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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Height discrimination in civil rights law?
The Goodies did this in the 1970s with a parody about South Africa that feature a system call Apart-Height. If you were below a certain height you were one of the serfs, if you were above that height you got to order the serfs about.
Stonyground.
Does a man's heIght matter that much, to women? Going as far back as the film star Alan Ladd, through to Jack Nicholson, Tom Cruise, and Jeff Bezos today, all shorter than average men who have never been short of the attention of women, so what's the connection? Perhaps 'shortism'' isn't the problem, but rather the attraction of women to wealthy and powerful men, irrespective of how tall, or plain looking, they are?
On the other hand, perhaps it's this 6ft tall, fairly fit, bloke, who's been told is good looking, is whinging because the world's most beautiful women, or any woman come to that, are not queuing up for a date with him. Could the fact I drive a 10 year old car, and have an overdraft, have anything to do with it?
Penseivat
Don't know why he bothered speaking out. Discrimination has been going on since one person spotted something different about someone else while they were out on a mammoth hunt.
That that have other compensations, money, can temper this by getting cosmetic surgery, or for richer simply buying lots of things for their particular discrimination.
We all have them, happiness is just buying what you can and accepting what you have to.
On the other hand it is really entertaining to watch as social media allows everyone to have fun at these peoples expense.
I'm sure Tony Robinson may wish he was 6ft 4in instead of 5ft 4in - until he has to travel by plane, bus, back seat of cars, find some long sleeved shirts, or longer pants. Then he will probably appreciate his shorter stature.
These people should be cut down to size... oh hang on, too late.
I'm 6"1' of Yorkshire Viking stock. I love tall ladies, there just aren't that many of them about in the West Riding! Am I discriminated against for having to suffice with short arses?
Well, being a shortarse never held him back in his career. Or stopped him being knighted. Maybe he did not even have to kneel at the ceremony.
I never realised that he was altitudinally challenged , until he raised (or lowered) the subject. Steisand strikes again.
Another show that could never be made these days!
The only height that matters to most women is the height of his wallet!
In the media world, it seems you’re none if you haven’t got some sort of ‘ism’
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Indeed!
If you spot a tall one these days, you have to check it’s a real lady!
Me neither, but maybe the tv adds a few inches as well as a few pounds.
I remember Paul Hogan doing that in Crocodile Dundee, but his effective technique is rather frowned upon these days.
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