This is such a short guy thing to post.
Okay buddy
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.
Does it count if you’re running into a vehicle side mirror instead of a doorframe?
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.
have you ever been to europe?
Yes. In Spain I’m a giant and in the Netherlands I’m a dwarflet.
I meant door frames of very old buildings
That’s such a short guy thing to say.
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.
Relax, it’s not that deep.
I’m sure if someone made the same post about women it would be a totally different story…
It’s probably hard always being wrong.
Really? You don’t think so. Okay, let’s try an experiment
(Disclaimer: the following statements do not reflect the views or opinions of the author)
how to rage bait a woman
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“what would you make for dinner if you could cook?”
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“whatever makes you feel independent and empowered!”
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“huh”…“huh”…“huh”…
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repeat what they say with a nerdy voice
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“Relax, it’s not that deep.”
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“You wouldn’t get it.”
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“That’s such a fat chick thing to say.”
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“ok buddy”
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“it’s probably hard always being wrong”
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“your time of the month huh?”
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“whatever helps you sleep at night”
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“Do things normally work out for you when you do that?”
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“You sound emotional right now.”
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“Act your weight”
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“Did you think abt changing your hair?”
There. Is the blatant sexism obvious enough yet? Or is that only acceptable when it’s directed at men?
Act your weight is crazy lmao
So is “Act your height”
Do you see the parallel?
Yes of course its just so funny to imagine someone saying either of these things sincerely
You wouldn’t get it
You apparently don’t…
It’s wild that through all these replies you somehow haven’t realized that people are just saying things off the list to you…
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Have you ever noticed that people who are “always wrong” are seldom bothered by that fact?
Ok buddy
Whatever makes you feel big and strong!
Or funny
Haha, there it is
Woop, someone who isn’t okay with a double-standard! I guess a “RealMan™” would take it on the chin and not be offended, right? Don’t worry, just be okay with being walked on like a fucking doormat, and if you get upset about it we’ll just use that as ammunition to demean you even more! And if we push you past your psychological breaking point then we’ll all act shocked and call you aggressive and wonder “How could this happen?”
Blame the individual for the inevitable consequences of a societal outlook. And if it starts happening with millions of individuals then we’ll just blame them all as individuals because they must be fundamentally and inherently flawed, and not just psychologically damaged by constant bullying and ostracization.
Oh, but it’s not victim blaming when the victim is a man, right? “If you got bullied, what did you do to deserve it?” “Maybe if you dressed like a normal person people wouldn’t pick on you so much.” “People can sense a pushover, just have confidence and you’ll get more respect.”
Honestly, go fuck yourself you privileged little shit.
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.
It’s their idea of what a facist looks like while ignoring the fact that Trump is pretty big.
You wouldn’t get it
YoU wOUldN’T gEt It
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.
For the shorties out there.
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. Self-love creates a gravity for more love.
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.
twink supremacy!!
‘There is a form of socially acceptable discrimination against a subset of people based around a fundamental intrinsic element of those people 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.
@sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com honey, I thought better of you than that. 🥺
Maybe you could think about what I say, then.
I understood it and agree with the societal premise underneath. However, you put words in my mouth that I did not say or imply. As someone who claims to also be autistic, I expected better from you. I would encourage you to read what I said again, and think about what I did say rather than an imaginary thing I did not say.
Oh I’m doing this thing called paraphrasing, to illustrate how what you’re saying sounds to people who are not you and may not think the same way as you do.
Had I intended to actually quote you, I would have used > actual quote formatting.
Do you agree or disagree that shaming of shorter men is a socially acceptable form of bigotry?
Can you see how you proposing an individualistic solution to that, where you likely would propose a social solution to other social problems… is something of a double standard?
(As an example, men openly shaming/insulting overweight women)
Finally: My paraphrasing of what you said is in fact accurate. You suggested that the solution to this problem is for men to just be confident in knowing that bigots are bad people.
Cool, but that doesn’t stop the bigotry.
If I talk about how great guacamole is, I am not talking shit about poutine, I am talking about how great guacamole is.
For now I will assume you are having a bad day and that is why you are attacking internet strangers over imaginary arguments. Whatever you are going through, I hope your day gets better.
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.
(in the context of ‘everyone is single and out to mingle’)
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 bro made you look like an idiot, then metaphorically hand the mic over to him, 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.
This has got to be a weird american thing i s2g i have never ever in my damned near 50 years heard that shit.
Reads like what someone thought would rage bait someone else
Relax, it’s not that deep.
act your hair
The water was cold!
You wouldn’t get it
Just tweens being tweens
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
Yeah I’m 6’5 the short memes would be actually funny.
Sorry about the back pain.
Yoga for the last decade works wonders
Of course the real trick lies in figuring out which decade is your last one.
‘Things you should say if you want everyone to know you’re rage-baiting shit disturber’.
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
Nah you got it wrong
That’s such a short guy thing to say
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 :/
like look at this photo and tell me that this isn’t an unexplored art form
The world was just not ready
Heart shapes at the very least!
I KNOW RIGHT??
Amateur
flow armour trim
I love how OP restricted themselves to only respond in the mentioned phrases and how some have quite the reaction. Got me rolling.
Relax, it’s not that deep
Ok buddy
Return_of_chippy in this thread:
Okay buddy
HAVE YOU CONSIDERED IF I CALLED WOMEN FAT
Huh
You wouldn’t get it
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.
“How to have a bad personality and gain toxic friends, a guide for neglected children”
I vote we make “big truck energy” the opposite of “big dick energy”. Like: “you’re giving real big truck energy right now.”
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 guarantees you never actually use the hitch either.
Its literally a gender affirming ornament, the truck nutz themselves are honestly not terribly different from packers for transguys.
