Fifth Avenue Forum

Yes… it sucks when people make fun of you and you take offense to all of it. We get it.

so I’m gonna get a little vulnerable here but I hope you guys take a little time to understand what pushed me to respond in the way that I did

it’s always hard to have these types of conversations because often times it gets shrugged off as “not a big deal”. I mean, look at you’re response…”you take offense to all of it”.

Honest question: if someone made a racist or sexist or sexual orientation comment on here and someone who fell under the aggrieved demographic took offense, would you shrug it off in the same way? I’d guess not

I admit I’m a little oversensitive to short jokes at times. I guess it depends on the particular context. But for whatever reason, society has deemed that short jokes are open season and that no quarter need to be given when a short guy takes offense. That honestly is what upsets me the most.

Similar to my “racism against white people isn’t ok” take, I’m not saying that short people have it as bad as other groups by any means. But if it means anything, it sucks to hear constant remarks and jokes about how “short men aren’t real men” or that they’re lesser or whatever. And I assure you, I hear this **** enough for it to get to me…either comments made to me directly or just in the general public

But also, the worst part is how taking issue with short jokes is not met with empathy and compassion, but “why are you so sensitive?”. Like how the idea that short guys have shorter fuses is so prevalent but demonstrably false (like I posted about before) yet it doesn’t matter…everyone, not even the ignorant shitheads you’d expect this from but the people who wouldn’t be caught dead making comments like “classic black guy syndrome” (which is of course terribly racist) has no issue shitting on short guys…

idk, it’s discouraging. It definitely took me a while to build up the self-confidence to “be ok” with it. But then my 4 year old nephew, who of course has my family’s genes, gets called “baby” by other 4-5 year olds and is naturally sensitive to it…it kills me seeing that he’ll probably spend a lot of his formative years dealing with the same bullshit

We have an progressing society but yet everyone still kind of picks and chooses on when it’s ok to be shitty to some people. For some reason, short men in particular drew the, pardon the pun, short straw, and have to deal with some pretty weird and demeaning comments and yet are made fun of even further when they try to call out how shitty those comments are. It’s depressing

it’s hard to convey exactly how I feel over this forum, especially because I’m two glasses of wine in, but yeah. Hopefully this helps

If I printed this post out, would it be taller than you (ref: arial, 12pt, standard margins, no funky double spacing after periods either)?

5'8" or 5'9" is the average height here I think...so I think short starts right below that line...

I’m 6’2”. Apparently a giant.

I’m 6’2”. Apparently a giant.

I’m 6’2”. Apparently a giant.

I can see the top of your head.

Yes… it sucks when people make fun of you and you take offense to all of it. We get it.

so I’m gonna get a little vulnerable here but I hope you guys take a little time to understand what pushed me to respond in the way that I did

it’s always hard to have these types of conversations because often times it gets shrugged off as “not a big deal”. I mean, look at you’re response…”you take offense to all of it”.

Honest question: if someone made a racist or sexist or sexual orientation comment on here and someone who fell under the aggrieved demographic took offense, would you shrug it off in the same way? I’d guess not

I admit I’m a little oversensitive to short jokes at times. I guess it depends on the particular context. But for whatever reason, society has deemed that short jokes are open season and that no quarter need to be given when a short guy takes offense. That honestly is what upsets me the most.

Similar to my “racism against white people isn’t ok” take, I’m not saying that short people have it as bad as other groups by any means. But if it means anything, it sucks to hear constant remarks and jokes about how “short men aren’t real men” or that they’re lesser or whatever. And I assure you, I hear this **** enough for it to get to me…either comments made to me directly or just in the general public

But also, the worst part is how taking issue with short jokes is not met with empathy and compassion, but “why are you so sensitive?”. Like how the idea that short guys have shorter fuses is so prevalent but demonstrably false (like I posted about before) yet it doesn’t matter…everyone, not even the ignorant shitheads you’d expect this from but the people who wouldn’t be caught dead making comments like “classic black guy syndrome” (which is of course terribly racist) has no issue shitting on short guys…

idk, it’s discouraging. It definitely took me a while to build up the self-confidence to “be ok” with it. But then my 4 year old nephew, who of course has my family’s genes, gets called “baby” by other 4-5 year olds and is naturally sensitive to it…it kills me seeing that he’ll probably spend a lot of his formative years dealing with the same bullshit

We have an progressing society but yet everyone still kind of picks and chooses on when it’s ok to be shitty to some people. For some reason, short men in particular drew the, pardon the pun, short straw, and have to deal with some pretty weird and demeaning comments and yet are made fun of even further when they try to call out how shitty those comments are. It’s depressing

it’s hard to convey exactly how I feel over this forum, especially because I’m two glasses of wine in, but yeah. Hopefully this helps

If I printed this post out, would it be taller than you (ref: arial, 12pt, standard margins, no funky double spacing after periods either)?

@malkintent Been awhile Canaan

Yes… it sucks when people make fun of you and you take offense to all of it. We get it.

so I’m gonna get a little vulnerable here but I hope you guys take a little time to understand what pushed me to respond in the way that I did

it’s always hard to have these types of conversations because often times it gets shrugged off as “not a big deal”. I mean, look at you’re response…”you take offense to all of it”.

Honest question: if someone made a racist or sexist or sexual orientation comment on here and someone who fell under the aggrieved demographic took offense, would you shrug it off in the same way? I’d guess not

I admit I’m a little oversensitive to short jokes at times. I guess it depends on the particular context. But for whatever reason, society has deemed that short jokes are open season and that no quarter need to be given when a short guy takes offense. That honestly is what upsets me the most.

Similar to my “racism against white people isn’t ok” take, I’m not saying that short people have it as bad as other groups by any means. But if it means anything, it sucks to hear constant remarks and jokes about how “short men aren’t real men” or that they’re lesser or whatever. And I assure you, I hear this **** enough for it to get to me…either comments made to me directly or just in the general public

But also, the worst part is how taking issue with short jokes is not met with empathy and compassion, but “why are you so sensitive?”. Like how the idea that short guys have shorter fuses is so prevalent but demonstrably false (like I posted about before) yet it doesn’t matter…everyone, not even the ignorant shitheads you’d expect this from but the people who wouldn’t be caught dead making comments like “classic black guy syndrome” (which is of course terribly racist) has no issue shitting on short guys…

idk, it’s discouraging. It definitely took me a while to build up the self-confidence to “be ok” with it. But then my 4 year old nephew, who of course has my family’s genes, gets called “baby” by other 4-5 year olds and is naturally sensitive to it…it kills me seeing that he’ll probably spend a lot of his formative years dealing with the same bullshit

We have an progressing society but yet everyone still kind of picks and chooses on when it’s ok to be shitty to some people. For some reason, short men in particular drew the, pardon the pun, short straw, and have to deal with some pretty weird and demeaning comments and yet are made fun of even further when they try to call out how shitty those comments are. It’s depressing

it’s hard to convey exactly how I feel over this forum, especially because I’m two glasses of wine in, but yeah. Hopefully this helps

If I printed this post out, would it be taller than you (ref: arial, 12pt, standard margins, no funky double spacing after periods either)?

@malkintent Been awhile Canaan

Sup boo. Hows being a daddy? I bet youre being rad af as always

I’m 6’2”. Apparently a giant.

I can see the top of your head.

Titans might have some of the dumbest football minds in the league.