/r/short bashing a 5'6 guy for getting LL

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/r/short



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r/short seems to have a serious persecution complex because they imagine the whole world is out there trying to hate on short people. Some posters there post random examples of what they perceive as heightism in TV shows, advertisements, random encounters, in a machine-like fashion to point out how bad short people are discriminated against. It's not like that in real life, while there are  s and even abstract forms of discrimination, everyone has their own battles to fight and most don't care about hating short people, while there's also many other societal groups that experience discrimination. The feeling you get from browsing that subreddit is "wow, being short sucks for these people, that means it must suck for me too!", which is not good in any way. How you deal with your height should be a very personal, unique issue and it's not an unchangable fact that you must feel bad for being short.

To Garrus...stay strong, brother.

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Quote from: IwannaBeTaller on January 21, 2017, 11:47:18 PMr/short seems to have a serious persecution complex because they imagine the whole world is out there trying to hate on short people. Some posters there post random examples of what they perceive as heightism in TV shows, advertisements, random encounters, in a machine-like fashion to point out how bad short people are discriminated against. It's not like that in real life, while there are aholes and even abstract forms of discrimination, everyone has their own battles to fight and most don't care about hating short people, while there's also many other societal groups that experience discrimination. The feeling you get from browsing that subreddit is "wow, being short sucks for these people, that means it must suck for me too!", which is not good in any way. How you deal with your height should be a very personal, unique issue and it's not an unchangable fact that you must feel bad for being short.

To Garrus...stay strong, brother.

There are 2 main things in that reddit site.. I have been looking at it yesterday and today for the first time since I heard alot about it.. Sincerly, the "omg my height is the root cause of all my problems" is no different from what was going on in old forum and this forum in the past regarding height and overall quality of life...
 Now the main things I see that can get potential LLers depressed is that indeed in that site like this one, people vent... And usually the people who vent on forums like that are not the 'crem de la crem" if you get what I am saying..
  Second, it is very easy to attach you feelings of insuccess with women (the main issue for which short people suffer) to your below average height and afterwards reading that reddit site and getting a confermation for you theory of taller= better with women...  Only problem is that most people over there are 5'-5'5.. You are nowhere near that being 5'7 and even 5'6 and above (sorry Garrus... You know I love you) so even though its hard, you must disconnect yourself from the people of those height as you are not in their place but in a much better one

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Quote from: TIBIKE200 on January 22, 2017, 12:02:27 AMThere are 2 main things in that reddit site.. I have been looking at it yesterday and today for the first time since I heard alot about it.. Sincerly, the "omg my height is the root cause of all my problems" is no different from what was going on in old forum and this forum in the past regarding height and overall quality of life...

I was lurking there for good year and trust me, /r/short has waaaaaaay more people with twisted perspective complaining about every aspect of being short(especially women).
Besides there were tons of people 5'8 and above complaining how it's bad to be short.
Imho most of the people that i talked here privately were way more realistic.

And the same thing that IwannaBeTaller mentioned already which is "detecting heightism" in almost every media or whatever, just ehh.

Quote from: TIBIKE200 on January 22, 2017, 12:02:27 AM  Only problem is that most people over there are 5'-5'5.. You are nowhere near that being 5'7 and even 5'6 and above (sorry Garrus... You know I love you)

Don't worry nothing hurts me


Because i'm already dead inside.

Quote from: IwannaBeTaller on January 21, 2017, 11:47:18 PMTo Garrus...stay strong, brother.

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The point where I felt the worst about my height was when I'd read that subreddit fairly frequently. The place is utterly toxic and doesn't translate into the real world whatsoever.

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People have all sorts of stupid ideas, not like it makes any of it true.

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crap's toxic made me feel pretty bad at one point! But then, at the point I felt bad I had other issues to deal with that were not really related to my height.

I think from my perspective as not much shorter than average that some people think being short is way worse than it is. It's like people start thinking it's as bad as systemic racism or something. Dudes lack perspective. But then I'm 5'8 and I guess I would really piss off a lot of men that really are short, say at 5'- 5'6, that really have it hard. For me at least it's more in my own head than in other people's, I admit that.

I definitely think though that height, being a really precisely quantifiable thing in ways that other external things like looks aren't (unless you really are just butt ugly) can be a very obvious way of somehow externalising your internal insecurities (I think that's the wrong word but you probably get what I mean).

Also, there are a load of hilariously egoistical tall men on the internet, r/tall is obviously one of those places. I'd ignore them. I only have my life experience to speak from but I really get the feeling that guys who brag that much about something (could be height) are having to compensate for deficiencies in several other areas, just like many shorter guys feel they need to for height.

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This insane post at r/short displays its toxicity at its finest. The OP used someone's potential suicide note as a mere tool to invalidate experiences of other people.

https://www.reddit.com/r/short/comments/5oo42i/24_year_old_64_male_leaves_suicide_note_on_reddit/

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Quote from: TheLichKing on January 22, 2017, 07:35:17 AMThis insane post at r/short displays its toxicity at its finest. The OP used someone's potential suicide note as a mere tool to invalidate experiences of other people.

https://www.reddit.com/r/short/comments/5oo42i/24_year_old_64_male_leaves_suicide_note_on_reddit/

Topics like that are daily routine on this subreddit. The funniest thing is that it's always posted by someone above 6' tall.
Honestly almost whole reddit is full of total imbeciles, crybabies and SJW's.

The only subreddit that i had never problems with is /r/suicidewatch.

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Check this out: https://www.reddit.com/r/short/comments/5kvb18/you_could_have_done_something_about_your_height/

This guy (post was deleted) literally told people they deserve to be treated badly for their height because they didn't "optimize their growth" during their puberty. He says his height is the result of an "investment" because he slept well, exercised and had a good nutrition during his puberty years. So ridiculous. Not only does he stroke his own ego because of his height, he also made himself believe that he got it because of his own accomplishments. How insecure do you have to be to post something like that?