Stayin' Alive wrote:
In the 70s there was a much cheaper solution. Remember platform shoes?
They still have them. I tried them once and felt weird. I'd rather just stick with regular shoes.
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Steve The Addict OFFICIAL -----^^^^^ wrote:
Yes it is a first world problem. The exact problem is COMPARISON. Social media exacerbates this as does commercials in the media and television. That's because most commercials are for products and these products imply the subtle message that something is wrong with you and you have to fix it to be ideal or normal. What a sad society we live in, full of anxiety, toxic compairson and manufactured problems.
I see this in the Columbus running group I'm in. Very 100% accurate!
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Everydog wrote:
Being beautiful is everything, just ask Amber Heard and Johnny Depp.
Supposedly short people earn less and are passed over for promotions/leadership more.
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bartholomew_maxwell wrote:
bladerunner wrote:
A lot of second guessing this man's decision. As a short person myself (5'7"), there are a lot of people who never you take you seriously. Most women want nothing to do with you and in a business setting, you are treated with less respect. In fact, I would venture to guess that men under 5'9" are completely filtered out of most female searches on dating apps.
If I were 20 years younger, I would consider this. Although, the story does not talk about the long term effects of the procedure. Can you resume normal athletic endeavors? Is the strength of the femur forever compromised? The price is cheap enough. It's just 25k an inch. Not bad.
That's a big fat lie. In business settings, people respect your power more than your height when you have a big power differential. If you're just starting out then maybe it will be difficult. But if you're a 5'5 CEO in a room of lower paid execs from your own company you're going to be treated with deference.
Height isn't everything. Some smaller people makeup for it by projecting their voices more. There are just too many variables involved in human interactions to boil it down to one thing like height. Life is more nuanced.
In football settings, I coached at Northland HS in Columbus. I was shorter than all the other players but just did my thing and the players respected me. I knew I didn't know jack, and that alone will get you credibility with players.
One guy at a Browns tailgate I knew, who tried to get me into healthcare, said I'd fail because I was short and nobody would help me with my career. This was in 2016. But I'm farther along now than he ever thought. He now lives in Tampa and is divorced, dropped out of OSU as well. GO BLUE!
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weird scientist wrote:
Everydog wrote:
Being beautiful is everything, just ask Amber Heard and Johnny Depp.
Supposedly short people earn less and are passed over for promotions/leadership more.
Jeff Bezos height - 5'7
Bill Gates - 5'10
Zuckerberg - 5'7
Musk - 5'11
Jack Dorsey - 5'11
1. Larry Ellison of the United States: 6′ 3″
2. Bernard Arnault of France: 6′ 1″
3. Larry Page of the United States: 5′ 11″
4. Bill Gates of the United States: 5′ 10″
5. Warren Buffet of the United States: 5′ 10″
6. Carlos Slim of Mexico: 5′ 8″
7. Amancio Ortega of Spain: 5′ 8″
8. Michael Bloomberg of the United States: 5′ 8″
9. Mark Zuckerberg of the United States: 5′ 7″
10. Jeff Bezos of the United States: 5′ 7″22 -
weird scientist wrote:
Everydog wrote:
Being beautiful is everything, just ask Amber Heard and Johnny Depp.
Supposedly short people earn less and are passed over for promotions/leadership more.
I guess the exception would be those who start their own companies like 5'7 Zuck and 5'7 Bezos. But in general this rule is probably true for every other business.
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@fartholemew wrote:
"That's a big fat lie. In business settings, people respect your power
more than your height when you have a big power differential. If you're
just starting out then maybe it will be difficult. But if you're a 5'5
CEO in a room of lower paid execs from your own company you're going to
be treated with deference.
Height isn't everything. Some smaller
people makeup for it by projecting their voices more. There are just too
many variables involved in human interactions to boil it down to one
thing like height. Life is more nuanced."You just can't help being wrong all the time, eh?
For both men and women, the relationship is striking: a
one-inch increase in height is associated on average with a 1.4 percent
to 2.9 percent increase in weekly earnings, and a 1.0 percent to 2.3
percent increase in average hourly earnings.That's interesting, but it's such a small increase and how big is the sample size? I read through the entire article and understood some of the deviations but I didn't see (the amount of subjects tested was = x).
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I'm surprised nobody posted this.01
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Not to fat shame, but I have some overweight female friends who are all like I want a tall dude but then all get upset when someone turns them down for their weight or not being blonde or whatever. Call me a bad friend, but it's just ridiculous.
Personally, I'm 5'7" female and I would happily be with someone around my height. I dated someone shorter, but he gave me an STD so ... He had a ton of confidence, that's how he got around.
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when keeping it real goes wrong ... wrote:
Not to fat shame, but I have some overweight female friends who are all like I want a tall dude but then all get upset when someone turns them down for their weight or not being blonde or whatever. Call me a bad friend, but it's just ridiculous.
Personally, I'm 5'7" female and I would happily be with someone around my height. I dated someone shorter, but he gave me an STD so ... He had a ton of confidence, that's how he got around.
Some men fetishize the women in the relationship being bigger and taller. Just as some guys want BBW's or amazons. To some 5'5 guys, a 6'0 woman would be their fantasy girl.
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I disagree at least from my perspective and the company I work for. 75% of our upper level executives are 6'-6'6"...which most would consider quite tall. I've seen and of them all climb the ladder from their younger years as many of them were moved up (asked to take positions before they had appropriate qualifications) into higher level positions. Yes I believe there is definitely a bias towards taller people as being more powerful. I have also seen this with people that appear older (balding, larger/out of shape, beards). Ex.) I have a coworker who is 5 years younger than me but is heavier, balding, taller and has chosen to have a beard. I (33) take care of myself, have hair, and stay in shape and get categorized as being much younger than him. It is very noticeable how people treat him as compared to me being that we are in the same career level.
However, surgery to become taller is absurd and entirely unnatural. It is very comparable to boob jobs. I enjoy that female asset as much as the next guy. But getting surgery to make them bigger or shaped different for "looks" is a total turnoff. Hopefully it would translate for a woman if she starts dating a guy and finds out he spent that much money just to be a few inches taller. BUT I understand there are a lot of shallow humans out there.
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There are a lot of youtube videos on the subject. It seems a major problem can be flexibility. If you make your femur 3 inches longer, then your hamstrings are going to be a little stiff. So you need to be young so that you have a chance to increase your flexibility to adapt to the longer bone. I guess I won't do it. I'll just walk on my tip toes.
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EhThere wrote:
I disagree at least from my perspective and the company I work for. 75% of our upper level executives are 6'-6'6"...which most would consider quite tall. I've seen and of them all climb the ladder from their younger years as many of them were moved up (asked to take positions before they had appropriate qualifications) into higher level positions. Yes I believe there is definitely a bias towards taller people as being more powerful. I have also seen this with people that appear older (balding, larger/out of shape, beards). Ex.) I have a coworker who is 5 years younger than me but is heavier, balding, taller and has chosen to have a beard. I (33) take care of myself, have hair, and stay in shape and get categorized as being much younger than him. It is very noticeable how people treat him as compared to me being that we are in the same career level.
However, surgery to become taller is absurd and entirely unnatural. It is very comparable to boob jobs. I enjoy that female asset as much as the next guy. But getting surgery to make them bigger or shaped different for "looks" is a total turnoff. Hopefully it would translate for a woman if she starts dating a guy and finds out he spent that much money just to be a few inches taller. BUT I understand there are a lot of shallow humans out there.
on a more primal level the guy who appears older (balding, larger/out of shape, with beards) may be viewed as wiser with better judgment so it makes sense. That person can be seen as the counterbalance for the young strapping individuals who are promoted to the top. You have to have some wisdom up there to keep things under control.
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weird scientist wrote:
Everydog wrote:
Being beautiful is everything, just ask Amber Heard and Johnny Depp.
Supposedly short people earn less and are passed over for promotions/leadership more.
They are, and with good reason.
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bartholomew_maxwell wrote:
@fartholemew wrote:
"That's a big fat lie. In business settings, people respect your power
more than your height when you have a big power differential. If you're
just starting out then maybe it will be difficult. But if you're a 5'5
CEO in a room of lower paid execs from your own company you're going to
be treated with deference.
Height isn't everything. Some smaller
people makeup for it by projecting their voices more. There are just too
many variables involved in human interactions to boil it down to one
thing like height. Life is more nuanced."You just can't help being wrong all the time, eh?
For both men and women, the relationship is striking: a
one-inch increase in height is associated on average with a 1.4 percent
to 2.9 percent increase in weekly earnings, and a 1.0 percent to 2.3
percent increase in average hourly earnings.Dude what's your problem? You're such a disease.
And you constantly whining and complaining isn't a disease?
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I thought this was another thread about gender reassignment surgeries. Someone who is short as a man can be quite tall as a woman.
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My wife's cousin is the department head for Pediatric Endocrinology at a very well known university medical school and hospital. He has difficulty with parents who want all kinds of surgery for their "short" offspring - and there are crazy procedures available. His point to these parents is that the kids are no happier after the procedures, and sees little benefit to their quest for surgical procedures. 5"7? Really? Doesn't make sense to me.
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rogermortimer wrote:
My wife's cousin is the department head for Pediatric Endocrinology at a very well known university medical school and hospital. He has difficulty with parents who want all kinds of surgery for their "short" offspring - and there are crazy procedures available. His point to these parents is that the kids are no happier after the procedures, and sees little benefit to their quest for surgical procedures. 5"7? Really? Doesn't make sense to me.
Being small is not worth the stigmas associated with it. Think this guy is having any problems just because he's small? Women look like amazon goddesses from his perspective.
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