Submitted 3 weeks ago by Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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I’m 165cm (5’4")
Everything I say is a short guy thing to say
I can’t believe so many men are insecure about being me. I’m me and it’s pretty damn cool. The feeling of fresh grass on my chin in the spring… the cover of mushrooms when it rains… the company of leprechauns… I see only pros and no cons
Ya but I bet you’ve never felt the abrupt bliss of donking your head on a doorframe.
That dude doesn’t even know the pleasure of having his knees jammed into the seat in front of him on a plane.
I’m 6’3 and tall to most people, but fit under most doors just fine.
Basement stairs can fuck right off though I’ve done that lotsa times and it managed to be a surprising painful thing every time.
Also I think I’d laugh if someone said and if the short guy things to me, I get called things like string bean and “big guy” by bros who don’t know me.
Does it count if you’re running into a vehicle side mirror instead of a doorframe?
Lol. But here, have some actually great benefits I wish I had:
But there are also benefits…like having a better oversight over crowds and. Err…yes.
Here’s more benefits:
Wait, what was the topic again?
Another benefit is slightly longer lifespan as the heart doesn’t need to work as hard for blood to travel as much distance.
You missed the “everyone thinks you are there just to reach things for them”. Women in particular seem to feel entitled to my reach. The few men that ask are either walking with a cane or sitting in a wheelchair.
Even my Wife, 5"4"/163cm has no problem interrupting me from whatever I’m doing to reach things for her. Despite having 3 step stools in the house just for her.
But if it gets to be too much of a hassle and pisses me off, I start asking her to pick things up off the floor for me because she’s closer to it. She then has a fit because I’m making fun of her height, and then she stops asking me-- for a while.
That’s such a short guy thing to say.
No cons except leprechauns.
That’s very big of you!
You learn to cope or you get mad. I’m glad you coped with being Frodo’s brother.
I don’t think a lot of men are insecure about 5’4. I think it’s more the 5’7 to 5’11 guys that are insecure. Better to be abnormally short than average.
In other words, “be a dick to somebody and watch them get angry.” Not sure why that’s gendered.
Also, most of this is promoting toxic masculinity, so if it’s supposed to have a quasi-feminist undertone, it’s not doing it right.
I’m so glad I’m not short. Short guys just get shit on so much. Been at parties where someone just out of nowhere says “You’d be hot if you wasn’t short”. Like imagine that for anything else “you’d be hot if you wasn’t black”. “You’d be hot if you wasn’t in a wheelchair” just getting shit on for genetics.
Same girls also cry murder if somebody says something about a fat girl, which is in their control.
Own yourself, short king, and people will be drawn to you like magic. It’s not confidence, it’s loving and accepting yourself. That’s all.
Anyone so shallow that they would judge you by your height is someone you don’t want be involved with. As soon as you get to know someone, their appearance ceases to matter and all that is left is the human being underneath. Consider those situations bullets dodged.
As a short dude myself I wish this were true. I’m confident and have accepted my fate. Yet even when I thought we were grooving and clearly compatible I’d still get hit with “sorry you’re not tall enough,” even when she was like 5’0. I don’t know how the hell I got lucky to get my wife, but she’s clearly the exception not the norm.
I don’t care about being short. The hypocrisy pisses me off. At least you can do something about being fat.
I mean yea.
But we need to accept life is harder for short guys. If you just want to get laid, harder. If you want a promotion, harder. If you want to be treated nicer, harder.
All those things you said help and are good. But not not pretend hightism doesn’t exist.
‘There is a form socially acceptable discrimination against a subset of people based around a fundamental intrinsic element of themselves that they are totally incapable of changing.’
‘Chin up, be strong, don’t let the bastards get you down!’
Oh so … not a situation where we maybe need or could benefit from a serious society-wide discussion of this problem, the solution to this form of bigotry is uh… its a personal responsibility.
Got it.
Uh-oh! Is that gendered double-standarts? Nah, must have been the wind.
Yeah, my idea of being a ‘man’ includes the part where you wingman for your shorter buddies.
Some chick (or dude, or w/e if your bro is amenable) comes on to you at a bar?
Chat them up a bit, introduce them to your unironically very cool and awesome shorter friend, tell them a story about the one time he made you look like an idiot, etc.
Call it anti-chad type bro behvaior, I dunno.
Like, to me, thats what ‘Bros before Hoes’ means.
It means you don’t personally scour the field yourself, there has to be some sense of equity.
Don’t make the problem worse, instead, try to be part of the solution.
I don’t understand the need for hating on short men and body shaming. We should come together to hate on men for their character.
You wouldn’t get it
YoU wOUldN’T gEt It
Went over his head, poor little guy.
It’s their idea of what a facist looks like while ignoring the fact that Trump is pretty big.
So be a cunt to someone for no reason pisses them off?
I mean, that is the definition of ragebaiting
I think rage baiting requires some degree of deniability and subterfuge. The “[normal question] if you were athletic?” is a good example. The ones that are just “Shut up short man” are too crass
That’s such a short guy thing to say
Reads like what someone thought would rage bait someone else
Right
act your hair
The water was cold!
You wouldn’t get it
Just tweens being tweens
‘Things you should say if you want everyone to know you’re rage-baiting shit disturber’.
This kinda reads as a list of things an obviously butthurt person would say
A chunk of them would just be pretty hilarious to say to me as an obviously big guy
I just don’t understand why men don’t do fun things with their beards like the 1800s
like c’mon you’re telling me you DONT want to shave it into giant kitty whiskers?!?! BOOOORING :/
The world was just not ready
Heart shapes at the very least!
I KNOW RIGHT??
Okay buddy
HAVE YOU CONSIDERED IF I CALLED WOMEN FAT
If he’s at the bottom of the dogpile maybe.
Jimmy?
Huh
I love how OP restricted themselves to only respond in the mentioned phrases and how some have quite the reaction. Got me rolling.
Ok buddy
Relax, it’s not that deep
“How to have a bad personality and gain toxic friends, a guide for neglected children”
Ok?
Why though? Isn’t there enough misery and shittiness in the world as is? Why stoke the hostility?
For fun?
You wouldn’t get it.
Sounds more like a list of things someone might be rage baited into saying
idk if i’m built different but i’d laugh at all of these bc they got me good. except sometimes i would answer to the feelings thing with “yes, that hurt” or some shit like that.
Never change
I just feel extra autistic since I don’t understand why’d you react emotionally to any of those. Who cares if some random moron insults you? Especially if it’s online
I’m actually a little surprised at the reactions in this thread. When I read this, I was thinking of my husband and friends I could casually drop these lines on, and it’s something we’d all laugh about. I guess I just wasn’t thinking of someone using any of these lines sincerely or maliciously, and idk I didnt get the vibe that OP is just a straight cunt that hates men. But I could be totally wrong.
At any rate, somewhere in the thread below, u/wonderingwanderer created an alternate woman ragebait list, and that shit was hilarious as well. My personal favorite was “Act your weight”.
I don’t know chippy, but I don’t get that vibe either. I can tell you that wanderingwonderer is known for throwing a tantrum every time men come up in conversation, so :shrug:
Was act your weight at the bottom of that list? That is fucked up. xD
I vote we make “big truck energy” the opposite of “big dick energy”. Like: “you’re giving real big truck energy right now.”
hey so I dont like trucks either but why are we measuring Penises?
I love a cool lifted truck, has nothing to do with my penis size. Also can’t afford one so I’ll never own one anyway.
Personally I’d go with ‘big truck nutz energy’, to mean ‘extreme insecurity leading to comical levels of overcompensation’.
Like really, how much of an ashamed fucking dingus do you have to be to put big ole silicone balls on your trailer hitch?
Basically guarnatees you never actually use the hitch either.
Randomly say “stop mansplaining!” in the middle of a conversation.
rEpEaTiNg WhAt ThEy SaY iN a NeRdY vOiCe
“Jesus, is it your time of the month!?”
“Awwww! Your truck/motorcycle is adorable!”
“Shhhhh…”
What would you post if you were a real shit poster?
My replies, just for funsies.
The number of responses in this thread that sound emotional is making me feel big and strong
I find the word Champ to be wonderfully patronizing.
“What’s got you down, Champ?”
OP is Edward Eldrich
You’d better be at least 6’7" before saying most of that to me since it won’t make any sense otherwise. But joke’s on you anyway since I’d just fall in love
uhhh probably football or baseball
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ok pal
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Nah the height ones don’t work when you have to look up to look me in the eyes.
Wait, “you sound emotional” is bad how?
gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
This is such a short guy thing to post.
Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Okay buddy
Dojan@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Did you think apartment would change your hair?