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