• mommykink@lemmy.world
    63·
    1 year ago

    I have the opposite effect being 6’5" and realizing that no matter what, 90% of people will always see me from my worst angle with a double chin

        • propaganja@lemmy.ml
          3·
          1 year ago

          To anyone thinking about this seriously: I’m certain a very significant portion of tall people suffer or used to suffer from the same worries and insecurities as short people. Namely not fitting in.

            • EatYouWell@lemmy.world
              2·
              1 year ago

              It’s a bit of a long one. We have a bunch of cats, and one of them (my first pet as an adult) had to get a few teeth removed because the vet had missed that they were hurting her. After she came back from the vet, two of our cats started mercilessly tormenting her. She couldn’t even go to the litterbox without being attacked.

              Also relevant, the day before we had moved our great dane’s twin bed from beside the couch into the middle of the room while we re-arranged.

              Well, that morning I was on the couch, and I watched one of the cats get in position to attack the older cat, so I got ready to interfere quickly. The attack happens, I spring up, and the attacker runs under the bed. I grab the bed to lift it up to scold her, and I used the amount of force necessary to lift the bed from the short end. The problem was this time I was on the long end which required a whole lot less force to lift.

              So, I lifted it up too hard and felt it leave my hand, at which point my wife walked through the door and the bed flipped over and landed on my wife’s dog. I immediately panic because I thought she might be hurt and pull the bed off, and of course my wife starts screaming at me things like, “What the fuck is wrong with you,” then storms off to take them outside.

              So, I’m sitting there with adrenaline pumping through my body trying to calm down, and she comes back in and starts in on me. After a few minutes of me saying it was an accident and it wasn’t as violent and scary as it looked, she still wasn’t relenting, so I screamed, “Fucking stop. I know I made a mistake, I know she could have been hurt. Just stop pushing.”

              So… yeah. Not my best moment, but I wasn’t considering that I’m intimidating just because of my height. And before anyone thinks I’m abusive, that’s like the second time I’ve yelled in the 7 years we’ve been together. I’m generally a super non-confrontational person.

    • Smokeydope@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      No, but you CAN do olympic levels of mental gymnastics to deny it! 5’ suddenly becomes average height if you cope hard enough

    • CADmonkey@lemmy.world
      8·
      1 year ago

      For many years of my life, I had a girlfriend who was 4’-10" tall, but a mile high in pent-up rage.

    • douglasg14b@lemmy.world
      41·
      1 year ago

      Is genetic predisposition really weird though?

      It’d be like saying it’s weird how many guys like wider hips, well formed asses, or boobs. Or how many women like tall men, buff guys, or strong facial features.

      It’s literally hardwired into us as animals to be attracted to attributes that correlate to improved natural selection & survival odds from millions of years of evolution (And in some cases caused interesting feedback loops for natural selection that have nothing to do with actual survive ability or genetic health).

      We don’t think about these things it’s “just the way it is”, you don’t necessarily know why you are attracted to something, it’s part of how you as a flesh and blood animal works.