News flash: I like being short and many others here like being short. I have no problems being labelled "that short dude from the Bay Area" No problems at all (its actually a nice area with lots of opportunity and a diverse culture but the jesus the real-estate market is ridiculously expensive...but I digress.) My problem is not with being short, my problem is with the sentiment in our culture that short=bad,inferior,incapable,weak,unhealthy,un-masculine,etc. And nobody seems to stop and ask themselves if it is wrong to stigmatize short men at all. It is just seen as fact, like the many other stigmas in our history that we NOW find apprehensible. Why do we now find them apprehensible? Because someone eventually stood up and said ENOUGH with the lies and stereotyping. People don't see it for what it is: heightism, body shaming, and bigotry.

Sure I can take your advice, work hard and fight to be recognized for having the same skills as a man 7 inches taller than me, but ask yourself: why does this obstacle have to be in my way in the first place? Why is the deck automatically stacked against me (in careers and dating) for no other reason than the length of my bones? There is no justifiable reason in our post-industrialized world for tall men to be treated better than short men upon first meeting. Zero. And before you ask how I've become so jaded, it wasn't from reading this sub, it was from years of seeing this bullshit in real life.

Bettering yourself should be everyone's goal, regardless of height. What we're asking for as a sub (I believe) is for society to stop and ask why short men have to work harder at life in order to achieve the same rewards tall men often take for granted.

/rant.