Before you come to my post and think this is a water is wet post, I'm just here to put my thoughts down because no one else listens.
As a 5'3 guy, it's fucking over for me in all aspects. Since the beginning of school, I have faced endless pain, suffering, backhanded critique and many more from my own friends, teachers and parents (despite making me this height). I genuinely have not gotten a break from the endless hell that is being 5'3, I have NEVER had real friends (irl of course) nor got any form of respect whatsoever. I thought it was because I'm ND (although I probably am because I've always ran away from social situations because of how I've been treated) turns out I was just short. Women and OTHER MEN look down on me, I suffer at the hands of both of them.
And even after I decided to socially isolate myself at the tender age of 18, I still see women swooning over tall guys online, and I also see men who clown short men aswell online. I am thinking of deleting all forms of social media and just sticking with YouTube. Male videogame characters are taller than the females, same with anime as well. I can't self insert because it's so disproportional to what happens IRL. I can't even escape through my copes.
There is no solution as a short man. We can argue all day about whether face or height matters to women, but no one talks about the REST of life that height has a snowball effect on. You will get respect from men and women even if you're ugly as a man but tall (anecdote: I've seen taller people who are less facially good looking than me live live 10x better than me, they may struggle with women but they're fine in the rest of life.) If you're short, any friend group you enter you become the instant scapegoat/punching bag without even opening your mouth. Even your closest "friends" don't want to be seen with you, and if they tolerate your manlet existence irl, you're just there for either a dopamine boost because they heightmog you or because they use you as contrast to make themselves look taller. Brutal.
People in these spaces often say "you gotta atleast have some experiences and memories before the age pill clutches you, you don't wanna be late to life" etc. but at this point, trying to do those at my height will result in detrimental effects. I tried to make friends, I tried to GO OUTSIDEEEEE, I tried to work on my game, I tried to put myself out there, and it made me even more depressed, because it's the exact same as going to a shooting range with a huge target on your back. Theres no point In going out, all I do is play videogames all day, sitting in my room LDAR'ing nonstop. You may say "ok just get rich" and I'm not poor by any means, not rich but not far from it either, I could easily get into the best universities and get decent money (which is what I'm doing right now) and investing and stuff but that won't solve the social and societal issues caused by my height. Short with money? Compensating. Short and poor? Loser. Short and middle class? Loser. No way out for you.
And possibly the most brutal part of it all is my parents. I can tell they view me as a disappointment. Every time I interract with them or are in the same room as them the air get thick and tense, I can just feel the aura of disappointment emanating from them, especially my mom, as a short woman she thinks it's not that bad (obviously because she's a female) and probably has zero understanding of why I am the way I am. She was so keen on rasing me to be a "productive member of society" but she doesn't understand that when you're that height as a man, society already sends you your own way.
As a 5'3 guy, it's fucking over for me in all aspects. Since the beginning of school, I have faced endless pain, suffering, backhanded critique and many more from my own friends, teachers and parents (despite making me this height). I genuinely have not gotten a break from the endless hell that is being 5'3, I have NEVER had real friends (irl of course) nor got any form of respect whatsoever. I thought it was because I'm ND (although I probably am because I've always ran away from social situations because of how I've been treated) turns out I was just short. Women and OTHER MEN look down on me, I suffer at the hands of both of them.
And even after I decided to socially isolate myself at the tender age of 18, I still see women swooning over tall guys online, and I also see men who clown short men aswell online. I am thinking of deleting all forms of social media and just sticking with YouTube. Male videogame characters are taller than the females, same with anime as well. I can't self insert because it's so disproportional to what happens IRL. I can't even escape through my copes.
There is no solution as a short man. We can argue all day about whether face or height matters to women, but no one talks about the REST of life that height has a snowball effect on. You will get respect from men and women even if you're ugly as a man but tall (anecdote: I've seen taller people who are less facially good looking than me live live 10x better than me, they may struggle with women but they're fine in the rest of life.) If you're short, any friend group you enter you become the instant scapegoat/punching bag without even opening your mouth. Even your closest "friends" don't want to be seen with you, and if they tolerate your manlet existence irl, you're just there for either a dopamine boost because they heightmog you or because they use you as contrast to make themselves look taller. Brutal.
People in these spaces often say "you gotta atleast have some experiences and memories before the age pill clutches you, you don't wanna be late to life" etc. but at this point, trying to do those at my height will result in detrimental effects. I tried to make friends, I tried to GO OUTSIDEEEEE, I tried to work on my game, I tried to put myself out there, and it made me even more depressed, because it's the exact same as going to a shooting range with a huge target on your back. Theres no point In going out, all I do is play videogames all day, sitting in my room LDAR'ing nonstop. You may say "ok just get rich" and I'm not poor by any means, not rich but not far from it either, I could easily get into the best universities and get decent money (which is what I'm doing right now) and investing and stuff but that won't solve the social and societal issues caused by my height. Short with money? Compensating. Short and poor? Loser. Short and middle class? Loser. No way out for you.
And possibly the most brutal part of it all is my parents. I can tell they view me as a disappointment. Every time I interract with them or are in the same room as them the air get thick and tense, I can just feel the aura of disappointment emanating from them, especially my mom, as a short woman she thinks it's not that bad (obviously because she's a female) and probably has zero understanding of why I am the way I am. She was so keen on rasing me to be a "productive member of society" but she doesn't understand that when you're that height as a man, society already sends you your own way.
