Dishy Rishi is only 5ft5 !!

[newcarcoming]

He's dinky!!

He looks so much taller!!

Like a previous poster, I was bullied at school as I was the tallest girl and so taller than many of the boys. I got called horrible names by them and the most vitriolic abuse came from a very short boy.

Oddly enough it never occurred to me that it might have been a height issue, I assumed it was because I was English in a Scottish school, but thinking back, it was probably a combination of both.

@NotSorry I've interviewed him. He's my height. 5'7. We were eye to eye.

And agree with OP, I had always thought he was tall! He has quite big hands in proportion to the rest of his body.

huh, and there's me thinking body-shaming was not ok.... Comments from some of the people on this thread are amazing. What was Mr Sunak supposed to do - pay more attention in growing class or something?

Imagine this thread started with 'Dishy Rishi is actually Brown !!!' - as if that was something he should have sorted out when he was younger too.... smdh

What a depressingly rude thread about men having to be a certain height to be attractive and marriage potential. We push back against men saying this sort of shit about women, and yet here we are, taking to the internet to poke fun out of a man's height.

I'm 5'5, my husband is 5'5, it has about as much bearing on people and their days as Rishi Sunak's height. Absolutely nothing.

@newcarcoming

He's dinky!!

He looks so much taller!!

Did you not realise?

I married a man shorter than Rishi and it’s probably the best decision I ever made!

Honestly these reductive caricatures people insist on using, even in the 21st century make me cross.

It’s something you don’t think about until you have a small child. Mine is a total show off and loves the attention he gets and luckily he’s very athletic. So for now all is well.

If any mums of small boys are reading this - please get them into sports. So important they feel physically confident.

Yes, Rishi is tiny. Short, slight & skinny.

But he’s also rich enough to afford beautifully tailored Savile Row suits which make him look good on the telly. Money well spent.

But how big is his dunda?

@Oldat40

Never marry a short man.

That's one of the most stupid things I've ever heard someone say. Height is one of the few things you can do nothing about. Thanks for continuing the tired old trope that 'men must be big and strong and tall to be manly'.

@Hotchox

huh, and there's me thinking body-shaming was not ok.... Comments from some of the people on this thread are amazing. What was Mr Sunak supposed to do - pay more attention in growing class or something?

Imagine this thread started with 'Dishy Rishi is actually Brown !!!' - as if that was something he should have sorted out when he was younger too.... smdh

RS was made Chancellor of the Exchequer whilst still in his 30s, following a by all accounts lucrative career in the City. He's married to the daughter of a billionaire. He's [quite] good looking despite being pint sized.

I very much of doubt he'll be losing any sleep over a few light heartedly negative comments made about him on an obscure mumsnet thread.

This said, you're probably making a fair point in terms of the risk that there's say some diminutive 16 year old boy out there, without RS's other advantages, who might chance upon this thread and be hurt by it. So, yeah, regular reminders that all of this is indeed light hearted wouldn't go amiss.

@Oldat40

Never marry a short man.

Yeah. Never marry a fat woman is a good one, too.

He must be very slim. And he wears good clothes.

@Ylfa

The whole premise of the OP is pretty racist isn’t it?

You need to check the definition of racism

@AgeLikeWine

Yes, Rishi is tiny. Short, slight & skinny.

But he’s also rich enough to afford beautifully tailored Savile Row suits which make him look good on the telly. Money well spent.

Yes he wears a suit well and is very well groomed.

I find short men go one of two ways, either they go down the short man syndrome/steroid/tattoo route, or they learn to develop a self-deprecating sense of humour and make an effort to be fit/slim/well groomed. The former I don’t find attractive, the latter I do.

A lot of UK born Indian men his age are that height and build. I know as I was introduced to loads in my 20s and was ‘rejected’ by all of them for being too tall (I’m 5 ft 7). In fact at 5 ft 5 he’s probably on the taller scale.

He’s 5’7” for the umpteenth time

Not that it matters what his height is

Horrible thread

@Youhavetoquitwhileyoureahead

I think the comments to/about short women though are quite different from those to/about short men Greenland - much less derogatory, hostile and contemptuous.

Obviously that's a generalisation - there are examples of those regarding women as well, but I think for women it's shape rather than height which attracts the really awful comments.

Really? I once got told by a man that I would "look out of place" at a certain event.

Another told me in a sniggering voice "are Scottish people short because a poor diet means they are stunted at birth".

For the record, neither of these comments particularly bothered me because I'm slim and attractive (like Rishi) and because they came from none too attractive, older men who perhaps grew up in an era when that sort of comment was considered ok.

But yes to "derogatory, hostile and contemptuous" and I can't even remember most of the comments that have fallen into that category.

Erm well he is Asian . I'd say that was average for the men my community. What a weird thread. Do you know many Asian people OP?

I read that he's 5ft 7ins not 5ft 5ins. Still quite small but not ridiculously so.

@FedNlanders

My husband is over a foot taller than him.

So?

he does look nice in a suit though.

"I read that he's 5ft 7ins not 5ft 5ins. Still quite small but not ridiculously so."

No height is ridiculous, surely?

If any mums of small boys are reading this - please get them into sports. So important they feel physically confident.

What about emotionally and intellectually confident? Oh and tell them never to marry stupid women.