• AItoothbrush
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    11 hour ago

    Im worse than short. Im a bit over average but have short legs and a long torso 💀

  • Wild Bill
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    44 hours ago

    Day 2 of reminding the fediverse there are women who prefer shorter guys (source: am one of them). If y’all don’t want them I’ll take them. I’ll take them all.

    • @[email protected]
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      52 hours ago

      I imagine there are even women out there who care more about a man’s personality than their height…

      Being short isn’t your fault, being a dull cunt is.

    • @21Cabbage
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      28 hours ago

      I think both of us would be cool with it if I gave height to my buddy until we were the same. I think that puts both of us exactly at average.

    • palordrolap
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      1011 hours ago

      The leg lengthening we can do these days doesn’t need or cause a DNA change. Look it up. It’s simultaneously fascinating and horrifying.

      • @[email protected]
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        16 hours ago

        I understand, why not just use stilts or shoes with large soles? You would be proportionally off, wouldn’t it be weird to be 6 foot tall and have short arms?

        What part of be taller is the goal?

        • palordrolap
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          26 hours ago

          Most often it’s done because of a developmental problem where one leg segment has come out slightly shorter than its counterpart on the other leg, affecting gait and posture. Only one or two bones need to be lengthened if the patient is lucky. Shortening the other leg is probably also an option, but I figure people would want to do something to the affected leg, rather than muck about with the “healthy” one.

          There is at least one instance that I recall where someone born with a form of dwarfism had all four limbs - all twelve bones - extended to “normal” length. As to whether it was strictly ethical to do that is an entirely different matter, considering the patient was a child.

          I mean, it’s definitely the best time of life to have the lengthening done what with bones being greener and still growing anyway, but the patient wasn’t exactly in the position to be making an informed decision about whether they wanted to go through it.

  • bruhbeans
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    -1911 hours ago

    I feel like this short king shit is rooted in toxic masculinity and generally gross.

    • @[email protected]
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      269 hours ago
      1. This is a comic strip on the internet, chill.
      2. It is toxic to have the response the woman depicted in said comic had over a physical feature that someone has no control over. What genders are involved don’t actually matter.
      • @[email protected]
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        038 minutes ago

        Mate/partner selection based on physical characteristics is seen all through nature, why would humans be any different? And why would you label that as toxic?

    • @[email protected]
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      -210 hours ago

      Yup. Just another double standard, because lord forbid a guy have physical standards about a woman and be honest about them. 🙄