i didn't even know this was possible actually. idk anything about it, my first thought was it seems dangerous but damn, kinda impressive though.
A Cosmetic fusion? Jesus Christ are these people fucked or something? They're literally cutting both his shin bones and femurs in half, joining them again with a titanium rod in between them, and using bone graft to grow new bone around the metal rod in the gap between the bones, to become one bone again. This is insanely painful, a full recovery takes a whole year, and it will always feel different.
I had my entire thoracic spine fused, and that was horrifying, can't imagine getting a fusion purely for cosmetic reasons.
Yeah this seems insanely invasive for a cosmetic surgery. I do feel bad for men who feel less valued for being shorter than average, but I can’t imagine going through something like this.
It's honestly probably worth it if you're like less than 5'2 or so. Being a genuinely short male in the United States seems like pure hell lol
This is some incel-adjacent shit. Being a short guy sucks in some ways but the amount it sucks is like a 3 and the amount this crazy invasive surgery sucks is like a 1000.
Nah, I am not that short but where I live you get people that short. It's fine.
You ever seen a 4'8" guy that is jacked? It'll change your goddamn life. I used to work with that guy and it was great
It’s not too bad tbh. Just keep fit and women don’t mind that much. Can suck at times but it’s not “pure hell” I hardly think about it.
I mean it can definitely suck. But not enough to break both of your legs on purpose and try grow more bone. If you have body image issues about height, you'll definitely have body image issues after the surgery, with all the scaring, your legs being out of proportion to your body, stretch marks, gaps in your bones until it heals, the intense pain and disruption of breaking both legs, etc.
So wait this only lengthens the shins? Everything else is still proportional to his height as a short dude? That just sounds like the end results are guaranteed to look goofy
It lengthens either the shins, femurs/upper leg, or both depending on the operation. And yes, if you add too much height in the operation you will look goofy. Like
:long-corbyn:
shortness is not a disease and no resources should be dedicated to 'solving' it
Meh, as long as it isn't overly invasive people should be able to control their bodies and how they look.
Cutting your femur in half is pretty fucking invasive though.
that is a condition that causes shortness, not shortness in-of-itself.
there's more important medical consequences for it too
Epstein would bring a ruler to parties and if you were too small you wouldn't be allowed into the elite.
https://www.livescience.com/3381-penile-extenders-work-doctors.html
I mean do you want titanium rods, screws and bone material in your dick? Also cutting the inside of your dick in half and regrowing material so it becomes one again inside? Because that's how they extended the person's leg.
Does the procedure come with a free bottle of bone hurting juice?
Extra strength. Plus muscle and tendon hurty juice. Since I dont think you would necessarily grow longer muscles... actually I can't imagine how your muscles woudl react to this.
I never trust a doctor who won't post hog if I ask him. I don't want to put my life in the hands on someone with something to hide.
You'd think the muscle tension would be so great after this that he would bump his shin on a shopping cart and his tibia and femur would shatter instantly lol
Holy shit that last line though, fucking really?:michael-laugh:
He went home to his incel forum after the surgery and immediately started posting "I just fucking mogged my 5 foot 7½ beta manlet doctor today, feels good being a 5 foot 8 gigachad"
First they need to give more men complexes about their heights. Make everyone believe the average male height is 6’5 and THEN sell them the bone stretching treatments
Pretty sure this was a movie plot line, gataca think? Where dude gets his leg bones sawed horizontally multiple times to force his bones to regrow new bone to reattach his internally severed legs?
I think its a movie plot line though, something like Gataka
yup! that was part of the plot, he also had to do other various things like wear a certain contact lens and plant hair to seem legit. it was a wild movie, i loved it
Do they do the arms too? Or does he just have disproportionately long legs now?
“99% of patients worldwide are operated on with external fixators, but I developed 33 years ago the only fully weight-bearing nail in the world at that time,”
Horrifying sentence.
"In the future, it’s probably going to be totally normal for people to get body modifications like cybernetic implants and stuff. At that time, getting longer legs is going to seem like a pretty mundane thing to do."
It is easier to imagine a world in which we completely subvert our anatomy than to imagine a world in which we accept and value our own and each other's differences.
Changing my tinder bio from "only guys over 5' 7"" to "only guys over 6'0""
I am short but I really wouldn't consider it. 5'5" to 5' 10 really isn't that big a change.
However if I was average hight I would. Cause to go from 5'7to 6' or even a little more is a big step. At that point people start reacting to you with pack instinct. Might even be worth the multiple thousands and risk of death.
When you get to that range people start reacting to people with increased reguard. Not enough to count on. But we still have our old monkey dna where we instinctivly thing bigger means more important.
Idk. As someone on the other side of this, I often wish I was much closer to the average so I wouldn't stand out so much.
Your preference is valid. Being increaseingly reguared can be unpleasant.
It's not a preference. I wouldn't shorten myself even if it were gratis and complication-free. I like my body. It is a remarkably good body.
It's just a matter of "the grass is always greener on the other side".
Nah, not exactly. As a male presenting person tall people do better in our society. They on average get paid more. People rate them as more likeable. If you are tall enough you can simply get jobs for being tall. To stretch a metaphor it is the male equalivant of having big badonkers.
I have no ability to make a controlled comparison because I have never been a height that wasn't noticeable.
At any rate, there are a lot of factors outside my control that have much more of an impact on my life than height. White-passing skin (~2x as much impact), family SES (~3x), mental disorders (~5x), maybe more.
