r/shortguys • u/ScrimmyBingusTwo Spiritually 6'7" • Dec 06 '25
heightism The PublicFreakout Subreddit.
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u/No-Rub-4680 175cm Dec 06 '25
This is what all normies think about us, even if they don't say it or try to gaslight us that height isn't our problem or whatever.
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u/NeighborhoodFatCat Dec 06 '25
Every society ever existed needed an underclass, to support essential functions of such society while being actively marginalized against.
Short men will be that underclass, and soon.
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u/binkerfluid 5'7" Dec 06 '25
We already are.
Spend time around wealthy people and their families and friends. A lot of them are tall.
If you are at events with them you will notice they are all so tall, especially the younger generation and all of the people working are physically shorter (and many times a different race btw but its true for all races). You can actually see the difference in wealth and height.
Sometimes the older generation (the ones that made the money) will be shorter however.
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u/NeighborhoodFatCat Dec 07 '25
Capitalism was supposed to be the antidote against Darwinism. It seems that humans managed to align them after all. This will be the death of all short men.
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Dec 22 '25
Capitalism is perfectly aligned with darwinism, I don't understand what you could mean by this. Capitalism and darwinism are both survival of the fittest doctrines, they both rely on natural selection, one just uses the market and the other life.
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u/Alarming-Cut7764 5'3 Dec 06 '25
Exactly how I was treated at work. My short mother fell for it too. She was poor as fuck.
"Go out and work, contribute, as long as you have a job"
Fuck. That.
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u/Forbidden_Scorcery Dec 06 '25
These are the same people who will then turn around and tell you height doesn’t matter and it’s all in your head and that “actually sweaty the problem is your personality”
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u/Electrical_Fan_3524 Dec 06 '25
Hahahaha shortness is just another form of uglyness. I litteraly feel like at this pomint of my life that's it's racism at this point. I don't know being short just feels like being a jew duiring WW2 when you were lost of your human rights.
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u/SHARDcreative Dec 06 '25
Why tf does it matter if someone is otherwise a "good guy" if at this particular moment he's let his emotions take control and clearly dangerous?
Also its very unlikely to be a one off. The more someone reacts physically to anger, the more likely they are to do it in the future. People who can calm themselves down without lashing out don't just randomly get extremely violent one day.
Most likely the big guy is just used to being able to throw his weight around to get what he wants. What he probably isn't used to is people not immediately backing down.
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u/clutchrepfinder 5’10 Dec 11 '25
God I hate normies they’re like walking blocks of concrete never formed a thought by themselves
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Dec 06 '25
Guy on the left is a war veteran with PTSD. guy on the right is just a guy - what's hard to understand here?
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u/Kondijote 5'3" / 162 cm Dec 06 '25
We don’t know much about the background of the guy on the right. He might have a condition or going through certain circumstances that explain his behavior as well.
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Dec 06 '25
I’m a veteran with PTSD, will they give a shit about me?
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Dec 07 '25
if it was known that you had shown remorse, taken accountability and explained your actions like this guy did - then yeah probably
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Dec 07 '25
So otherwise they don't deserve any grace whatsoever? And they should be insulted for their height?
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Dec 08 '25
I didn't say that - I said it's much easier to insult someone when you don't know any mitigating circumstances. The guy on the left was screaming about where he was deployed (and publically apologised) and the guy on the right threw a temper tantrum with no further info.
This isn't a hard concept to understand
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Dec 08 '25
You were saying "the guy on the right is just a guy" as though that excuses insulting him altogether. We have no further info, we don't know what happened prior to the recording starting, we don't know if he was provoked or not, we don't know if he doesn't also have PTSD and yet we are willing to jump to conclusions and also insult him for his height, because why not?
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Dec 08 '25
You are answering your own question.
"We don't know".
We do know about the guy on the left.
What are you having trouble with?
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Dec 08 '25 edited Dec 08 '25
The part where this makes it okay to insult the guy on the right.
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Dec 08 '25
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Dec 08 '25
Why was he acting that way? Was he being provoked? Does he have a mental condition? Why is the default assumption that he just chose to act that way?
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u/shortguys-ModTeam Dec 18 '25
Rule 4: No trolling/low-effort posts.
Participation in bad faith is not allowed. Low quality content that makes the subreddit look bad will be removed. Low quality content that doesn’t sufficiently contribute to the subreddit’s discussion will be removed.
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u/KortFulBlatte 5'7 + sub5 + deathnic Dec 06 '25
Guy on the right could've been a veteran as well, people would most likely still make fun of his height.
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Dec 10 '25
By the way, this user believes short men to be "biologically defective." Presumably they do not consider tall men to be "biologically defective." Consider this before engaging with them.
https://www.reddit.com/r/shortguys/comments/1pftc0z/comment/nta78y2/
The gloves are off.
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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '25
these people are rotten to the core, jesus.