UK study correlating short height and obesity with lower pay

This comes for Exeter college.  Basically verifying that there is a bias towards short males and overweight females  in the workplace.

Of course, now some employment judges in the UK want to ban fattism in the workplace but no such remedy for short men.

Yet, who has more control over their situation?  No matter how much I work out or exercise, I will not gain an inch in height but it seems that society thinks my height is something I should change or is a character flaw.  However, many overweight people (not all) do have much more of a choice than do those of us who are shorter in stature, so why don't we get the same amount of legal protection that is being considered for the overweight in the workplace in the UK?

Here is a video suggesting that short men and overweight women experience the same issues in the workplace and lower pay.

Michael Lee, a gay writer, expresses his hatred for short men!

Oh yes he did! 

This writer, who is gay (according to the text of the article anyway) expresses his fury and hatred over short men.

So, wait a minute!  After what just happened in Orlando two weeks ago and how outspoken the LGBT community has been against hatred, this ass has no problem spewing his contempt for short men?

So typical isn't it? "You had better not hate me short man but I can hate you over something over which you have no control and out of the other side of my hypocritical mouth I denounce hatred and intolerance,"   says everyone else that is protected from discrimination and screams when it happens to them.

Can you imagine a similar article spewing hate and venom at anyone else and not drawing the ire and rebuke of society as a whole?

What a hypocritical piece of trash!  Look at this crap:    Think it is satire?

http://www.dailynewsservice.co.uk/height-restrictions-apply-i-hate-short-men/#comment-12086

Look at this video based on the recent study that taller people are more productive

The same study never pointed out how these taller people are more productive at work tho, it just said they make more money due to their heights.


Of course, all the short people are depicted by short males right?  Get a load of how they have a pic of a much taller woman standing over a short male.

A healthier and cheaper alternative to growth hormone: Testosterone injections

I am sure I don't have to tell the people reading this blog how popular HGH treatment is for shorter children; parents don't want their children to end up short because of bullying in school and better opportunities in life and the workplace are given to taller people.

However, this treatment can be very costly if not covered by insurance; up to $50,000/year in some cases.  After that treatment is over, the child will not have grown substantially, perhaps adding on an extra two or three inches to their initial projected height.   The child will still be short as an adult and feel the pangs of discrimination.

When I was a child, I, of course, was extremely shorter than my peers.  It had more to do with my constitutional short stature ( delayed growth) than lack of growth hormone production.  At the age of twelve, my pediatrician decided to give me testosterone (male hormone) injections.  I was about 4'2" at that age.  These injections, although they sped up my growth, didn't add any height to my projected height of 5'4";  they were given once a month for a period of one year.   When I turned fourteen, I stood about 5'2" or 5'3".  The cost for these injections was a lot cheaper than growth hormone treatment, which I probably wouldn't have been given anyway because my growth hormone levels weren't low enough for them.

In the past years, I have said that I was given growth hormone, after my family told me they thought my shortness was due to lack of growth hormone. Now, I know differently.  I wouldn't have been given testosterone injections if I had been given growth hormone at an earlier age.

So, growth hormone and male hormone are two different things when it comes to cost and treatment.  Parents may opt for HGH treatment after the FDA approved the use of it for children who have idiopathic short stature (no medical reason) in 2003..  In 1980, growth hormone was only given to children who had a medical issue and then it was taken from cadavers, it wasn't synthetic.  Now, it is more widely available but costly as I mentioned.

If your child is growing slower than his peers, you may want to consider testosterone treatment as an alternative.  It is a lot less expensive  and safer than growth hormone (side effects to HGH use are possible, however there has not been enough evidence yet to suggest that they are dangerous).   True, HGH may add (and I stress MAY) on a couple of inches but testosterone will speed up your child's puberty and he will start growing rather rapidly.  Keep in mind that what it will do is get him to his final height quicker.

For younger females who are behind their peers, perhaps estrogen treatment might be an alternative as well.. 

I would strongly encourage people to consider this as an option for their children, instead of growth hormone.  Your child will grow rapidly once treatment begins  and it will be cheaper.  Have a look at this article:

https://www.healthychildren.org/English/ages-stages/gradeschool/puberty/Pages/Delayed-Puberty.aspx

Raheel Raza, Muslim author and activist who doesnt like to be stereotyped, stereotypes short men

This woman, who wrote a book entitled "Their Jihad, Not My Jihad"  which is a book saying that she hates the idea that all Muslims are looked at as terrorists (and therefore against stereotyping) couldn't wait to attack "short funny looking men" in this clip from 2010.

Her position here is that short men are responsible for the problems in the world.  Because Osama Bin Laden was really short wasn't he?   About 6'6" if I can recall.

Australian woman fired for being too short and too young looking

This happened back in 2010; the article is from 2012..    A real estate agency in Australia, Buxton, hired her (maybe she was tall when that happened..lol) and then fired her saying she looked too young and was too short for her sales position.

 

 

 

http://www.smh.com.au/small-business/sacked-worker-too-short-and-too-young-20120401-1w6n9.html

 

 

 

UK judges want to ban "fattism" in the workplace but no mention of heightism!

According to this article written a couple of months ago, some employment judges in the UK are trying to get legislation passed to ban overweight discrimination in the workplace, citing the fact that it is just as abusive and discriminatory to verbally mock  or refuse to hire overweight people as it  would be if those comments were directed at members of other protected classes of people.  They are right; it is!

However, it is just as abusive and discriminatory to do it to people based on their heights as well is it not?  Why do us short people have to endure verbal abuse in the workplace then, if we are hired at all that is?   Shouldn't the workplace be a place where everyone is free from harassment, no matter who they are?

Well, I guess not, if you are a short person apparently.

Here is the article:   http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/leading-employment-judges-call-for-law-banning-fattism-in-workplace-a6999401.html

Misleading article headline states that taller people are more productive than short people

Of course, many people just look at the headline and say "See, I told you tall people are better than short people!"

Maybe that is what the taller people who wrote this article are counting on; people not actually reading the article.

It states what we all know, that taller people are paid more.  However, nowhere in the article does it say how they are productive.  It just says they earn more and why?  Because of their height!

Quote from Duncan Thomas, an economics researcher at Duke University:

'There is no question that height is rewarded in the labor market over and above all other controls,' he told Bloomberg.

'It's not that height is just a proxy for cognition, and it's not just a proxy for other measures of health. It is rewarded in and of itself.'

 

 Of course, at the end of the article, it made sure to point out how taller men were more successful in dating and that they are healthier, which has nothing to do with how much they make in the workplace.  It is just another stab at short people.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3632069/Tall-people-productive-short-people-Study-claims-lofty-workers-earn-far-hour-smaller-colleagues.html

Hypocritical liberal Piers Morgan tells short man to grow

A true laugher.  Advocate for diversity and for accepting people as they are, Piers Morgan tells a 5'7" man that  he needs to grow!

Mate, I'm 6ft 1, you're 5ft 7in.
It's not me who needs to grow, with all due respect. https://t.co/HyQhNXEh6j

— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) June 7, 2016

If you are short, don't count on HR to help you!

For short people, HR doesn't represent "Human Resources" it stands for "Horrible Representation"..

I had an incident with an employer who told me (twice, I might add) that  "You short people sure have personalities";   of course, when I mentioned this to my employer and HR I was told that I was not protected from that because I was not disabled.   Okay, how about if she said "You gay people sure have personalities"?   Think there would have been consequences for her?  Me too!

Now, here is another gem from a  hypocritical supervisor.  "I was reluctant to hire you because you are a little guy and probably incapable.".  Oh yes, and when I told that corporate ass kissing HR representative, he just laughed it off.  Now, this same HR rep fired someone else for saying "God made Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve" and it was overheard by a lesbian employee, though not directed at her.

Also, both these female bosses happened to be black (that isn't offensive is it,  God forbid). 

Imagine if similar comments were directed their way.  How hypocritical!

So, if you are harassed and discriminated against because of your height, you can forget "Horrible Representation" coming to your defense.

If short people want respect, sadly, they have to become taller!

So, all you naysayers about height discrimination, can you please explain why people would go through radical limb lengthening surgery if they weren't' mocked and discriminated against due to their small stature?

Have a look at this article:  this 4'6" woman went through painful limb lengthening to increase her marital and job prospects.  Her family sold their ancestral lands to pay for her surgery.

http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/21991/20160516/cheap-leg-lengthening-india-short-people-ready-undergo-surgery-lengthen.htm

Why is it always short people that have to change and become taller to be respected but other disparate groups stress acceptance of who they are?

Wanna be dateable...become taller!

Wanna be treated like a human being....become taller!

Wanna get a good job and promotion...become taller!

Wanna be protected from discrimination...sorry, you are out of luck.  Shut up and accept your subservient position.

Short people don't even get as much protection as the transgendered.

Today, the Obama Administration told public schools that they had to allow the transgendered students access to bathrooms, locker room, fraternities and athletic teams of their choice or face a loss of federal funds.  Does this sound like equal treatment to you or special treatment?

Here is a comment from John King, Secretary of Education: “No student should ever have to go through the experience of feeling unwelcome at school or on a college campus,” King said. “We must ensure that our young people know that whoever they are or wherever they come from, they have the opportunity to get a great education in an environment free from discrimination, harassment and violence.”

So, I wonder now if all those short/smaller boys who are repeatedly harassed, pushed around and beaten up in these schools will see justice?  Don't hold your breath.  Short boys don't belong to a special interest group or protected class.

Don't worry society, you can still throw short boys into lockers, push them, shove them, knock their books out of their hands, shove their heads into toilets and mock their small frame on a daily basis...there won't be any consequences.  After all, they are supposed to stand up for themselves right?  Boys will be boys and all that...lol.

You can still make their workplace a hostile environment too.  You can  condescend them, call them "midgets" and disparage and harass them all you want.

But, don't you dare make the school environment or workplace hostile to the transgendered.  You will be branded a bigot and if you refer to the transgendered in the wrong way in the workplace , you can be fined and fired.

.Yet, there are many more short people in this country than transgendered people (there are less than a million of them).  So why don't short people get any protection?

Taboo for a short man to wear height increasing shoes but not to use a woman's bathroom!

So, I am assuming that most people know about these "bathroom bills" and letting "transgender" males (if they are really transgender that is)use a female bathroom or be labeled an insensitive bigot for life.

Yet, let a man wear shoes that will increase his height; he will be openly mocked and by the same people that want to allow these "men" into women's restrooms in the name of tolerance and sensitivity.

True, short boys (mostly boys anyway) will be pressured to get growth hormone shots to increase their height or be mocked by their peers and family members; short men will think about (and some have done it) going through a radical, painful limb lengthening procedure and risk infection or even death for three or four inches.  All this to not be mocked in this superficial, yet supposedly, tolerant society.

But don't you dare use a temporary means to increase your height...how shameful short man!

Feel free to use the women's bathroom though..lol

Prejudice "Life Coach" Benjamin Orozco posts heightist meme on Facebook

Have a look at this meme by a "life coach"...lol

Shorter people not given as many lung transplants as taller people

According to this article at medicinenet.com back in November of 2015, shorter people can die waiting for a lung transplant, while taller people get a transplant a lot easier.

It was suggested before that the lungs from a  taller person wouldn't work in a shorter person but the doctors can reduce the size of the lungs and implant them into a shorter person and they will work just fine.  This, according to Dr. David Lederer, an associate professor at Columbia University Medical Center.

We will see if this trend continues or if changes are made and shorter people are given lung transplants as often.

The study was published in the American  Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine on November 16, 2015.

Here is the article:  http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=192000

Shorter people being eaten in the Congo; United Nations doesn't care.

Yes, this is true.   These people are referred to as pygmies and have been living in this area for thousands of years.  The Bantu tribe moved into their territory and now are enslaving, beating and even eating these people.  The pygmies are unable to defend themselves. 

According to this video, representatives for the pygmies have been appealing to the United Nations for some help for years and have been told that what is happening to them is not a human rights violation.  They are viewed as subhuman.  Why?  Because they are under 5'0" tall.

Now, look at the video.  They look human to me.

So, next time someone tells you to be quiet about height discrimination because it doesn't compare to other forms of discrimination, simply tell them that they are right.  Because I don't think that whatever group they are part of has been eaten.

Bill De Blasio says: We do not tolerate discrimination

Mayor Bill De Blasio of  NYC signed a bill today that will allow people to use whatever bathrooms they wish.

He said that "we will not tolerate discrimination"...okay. 

Is that why a woman was fired from the NYC Parks Department a few years ago because of her height?

Let's remember this and see what happens when one of us shorter people is once again targeted because of our stature in NYC and every other place that says they don't welcome discrimination.

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Article asking...Is Marco Rubio too short to be President?

Yep, it had to come up didn't it?

God forbid a  short man be in charge of this country!   Marco Rubio is 5'8".

Let's see......Would it be fair to ask the question about race or gender then?   Oh, of course not because that would be prejudice and intolerant wouldn't it?

Well.. here is the article:

http://www.mediaite.com/online/is-marco-rubio-too-short-for-the-presidency-mediaite-examines-this-growing-concern/

I know Ann Coulter, the heightist bitch, thinks he is too short!  As so she has stated in the past a few times.

Apparently, being short is wrong

According to this post by JCLU on Facebook a while back, Zaccheus was wrong because he was short.  Apparently, he had a choice in that somehow.

February 2, 2013 ·

So you're not perfect......
Don't get down on yourself over everything you've done wrong. God knew you weren't going to be perfect, but He still loves you more than you know. Your future is bright!


Ummm... I don't believe Zaccheus did anything wrong with regards to his height.

Does America hate short guys?

Ask yourself this:  Do you honestly think people in this country will ever elect a short man as President?  Now, we do have some candidates that are shorter in stature compared to some of the field.  Marco Rubio - 5'8", Rand Paul - 5'7".  Back in 2008 the Republican nominee was John McCain...also 5'7".   Did that figure into him losing?  Perhaps.  Now, let's shorten the candidates to 5"3" or 5'4", would they have a chance?  Hell NO!  Yes, we have had one who fit that description and that was James Madison, our 4th President and author of the Constitution.  Think he would be electable now...over 210 years later?   Neither do I.

Now, the New York City Commission on Human Rights has told businesses that it must refer to people who are transgendered correctly or risk being fined.. up to $250,000.   Yea, that's right.   Think the same commission will step in to protect short people from discrimination? No!  I wonder where this same Human Rights Commission was when Sandra Peterson was terminated from her job at the Parks Department for, as her manager said, being too short.

Same kind of situation in Massachusetts.   The same state that passed a law a few years ago to protect members of the LGBT community from discrimination has not offered that same protection to members of the short or overweight community.  Though a bill has been submitted to the Massachusetts legislature on several occasions, it hasn't been passed.  A similar bill for the LGBT community passed through the first time.

Now, this country seems to be going out of its way to make sure certain people aren't offended.  Schools removing the Pledge of Allegiance because it could offend students who are from other countries.  Clemson University had a night where it enjoyed Mexican food but removed it because it could offend some students.  A  Nebraska school wanting to refer to its students as "purple penguins", instead of boys and girls because it didn't want the kids to feel left out.  Well, what if the kids didn't like the color purple or penguins?  lol.  If you say anything offensive about a Muslim, you can end up in jail now.  Some companies (JP Morgan Chase for example) want their employees to make sure to refer to the spouse as "my partner", instead of husband or wife because it would be insensitive to those who are transgender and employees had to display a placard at their desk  showing their alliance with the LGBT community.  Now, I guess you have to watch where you pray because you might offend people.

So, this push by America to watch who you offend but this country doesn't seem to give a damn about offending short people, especially short men now does it?

When a short boy is constantly bullied, beaten and teased by his school and he takes his own life, is there any attention given to what happened?  Is there an investigation?  But when Tyler Clementi, who was gay, jumped from the George Washington Bridge a few years ago because his privacy was invaded, it definitely got national attention didn't it?  There were protests against gay bullying...now there is a law called the Tyler Clementi Act in Congress to fight bullying.   Funny, I thought all schools had a policy in place to fight bullying.  So, now you need legislation?  Oh wait, an 18 year old who was gay killed himself because of it...now Congress wanted to act.  So, why didn't Congress pass a similar law when J Daniel Scruggs was bullied, or Jon Carmichael, Ty Smalley, Joel Morales,. Johnathon Short Scaff, Lamar Hawkins?   All these boys were bullied because they were small and unfortunately took their own lives...yet..no law.  Why?    This country doesn't care about short boys being bullied in school, there is no political pressure for those in the Department of Education to act.  Short and smaller boys have been getting bullied in school since education was formalized...they are easy targets.  So, where in the hell is the protection?  Isn't  it common sense that it happens?  Of course it is.  It is just outright contempt for short boys.

We all know how short men are treated in the dating world.  Even the website E- Harmony asks before you even enter the site what your height is if you are male.  Think they ask a woman's weight?  Hell no.  This is a website which is supposed to be about substance and "29 different dimensions of compatibility" yet if you are short the "women complain" as said by founder Neil Clark Warren. If you do so happen to find a date, you had better not be shorter than the woman or else all these hateful comments will be directed your way.  Two people of the same sex dating you had better not comment on or be labeled as a bigot but a short man and a taller woman invites ridicule that is acceptable.

Height discrimination is acceptable in the workplace of course and it's prevalent here in this country too.  So, where are the laws to stop it?  Why is Michigan the only state to have such a law?  Even that law was passed to protect women from discrimination in fields such as police work and firefighting.  The height requirements would impact women who didn't meet the requirement.  Notice that is what made them pass the law, the fact that it ruled out short men was of no consequence.

Short men can get bashed and disrespected on social media!  Think you could do that to gays, blacks, Muslims or fat women?  Hell no.  You'd be branded at the minimum as a fat shamer or lose your job for your bigoted comments.  Yet, why all this hate on Twitter for short men?  Hmmm.  Oh wait, it is freedom of speech right?  You think these people only express their hatred for short men on Twitter...hell no!

As much as I hate heightism, what I hate even more is when people here in America want to be tolerant  and accepting of everyone and then treat short people like we are third class citizens and not even human.

 "DON'T YOU DARE HURL OFFENSIVE COMMENTS AT PEOPLE, BULLY THEM OR DISCRIMINATE AGAINST THEM BECAUSE OF THEIR RACE, GENDER, SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR RELIGION IN AMERICA  BUT FEEL FREE TO DISRESPECT AND HATE SHORT PEOPLE!"    

That is the message that this country seems to be sending!  It definitely needs to change!

Have a look at this article from a CNN reporter.  He is 5'7", short, but still may not feel how difficult it is for those of us below 5'5".  He talks about the upcoming election and points out the height of the candidates.  If Hillary is elected, true, she will be the shortest president since Madison but she is a female.  A short male isn''t going to be elected.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/05/opinions/yang-men-height/index.html

North Korea send its little people away to dwarf villages

Yes, I know,  the country which we should all emulate when it comes to human rights...lol.

North Korea has once again shown its dismay and contempt for the shorter among them.    It has created "dwarf villages" for people who they deem undesirable to be sent to.  No, it is not a gulag;, however, the residents there are left to fend for themselves and are offered no assistance from the government.  Since they can't get paying jobs, their fate is pretty much sealed.   They might as well have been sent to the uninhabited islands,  as were a whole bunch of their shorter people in 1989.

Funny that this country has such contempt for shorter people, when the majority of the citizens there are shorter than  citizens in most countries to begin with.

http://freebeacon.com/issues/north-korea-dwarf-village-is-latest-human-rights-abuse/