
Politician's size, not policy, is what makes them likeable.  New research suggests taller leaders have an evolutionary edge over shorter rivals
Karin Wasteson
Metro World News
October 28, 2011

We want our big politicians, who have to make big decisions, to be the ‘big men,’ according to new research that claims politicians blessed with height and physical prowess have an advantage over their diminutive rivals.

Murray’s team asked U.S. college students to draw an ideal leader and ordinary citizen. The majority of students (64 per cent) drew a national leader who was taller than their average citizen.

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The article goes on to state that, "Many undemocratic countries have short leaders (Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Kim Jong il are both below average height)".

They latch on to anything that they can to disparage short men.
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Column: When Bad Dogs Happen to Good People  

Guest columnist Diane Haithman tells us: Not every dog rescue is a fairy tale like Heidi’s story, from Texas storm drain to Hollywood. Meet Bruno, the rescue dog from hell.

By Diane Haithman and Heidi
Email the author
October 9, 2011
Every time I hear news of Bruno, he’s done a bad, bad thing. His rap sheet includes breaking the front window three times in an attempt to get at the postman; biting the pool man; terrifying visitors and causing Deborah to suffer various falls, lacerations and broken glasses during walks because even the dog’s heavy choke chain couldn’t prevent him from dragging her along when he decided she needed his protection from another passing dog.  Due to some puppyhood trauma, he flips out when he sees vans on the street, especially vans driven by short men.Actually, Bruno is not from hell—he’s from Woodland Hills.  At least, that’s where our friends Deborah and Ron Kaye found him in 2005, lurking in the bushes in front of their house.  Deborah admits to being scared of the stocky creature, a pit bull-Shar-pei mix whose stripy velvet coat was marred with mange and whose lopsided grin was studded with teeth as crooked and broken as an old graveyard.

“Ron said: ‘Maybe you should feed him, he might be more dangerous if he’s hungry,’ . . .

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“He eats grass, and you just know if he goes into the bushes and does too much sniffing, he’s going to come out with a hamburger,” Deborah says, wrinkling her nose at this scavenger habit. “He’s always looking for old meat.  You just know someone threw this dog out.  I know this dog was thrown out of a van by a bunch of short men.”  We were laughing, but that just might be true.

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Apparently Deborah has a higher opinion of violent stray dogs than she does of short men.  Anyone have a van they're not using?
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Men's Wearhouse Celebrates Grand Opening of First Big & Tall Store in Manhattan
   
Big and Tall NBA players - Charles Oakley and Kevin Willis - support grand opening on October 22, When:  Saturday, October 22, 2 p.m. - 4 p.m., Where:  men's Wearhouse Big & Tall, 730 3rd Avenue, New York, NY 10017, Phone: (212) 661-1521
by Men's Wearhouse
Published:  Friday, Oct. 21, 2011

NEW YORK,, Oct. 20, 2011 -- / PRNewswire/ -- Men's Wearhouse proudly announces the grand opening of its first exclusively big and tall store in New York City. The new location is an extension of the 900 stores nationwide already carrying big and tall styles from top-tier designers such as Calvin Klein, Joseph Abboud, and Kenneth Cole.

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"We understand the difficulty many men face when shopping for big and tall clothing," said Matt Stringer, SVP Marketing and Creative Services of Men's Wearhouse.

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Men's Wearhouse carries a variety of big & tall sizes, which go up to:
    
Suits     70L     
Sport Coats     60L     
Dress Pants     60W or 60x34     
Jeans     60" waist     
Outerwear     5XLT or 60L     
Dress Shirts     22 38/39     
Casualwear     6XLT     
Ties     Extra Long

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Oh joy!  A new store for BIG AND TALL men!  And only 900 of them nationwide!  That's right.  And the 900 are only the 'Men's Wearhouse'  BIG AND TALL MEN'S shops.  Let's not forget the several thousand other BIG AND TAll MEN'S  shops and BIG AND TALL MEN'S sections in thousands of other stores.  'Men's Wearhouse' even sells pants with 60 inch waists.  Apparently they celebrate morbid obesity as well as Tall height.  Oh well, just as long they're BIG!
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Taller People Are Happier, Especially if They’re Male  
By CATHERINE RAMPELL
March 16, 2011, 10:00 am

As I wrote recently in an article on the happiest person in America, taller people generally lead better lives than shorter people.

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The taller men are, generally speaking, the happier they are.

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I’ll let the sociobiologists among you out there theorize about why.

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There's no need to "theorize" why.  We know why.  And you don't need to be a "sociobiologist" to figure out why.
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'Tall beats Small' in leadership stakes   
Tuesday, 18 October 2011 10:19 AM

Political leaders are more likely to win elections if they are taller than their rivals, new analysis has suggested.

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"Our research and the literature demonstrate that there is a preference for physically formidable leaders that likely reflects an evolved psychological trait, independent of any cultural conditioning," report co-author Professor Gregg Murray said.

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Author Catherine Hakim argued in her book Erotic Capital, published last month, that there are clear advantages to being tall.

"By early adulthood, tall people have substantially better social and psychological development, in terms of emotional stability, extraversion, motivation, optimism, taking authority, courtesy to others and sociability," she argued.

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If Tall people were a highly discriminated against group with no political power and no means of redress, they might not be so extroverted and eager to assume authority.
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Broadcast of October 13, 2011 - 'Short Guys Finish Last'

A discussion of Jonathan Rausch's 1995 article in 'The Economist'.
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Superficial women beware:  Short men lurk on online dating sites
by Tom Mills 10/4/11 

It was withering to read in a QMI series on online dating that one of the biggest risks for women is that they might encounter short men.

A story about online dating dangers, with the headline DANGERS in a dangerous shade of red ink, led off with the tragic case of a woman, pseudonymed Jennifer, matched up on eHarmony with a man who said he was 6-foot-1 but, to her horror, was just 5-foot-9.

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The story went on to quote a dating service founder as saying, "What I hear most often is women who have presented themselves sincerely and he walks in and is half the size."

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Hyperbole aside, it was interesting to read that women dread hooking up with a short guy even more than being matched up with the same sort of tall, dark and handsome S.O.B. who used to smack them around before cheating on them with a squadron of 22-year-olds named Bambi.

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But apparently height prejudice is rampant in the pseudo-sincere world of online personals.

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Some logic for a change.
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NEW HEIGHTISM FLYER

Please feel free to click on the link above and the link to the right labeled 'HEIGHTISM FLYER'.  Also feel free to print and hand out this flyer to interested short people.
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Broadcast of October 1, 2011 - 'Anger and Intellect'

The webmaster discusses the need for a combination of anger and intellect for short people.
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"The Little People"
(Originally aired 3/30/62)

"The time is the space age, the place is a barren landscape of a rock-walled canyon that lies millions of miles from the planet Earth. The cast of characters? You've met them: William Fletcher, commander of the spaceship; his co-pilot, Peter Craig. The other characters who inhabit this place you may never see, but they're there, as these two gentlemen will soon find out. Because they're about to partake in a little exploration into that gray, shaded area in space and time that's known as the Twilight Zone."  - Rod Serling

A 'Big Man' learns about Heightism -
 - in 'The Twilight Zone'
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Presenting! - The World Famous Monkey Boy!   
Chris Ames Interview (created July 11, 2011 by Andy Crossley)

Playing careers are not the only improbable dreams chased in the remote outposts of the minor leagues.

In 1998, a young minor league salesman named Chris Ames created an alter ego named The World Famous Monkey Boy.  The WFMB was a peanut hurling, Super Soaker toting, break-dancing dynamo in a tattered costume shop bear suit, held together by duct tape and re-purposed to an approximation of the simian form with a cheap plastic monkey mask.

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Chris Ames spoke to Fun While It Lasted about his alter ego, The World Famous Monkey Boy, on July 6th, 2011.

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The World Famous Monkey Boy talks about his exciting and glamorous career in furthering the stereotype of short men in the role of child-like buffoon. 
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No, I don't have 'Short-Man Complex'... YOU have the complex!
taken from boards.straightdope.com   

My female friend tried setting me up with one of her friends. I thought it was a very bad idea, because dating a friend of a friend can end up horribly. The friend might take side if a breakup should accrue. You could have a nasty break up and never want to see that other person again, but have a hard time avoiding each other when you have a mutual friend. Or, in my case, you could end up having little respect for the friend that tried to set you up with such an ass. Hell, I look down on her for even HAVING a friend like her, let alone trying to set me up with her.

I meet this girl once, at the movies, for the first time. She informs me that she can't see a movie, and she has to go right away. She said she had something important to do, and it was personal. I was sort of pissed off at first, but I gave her the benefit of my doubt. Maybe whatever she had to do was important, and really needed to go.

A week passes, and I hear nothing from this girl (Sue). I asked my friend what the hell was up. I pestered her to tell me. I didn't ask to know WHY she left the first time we met, I just wanted to know if she was justified in doing it. My friend (Joanna) finally gave in and told me that she didn't like me because I was too short for her.

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I got pissed at my friend Joanna, which I think I'm VERY justified in doing so, since she admitted knowing Sue could be like the way she was that night. Joanna then said something completely ignorant and offensive.

"If you're that pissed, than I think you have a Napoleon complex"

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A short guy wakes up.
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Miss Universe host 'bullied' by contestants    
Sat Sept. 17 2011

Bravo TV executive Andy Cohen said Miss Montenegro, Nikolina Loncar, and Miss Sri Lanka, Stephanie Siriwardana, heckled him for being short during the pageant last week.

Cohen said the jibes were all the more frustrating because Miss Montenegro went on to be crowned Miss Congeniality..

Appearing on US talk show Live, Cohen said Miss Montenegro kicked off the teasing by approaching him and asking:  "Why are you so short?"

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He said Miss Sri Lanka was quick to join in teasing, calling him "shortman".

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What's the matter "little man", are you sensitive or something? 
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Is your height holding you back?      
By Bertan Budak
September 13, 2011

Whether you're short or tall, your height dictates the course of both your professional and personal life, experts say.  But does this mean a generation of shortand tall men are destined for failure?

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Whether you choose to believe it or not, experts say your height has a wide influence over how much you're paid, who you end up dating and, more shockingly, your life expectancy.

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Height in the boardroom
Numerous studies from Britain, America and more recently, Australia, have all found that men wh're 6ft tall or over earn, on average, $956 more than those who're 4ft 10 in or below - that's a pay rise equivalent to an extra 12 months' experience.

Many experts believe employers find taller people more desirable as they command more respect than their vertically challenged counterparts.

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Another 2005 survey of fortune 500 CEOs found that an overwhelming 90 percent of CEO's in the US are 6ft or over, while only 3 percent are below the national average height of 5ft 10 in.

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Dr. David Carrier, who led the study, said:  "From the perspective of sexual selection theory, women are attracted to powerful males, not because powerful males can beat them up, but because powerful males can protect them and their children from other males."

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But it's not all bad news fellas: there are several vertically challenged men out there who've bagged themselves drop-dead gorgeous girlfriends. Take Jamie Callum, the 32-year-old jazz crooner who is married to Sophie Dahl and Tom Cruise who, at 5ft 7in, is two whole inches shorter than his wife, the gorgeous Katie Holmes.

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You see short guys, the news isn't all bad.  Just become Tom Cruise and your worries are over. 
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Rider in the storm   
September 11, 2011

Since 9/11, Afghanistan's national sport of buzkashi has become as complicated as the country itself

By Carl Hoffman
ESPN The Magazine

This story appears in the Sept. 19, 2011 issue of ESPN The Magazine.

There aren't a lot of bats, balls or rackets in northern Afghanistan.  There are goats, horses, men and dusty plains, and they have been there ever since Genghis Khan and his Mongol horde swept into the neighborhood in the 13th century.  Their game, then, is simple.  Men on horseback grab a goat from a chalk circle, carry it around a pole and drop it into another circle.

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The game sound simple until you hang out with Mohammad Hasan Palwan.  "Palwan" means strongman in Dari, the Persian language of Afghanistan.  That's what people call him.  The strongman.  for a strongman, he's hardly gig like American athletes, not like Ndamukong Suh or Blake Griffin.  He's tall and wiry with brown-green eyes and a neat mustache.

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I stand 5'9" and Palwan says, "For short people it is hard.  You must know the techniques and be strong and powerful and smart."

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The article says he's "tall" and he says he's short.
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Short, Dark and Handsome?
Leslie Goldman
9/14/11

In high school, I swore I would never, ever date someone who was shorter than me.

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Once I finally care around to the fact that my one true love had been sitting under my nose this whole time, disguised as my best friend, it was a happy coincidence that he happens to be about an inch taller than me in bare feet.

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So I was intrigued when I recently received an email with the subject "SHORT, dark and handsome?" in the subject.  It read:

Let's face it; we're living in a world that tells us a tall man is a handsome man, an athletic man as well as a successful man. Whether we admit it or not, all of these stigmas collect in the minds of the shorter man and can have a profound affect on a shorter man's mindset and psychological state.

How do shorter men overcome and persevere socially in the dating world? They get a great amount of help from celebrity clothier Jimmy Au's For Men 5'8" and Under.

Turns out Jimmy, who stands 5 '2", is a Beverly Hills-based celebrity clothier who has outfitted everyone from Mark Wahlberg (5'7") to Elijah Wood (5'6") to Flavor Flav (5'5.5"). (Others well-dressed shorties include Marc Anthony, Danny DeVito, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, Jason Alexander and Michael J. Fox.)

Considering height is intimately related to body image, I asked Jimmy a few Qs about his clients and the psychology of the short man.

What are some common misconceptions about shorter men?
"When it comes to body image... some misconceptions about shorter men include every short man wants to look taller; every short man wants to be taller; every shorter man feels short. If people didn't make heightist comments, I don't think any shorter man would need to feel this way."

What are some obstacles facing shorter men?
"Shorter men need to overcome those who judge them purely based on height. They need to overcome the inequality that exists in pay just because one is shorter. They need to overcome women who judge and won't give a chance to men based on height. They need to overcome the image that assertiveness is somehow a complex developed because of their height.

On the flipside, some people need to overcome the obstacle of judging the abilities of short men based on their height when it's completely unrelated. Some employers need to overcome the obstacle of paying a shorter man less for the same work. Some women need to overcome the obstacle of judging attractiveness purely based on height. Some people have to overcome the obstacle of assuming an assertive or dominant shorter man is such because he's trying to compensate for his height."

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"Shorter men need to overcome those who judge them purely based on height.  They need to overcome the inequality that exists in pay just because one is shorter.  They need to overcome women who judge and won't give a chance to men based on height."

- Well put Jimmy.  Well put.
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Broadcast of September 9, 2011 - 'The Ugly Truth'

The webmaster talks about a recent article in the UK-based 'dailymail'.
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Didn't get the job?  Blame 'lookism', as discrimination against the ugly 'is the new Racism'
By Luke Salkeld
September 5th 2011

Some might consider it an ugly truth that attractive people are often more successful than those less blessed with looks.

But now our appearance is emerging in legal disputes as a new kind of discrimination.

'Lookism', it is claimed, is the new racism, and should be banished from civilised societies. 

It is currently the subject of several court actions in America and some experts say similar cases should be considered here too.

Economist Daniel Hamermesh argues that ugliness is no different from race or a disability, and suggests unattractive people deserve legal protection.

'Some people are born ugly and there's not much they can do about it.  You're pretty much stuck with your looks.  Logically there's no less reason to protect the ugly than the disabled, African Americans, other racial minorities or religious minorities, as we do.  We could even have affirmative action for the ugly.'

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Once again short people ignored.  Don't forget to read the comments section, especially the woman who decided to "elevate one cashier's spirit".  You'd be hard pressed to find a woman attempting to "elevate" a short man's spirit.  You'd also be hard-pressed to find an "expert" who would say that "height is no different from race or a disability" and suggesting that short people "deserve legal protection".  No "ugly jokes" either.
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The 'height' of love:  Short-tall celeb couples!
August 29, 2011 08:39 IST

These famous personalities seem perfectly matched, except heightwise -- but then love is blind!

Forget carefully arranged photo-ops.  When it comes to practically any physical
shortfall (no pun intended!), it can usually be airbrushed away -- except for this one!

We take a look at some of the cutest celebrity couples on the scene who are compatible in every way, except maybe heightwise!

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If you and your partner also share a sizeable height difference, do send in your photographs!

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Yep.  This is what we predicted.  Girls, go thou now and find a Tall Man - a Very Tall Man.  Please listen to the broadcast 'Monkey see, monkey do'.
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Broadcast of August 27, 2011 - 'Short People are a pain'

The webmaster talks about a recent BBC article and a Tall Club's director disparaging Short People.
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Broadcast of August 25, 2011 - 'Monkey see, monkey do'

The webmaster discusses a recent physical assault on a short man at a baseball game and also Kim Kardashian's recent marriage to a man a foot-and-a-half taller.
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Nashua Silver Knights 'Monkey Boy' Laid Out by Opposing Player (Video)
By Steve DelVecchio August 1, 2011

There's absolutely nothing wrong with sub-professional baseball teams using gimmicks to sell tickets.  If giving away a hilarious pair of boxer shorts on the night of an equally hysterical competition will help fill the stands we're all for it.  If you have to shoot a guy out off a cannon to create a buzz then so be it.  However, AN ANNOYING SHORT MAN dressed as a monkey dancing around crosses the line.  That's why I really have no problem with the following clip.  Check out the video of the Nashua Silver Knights' "monkey boy" getting laid out, courtesy of YouTube user Humbera:

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Short man assaulted in front of hundreds of witnesses.  No assistance.  No assault charges.  Big joke.  Writer of article pleased.  Even the assaulted short man attempts to act like it's a joke being assaulted by someone. (Also, please see 'Videos' page of this website)
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A Step Up for the Short Guy
August 10, 2011

Altura JNK Intimo shoe has been designed to discretely add height.

Shoes that make you taller, they said. Without anyone noticing or suspecting a thing, shoes that make you a whole 10 centimetres taller!

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People, you may have noticed by now, come in all shapes and sizes - tall, thin, fat, short. And body types have their own stereotypical characteristics - the jolly fatso, the lugubrious string-bean. The ones who get the worst press - ''grubby little fingers, dirty little minds'' - are the small men.

''Short man syndrome'' it's called. The less-tall man, so the stereotype goes, tends to overcompensate for his lack of stature by being bellicose, brash and boorish. Think Attila the Hun, Phil Spector, Napoleon, John Howard, a few ex-bosses of mine, or anyone who claims to be of ''average height''. Short and hating it.  Missing out on the girl, not getting served, not getting to the top floor just because they're of less than average height. It's just not fair.

One recent serious scientific survey claims that tall men attract the ladies because they remind them of our violent ape-like forebears.

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"Tall men attract the ladies because they remind them of our violent ape-like forebears."  --  According to this logic, if short men are bellicose, brash and boorish as the article states, then women should like us more, because we'd be acting more like our so-called "ape-like ancestors".  Wouldn't Attila the Hun according to this logic, attract women?!  This is "Science"?!
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BBC "Lifts" Louise Ross-Foden's comments about Short People
July 28, 2011

The BBC has removed the comments of Louise Ross-Foden in the July 22nd 2011 article "Why Tall people have higher hopes of good health"  that contained the statement  "Small people constantly want to prove themselves - and they can turn out to be a pain as a result."  The BBC sent this statement to me at Supportfortheshort.org:

Thanks for your comments, and your interest in the BBC News website. The piece aimed primarily to take a scientific look at the issue of height. The comment from the Talls Persons Club was meant to be light-hearted in nature but has been removed to avoid causing offence.

The webmaster, along with Geoffrey Arnold of http://thesocialcomplex.tumblr.com and a few others wrote complaints to the BBC about the article and also about Miss Ross-Foden's statement that was quoted by the BBC.  This website believes in free speech, however when national and world media support other groups based on virtually every other physical and genetic trait and defines disparaging comments based on those traits as prejudice, and blatantly ignores virtually only one group - short people - it's time for concrete action.  It is to the BBC's credit that Miss Ross-Foden's comments were taken out of the article.  The webmaster made it very clear in his complaint that such comments based on race, religion, skin color, sex, sexual orientation, weight, disability, etc. would not be tolerated by the BBC or most other networks. Prof. Tim Cole's Tall people's "gravitation" theory, however, is still prominently displayed to the side.

The webmaster's complaint

Geoffrey Arnold complaint

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  NEW BLOG FOR SHORT PEOPLE - THE SOCIAL COMPLEX
July 25, 2011

Trolls, heightists and self-hating short people beware.
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Why Tall people have higher hopes of good health    (NEW)
July 22, 2011

By the time we reach adulthood, how tall we are is something we are powerless to change.

Our parents' height is a major determining factor, but genes are not the whole story.

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Prof Tim Cole, from the Institute of Child Health at University College London, says tall people tend to have a good start in life and continue doing well.

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Prof Tim Cole, from the Institute of Child Health at University College London, says tall people tend to have a good start in life and continue doing well.

"Broadly, if you compare economic groups, the higher social classes are taller because they have a less constrained lifestyle and better nutrition.


Prof Tim Cole Institute of Child Health

"Tall people tend to gravitate to higher positions in society too."

Previous research has also suggested that taller people tend to have higher IQs, better job prospects and a more positive outlook on life.

Louise Ross-Foden, a director of the Tall Persons Club, is 6ft 3in. She says there are lots of advantages to being tall.

"I can always get a good view at concerts because I can see over everyone else's heads. If you're tall there's automatically a 'wow' factor, people notice you and if you're a confident person like me then you carry yourself better.

"Small people constantly want to prove themselves - and they can turn out to be a pain as a result."

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Heightists like 6ft. 3in.Louise Ross-Foden can turn out to be a much bigger pain.

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Another Cataclysm Predicted for 2012     
July 4, 2011

In 2008, just a short time after the documentary S&M:  Short and Male made its debut, a notice was placed on the famous NOSSA website – www.nossaonline.org that a “NOSSA Documentary” was in some sort of a “pre-production phase” and scheduled for release in 2009.

When 2009 came, the so-called “documentary” was listed as now scheduled for "late 2009".

When late 2009 rolled around all mention of the “documentary” from the NOSSA website disappeared.  

IIn early 2010 the NOSSA website then indicated that the “documentary” was now scheduled for “late” 2010.  

That never materialized either.  

Again mention of the “documentary” was apparently discontinued.  Mention of the “documentary” then appeared still again, this time for release in 2011.  

Then that mention disappeared.  

Now in the middle of 2011, Matt Campisi is now indicating HERE that the NOSSA documentary is NOW scheduled for 2012.   If you’re not familiar with Matt Campisi, he is the individual who started the NOSSA website back in 2005.  The webmaster made complaints about that website to state agencies and a federal agency in 2006 for fraudulent representation on the Internet.  Campisi represented his website as that of a legitimate incorporated non-profit organization – NOSSA, Inc., however Campisi had no incorporated non-profit organization and was ingathering money in membership and donation fees under that false representation – some of the money belonging to the webmaster.  After the webmaster’s complaints were made, Campisi was then forced to form the previously fake incorporated non-profit.  It’s been all downhill for this crumb ever since.  He made several brief asinine YouTube videos with himself as the “star” then after links were put on this website to those same videos, Campisi then “removed” those videos.  One video had him filming in his closet.  Another video depicted Campisi in his bathroom.  Another one depicted him in a barren room with just a bed, while acting rather manic.  Still another one depicted him on the lawn of the Washington Monument, and yet another one depicted him driving his car one-handed at a fairly high rate of speed with the camera in one hand, no seat belt on and talking about being involved in “law enforcement” while looking down at the camera almost 100 times in about 2 ½ minutes all this with the car in motion.  When someone made a comment about his driving habits, he then rationalized his lack of concern for the lives of other motorists as “Don’t worry.  I’m an excellent driver”.  None of these “videos” are anywhere to be found now.  This isn’t even the half of it either.  We’re going to be exploring the remainder of this pathetic story in the future on the page entitled NOSSA FILES.  If this “documentary” is anything like Campisi’s sick videos, I’m afraid short people are going to be set back a century or two.  Although in our case, with heightism appearing to already get markedly worse over the last decade or so, the pace of that acceleration might increase significantly.  

2012 predictions:  Solar Flares, Magnetic Pole Shifts, Nibiru, major economic depressions, riots, New World Order Police State, FEMA Camps and now - NOSSA Documentary.  I’d rather face a Solar Flare.