Dishy Rishi is only 5ft5 !!

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He's dinky!!

He looks so much taller!!

@DeeCeeCherry I'm afraid it IS just the same for women, it just doesn't have the romantic bent too it. But it's terrible - constant infantilising and piss taking. I'm sad to say it never stops. I'm 5ft and nearly 40 and even now colleagues will make remarks.
The best thing you can do for your DD is help her feel comfortable in her own skin. Help her find clothes that truly fit even though the cost is much higher. Help her find a way to laugh off the bullshit that will follow her around. My mum just dismissed my concerns and it took me years to accept myself as I am. I think if she'd listened earlier and sympathised it might have happened earlier.

@JoyOrbison

08:11Bobkitten

God, some people are so fucking rude about short men.

My DS is short for his age and is not likely to be a tall adult. He’s a lovely, kind young man. I’ve reassured him that most people will see past his height. Maybe I ought to have to revised ‘most’ down to ‘some’ sad

22:27BLTLover

So my 9th centile son has got a lot of shit to come

Agree... My son is in 9th centile and on growth hormone because, as starting high school, he got so much shit for being small.... Nice to see that will continue as an adult.

I can't belive some of the posts from adults about men's height.

I'm surprised they put him on growth hormone as a 9th centile boy? Despite what many say here its within normal range

@MimiDaisy11

Does he remind anyone else of Ed Miliband?

Yes!

I thought he looked like Ed Milliband

@JoyOrbison

08:11Bobkitten

God, some people are so fucking rude about short men.

My DS is short for his age and is not likely to be a tall adult. He’s a lovely, kind young man. I’ve reassured him that most people will see past his height. Maybe I ought to have to revised ‘most’ down to ‘some’ sad

22:27BLTLover

So my 9th centile son has got a lot of shit to come

Agree... My son is in 9th centile and on growth hormone because, as starting high school, he got so much shit for being small.... Nice to see that will continue as an adult.

I can't belive some of the posts from adults about men's height.

Same for my 2nd centile son. As if people don't have enough challenges in life without them being completely written of as unsuccessful and unattractive because they haven't grown to the socially desired height. Forever being the butt of jokes and being told they have "shirt man syndrome" whenever they show any emotion about anything.

@Oblomov21

Bet this thread gets deleted. I'm very short and height doesn't bother me.

Well I complained about it yesterday and yet it’s still here

Mumsnet obviously think this thread is all jolly japes

Strangely, I think this is the best thread I have seen on mn about men's height - a number of people pointing out the issues about ethnicity (there are also of course issues about disability). And people taking the problem of height based discrimination seriously. So unlike many of these threads, it may lead some people to reconsider their attitudes, which can't be bad.

I am interested to hear about the continuing comments/denigration to short women (as opposed to children - and yes I agree that adults who comment on children's height are very annoying and rude). Sorry to those pp who this has happened to - not meaning to make light of your experience! My impression has been that while it is very tiresome in your teens, it ceases to be an issue as an adult - but this thread suggests maybe not the case. Still, the bar to finding a partner does not seem to be as great.

@Youhavetoquitwhileyoureahead
Yes, although some of the views espressed by a few are shocking, the condemnation and then the discussion has been genuinely interesting anf helpful.

@AyeKarumba

He's a cringey, short arse, rich, selfish nerd. NOT DISHY!!!!!

Short arse Lovely

Another insult/“joke” that’s supposedly fine

[quote apalledandshocked]@Youhavetoquitwhileyoureahead
Yes, although some of the views espressed by a few are shocking, the condemnation and then the discussion has been genuinely interesting anf helpful.[/quote]
Agreed. No reason to delete it when most/all of the insults /“jokes” have actually been called out.

I’d be interested if any of the posters making the jokes would come back and either say why they thought it was ok, or if any of the discussion has changed their mind (I know it’s rare for anyone on the internet to change their mind)

@BLTLover agree it's a surprise if a 9th percentile child is in growht hormone. Mine is on the 1st percentile but we were told that growth hormone wasn't recommended because he has no deficiency and there is a risk to organ growth etc if a child is put on growth hormone unnecessarily. I know it's more common in the US though, some private doctors do it...

That is the problem with this kind of physical discrimination, particularly in the US. There is nothing wrong with being smaller, in fact shorter men often live longer. However people are being encouraged to damage their health because of it. I read a bbc article the other day about leg lengthening procedures, it was horrifying and yet the man who did it despite being left disabled was happy that he was nolonger short.

I think 9th centile makes a man 5 foot 7?

@BLTLover

I think 9th centile makes a man 5 foot 7?

It’a about 5’5” 5’7” is about the 25th cen tile. 50th is 5’10” ish Looking at the growth charts online

Oh my red book says its 5 foot 7. Looks like hes going to get the piss taken by people on this thread regardless

Interested to hear that some short women feel discriminated against. My two DD's are 5'2", which these days puts them at the tail end of height for their generation, and they had their fair share of short jokes. However, neither has felt at disadvantage because of their diminutive stature. They have also attracted very tall men, both boyfriends being 6'2", which they rather like.

@BigWoollyJumpers

Interested to hear that some short women feel discriminated against. My two DD's are 5'2", which these days puts them at the tail end of height for their generation, and they had their fair share of short jokes. However, neither has felt at disadvantage because of their diminutive stature. They have also attracted very tall men, both boyfriends being 6'2", which they rather like.

Disingenuous post.

Let’s try that again, but change things slightly.

My two sons are 5'2".....neither has felt at disadvantage because of their diminutive stature. They have also attracted very tall women, both girlfriends being 6'2", which they rather like.....

Can’t you see it’s nothing like the same? There’s no way you could (genuinely) write that same paragraph about men and you know it.

DreamEvenBigger I was responding to pp's who said that the same discrimination happened to shorter women. Actually I know a number of short men who have married taller women, sure, the difference is not quite so pronounced, but short men DO marry taller women.

Yes I've often seen shorter men with tall women.

The late Ronnie Corbett, that most famous of short men, at 5'1 was married to the singer Ann Hart who is 5'8 - a long and happy marriage despite their height difference.

When all is said and done and we stop beating around the bush (ahem) shorter men are just hung better.
Yep, I said what I said.

@Missushbb

I thought he looked like Ed Milliband

He looks cross-eyed.

@LadyWithLapdog

BTW googling “how tall is...” the first thing that comes up just now is ...Olaf from Frozen. 5’4”.

I'm under 5ft.
While it seems more acceptable to be a short/petite female, as opposed to a shorter than average male, if you are the size of an 11 yaer old somethings seem discriminatory just from the design.
eg - some cars are almost impossible for a under 5ft women to drive
-counters in shops or cafes that are nose-height!

• often shops display things that are unreachable (my pet hate is putting the smallest sizes shoes on the top shelf since they will most likely be needed by the shortest people)

@miserablecat

I'm under 5ft. While it seems more acceptable to be a short/petite female, as opposed to a shorter than average male, if you are the size of an 11 yaer old somethings seem discriminatory just from the design. eg - some cars are almost impossible for a under 5ft women to drive -counters in shops or cafes that are nose-height!

• often shops display things that are unreachable (my pet hate is putting the smallest sizes shoes on the top shelf since they will most likely be needed by the shortest people)

That's not discrimination, that's just designing things for the average person. Kitchen counters and sinks are too low if you are tall and give you backache, doorways are too low. For left handed people the entire world is designed counterintuitively, even down to whether your phone recognises swipes etc. That's just life where given there is a range, some people will be outliers and have to deal with minor inconveniences.