• MintyFresh@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    Being tall sucks. I’m a dude and 6’6, if I could trade in for a normal sized body I’d do it in a heartbeat.

    People are still dicks. Women don’t fall from heaven onto my dick. I don’t fit in cars, forget about flying. Finding clothes sucks ass. All furniture the world is child sized.

    I can find people in a crowd though, for what’s that worth…

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      4 hours ago

      The world is not child sized. I believe you when you say being tall suck. I am 1,5m, something like 4"11. So, the size of a child. I fit in cars, but I need a cushion. Lot of counters are so high that only my head sticks out. Finding clothes sucks too. My feet often don’t touch the ground when I’m seating on an adult chair. I have to climb so much things. I can’t reach all my shelves, even with a stool. Sometimes, sinks are a little too high.

      I’m absolutely ok with my size, and I really think being small is easier than being really tall, but the world is not made for people my size. Really not.

      • Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        3 hours ago

        As a 5’1" person, who, I’ve watched all the women in my family shrink with age, so I likely will too, I empathize with this statement.

        The cabinet above the refrigerator in my home is empty. I cannot reach it even with a stool. I send my son up on the counter go get stuff from the top shelf for me. My feet also hang from many a chair. As a child, all my pants had to go to the seamstress to be hemmed. I remember finding a pair of capris pants in middle school, not realizing they were capris, and just being excited the length was right for pants on me. My mother used a cushion in her car as far back as I can remember, and I’m greatful new cars have more seating settings so I don’t have to do that.

        The best positive is I can buy child sized shoes and save a buck. But I do enjoy being short overall. I’d rather be short than so tall. But yeah, the world is made for the middle height people. Folks on either ends of the height scale have to make accommodations.

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      4 hours ago

      Heey 6"6 here too, with slight back pain.

      Nothing is made for us, socks, dispensers, ceilings, you name it.

      Fun fact: in Sweden where I grew up, I was considered ‘too tall’, men shouldn’t be over 1m86-ish.

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        3 hours ago

        Can’t design society around extremes…

        Everyone hates avg but being 160-180cm is the sweet spot for both me and women lol

        And these people just don’t get the struggle because the world is made for their side lol

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          2 hours ago

          No one asked society to be “designed around extremes” lol, make place for everyone IMO!

          Your height range is bullshit too, and not even what people “look for”, sweet spot pulled out of your behind lol.

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      18 hours ago

      the world is child sized.

      This is sort of what short men’s insecurities are rooted in.

      Short people get infantilised to a degree which makes them feel less manly, which drives negative behaviours (short man syndrome?) and reinforces their insecurities as they fall into a sort of incel ideology.

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        15 hours ago

        So because I can’t find a pair of pants tall enough without ordering it online I’m responsible for short mens’ insecurities?

        No wonder the world is a shitshow right now

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          15 hours ago

          The way language is used shapes perceptions and insecurities, there are ways to frame your struggles that don’t denigrate others but my critisicm wasn’t levelled at yourself.

          Its a societal issue and one that overwhelming affects young men. Those young men then look for solutions and fall into the easy trap of the ‘manosphere’ which preys on their insecurities and shows them a sort of toxic ‘success’.

          There’s a reason all the far right rallies are full of manlets and overweight slobs. They’re vulnerable to the messaging and driven in that direction by a society that rejects them.

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            15 hours ago

            Yeah no that was caused by 3rd wave feminists giving the rancid tumor of gamergate legitimacy by addressing it across every fuckdamn channel shaming boys for liking boobs in video games

            You speak in sweeping generalizations about human nature but seem to ignore the actual historical facts of the situation. Those posts and campaigns were made by people, decided by individuals, with the express purpose of marginalizing young men. THE EXPRESS PURPOSE. They literally stated it in their charters

            Young men are severely disenfranchised in the modern world and certain specific repugnican social agents including Steve Bannon capitalized on this economic and social disenfranchization to devastating effect and positioned them to take heat from the screaming bluehaired lesbian committee instead of the actual deceitful organizers that planned the harassment campaigns.

            From the mid 00-s to 2014 the entire web was flooded with misogynistic vitriol and calls of violence towards men as 3rd wave feminists finally got their chance to oppress. Mens social safety nets are orders of magnitude less robust than what are established for women. This made fertile ground for discontent that Bannon reaped with his conspiracy theory carousel.

            And the WORST part is that ALL of you blame it on ‘fat incel manlets’ when the majority of them are just normal guys tired of being told they are inherently evil for liking big tits on a video game character, and being directly manipulated by a fascist con-man to get his favorite baby raper elected

            And every fucking one of you fell for it, hell you are even yourself echoing the same hateful speech that was used to radicalize them

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              The analysis ain’t wrong but you can’t expect the normies to understand it…

              Also, this is a culture war and you still playing it.

              I don’t you see calling out the real culprit here either…

              Is there a specific reason why you are giving paasites a pass while doing a culture war circle jerk?

              Are you a useful idiot or poorly educated?