As dating apps using height filters spark debate on “heightism”, the Blackadder star Tony Robinson has vented his anger at women who feel it is acceptable to comment on men’s height.
He seems to have got quite short about it!
“Nowadays, you don’t pick on people’s looks, do you? It’s like kind of a new understanding over the last 10 or 15 years, you don’t deride people for what they look like,” the 5ft 4in actor, 78, told Elizabeth Day’s How to Fail podcast, admitting he had seen his shorter than average height as a problem in life.
Oh, Tony, we comment on people's appearances all the time! Have you been living under a rock?
The term “heightism” was first coined by the sociologist Saul Feldman in 1971. Dr Erin Pritchard, a senior lecturer in sociology and disability studies at Liverpool Hope University, believes much heightism is subconscious, but that it is ingrained. It has also not benefited from widespread acceptance movements.
Ah, sociologists! Where would we be without them?
Who said ‘happier’ at the back!? There’ll be detention…
The US state of Michigan, the US cities Santa Cruz, San Francisco and New York City, as well as Ontario, Canada and Victoria, Australia, are among the few to address height discrimination in civil rights law.
Who wouldn’t have bet on those particular places being the first to fall for this nonsense?
Prichard said: “We need more voices like Tony Robinson coming out and saying it, to show this is not all woke nonsense, [to] just sort of sit down and listen to what they have to say and go, OK, these are their lived experiences.”
But it really is all woke nonsense - as is any attempt to try to persuade people to ignore their natural instincts and feelings in favour of whatever woke morons think they should believe and feel instead, in pursuits of some abstract concept of ‘fairness’…
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