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Nettie
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Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 | 08:54 AM
Did you also know that it's more common for short men to pee in the shower. Of course, tall men also can pee in the shower and short men can choose not to pee in the shower and middle height men can choose either way, depending on if they're having a short day or a tall day... |
Rochelle
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Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 | 09:31 AM
That article is written strangely. lol
However an explanation for the suicide rate could be that short men are discriminated against. They have a hard time with relationships because many women will not date someone shorter than themselves. They are often not taken seriously because they look more "cute" than "macho," which among other things makes them less likely to be promoted in their jobs. I can see this adding up to a high suicide rate. |
Maegan
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Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 | 10:19 AM
I know a lot of men, too, who have the SGS (Short Guy Syndrome). They tend to bulk up at the gym, in order to appear larger. They are also generally assholes, b/c they think a big attitude will help with their height.
I would not date a man shorter than myself. |
Boo
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Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 | 11:52 AM
Nor would I, Maeg, but then I'm a lot littler than you.
I note they said 5'9" was the average. So any man under that height would count as short. But I'd imagine that there's a huge difference in self-esteem (if you were the type of guy to care about that) between being five feet tall, and five feet and eight inches tall. |
Maegan
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Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 | 03:41 PM
I know my dad always says, "almost 6ft", but he's actually 5' 10". |
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Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 | 08:18 PM
Hmm... Im 6'4" and don |
Mark-N-Isa
in Midwest USA
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Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 | 09:50 PM
Except that they're too short to get their leg up and over the terrace railing!!!
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Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 | 09:57 AM
The height of the men also might have nothing to do with the suicides. Any time you divide up people into two groups by some activity or characteristic, you'll find that the people in each group have many other characteristics in common with each other but different than the other group. Most of the men in one group might also put milk in their tea, while most of those in the other don't. That doesn't mean that it has any link to the subject of the study. |
Maegan
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Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 | 12:40 PM
I bet short men use less milk. |
Citizen Premier
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Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 | 09:10 AM
Aha! So that explains the high suicide rates in Japan! |
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Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 | 09:11 AM
I wonder if college students are shorter than most people, too... |
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Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 | 09:23 AM
Accipter, do you know the Latin phrase that means "after which, therefore because of?" I should know it, I studied Latin, but I don't. |
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Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 | 06:40 PM
Um. . .as far as I can tell (my Latin's a little rusty, too, so I may have gotten the declensions wrong), that would translate as "post quod, ergo propter" or "post quod, ergo ob". |
D F Stuckey
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Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 | 11:50 PM
maegan et al, replace "short men" with "obese women" in all of your previous statements and repeat them.
Now, don't they sound rather derogatory? Not that I'm saying you meant to be rude, but it's just that you are showing social conditioning toward a particular bias. Surely, if a person was menatlly compatible, it wouldn't matter to a well-adjusted person waht size they were, would it?
But then, my bias is that I'm repulsive looking and 167.5cms tall. |
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Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 | 06:46 AM
Maybe they should say "being inadequate linked to suicide." |
Maegan
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Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 | 03:49 PM
D F, *I* didn't make up the study. Someone else did. If it was derogatory - it's because someone else created it.
Yould could also replace "short men" with "blonde men" or "asian women" or "purple Vulcans".
But the study wasn't about any of those types of people. It was about their HEIGHT. Men's height in particular. |
Rochelle
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Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 | 07:29 PM
Maegan, I believe Stuckey was referring to the short jokes and probably also your assumption that those short men you know are assholes because they are short. I also found it derogatory.
I don't want to lecture, but I deal with short jokes and rude comments every day and it really aggravates me that it's still socially acceptable to make fun of short people.
I'm not making an attack against anyone, just pointing out that you're all being a little less than tactful. |
Boo
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Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 | 07:56 PM
I have to agree (I'm biased, I know, because my husband is a smidge under 5'9", and so, by this study, short).
Echoing Rochelle here, in that I too don't mean to attack anyone, but it annoyed me too. |
D F Stuckey
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Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 | 11:45 PM
Thank you, Rochelle,for picking up on what I was trying to say in my aggreviously clumsy manner. Though the study itslef is not derogatory, Maegan's follow-up comments were and I merely tried to bring that to "her" attention.
Perhaps Maegan is an imposter as to gender, as I cannot believe a woman would lack the wit, subltly and intellect to see the point I was making. |
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Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 | 01:41 AM
D F Stuckey, you are a sexist prick.
That felt good. But I take it back. |
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