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Showing Original Post only (View all)Are you above or below "Average" Height? And how do you think that has affected you in your life? [View all]
Curious, because I am a 6'1" woman, who's been though all the agony of instant masculine rejection, subjected to all the same stupid comments ("do you play Basketball?" "How did you get so tall?" most of my life, and where I used to curse my height, I also understand how beneficial it's been for me. I'm sure I'm liberal because of it: Not the custom mold, so I was forced into critical thinking and questioning the social tenets.
It's a superficial, visual world we live in. People size you up, and immediately want to pigeonhole you--so if you're not "normal" (anything from being too tall or too short, to being a different race.) you're judged and stereotyped. Now, I know the issues I had as a kid (I've been this height since 1969, and THAT was fun, lemme tell you!) are still the same issues young tall women have today. Meh. Slow learning curve, I guess. And as I speak to my friends of all different heights and sizes, I see a whole subtext of prejudice: Sizism, possibly? And just wondering what everyone has come up against because of it.
Feel free to rant away!