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Short issues through the eyes of the media - It's NOT just a guy thing
Notice that whenever the media talk about heightism, it focuses predominantly on shorter men. It's the guys who have the trouble dating, getting higher salaries or being promoted to senior management or executive. Is it just me, or is this a form of sexism? Now, most people will say that shorter women have an easier time, and I do agree with them, but it doesn't mean that short women don't have problems (outside of fashion) too. For example, petite women are often cited as being more likely to be married with kids by the time they reach their 40s. OK, but many people associate a "wife and mother" with the home, and not the work place or the party scene. It sounds like people are trying to say that petite women are, well, boring (I know that there are plenty of petite celebs who are well known in the party scene, but Hollywood and the music industry are very different when it comes to the public and private spheres.) The stereotypical lady at the charity ball is NOT petite. She's also a SECOND wife of some very wealthy guy, and USUALLY NOT PETITE (though that wealthy guy's first wife may very well be.) There is also little talk about women and work. Most articles about being short and how much short people earn focus on men. Whenver they talk about women earning less, it's about women as a whole or broken down to ethnic groups, rather than height. Same with work. I have very rarely read, heard or seen anything about height in relation to the speed of promotion for women. And I'm a little tired of the media not bringing women's height issues to the spotlight.