Love how the people making the heightism jokes are backtracking after being called out
("it's just a prank bro!")
Here on Era I guess we only defend SOME of the slighted/underdogs. But short people? Fuck those babies!
I'm 5'9" btw.
It's not commonly understood that being short is the most common and socially-accepted way to body-shame men, as it comes from both men and women with great frequency and neither class, race nor geography are impeding factors. I'd say it's pretty close to being as prolific as fat-shaming is for women (exactly how close, I couldn't say), and there are certainly fewer people willing to defend against the practice of height-shaming men.
And if they were "just joking around" at someone else's expense for an aspect of people's bodies that they have no control over (that sounds familiar), I have legit serious doubts that they have truly and fully understood why they shouldn't be allowed to make all the other types of insensitive jabs, other than "because it's not socially acceptable". It's a depressing thought that most social justice is performative only, but not a terribly big surprise, I guess.
But short men haven't made the list of socially-unacceptable targets for punching down at yet, and lord knows some folks can't
possibly refrain from punching down. Who knows, they might bring back the hate train for the left-handed next, some of them seem so desperate for someone to take a jab at.
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