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Height Linked to Suicide
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Posted By:
Maegan
in Tampa, FL - USA
Jul 26, 2005
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Warning: Might be a tad morbid
This came out of Sweden, like another link I put up recently - maybe there should be a study conducted about studies conducted by Swedish researchers. Winters getting too long, guys?
Height and Suicide Study
An excerpt:
Swedish researchers say short men may have a higher risk of suicide.
"We found a twofold higher risk of suicide in short men than tall men," they write in the American Journal of Psychiatry.
Of course, short men can live healthy, rewarding lives with no suicidal designs. Tall men and those of average height can also commit suicide.
Researchers working on the study included Finn Rasmussen, MD, PhD. Rasmussen is an associate professor in the public health sciences department of Sweden's Karolinska Institute.
It seems what they are saying is "men can commit suicide". Maybe it's just easier for a short guys feet to dangle in hanging incidents!
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Citizen Premier
in spite of public outcry
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Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 | 01:46 AM
"Post hoc ergo propter hoc" was the actual phrase I found when I bothered to look it up. It's a line of reasoning we see a lot in the "believers" that come to the forum. I think I'll call it PHEPH for short. |
Maegan
in Tampa, FL - USA
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Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 | 07:42 AM
Hey, can I help it if all the short men I know ARE jerks?? I come from a family of tallish men - since they're my family, they're probably nicer to me than to the general public. For all I know they're Royal Jerks (wait, did I just insult royalty??). The SHORT men - and by short I mean about 5'6" and under, have ALWAYS been rude to me. Is it b/c I'm tall? Are they jealous, so they feel the need to try and belittle me and intimidate me with the broadness of their shoulders or the thickness of their arms??
I'm not heightist, I was making an observation. And obese women are not rude to me, and do not call me a bitch when they hit on me and I politely decline their invitations (well, come to think of it, I've never been hit on by an obese woman).
And I have plenty of people bother me about my height as well. How's the weather up there? You must be really good at basketball. And I'm not even that TALL. Most guys have been intimidated by my height, and instead of thinking of me as a real person, I'm just an Amazon.
So, I'm sure that everyone has had SOMETHING about them that the public belittles or makes fun of. I didn't mean to offend anyone on this site, and I'm sorry if my comments came out as such. (Well, only sorry that someone took offense, not sorry that I said it.)
I try not to take things terribly personally - and I like I said, I was making an observation of the men I KNOW. Most of these men are also military, does it mean that all of the military is short, or rude? No. It just means that short people seem to have had bad representation. |
Fight or Flight
in scott, AZ
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Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 | 09:52 AM
megan:
I'm 5'8 and a male, I think the reason people are getting upset is because you did say "all short men are jerks" and that we try to overcompensate by hitting the gym?? As a short man I know what it's like to have women laugh at me, and get disrespected by other men. Short man syndrome? That's unfair, you get ridiculed and rejected because of a physical characteristic you can't change and then the first sign of frustration you display is turned into "Little man syndrome". Tall men that act like jerks are simply called "jerks". Short men are given a syndrome. The fact is short is considered a negative, which is why other negative's are linked to it.
The thing is, I can't change my height, and as a man I will always be judged heavily for it (like I did something wrong to cause my shortness??) so please don't add insult to injury by making such sweeping statements. |
Observer
in New York, NY
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Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 | 09:57 AM
Short men are useless and complete wastes of humanity. I'm 6'4 and I'm glad to hear short guys are offing themselves. It's a genetic flaw, like being ugly, or gay. We need to clean up the gene pool.
Megan: We should get together, pump out some tall (better) kids. =) |
DFSTuckey
in Auckland New Zealand
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Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 | 03:39 PM
As an addition to this, a report has come form China that many men and not a few women who work in China's new foreign trading companies are finding that, in order to get recognition and promotion, they need to be taller; So they are lining up for the femur-lengthening procedure sometimes used in the West on dwarfish children, or those with uneven legs.
Simplified, this involves cutting the femur bone, then attaching a scaffold of external braces that can be extended slowly to encourage the bone to grow a new section in the cut thus lengthening the bone and since the femur accounts for 60% of human height, the patient grows taller by up to 10cms. the procedure takes months of course, and is very expensive; However, like bust enhancement, people believe that it works to improve their image.
Oh, and as an aside; The genes controlling height in children are carried on the mother's side. A tall mother makes her children tall, but only if the male line carries no recessive short genes. And sadly, many visually purebred Aryans may have recessives.  |
JohnnyBoy
in Canada
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Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 | 04:19 PM
Why do people say stuff like that "all short men are jerks" seriously I know many short men who are not jerks my math teacher is only 5'6 and he's very nice guy and also very smart.My guitar teacher is 5'6 and he's a very nice guy, a professional at music and he's not even marriade.Then my sister are both with shorter than average guys, ones with a guy who's 5'5-ish, and the other guy is 5'8, and they're also some of the nicest guys you'd ever meet unlike the other guys they dated before who seemed to be assholes who all they wanted to do was use them and cheat on them and then I got a cousin who is with some dude who is over 40 years old and he's 6'1 and he's a complete jerk who talks smack all the time and drinks heavily and yells at her.So Meagan I don't know what the hell you're talking about. |
JohnnyBoy
in Canada
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Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 | 04:27 PM
Oh yeah and Fight Or Flight you're not even really short the average height for a man is 5'9 so you're just an inch below average, I find it rediculous ifmake people fun of you for being "short" I mean that doesn't even make much sense.Tell me something if you see a girl who is 5'5 (an inch above the average height for a woman which is 5'4) do you think she's "tall" answer:NO!, so how isn't that any different as to calling some guy who's an inch below average height "short"? |
oyna
in newyork
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Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 | 02:54 AM
you'll find that the people in each group have many other characteristics in common with each other but different than the other group |
oyunlar
in york
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Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 | 01:37 PM
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. |
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