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  • 5HT [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    and maybe being short hurts your chances of a relationship, but it does not affect at all professionally, or how people see you, etc.

    • TheDeed [he/him, comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      It definitely does affect you professionally. But being a short man is way less of a sentence than being an “ugly” woman

      • 5HT [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        yeah, so we agree. being short is not comparable, even if "incels" try to treat them equal.

        • TheDeed [he/him, comrade/them]
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          4 years ago

          Idk. I feel like I have a unique perspective. I have been both. I was an ugly “woman” before I transitioned, and I am now a 5ft tall man. I am not an incel, but I would say that the mockery and disrespect is comparable. But as you said, not entirely equal at all, definitely less as a man

          • 5HT [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            hmm maybe I'm biased from my experiences, and the short (professionally) successful people I know. Maybe they are comparable.

            Maybe we shouldn't be comparing at all.

    • PouncySilverkitten [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      I don’t think being short has had any great impact on my ability to have sex or a relationship, but then I’m gay, so that might have something to do with it. Yet it definitely hurts me somewhat professionally. People tend to assume I’m younger and for some people my height is a safe thing to make fun of. Still, most days it’s a minor irritation. There’s probably three or four guys at my workplace who are around my height. My boyfriend’s father is my height. Short men are normal.

      • TheDeed [he/him, comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        Yeah I literally had some greybeard client comment to me “oh I thought you were some whiz kid, you look like you’re in junior high” after getting jealous that I did something his old ass had no idea how to do, lol