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Jezebel 
07/29/09
Eff that. Stay away from my awesome gangliness.
"one anthropologist says tall women are less likely to marry and have kids."
Including this one. Which is a shame..'cause my height is totally bitchin'
Oddly, I don't think I ever got made fun of for my height!
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I always associate self-imposed restrictions based on height with insecure adolescence.
07/28/09
I'm 5'11" and wouldn't change it for the wolrd, however, I do not date men that are shorter than me.
Maybe its because I've always been an aggressive take no shit girl but I feel like dating someone taller than me would somehow add to the column of things about me that people use to make me feel "manly" or "butch".
I hate being made out to be less feminie simply because I'm not short or demure. When people get to know me they are always surprised at how "girly" I actually am.
Being with someone short would just add to the weird power dynamic I already feel.
Also, most short men I've met that are into tall women seem to be very similar to fetishists. I don't want to date someone who is more amused at being with an "amazon/super model/whatever" than being with me.
07/29/09
I don't see why short guys liking tall girls is fetishy but girls favoring tall guys isn't.
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07/28/09
He would have also made a dandy Cro-Magnon--he may not be very tall, but he's basically a brick shithouse of muscle, ideal for hauling mammoth sides home and for flinging mates over his shoulder and running off...
You'll have to excuse me; I need to go find my short fiance now.
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The problem is that even though my brain xrays came back completely normal, my idiot parents bought everything this stupid endocrinologist told them. She told me that I had "very poor weight" and should probably drink whole milk instead of skim - because THAT'll just change your life. She suggested a growth hormone to make me a little bit taller, and my parents even seemed to consider it for a hot second. My mom suggested that I hang out for a while on some monkey bars because she thought that when people stretch their bodies out a little bit every day, they end up a little taller. My parents would start acting suspicious if I said I wasn't hungry because I ate AN HOUR AGO. It's like I was under suspicion of staying short on purpose, as if I had any appreciable control over the natural growth of my skeleton. The bullshit finally ended when I went back for a second appointment about a month later, and I'd grown about a half-inch or so. So that's how I got off the hook. The endocrinologist gave me this stupid little hug and said "okay, bye bye sweetie!" which I took to mean, "Well, it looks like you're innocent after all. Be careful out there!" I've never wanted to kick someone in the eye so very very badly.
07/28/09
Both of my brothers had synthetic growth hormone. It wasn't easy for them growing up, but I know for a FACT that they would be worse off without it.
07/28/09
I love soccer and I love watching Messi playbut reading an article on his treatment and how it differs from doping I'm still sceptical if this isn't some kind of doping.
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It's usually a good lesson to them in not being so judgemental about arbitrary inherited physical attributes.
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Oh well, if they're so shallow, judgemental, and flat out rude to say such a thing, I could care less what happens to them.
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Maybe women are becoming the taller sex.
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Although as a woan with a 35" inseam, it makes me HAPPY HAPPY!
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Also only one of them will result in you getting teh bitchface if you use it to describe me to my face.
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The thing is, it used to bother me. I hated that it bothered me.
07/28/09
My boyfriend is just a tiny bit shorter than me, and I am in the same camp of "it used to bother me and i hated that it bothered me."
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I dated a guy for a few years who had taken hormones to grow taller, and I think he considers it to be worth it. He was only about 5'7-5'8 after the hormones, and I can see as a man wanting to at least hit that height. He was still small, but he was at least in average-small territory whereas before, it was a distinct possibility he could have stopped growing at 5'2. I think if my child were in a similar position I would definitely give them the option.
07/29/09
Taking a hormone you don't need just seems like a bad idea.