Short (NEW)
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) (NEW)
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 (NEW)
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 (NEW)
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.
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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
(NEW)
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' (NEW)
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).
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Seeing 5'2" Kim Kardashian with 6'9" Chris Humphries would give any short man heart failure.
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Live concert etiquette (NEW)
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 (NEW)
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? (NEW)
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?
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"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.
Read more . . .
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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.
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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.
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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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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
Read the article . . .
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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.
In 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 . . .
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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.
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Pint-Sized Teen Turned YouTube Phenomenon Mixes With the Stars
July 4, 2011
A rare illness may have stopped Keenan Cahill from growing beyond a very small size, but it certainly has not prevented him from gaining global fame through his funny music videos posted on YouTube.
This 16-year-old from the US state of Illinois has made a name for himself by imitating the stars.
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Lots of teenagers post homemade videos on the Internet in the hope of getting famous. Keenan, who is only 1.25 meters tall due to the rare Maroteaux-Lamy syndrome, stands far above the rest of the crowd.
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The disease that Cahill was born with leads to bone malformations and a short stature. The head is often oversized, the body is stocky and life expectancy is brief.
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Not everything is perfect, though. The YouTube star does not only have fans — there are also angry voices who slam him as an untalented freak.
“I do get hate mail sometimes, but I don’t listen to that.”
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Q: Why would someone like Keenan get hate mail?
A: Why do authors of articles about anyone who is short statured feel an irresistible urge to mention their heights - and usually in a negative way?
Now you think about that.
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Remembering Larry Smith, longtime jazz radio celeb, dead at 81
Neil Tesser, Chicago Jazz Music Examiner
July 3, 2011
Larry Smith died the weekend before last. He did it rather quietly, which really didn’t suit him at all.
Smith played jazz recordings all night at WBEZ, “back in the day,” when Chicago’s public radio station programmed jazz in the evening hours. For the last several years of my own 17-year run at the station, Larry followed me on the air: I’d play my last tune, the hour-hand would hit 1 AM, and Larry and I would exchange a few pleasantries before I punched “play” for the first tune of his shift.
Believe me, “quietly” never entered into that scenario.
Larry Smith didn’t talk quietly, or listen quietly; he didn’t even move into a room quietly. He could make coffee nervous. He was a jolt of 5-Hour Energy, way before any such product ever gleamed in its creator’s eye. He had played trumpet as a younger man, and in a way, he still was a jazz trumpet – short, resonant, taking the lead, spilling sound in a steady stream.
Smith had a well-tuned carburetor of a voice, sharply resonant with a slight growl, and just the right amount of grease. He was compact and wiry, with a short man’s temperament. He always seemed ready to grapple with something – any argument, any assailant, whether truly threatening or merely perceived . . .
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The author states that Larry had a "short man's temperament". What if he wrote that he had a "Black man's temperament"?
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Genetic Basis for Crime: A New Look
by Patricia Cohen
Published: June 19, 2011
Researchers estimate that at least 100 studies have shown that genes play a role in crimes. “Very good methodological advances have meant that a wide range of genetic work is being done,” said John H. Laub, the director of the justice institute, who won the Stockholm Prize in Criminology last week. He and others take pains to emphasize, however, that genes are ruled by the environment, which can either mute or aggravate violent impulses. Many people with the same genetic tendency for aggressiveness will never throw a punch, while others without it could be career criminals.
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It was less than 20 years ago that the National Institutes of Health abruptly withdrew funds for a conference on genetics and crime after outraged complaints that the idea smacked of eugenics. The president of the Association of Black Psychologists at the time declared that such research was in itself “a blatant form of stereotyping and racism.”
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But a predisposition is not destiny. “Knowing something is inherited does not IN ANY WAY tell us anything about whether changing the environment will improve it,” Ms. Moffitt wrote in an e-mail. “For example, self-control is a lot like height, it varies widely in the human population, and it is highly heritable, but if an effective intervention such as better nutrition is applied to the whole population, then everyone gets taller than the last generation.”
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"Self-control is a lot like height"??!! Self-control is self control. That's why it's called SELF - CONTROL. Each individual has the ability to determine their own actions. No one has the ability to control their height. Just another attempt at associating a "lack of height" with a "lack of self-control".
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DEREK LAUD: Iiked Speaker Bercow until I realised I was one of the 'immigrants' about whom he was then so disparaging
By DEREK LAUD (NEW)
Last updeated at 10:53 AM on 12th June 2011
Let me put my hand up and admit I once rather liked the Speaker John Bercow, or, more precisely, I felt inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt.
But that was many years ago.
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Watching John in action could sometimes be stomach-turning. He was on the ‘edge’
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John was odd: he wasn’t comfortable in his own skin and still to this day he gives every impression of constantly ‘acting’, almost as if he isn’t a real person.
Many were in the habit of casting aspersions about his sexuality because he never had girlfriends. I never did either, but was more inclined to the view that he wasn’t pretty enough to be gay.
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John was odd: he wasn’t comfortable in his own skin and still to this day he gives every impression of constantly ‘acting’, almost as if he isn’t a real person.
Many were in the habit of casting aspersions about his sexuality because he never had girlfriends. I never did either, but was more inclined to the view that he wasn’t pretty enough to be gay.
He was not sensitive to anything, or anyone, apart from his height – 5ft 6in – and often accused people of ‘heightism’.
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Same old. Same old.
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Kanazawa fired after black women are unattractive blog goes bust
Submitted by Anissa Ford on 2011-06-05
Satoshi Kanazawa can get back to his other day jobs because Psychology Today has fired him and his blog ‘The Scientific Fundamentalist: a hard look at truths about human nature.’
One would think that a Japanese evolutionary scientist with a strong media following would know better than to offend black women. Lately, coming down hard on black women hasn't worked out so well for media guys.
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And now Satoshi Kanazawa's lost his blog and his profile page has been deleted from Psychology Today's website. His article and unqualified research on unattractive black women sent off a fury of protests online. 75,000 people blew up Psychology Today via email, Twitter and Facebook. Some even rang Psychology Today's telephones off the hook.
When all was said and done, Psychology Today sent an email to ColorofChange.org and informed the largest online African American political organization that Kanazawa's work won't appear on their site any longer. Psychology Today even said they've instituted new rules to prevent inflammatory content in the future.
People who hadn't heard of Kanazawa were sharing the text in question, their hurt, their ire and disbelief that Psychology Today endorsed the piece. They demanded Kanazawa be fired. Students at Kanazawa's other day job, London School of Economics, have also called for Kanazawa's resignation.
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75,000 people complaining. But his statements on women finding short men undesirable go completely unnoticed.
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Psychology Today Faces Heat over "Evolutionary Psychologist's" Article
Sunday May 29, 2011
The Scientific Fundamentalist
A Look at the Hard Truths About Human Nature
by Satoshi Kanazawa
All stereotypes are true, except...: "All extremely handsome men are gay"
Are extremely handsome men more likely to be gay?
Published on May 8, 2008 by Satoshi Kanazawa in The Scientific Fundamentalist
Another common stereotype about physical appearance is that extremely handsome men are likely to be homosexual. In one experiment, women rate pictures of men as more attractive if they thought that the men were homosexual than if they thought that they were heterosexual, while men do not exhibit the same tendency in judging the attractiveness of women. Extremely handsome celebrities, such as Tom Cruise, have long been dogged with rumors of being gay all their careers.
Read the article here . . .
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Tom Cruise has long been dogged with rumors of being gay not because of his face, but because of his height. The subliminal rationale is that a short male actor should not play masculine roles. They don't like a short man playing a masculine role, so they attempt to emasculate him by accusing him of being gay. This article goes on to state -
Once again, consistent with the evolutionary psychological logic, it turns out that shorter men are more likely to be homosexual than taller men, and homosexual men are shorter than heterosexual men.
The same Satoshi Kanazawa wrote an article earlier this month for Psychology Today entitled - "Why are Black women less physically attractive than other women?" The article stated,
"black women are objectively less physically attractive than other women" yet "subjectively consider themselves to be far more physically attractive than others."
Kanazawa and Psychology Today have faced a horde of articles and people outraged at his statements. According to The Atlantic Wire -
After some attempted editing of the title, the magazine retracted the post from its website in its entirety. Kanazawa in turn is facing an investigation by the London School of Economics, where he is a professor, after a unanimous vote for his dismissal by the student union.
Read the Atlantic Wire article here . . .
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Here's a list of articles that express outrage at Kanazawa's article on the lack of physical attractiveness of Black women:
Racist Psychology Today article claims black women are objectively less attractive than other women
Open Thread: Black Women are less physically attractive than other women.
Professor Faces Removal Over 'Black Women Less Attractive' Claim
Psychology Today post that claims black women are less attractive stirs controversy
London School of Economics psychologist: Black women are less attractive than whites and asians
Satoshi Kanazawa Causes Firestorm After Claiming Black Women Are Less Attractive
- And there are dozens or even hundreds more. Bottom line:
Stating that short men are undesirable by women is OKAY and even flaunted and celebrated. And if and when a short man dares to attempt to counter these presumptions, he is viciously attacked. Those attacks are also flaunted and celebrated. However, if some academic - or anyone else for that matter - states that Black women - or any member of ANY OTHER GROUP are not attractive - this is grounds for ostracism, charges of racism, immediate loss of employment, and a multitude of instantaneous apologies.
Wake up short men.
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Horde of Teens attack, rob MARTA passengers
Wednesday April 20, 2011
By Christian Boone
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Roughly two dozen teens, chanting the name of a well-known Atlanta gang, brought mob rule to MARTA early Sunday morning, overwhelming nervous passengers and assaulting two Delta flight attendants.
Their "Clockwork Orange" style blitz was over soon after it began. The teens boarded the train, headed to Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, at the Garnett station a little after midnight seemingly intent on instilling fear. They succeeded.
"There was blood everywhere, people were hollering and screaming,"
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Flight attendant Parker Stanea, 28, told officers a diminutive teen, no taller than 5'4" and wearing a pink shirt, hit him with a soda can over the left eye.
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Stanea's friend, Jose Souza, said he was assaulted by the same suspect, according to the MARTA police incident report. The pink-clad teen punched him in the lip, the 24-yer-old Delta employee said, but before they could take anything two unidentified male passengers intervened.
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Out of over 2 dozen teens, the double emphasis is on the "diminutive teen, no taller than 5'4", to the exclusion of all the others.
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Little Handyman Sues Big Bully Boss
3/29/11 nymag.com
The title and the photo say it all. So do most of the comments. NOSSA COMMA INC. nowhere to be found. (Surprise, surprise.)
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“The Only True Heightism Activist in the World” fails to “protest” for Juan Pablo Pichardo.
The National Organization of Short Statured Adults, Inc. (NOSSA) fails to even mention Pichardo’s situation.
April 13, 2011
We might have known. As a matter of fact we do know. Don’t you wonder why Christopher Allen Hamre, aka ‘Luda’-Chris Hamre has not “protested” for the 5 feet in height handyman Juan Pablo Pichardo who, according to the New York Post, is suing his boss for allegedly referring to him as a “midget”, slapping him, affixing “a picture of a baby’s body” with Pichardo’s “face on the poster” on his locker, and posting “several pictures of dwarfs on his locker, and even covering “his locker [with] pornography designed to insult him as a Christian? I mean after all, the building he worked at is right here in New York City in Manhattan, the same as the Standard Hotel where Hamre’s last so-called “protest” took place coincidentally on Abraham Lincoln’s birthday of February 12th. The famous NOSSA homepage has not even mentioned Pichardo’s plight. Now the most logical question to ask ourselves would be, why not? Why no alleged NOSSA “protest”? Not even a mention? It couldn’t be because the webmaster was on hand to witness the last famous “protest” of “The Only True Heightism Activist in the World” could it?
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‘Luda’-Chris Hamre, the president of the at least 2 member National Organization of Short Statured Adults, Inc. and dubbed by the unscrupulous Matt Campisi as “The Only True Heightism Activist in the World”was more than willing to claim to make a “protest” for a couple of silly young girls who were let go from their jobs as cocktail waitresses at the Standard Hotel because of a new height requirement for cocktail waitresses and who now are suing for – get this - sex discrimination; Hamre was more than willing to stand on an isolated street corner in the vicinity of the Standard Hotel to allegedly “protest” this. But when it comes to standing up for a man in the same city who has claimed to have really been demeaned, disparaged and violated on his job by his boss specifically because of his short stature and even his religion, the masterful NOSSA and their esteemed president / True activist are strangely silent. Not even a brief mention on their famous homepage under their even more famous “Latest NOSSA Updates” section. Nothing.
It seems that when a serious situation presents itself the “True activists” of NOSSA are nowhere to be found.
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To refer to someone like Hamre as, "The Only True Heightism Activist in the World" is an insult to our intelligence. It is an inversion of reality, and also a perversion of reality.
Read the entire article here . . .
Please read the article - Short UES handyman suing boss who mocked him as a "midget".
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Too Fat for 'American Idol' Audience?
Woman Claims She Was Removed From Front Row for Being Overweight; Fox Says No Way
Wednesday April 13, 2011
In a statement, "American Idol" denied Kauffman's allegations. It said that what happened to the young woman had nothing to do with her looks.
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Kauffman said she just wants an apology. "Most of all, I don't want this to happen to anybody else… The wrong girl would have taken it horribly."
Take a look at the video associated with the story. All is taken very seriously. Compare this article and the video associated with it, with the article below on the humiliation in the workplace of Juan Pablo Pichardo and its multiple "puns" about short stature. Also take a look at the two ABC videos below and see the serious treatment discrimination based on weight is given. Keep in mind that weight is a choice and height is not.
Airline Humiliates Obese Man
Southwest apologizes for flight attendant's comments about a passenger.
02/16/2011
Woman Claims Nail Salon Discrimination
Georgia woman says she was charged more at a nail salon due to her weight.
8/23/2010
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Breaking News: Tina Fey's husband is short
This is another thread of hate towards short men, courtesy of datalounge.com . I suppose these are all "trolls" too. Yeah, sure that's what it is. No doubt.
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Tina Fey Scar = Short Husband ?
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In 2008, Tina Fey finally decided to reveal the secret behind her scar to People magazine. When Tina was five years old, she was sitting in the front yard of her home when a stranger walked up to her and with no warning violently cut her cheek. She didn’t even realize that she had been cut and her initial reaction was that somebody had marked her face with a pen. How did Tina Fey deal with such a traumatic event? Her strategy was to not let this event take over her life. She tried to go on with her life as if this event had not taken place. Having a scar on your face would be traumatic for anybody at any age but one can’t imagine how traumatic it would have been for a young girl. According to her People magazine interview she was able to forget about it until she got in front of the camera. Some people do not even notice the scar when watching her on TV as most of her scenes are shot from the right scar free side. It is quite possible that she chose to get involved with comedy as a way to deal with the traumatic memories of the event.
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I was looking through pictures on Google Images to confirm this height by comparing her height in pictures with the heights of other celebrities. While doing this I came across a picture of her with her husband, Jeff Richmond. In doing so I found out that her husband is much shorter than her. He is 5 feet tall, 4 inches shorter than Tina. Women in general have a very strong preference for somebody who is much taller than them. ABC 20/20 did a show on how strong this preference is by having a line up of short and tall men.
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Writer pathologizes Tina's choice of a short man for a husband.
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Pregnant Tina Fey shows off her bump for the first time in skintight black dress
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 9:14 AM on 12th April 2011
After weeks of keeping her pregnancy hidden, Tina Fey has revealed to the world that she is five months pregnant.
And with that she is free to show off the baby bump she has been protecting.
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The 40-year-old star was also spotted out yesterday with her composer husband Jeff Richmond, 51, and their daughter, Alice Richmond in New York City.
The 5ft 4in star announced last week that she was having another baby with her 5ft husband of 10 years.
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Jeff - who appears to be about a foot shorter than his wife in one photo due to perspective - composes all the music for 30 Rock, in which Tina stars as Liz Lemon.
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Tina Fey takes a "Short" Stroll with her "Diminutive" Husband.
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Broadcast of April 5, 2011 - Bullies and Heroes
The webmaster discusses a recent confrontation between two school boys in Australia and how the media and others are "ganging up" on the small boy in the confrontation.
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Short UES handyman suing boss who mocked him as a 'midget'
By Dareh Gregorian
March 28, 2011
A diminutive Upper East Side handyman is looking to make short work of the boss he says constantly mocked his height.
In a Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit, Juan Pablo Pichardo says supervisor Moises Guimet would belittle him by referring to him as a "midget" and slapping him on his head.
Guimet's little jibes also spilled over to Pichardo's locker inside of the posh East 76th Street building where they both worked.
One one occasion, the suit says, Guimet affixed "a picture of a baby's body" with Pichardo's "face on the poster" on the locker. Guimet also "posted several pictures of dwarfs on his locker," the filing says.
Guimet wasn't satisfied with cutting Pichardo's height down to size either, the suit says.
He allegedly took aim at Pichardo's religious beliefs by covering "his locker [with] pornography designed to insult plaintiff as a Christian."
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Wait till you read the comments section under the article. Even the writer of this article cannot resist making "jibes". It's all in your mind little man.
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Attempt at Humiliation of Tom Cruise
March 27, 2011
The webmaster recently discovered this Youtube video of actor Tom Cruise. The video goes back to 2006, but that is irrelevant. The video depicts him being interviewed by another man. The man appears to be about 6'2" or 6'3" in comparison to Cruise's 5'7". The interviewer has a microphone which suddenly and unexpectedly squirts Tom in the face with what is most likely plain water. Cruise takes it with a smile at first and then regains his composure quickly, grabs the man by the hand and righteously asks this guy, "Why would you do that"? Cruise then asks the man, "What's so funny about that?" The Taller then attempts to flee when Tom says, "Don't run away. Don't run away. I'm here giving you an interview and answering your questions and you do something really nasty. You're a jerk. . . . "
One has to ask himself if this prank would have been pulled on men like Jude Law, Will Smith, Johnny Depp, Ryan Reynolds, Denzel Washington, Colin Firth, Kevin Costner, or Morgan Freeman. One also has to ask himself that, if the heights were reversed, that is, if Tom Cruise were 6'2" or 6'3" and the other guy was 5'7", if this "joke" would have been attempted at all.
You know the answer as well as we do.
View video here . . .
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Broadcast of March 20, 2011 - The Hatred Continues
The webmaster discusses the 20/20 segment where women rejected short men as possible dates, reads a piece written by an awakened short man, and also discusses the recent Askmen.com threads as well as the phenomenon that he refers to as "The Silence of the Short".
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'Luda'-Chris Giving Us a Lot to Talk About Lately
Thursday March 10, 2011
Here is a link to NOSSA's famous Youtube video depicting 'Luda'-Chris Hamre giving his fellow Nosskateers and others the information on last Monday's hearing in Carson City, Nevada on whether or not to further a proposed bill including height, weight and other characteristics in the Nevada Workplace Discrimination Laws. Hamre mentioned the name of the attache to Assemblyman Tick Segerblom, so it is now apparent that Hamre was the other person that was to testify that the attache was referring to in his e-mail to me. I think we may have answered the question as to why the teleconferencing was canceled. According to 'Luda'-Chris -
Assembly Bill 90 is a bill to ban height and weight discrimination in the workplace and also Bowling in the workplace.
See the video
here*
Bowling in the workplace?! If they make bowling in the workplace illegal I think I'll quit right now. I think 'Luda'-Chris may also have answered the question posed in the article below too.
Webmaster's note: As of January 28, 2012 video has been "removed" by 'Luda'-Chris.
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Is ‘Luda’-Chris Hamre Clinically ill or Just Another Deluded Short Man?
Wednesday March 9, 2011
Calling Dr. Allcome! Calling Dr. Allcome! Report to the New York City Psycho Ward!
I just read ‘Luda’-Chris Hamre’s description of his so-called “protest” on February 12, 2011 near the Standard Hotel in New York City. This is just too much. This moron defies belief. Hamre writes:
Fighting the rough wind, I wrote down what I felt was necessary on my placard and marched across the street to the hotel . . .
Marched?! Yeah. We can see it now. Hamre stops at a Walgreens, buys a piece of cardboard, scribbles in fine ink, ‘Height discrimination must end’, and then walks back and forth on an isolated section of the sidewalk where virtually no one goes, in the vicinity of the Standard Hotel, with a sign that no one could possibly read unless they had a microscope and he calls this a “protest”?! ‘Luda’-Chris writes:
I wasn’t going to be swayed by anyone! I sat my bag down ( which I later would have to remove and hold onto) and immediately noticed a cabbie seeing what I was doing, honking his horn and giving me a thumbs up! I wandered over to him and he told me how he read the story in the paper and was in support of what I was doing. So, within the span of two minutes, before I even started pacing, I had a reaction to what I was doing.
That famous Walgreens doggie bag keeps popping up over and over again. Hamre’s going to have to get somebody to hold it for him next time. Can you imagine a New York cabbie honking his horn and giving this loser a thumbs up? How many people at all – even if they could read Hamre’s “sign”, would respond at all? How would he even know what Hamre was protesting? How would he even know that Hamre was protesting anything at all with a sign that was virtually unreadable? And even if he could read the “height discrimination must end” scribbled on it, how the hell would the cabbie know what the heck Hamre was referring to in the first place? The odds of some New York City cabbie reading about this fringe story “in the paper” then remembering it two weeks later and associating Hamre’s “sign” with the event (even if he could read it) is infinitesimally minute. We can’t even get two short people on the same anonymous message board defending short people, and this nutcase has cabbies giving him a “thumbs up”? The vast majority of cabbies here in New York City are not even native-born Americans. Do you mean to tell us that a Heightism-Savvy cabbie just happened to be near the isolated corner that Hamre was on and instinctively knew what Hamre was doing and gave him a “thumbs-up”? The last thing on their mind would be giving a “thumbs-up” to some seeming-vagrant like Hamre. If I were a lawyer, I’d have a field day with this. Hamre then writes:
The manager noticed me a few moments later and said that there were of course “two sides to the story.”
The manager noticed him a few moments later “and said that there were of course two sides to the story”??!! This is too much! How would the manager know in the first place what this guy was doing with a sign that could barely be read? Are we stupid enough to believe that the manager of a New York Hotel whose nightclub – The Boom-Boom Room, which hosts celebrities like Madonna, Lindsay Lohan and Jude Law - would actually come out in the street to inquire directly from some fringe lamebrain like Hamre carrying a piece of cardboard that no one can read in the first place? How did the manager find out Hamre was even there? You mean to tell me the first thing some employee thought to do was to contact the manager of the Standard Hotel just because he saw a person with a placard on an isolated portion of a sidewalk in the vicinity of the hotel – a placard that could barely be read? And then the manager came running outside in the wind and the cold to speak to this loony-tune personally? Or are you going to tell us that the manager just “happened by” and saw Hamre by coincidence and he too – just like the cabbie – had a flash of psychic insight and knew instinctively what Hamre was doing, then sauntered up to him and said nonchalantly, “Uh, there are two sides to the story Mr. height discrimination”? This guy must think that people are as stupid as he is. Hamre then writes,
. . .When I asked him the hotel’s side, he then, as one would expect, couldn’t reveal it and told me that it was too cold for me and that no one else was there to help me. My response was “I couldn’t care less . . .”
Hamre “couldn’t care less”? Can we actually picture him saying that to the manager of this hotel? The same manager that came running out to meet the esteemed pwesident of the National Organization of Short Statured Arses? This is the beggar that went groveling on the Askmen.com message boards for a date among people who expressed wanton hate of short men and you mean to tell me that all of a sudden he has the ‘cahonas’ to tell the manager of the Standard Hotel where to go? Hamre doesn’t even have the guts to talk back to a nanny goat. This guy must think that we’re as mentally-challenged as he is. Hamre goes on to write,
A few people even took pictures of me.
Yeah. Right. The webmaster of this website was the only one who “took pictures” of Hamre. And we’ve got more. Hamre’s fantasies are just incredible. He also writes,
I came out of the protest unscathed and know that I got some people talking . . .
Yeah – me. This is one deluded short man, make no mistake about that. I’m beginning to believe that this guy is clinically insane. I mean, really. Hamre’s fantasies are stuff for the couch. It’s a good thing that I was there to witness this. It’s an even better thing for Hamre that he has a family that is willing to give him an apartment – most likely rent-free - otherwise this guy would really be on the street with a placard. Not a protest placard either, but a placard begging for money to get a bowl of soup and a piece of bread. Sooner or later Hamre’s relatives are going to wake up to their misplaced generosity and Hamre is really going to wind up on the street begging. He’ll really be behind the 8 ball just like his “leader” Matthew Salvatore Campisi most likely is right now. Matthew Campisi, who has long since absconded from the confines of New York, specifically, Babylon New York, to seek trouble in places elsewhere. I do have to give Campisi a little credit though. Campisi does know a sucker when he sees one. They say that there’s a sucker born every minute; well, Hamre took up about 2 days worth.
All an idiot like Hamre is likely to do is make people trivialize this topic that much more. All a person like Hamre could possibly do with this sort of nonsense is just make people laugh a little more, that is, if they’re even taking any notice at all, which, in this case, no one actually did, fortunately. So in that sense, maybe Hamre didn’t do recognition of heightism any damage with his “protest”, after all. I mean, if nobody knew about it, then there should be no harm done, should there? I hope so. I also hope that people like ‘Luda’-Chris Hamre will soon cease and desist with their so-called ‘efforts’ against heightism. The only possible thing Hamre can do is make people scoff and shake their heads that much more. Somehow though I suspect that as long as Hamre has relatives who feel sorry for him and give him freebies, he’s just going to continue on his merry way “fighting heightism”, being Matt Campisi’s little stooge and gofer, getting hung-up on by talk-show hosts, and most likely working in some mail room at $12 an hour just like he was doing before.
Read Hamre's complete Delusion here at the famous - 'Luda'-Chris Hamre Blog.
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Short People’s Testimony Refused
Wednesday March 9, 2011
On Friday March 4th, I discovered that there was going to be a hearing to discuss the possible passage of a bill in Nevada – AB 90 – that would add height, weight, and physical mannerisms beyond the control of the individual to all the other groups protected by law in the workplace in that state. The hearing was only 3 days away and that was this past Monday March 7th. I contacted Assemblyman Tick Segerblom both by e-mail and voice mail almost immediately. I received an e-mail from Assemblyman Segerblom’s attaché who informed me that they “would need to set up a teleconference”. In a second e-mail sent to me by Segerblom’s attaché, he even gave me the web address for the audio-visual feed and suggested that I mute the sound while I was speaking via telephone so as not to create any annoying feedback. He even mentioned that the Assemblyman was in contact “with another individual regarding the height aspect of the bill”. I sent the attaché an e-mail asking for the details on how to teleconference.
The attaché never got back to me.
I contacted him by phone about an hour before the hearing and he told me that teleconferencing would not be feasible. He did not say why. Nonetheless, I watched the hearing unfold on the video-feed and what I saw turned out to be no surprise. I saw 3 or 4 Fat women testifying about discrimination against them in the workplace. No short people testifying. Not one. I have to admit that I was a bit peeved at this. It was not as if their committee was brimming over with short people anxious to testify. It was not as if they had no room for another short person. It was not as if it was some sort of closed hearing. It was an open hearing where anyone could testify, very similar to the one in Boston 3 years ago. It wasn’t required that one be a resident of Nevada either. So obviously I was a little confused as well. There were however, some things that were apparent to me. One thing was that since Segerblom’s attaché had gotten back to me promptly, and on the weekend to boot, with his offer of a “teleconference”, I could see that the failure to have me – and also another person – testify, was not Assemblyman Segerblom’s doing. It was definitely not the attaché’s doing either. It had to come from somewhere else. Somewhere ‘higher’. Where that was exactly I could not and cannot say at this moment. Nonetheless I sent the Chairman of the hearing, Kevin Atkinson, an email inquiring why my testifying could not be accommodated. I am waiting for a reply. Rather than voice any suspicions about any usual suspects, we’re just going to stand pat for now and wait a reasonable length of time for Chairman Atkinson’s reply.
Would it be a stretch for us to say that, uh, maybe we’ll wait on this one.
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'Do Short Men Stand a Chance' Still getting Hate Comments About Short Men 4 Months Later
Tuesday March 8, 2011
Read this post from 'Jenny' four days ago:
Oh STFU superbotch. What we are saying is that upon first glance, an obese woman will get the same reaction that short men will get from women. Short men are not attractive ever. If a woman is attracted to a short man, then something is wrong with her. Most likely, she couldn't get a taller man. This is simple genetics. We cannot downgrade the species. Shorter men cannot protect, therefore cannot get that same sexual arousal from a woman. We don't care the logic, or if it "makes sense" - This just IS. It is hardwired to the brain. We see shorter men as children. YES an obese woman can lose the weight which makes it suck for you! I will say that I don't understand why more research isn't put into making HUMANS GROW AFTER PUBERTY. They can give us women boob implants, nose jobs, remove wrinkles, tummy tucks and make us more attractive, but the ONE THING which would make males more attractive (HEIGHT = #1 - Tall, Dark and Handsome - IN THAT ORDER), they can't have lol.
After you read the above be sure to listen to the webmaster's broadcast below.
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Broadcast of March 7, 2011 - Hatred of Short Men
The webmaster discusses the November 2010 article by Heidi Muller - 'Do Short Men Stand a Chance?' - and the Askmen.com message board hate comments directed at short men.
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Assembly on Commerce and Labor Meeting on Monday March 7, 2011 to discuss passage of Assembly Bill 90
Friday March 4, 2011
On Monday March 7th at 1:30 pm there will be a meeting in Room 4100 of the Legislative Building, 401 S. Carson St., Carson City, NV to discuss possible passage of AB 90. Part of this bill involves making it illegal to discriminate in the workplace based on height.
Section 6 of the Bill specifically states:
6. “Physical characteristic” means any bodily condition or
physical attribute of a person that is a result of birth, injury,
disease or natural biological development, including, without
limitation:
(a) Height;
(b) Weight; and
(c) Physical mannerisms beyond the control of the person.
The Nevada Legislature website is - www.leg.state.nv.us/
The entire Bill can be viewed here
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An 'Oldie but a Goodie' from 2007 --
Model ordered off bus for being 'too tall'
By Sally Pook 12:01AM GMT 16 Jan 2007
A model was told to get off a London bus simply because she was too tall.
Josephine Kime, 23, who is 5ft 11in, was boarding the bus when the driver ordered her to leave, claiming he would not be able to see past her. He then allowed a shorter woman onto the bus.
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She added: "I was shocked and bemused. I am hardly a giant. I travel to and from work by bus every day and my height has never been an issue.
"I could not believe it when I got off and he then let another, shorter lady on in my place." . . .
Read entire article . . .
We said it was a 'goodie'. Tallers don't like it when the shoe is on the other foot. Discrimination against THEM makes headlines too.
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Another Taller Man Tells the Truth About Heightism
I was at work yesterday and some of the Nurses were laughing about a "short man" that was one of their patients. I got so MAD. I am about average height at 5'11 or so. But I think that it is soooo wrong to discriminate against someone because they are short.
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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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We think so too.
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Another famous 'Luda'-Chris Hamre "Protest" photo
March 2, 2011
Here's another photo of the so-called president of the National Organization of Short Statured Adults, Inc. in his famous February 12, 2011 "protest". What was 'Luda'- Chris Hamre protesting you might ask? Well, it was claimed he was protesting the firing of 2 cocktail waitresses at the Standard Hotel in New York City - all because it was felt that they were too short by management. The two former cocktail waitresses are currently suing the hotel - not for heightism - but for sexism. That's right, sexism. It seems the male cocktail waitresses didn't have a height requirement, so the two young gals thought they'd make it a sex discrimination suit. 'Luda'-Chris Hamre apparently was in full agreement with the two young ladies, so he got on his horse, stopped at a nearby Walgreens drug store and picked up all the necessary protest paraphernalia that retarded short arses like himself need in order to conduct a proper protest. 'Luda'-Chris was in full bloom as anyone can see by the photo. Standing on an isolated corner with not a soul around, displaying a protest "sign" the writing on which no one could see unless they had an electron microscope, and carrying his famous Walgreens doggie bag containing his sophisticated digital camera, Hamre was sparing no effort to get his point across that sexism - uh, excuse me - heightism, is just not acceptable in the 21st Century folks. Braving the wind and the cold all alone, Hamre will do anything to help other retar - uh, excuse me - short people like himself. His mentor and leader - Matt Campisi, the famous security guard, mama's boy, ne'r-do-well, nomad, star of "The Closet", (among other things), and in general All-around Knave, formerly of Babylon, New York and many other locations, would never do what he's doing. There must be some reward for his efforts.
There is.
We hereby nominate Christopher Allen Hamre as Numbskull of the Year for 2011. We nominate him because of his undying loyalty to a sleazebag like Matt Campisi. We nominate him because he apparently left his brains back in California - if indeed he had any to begin with. We nominate him because an 8-year old could have manufactured a better "protest" sign. We nominate him for giving Walgreens free publicity without getting compensated for it. We nominate him because, at the age of 42, he should know better than to behave like a homeless person with a room temperature IQ. We nominate him for his 'Luda'-Chris behavior. We fully expect lots more idiocy from 'Luda'-Chris down the road.
See the new Hamre "Protest" Photo here
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The Sarkozy Complex: Short Men Aren't Angry, but Should Be
(from June 8, 2010)
by TresSugar
Tall security need not apply to protect French president Nicolas Sarkozy. An unidentified police source told the Le Parisien that "there's no point recruiting supermen" as "large-sized" candidates would not likely be hired.
This isn't the first time we've heard about the 5'5" president's short-man complex. He's been spotted adding height with heeled shoes, accused of putting short factory workers (only) on stage for a televised speech, and standing on boxes hidden behind podiums while speaking.
Can you blame him? Psychologists Leslie Martel and Henry Biller found that short men don't measure up in the eyes of men and women. Both sexes perceive them to be less capable, confident, successful, masculine, outgoing, secure, positive, and mature than taller men.
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She forgot 'less intelligent', 'less credible' and 'less educated'. We'll let her go this time.
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Female-to-Male Transsexual finding out the hard way what it’s like to be a Short Man
February 26, 2011
The individual in this video appears to be a female-to-male Transsexual. “He” doesn’t appear to be that old; “he” appears to be under 30 years of age. The female to male transsexual is more of an anomaly than the male-to-female transsexual. This is due to the fact that the female-to-male surgery is a bit more involved and complex than the other way around. Nevertheless, the psychological screening process supposedly is rigorous before the individual is approved for sex-reassignment surgery. There is however one little item that the masterful psychologists and psychiatrists apparently fail to tell their female-to-male patients about, and that is the ever-present HEIGHT ISSUE. The masterful psychologists apparently fail to tell their patients that as a male that is significantly shorter than average, their opportunities with the opposite sex become severely limited. One would think that these masters of the psyche would be well schooled by the psychiatric community about the difficulties of short men to attract women, but, unfortunately, that is not the case and never has been. These so-called “psychologists” are well-schooled in the politically correct environment of LGBT, but are virtual illiterates when it comes to something as simple as height.
WHY???
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Club Bouncer Assaults, Robs and Humiliates Innocent Man
February 20, 2011
This video is a prime example of what the Large get away with with respect to the small. One can easily see the size difference between the bouncer and the young man in the video. If we were to take a wild guess we would say that the bouncer is about 6'3" 280 lbs. and the young man is about 5'9" and 165 lbs. And while the young guy in the video is not technically a man of "short-stature" by our standards, the video nonetheless is a metaphor of the situation for the short man. It is our understanding that this bad-ass bouncer is now facing the legal ramifications of not only his actions, but his incredible arrogance in filming this situation. If you're under 18 years of age please ask your mommy's permission before you view it.
If only all the wrongs against the short-statured could be righted. Please see video page as well.
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The National Organization of Short Stooges, Inc. proudly presents 'Luda'-Chris Hamre's famous Standard Hotel protest photo of February 12, 2011!
See it here
We weren't aware Walgreens was now supplying protest material for short arses with cognitive disorders. Don't be surprised if the photo disappears in the near future. Matt 'The Ratt' Campisi may have to destroy the evidence.
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NOSSA Buffoon Hamre At It Again.
New York City
Saturday February 12, 2011
We’re off to see the wizard,
the wonderful Wizard of Oz,
We hear he is a whiz of a wiz,
If ever a wiz there was,
The webmaster took a 45 minute subway ride today into Manhattan to personally view the famous ‘NOSSA Protest’.
I’ve never seen the Standard Hotel, but I got off the subway train at the Union Square station and walked two long blocks or so west and then a block or two south. It was a cold windy day with the wind blowing in off the water in icy gusts.
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I arrived, took a couple of photos and looked around to see if I could see the famous NOSSA contingent. I saw nothing. I crossed the street and then I realized that the famous NOSSA contingent was actually there after all. It consisted of the famous clown Christopher 'Luda'-Chris Hamre, Nossa’s famous ‘pwesident’ and Matthew Campisi’s chief stooge, appointed by non other than sleazy Campisi himself, NOSSA’s former president, now hiding in the shadows as treasurer. There was no one else that I could see. I did get an incredible urge to start laughing uncontrollably but somehow, some way, I managed to subdue it.
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I couldn't even read the words on the little bastard’s “poster”, but my eyes are getting a bit old I must admit. During his command performance the little tike asked a passerby (probably one of his adoring fans) to please take a picture of him for the Noskateers. The fan was, of course, Tall. ‘Luda’-Chris took out his little camera from the doggie bag he was carrying and handed it to the Tall fan. ‘Just pwess da button’, little Chrissy commanded. Back in his doggie bag the cheap camera went and now there was a permanent record of the little NOSSA charade.
You know, I had a feeling that it would be only him. Since I couldn’t read the writing on Hamre’s placard, I assume that he took a pen or pencil and just scribbled some BS on it. No one seemed to pay him the slightest bit of attention. What a joke! But then again isn’t that what comedians are for?
In case you don’t know what Hamre was “protesting”, it was the firing of two waitresses from the Standard night club – Stephanie Jaggers and Faye Rex, both aspiring actresses (as are about half the young women in Manhattan by the way). They were fired because they weren’t tall enough to suit the management and now they’re suing for sex discrimination. That’s right, sex discrimination.
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Humorous isn’t it? (Hamre isn’t the only one who can be funny) If an average short man took out a lawsuit and won every time he was discriminated against on the basis of his height, he would be a millionaire in a thrice. Oh but wait a minute! Short men can’t sue for anything – including sex discrimination. I forgot.
But back to ‘Luda’-Chris.
I can’t figure out what this guy thought he was going to accomplish with this.
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If I didn’t know who he was to begin with I would have thought he was a homeless person with a sign begging for money for a crust of bread and a bowl of soup. As a matter of fact if it wasn’t for his seemingly magnanimous relatives, Hamre probably would have set up shop at the nearest soup kitchen a long time ago. God Bless his family. But you know, in any case, that is what ‘Luda’-Chris Hamre does best – grovel and beg, and it seems he didn’t even have to be taught how either. His compadre, Matt ‘The Ratt’ Campisi has chosen well. Obviously Hamre never learns his lesson. Dolts like Hamre very seldom do.
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If ever, oh ever, a Wiz there was
The Wizard of Oz is one because
Because, because, because, because, because
Because of the wonderful things he does
We're off to see the wizard
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz!
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We now think we know where the phrase, "Tall Consumerism" comes from - See below --
Are Tall People Discriminated Against?
Arianne Cohen
June 26, 2009
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?
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But most tall discrimination is omnipresent. The next time you're out in public, look around. You'll see tall people's knees bent well past 90 degrees on subways, buses and in restaurant chairs. You'll see them stuffed into theater seats and falling off exercise bikes that are blatantly designed for the 10-90th percentiles. You'll see tall folks hanging off of yoga mats and massage tables, limbs sticking out of cubicles.
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I vote for the easy solution: Tall Consumerism. It's simple: Only spending dollars on products that fit perfectly, priced the same as other sizes. . . .
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We short folks really have to see what we can do to make life easier for those poor, disadvantaged Tallers - like Arianne 'Supremacy' Cohen and John Tesh. The poor dears.
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The Day Before Disclosure
February 12, 2011
In this over fourteen minute clip on alien abduction, check out the brief segment starting at 13:18 into the video. I know, I know what you're thinking: This time the webmaster has gone too far. Heightism is one thing, but alien abduction? Now he's really flipped. Not quite. Incredibly, most incredibly, you'll find more people willing to come forward to state they've been abducted by grey aliens and had their genetic material taken from them to beget hybrid alien babies than you will see short people coming forward to claim that they've been discriminated against because of their height. Dr. David Jacobs of Temple University - a notable abduction researcher who has put many a claimed abductee under hypnosis - states that abduction is a common phenomenon throughout the world. We state that heightism is a common phenomenon throughout the world. Actually if their stories are true, it is probably also a phenomenon of Zeta Reticuli or wherever the heck it is claimed that these beings are from.
Budd Hopkins: "The regular little aliens were about her size. (abduction victim at the age of 8) She was I don't know, she was maybe 8 or something. But there was this one tall one. And that's usually the one, who's sort of the one who's in charge."
We could sure use Dr. Jacobs to hypnotize some in-denial short people; About 50 million of them.
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A New Movement Recognizes Extreme Height as a Disability
Every day, 34 million North Americans are discriminated against, because they’re TALL.
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So, why do experts say being tall should be a recognized disability?
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So, more and more tall people are fighting back. They’re joining a movement called “Tall Consumerism," . . .
We got this from www.tesh.com. No laughing. No trivializing. No denigrating comments about "beanstalks". More double-standards. Oh by the way, John Tesh is 6'6".
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Employmentlawsolicitors.net Deleting the Webmaster's Posts.
February 9, 2011
(see 'A Tall Man Tells the Truth for a Change')
The webmaster twice has attempted to make a post in response to an article written by a 6-foot man recognizing the widespread discrimination against short men. On both occasions the webmaster's post has been deleted. The webmaster's posts were sane, logical, and sensible. We believe that this sort of behavior is nothing more than an attempt on the part of the moderator to refuse to let discussion on the topic of Heightism go beyond a certain point and relegate it to an individual issue.
Read the webmaster's post here
Apparently 'Employmentlawsolicitors.net will not allow a short man to state the facts about heightism beyond a certain point. We wonder if they deleted anyone else's posts. We will never know.
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Are Short Men Discriminated Against?
February 8, 2011
You're damn right they're discriminated against. Even Google agrees. Just do a Google search and type, 'Are short men discriminated against', in the search box and the webmasters essay - 'Heightism - The Last Bastion of Discrimination' comes out Number 1. Numero Uno. Not any bogus "organizations". Not any frauds. Not any growth scam websites. Not any Ph.D's. Nothing from any 40 year-old ne'r-do-wells who need their families to support them. Not anything but the webmaster's essay.
Read it.
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A Tall Man Tells the Truth for a Change
January 10, 2011
I’ll start off by saying I am 6 feet even. By the common occurrences scale I am tall. So why would I ask this question? Because I think about more than myself and my issues, that’s why.
This is one of the biggest social shunning issues in civilization today. When we hear concerns over body image issues in regards to women and weight (which are indeed valid) no one ever seems to recognize the utter contempt people-at-large have for short men. I’ve seen it at my job with a capable responsible employee mocked and frequently disrespected by his own co-workers. And it angered me.
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Rare honesty from a tall man.
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One for the Books
(This is a June 13, 2009 article from ESPN. It typifies precisely a short man cooperating in his own degradation. Who is the perpetrator? - A big man of course.
Herrera short in stature, not heart
At 5-foot-6, Reds reliever surviving in big leagues on stuff and guts
Originally Published: June 13, 2009
By Tim Kurkjian ESPN The Magazine Archive
I am 5-foot-5. This is relevant for one reason: On Wednesday, I stood next to Danny Herrera. He is 1 inch taller than I. And he is a good relief pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds.
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Herrera is the shortest major league pitcher - according to listings, which aren't always accurate -- since 5'6" Bobby Shantz, who retired arter the 1964 season with 119 victories and an American League Most Valuable Player award in 1952.
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"I've never faced him. But I haven't faced anyone his size since I was 11 or 12 years old."
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One of our catchers, [Alvin] Colina, who is a really big guy, picked me up and put me in his lap as he sat in the bullpen. Then he stuck his arm incise my jacket, and up my back. He wouldn't let me go. . . .
Imagine picking up a player, putting him in your lap and "sticking your arm inside his jacket and up his back" and pretending he was a puppet because of his race, religion, color, creed ethnic background, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, disability, etc. And this short-statured imbecile (Herrera) calls it, "The best one". Here's your classic case of self-delusion, that is, a short person fully cooperating in his own humiliation and even celebrating it along with the perpetrator.
Pathetic.
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Lawsuit Claims Nightclub Fired Waitresses for Being Too Short
Updated: Wednesday, 26 Jan 2011, 9:45 PM EST
Published: Wednesday, 26 Jan 2011, 9:45 PM EST
by TI-HUA CHANG
MYFOXNY.COM - Stephanie Jaggers, 27, and Faye Rex, 24, are aspiring actresses who say they were not up to the standards of Standard nightclub -- at least no up to the height standard of its female staff.
Jaggers is 5 feet 3 inches tall and Rex 5 feet 4 inches. They were fired as cocktail waitresses at the club, then called the Boom Boom Room, and now they have filed a $500,000 lawsuit.
They allege gender discrimination because the height requirement was only for women not men. . . .
Gender discrimination??? How many men are cocktail waitresses?
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Too Tall To Fly? Passenger Forced to Stand for Entire Flight
Stuck in a Too Small Seat, 6-foot-7 Young Man Stands for Two Hours
By LAUREN EFFRON
Dec. 30, 2010
When Brooks Anderson Boarded a Spirit Airlines flight from Chicago to Ft. Myers, Fla., to psend Christmas with his family, he said he didn't expect to be standing for the next two-and-a-half hours.
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"It's like being in a s subway car for two-and-a-half hours, which is awful," he said, adding that there was luckily no turbulence during the flight.
"It's bizarre," said Anderson's mother, Katie Anderson. "This was the first time he's been treated like this." . . .
How would she like her 25-year-old son to be mistaken for a 12-year old and given the kiddie treatment, be discriminated against out of jobs, have his competency questioned, be bullied on the street, etc. and then be told it was all in his mind? Discrimination against the Tall is serious business.
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AP: Pilot duped AMA with fake M.D. claim
By Marilynn Marchione, AP Medical Writer - Sun Dec 12, 1:06 pm ET
MILWAUKEE - He seemed like Superman, about to guide jumbo jets through perilous skies and tiny tubes through blocked arteries. As a cardiologist and united Airlines captain, William Hamman taught doctors and pilots ways to keep hearts and planes from crashing.
But it turns out Hamman isn't a cardiologist or even a doctor.
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Now, groups that Hamman worked far are red-faced that they hadn't checked out the Tall, sandy-haired man who impressed many with his commanding manner.
A taller can have an easy time making people think that he is better or more than what he really is. A short person can have a difficult time making people think he's AS GOOD AS he really is.
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Webmaster Battles While NOSSA Grovels
Saturday December 4, 2010
Where are the shrimps of NOSSA when you need them? While the webmaster was posting comment after comment to combat the cauldron of hate on AskMen.com, all the vaunted Nosskateers could do was send their ‘Luda’-Chris ‘pwesident’ – Chrissy ‘The Sissy’ Hamre to ask for a date from among some of the worst female haters of short men, this side of ‘Mistress Ana Viduka’. One would think that an organization allegedly started to combat prejudice against short people would join the webmaster in the battle, but, no go. One would think that maybe one of them might get an idea that even if they didn’t want to state who they were and where they come from, one of them would at least post comment after comment supporting short men – even if it were under an alias.
Not a chance.
Where was Matt ‘The Ratt’ Campisi? You may remember him. He was the one who started the masterful – www.nossaonline.org – way back in 2005; the infamous website that the webmaster made complaints about to state agencies and a federal agency or two for fraudulent representation and ingathering money under false pretenses. He was the official “president” but decided to let his willing stooge – Chrissy ‘The Sissy’ Hamre take over. Hamre is the president in name only. Campisi probably now controls from the background, which, no doubt, is the way Matt ‘The Ratt’ Campisi likes it. Stooge Hamre is the “front man” who is foolish enough to show his face while Campisi sits in the background and most likely manipulates Hamre. As a matter of fact I can picture little Matt ‘The Ratt’ Campisi saying to Hamre words to the effect of, “No Chris don’t post any more messages at AskMen.com. The more you post the more people will fight you and we don’t want to fight, we want to love everyone, and they to love us. Short men will see that other guy doing the fighting and then they’ll say to themselves, “I wonder if there’s an organization for short people”. They’ll look and then they’ll find us. Let him do the fighting. I’ll take – uh, I mean – we’ll take the money in new members.”
Unfortunately that will probably not be the case for little Matt ‘The Ratt’ Campisi. As it stands now after 5 years, uh excuse me, 4 years (One year little Mattie had a website, but he just forgot to form an organization) the NOSSA group most likely has but few members, and the few that they do probably have seem to be in the same league as Mattie and Chrissy, that is, the Little League. Even their former treasurer has abandoned them.
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Wednesday December 1, 2010
"Mean Woman" to Webmaster on AskMen.com thread:
"Wow, I've become your obsession, lucky me! Actually the part of you is desperately yearning for a woman like me. Well loser, I hang around with my tall boyfriend, have fun and enjoy life unlike you. When you are wanted by nobody, have no sex, respect and friends what else you can do but sitting at the computer round the clock and post nonsense. And keep inviting dwarfs to your website, at least you can cry to each other about yout miserable lives."
The webmaster actually challenged this poster to do a broadcast with him on this website and "her" reply was:
"Did all these shorty wimps hire you to be their lawyer? I don't think so. My real name is Ana Viduka and i like to be dominant, that's true but really don't wanna waste my time with your radio show. As you can see I easily proven to this ''Why'' wimp how inferior he is in every way. Everything I told about him turned out to be truth and now he's somewhere in his hole weeping. He was just taught a lesson he'll never forget."
And this is nothing compared to some of the hate against short men on AskMen.com. If you've really got the stomach for this sort of thing and you'd like to join the webmaster in posting sane comments you can do so.
Link to comments section at Askmen.com
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Hamre & NOSSA: One Big Joke
Monday November 22, 2010
The webmaster never ceases to be amazed at the “Luda-Chris” behavior of Christopher Hamre, the 42-year old ‘pwesident’ of the National Organization of Sick Short Arses. Can you imagine the president of the NAACP going to the KKK message boards to get a date with an Aryan woman?! Well the sort of behavior exhibited by ‘Luda’-Chris is just about in line with a hypothetical situation like that. And speaking of the KKK, the most virulent statements that they – or anyone else - could manufacture against Blacks – or any group for that matter - couldn’t come close to the cauldron of hate that is still bubbling over in response to an article entitled “Do Short Men Stand a Chance”. If the comments on that board are any indication of people’s attitudes toward the short-statured man (and we believe that they are) then it is obvious that at this point in time short men stand very little chance, and if many of the hate-spewing posters there got their way, I’m sure concentration camps would be set up for our extermination.
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MORE STARTLING NEWS FROM -
"DO SHORT MEN STAND A CHANCE"!!! ---
IS THIS CHRISTOPHER HAMRE, AKA 'LUDA'-CHRIS, POSTING ON THE SAME THREAD ASKING FOR A DATE???!!!
Sunday November 21, 2010
We believe that the laughable and utterly pathetic so-called 'president' of the National Organization of Short Nincompoops, put this post on Page 2 of the so far 55 pages and close to 3,000 comments in reference to the above article:
"Any of you women in here who like short guys - in the NY area? I'm in Brooklyn. . . ."
The name of the poster was listed as 'CHamre'. What can we say about this groveling, obsequious, idiot? Just when we think we've seen it all, something happens to top what has gone before. It's just incredible. It was only a couple of days ago that I found this article and its close to 3,000 mostly negative comments about short men. It was only this morning that instead of just browsing the most recent pages, I decided to go back to page 1 and read from the beginning. I was barely through page 2 when I stumbled across what apparently is 'Luda'-Chris's handiwork. Maybe this isn't OUR 'Luda'-Chris? Well, I thought of that. There's only 1 'CHamre' in Brooklyn, New York - Brighton Beach - most likely. And if there was more than one I doubt very much if he would be caught groveling on some comments page begging for a date from mostly very hostile and prejudiced women whose hate for short men was and is glaringly apparent. Hamre even mentioned the infamous website - http://www.nossaonline.org- and the NOSSA message boards where, at last count, there were a grand total of 19 active posters. I mean, this moron is supposed to be the president of an organization that is supposed to fight discrimination against short people (mostly short men experience it) and here he is apparently posting a comment - not to combat the many heightist comments already posted there - like the webmaster has done, but to chime in like the pathetic little weasel that he is and almost literally beg for companionship amongst a group of women who - if they had the opportunity - would probably want to beat him to death for no other reason than the pure pleasure of killing a short man.
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SHORT MEN SHOULD ALL BE BURNED ALIVE! -
This is what 'Rebecca' posted on the same 'Do Short Men Stand a Chance?'
It's unbelievable isn't it folks? Totally unwarranted hate and anger. A psychologist would refer to this as "displaced aggression", in other words the anger they can't take out on any other group, they take out on short men. Then they criticize short men for being angry.
She goes on to state:
"We've already done a great job of urging websites to let us have the ability to filter out short men. I totally ignore shorter men when I'm out clubbing or in any other shorter setting. I love eHarmony for urging short men not to sign up and winning their lawsuit. Short men are just not wanted, not even by us short women. I've personally turned down short men from jobs when working in HR at my former job."
Imagine if this was a racial group that this woman wanted all "burned alive".
Imagine if this was any group that she "personally turned down" for a job because of an irrelevant physical trait.
Imagine.
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Do Short Men Stand a Chance? (Some of the comments)
11/19/10
Yuck: Smurf men make me hurl! They are NOT attractive at all!
Height is Everything says: I am a 5 foot 1 woman . . . There is nothing attractive at all about shorter men. I get tired of them trying to approach me when I go out. . . . Why would I want to walk with a man that makes me feel like I am walking with my son? Us short women are okay. Short men, not so much. -- [Talk about hypocrisy]
Rhonda says: Tiny men should stick to fixing my roof and mowing my lawn.
Reina says: Who the hell gives a rats ass about short guys. I totally ignore em pay them no mind whatsoever. There's nothing attractive about a man that you can tower over in heels. What am I dating a child? . . .
Hate Em says: I hate short guys. They are a nuisance to me. Usually short and annoying!
Juhleela says: I am 4'11" and have never been with a man under 5'10". My own father is no taller than 5'5" and even he tells me to stay away from short men. I wonder why (sarcasm)? I am just not attracted to short men. Not me, not ever.
Shall we go on?
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Do Short Men Stand a Chance?
By Heidi Muller
11/17/10
You were always the small guy of the bunch. You were the one who was chosen last in the basketball lineup. You were the one who was afraid he wouldn't get a date for the high school prom.
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What it means to be short
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We rounded up a group of girlfriends in order to determine if short men stand a chance; you may or may not be surprised with the results.
While Janine said, "As long as a man has a personality, his height doesn't matter," Stacey stated that "It's what a man does with his height that really counts."
Now read the comments section and find out what women really think about short men.
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Deskside
by Zachary Kanin
September 20, 2010
Short men in the United States are, some studies show, paid less than their taller peers. They are less likely to get hired for a job or receive a promotion, less likely to get elected President, and at a severe disadvantage in the height-obsessed world of dating. But perhaps the worst indignity is being forced to shop for clothes in the children’s department.
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So many indignities, but no one is crying for justice.
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Watchdog: Banning short men from Marriage agencies violates human dignity
The Malay Mail
BERNAMA
Wednesday, September 15th 2010 23:26:00
SEOUL: The human rights watchdog said Wednesday it is discriminatory for match making agencies to ban the membership of short men despite claims that such marriage seekers rarely succeed in tying the know, reports Yonhap News Agency.
The National Human rights Commission received a complaint last December from a South Korean man who had been rejected by two Seoul agencies for being too short at 1.58 meters.
The rights panel later discovered that the companies were only accepting applicants measuring 1.65 meters or more, allegedly because few female members wished to meet short men.
One of the agencies claimed that despite the policy, men shorter than 1.7 meters rarely made it to the altar.
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At least Korean men still have a pair.
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NOSSA Nincompoop Hamre on the Plight of Short Men: "I think it's a little better"
Would You Date A Short Guy? Take our Poll
Poor Rob.
Did you ever see the "short guy" 20/20? Ten or so years ago, the ABC news show decided to do a little studio test, The anchors presented women with lineups of men-five at a time-from which to choose a date. To boost the shortest contender's chances, they trumped him up with fake selling points. Rob, for example, 5-foot-3, was billed as an MD. When no one wanted to go out with him, the show added: bestselling author, champion skier, and chalet owner. Still, no takers. Stu, only 5 feet tall, fared worse. Although he was supposedly a multimillionaire at the age of 25, the women wouldn't go near him. (You've got to read the transcript.) Asked what it would take, one said, "Maybe if the other four were murderers."
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"It's still hard," Hamre, 41, says. . . . "But I think it's a little better."
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He isn't called, 'Luda'-Chris for nothing.
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Gulf Oil Disaster: Pensacola Beach
The tide came in Tuesday night, under a moon almost full, and when the sun came up and the water retreated there it was : a broken band of oil about 5 feet wide and 8 miles long.
It look like tobacco spit and smelled foreign, and it pooled in yesterday's ffootprints as far as you could see. State officials called it the worst show of crude on shore from the gusher 120 miles away. READ THE STORY: Oil blankets Pensacola Beach.
The Gulf oil situation is an unfolding tragedy and story. The City of Pensacola does figure a bit in the NOSSA saga. Wo do hope little Matt Campisi has found another lair. Way back in 2006 when the webmaster made complaints to two different state agencies about Matthew Campisi's website - www.nossaonline.org - in reference to fraudulent representation on the Internet and ingathering money under false pretenses, Matt Campisi "flew the coop" so-to-speak. At the time Campisi was an airport policeman at the Pensacola Florida Airport for several months when those complaints were filed. He promptly left the police to become a building inspector - of all things - in the same city. He did not last long as a building inspector either. Here's a link to the City of Pensacola website apparently indicating Campisi asking for his retirement contributions back from Pensacola's Finest. You'll note the date of November 8th, 2006 only a few weeks after the webmaster's complaints were filed. This website came online about a week before little Mattie made his plea for his money back from the Boys-in-Blue. The Matt Campisi story is quite an epic saga. Please watch for The NOSSA FILES.
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Gary Coleman's wife 'mocked his height and often called him stupid'
by DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 11:42 PM on 23rd June 2010
Gary Coleman's estranged wife Shannon Price ridiculed the child star during his final days and oftne called him 'stupid', it has beeen claimed.
The tragic Diff'rent Strokes actor, who died last month aged 42, was allegedly subjected to constant humiliation from his estranged spouse.
According to his former lawyer, Randy Kester, the pair slept in separate bedrooms in their Utah home after their relationship had soured to an alarmingly toxic degree.
Kester alleges that Miss Price, 24, would routinely make derogatory remarks about the 4'8" former child star in front of others.
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In this corner at 4'7" and 85 pounds - 'Gah-ree Coleman. And in this corner at 5'6" and 145 pounds Shah-none Price". Winner take all. And that's exactly what she's got in mind.
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Bracketed by Crimes: Van Der Sloot's Last 5 years
For Dutch murder suspect Van der Sloot, a five-year slide of world travel, poler and lies
By FRANK BAJAK Associated Press Writer
For all of his garrulous charm, Joran Van der Sloot didn't do himself any favors in his online interactions, where his generation tends to reveal a lot about itself. "If I would have to describe myself as an animal it would be a snake," he wrote on his YouTube page . . .
The reader should also know about the 5-year slide of another snake named Matthew Campisi. Incidentally, the resemblance between snakes is striking - except of course - in the height department.
Joran Vander Sloot
Matthew Campisi
Once again, the resemblance is amazing, except little Mattie can hide a bit more easily. However, Matthew Campisi cannot hide from the facts. The NOSSA FILES are coming.
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Joran Van Der Sloot: Most Eligible Bachelor?
By: MEGAN GIBSON June 22, 2010
Sounds like every girl's dream guy: he's tall; he's on the cover of newspapers around the world; he's confessed to, then denied, a murder. No wonder he's receiving love letters in prison.
Joran Van der sloot is claiming that he's been receiving letters from women who are eager to marry him. And this is despite the fact that 22-year-old has been charged with the brutal murder of Stephany Flores and is being investigated for the 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway.
"One of them even wants me to get her pregnant," he reportedly told Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf according to the AP.
Assuming van der Sloot is telling the truth (which, admittedly, isn't really a safe assumption) then someone should probably set these women straight. After all, some of the accusations made against him make the craziest contestants on The Bachelorette look downright sane.
Ladies, a word of advice - set the bar a little higher.
How much higher - 7'3"?
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Tall men don't get Labeled
June 21, 2010
Recently I happened to notice a photo of Joran Van der Sloot. What I saw was a tall guy. I didn't know exactly how tall though. You see, being the webmaster of the only website on the Internet that deals seriously with the prejudice of heightism I usually try to be on top of any situation pertaining to height, so I Google'd "How tall is Joran Van der Sloot?" I noticed that there seemed to be a lot of people asking the same question. It was like, "Oh he's sooo tall! I wonder how tall he is?" Some women seemed to have that sort of an attitude, you know, the "OH, he's soo tall", sort of attitude. I did a little searching and I found some articles where it was written that he was 6 feet or 6'1" or so. I didn't believe that. He looked much taller than that. I came across an article that stated, "Yahoo Answers says that Joran van der Sloot stands 6-1, but I'm going with the 6-3 estimate, based on photos."
No way I said.
I then found this article from Boston.com. The measuring wall behind him shows the top of his head to be a shade ABOVE 2.00 meters (I'm assuming that's meters). Two meters equals SIX FEET SIX AND THREE QUARTER INCHES, which rounded off becomes SIX FEET SEVEN INCHES. One thing I noticed in some of the articles that I found is that people seemed to be trying to make poor little Joran smaller than he really is. It's almost like, 'No, No, he can't be THAT TALL, tall men don't go around murdering women. Tall men are our role models. Tall men are our athletes. Why, I'll only date Tall men! Why poor little Joran is as tall as Peyton Manning! - No, Taller!! How dare they! Yep, everyone seems to be making him shorter. But the measuring tape doesn't lie. Think anyone will label tall men now? Don't bet on it.
Here's some more photos for you.
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/06/11/peru-sloot-holloway.html
http://www.livinginperu.com/news-12497-law-and-order-peru-joran-van-der-sloot-refuses-answer-court-interrogatory
http://www.ecanadanow.com/wp-content/up 