To think this FB meme is mean and spiteful?

[KimberleyClark]

Plenty of comments underneath about small man syndrome.

I sort of laughed, I'm always a wee bit surprised to come across one I've never heard.

I dream of being 5' 4"

😅

Are you new to the internet?

I'll live. 😊

YANBU

Making fun of physical characteristics people's isn't funny.

My friend has achondroplasia. The despicable shit he puts up with on a daily basis is terrible.

A male family member is below 5ft 4in. They get a lot of small man syndrome too, stereotyping nonsense.

Yeah bc I guess for most ppl, it'd be punching down..😂

Sorry

OK mocking them for their height or baldness is wrong ... but penis size?
If you didn't laugh - you'd cry.
I would anyway.

I would have just scrolled past it.
Sharing on here? What was the point of that apart from being offended on someone else's behalf?

Finding a particular physical attribute unattractive in a partner is nothing to do with how intelligent a person is. According to one of the surveys I seem to recall a short man linking to as evidence of the 'discrimination' he faced in dating, successful 'alpha' females prefer to date tall men, and you'd assume such women were 'bright'? Similarly successful men who have options will typically go for certain mainstream characteristics in women, and again, you'd assume such men were pretty bright.

Awful meme. Not sure why shorter men are the butt of jokes - height has never been something I have considered when assessing whether I find a man attractive - had a fling many years ago with a man of 5'2 to my 5'4.

I doubt if I’d shared a mean meme about women on here people would be tearing a strip off me for sharing it.

I feel the same. Women justifiably complain about being objectified by men, but it's very hypercritical if we then start objectifying men ourselves. We should be pushing for equality by improving standards for women, not by reducing them for men. I used to work with a group of women who objectified male employees in a way that was quite shocking - to me anyway. I find it really disrespectful.

Mocking short men is similar to mocking women who with smaller boobs. Silly, unkind and immature imo.

She frets for her not even very small son iirc.

I don’t have any children.

Sorry my mistake

Im not bothered about height. My husband is about same height as me.
Im even less bothered about whether a Facebook meme makes a joke about short men though. I think women have far greater pressure regarding appearance and body type

Ha ha ha thats shut her up 🤣

Don’t be sorry , made me laugh 😂

Makes sense (in a twisted way), you could also say that hairy women are mocked whereas hairy men aren’t. All coming from the stereotypes, men supposed to be strong/tall/muscular/rough, women supposed to be delicate/pretty/quiet etc

Try being a particularly tall woman, as a PP said it is all about divergence from stereotypes.

Typical internet stuff. I don't think there was ever a golden age where people were always kind, polite and thoughtful but in the past there were limits on the reach of their silly, cruel, nasty and downright vile opinions. What technology has done is enabled the unparalleled spread of anything, ranging from questionable jokes through to the truly appalling comments. In days gone by if someone was inclined to send a vindictive message to someone they would have to sit down and write an anonymous poison pen letter, maybe even cutting up the letters from an old newspaper and glueing them onto a sheet a paper. Nowadays people can fire off hateful bile in a matter of seconds from their phone.

If you shared a very obviously mean and spiteful meme, with the thread title "AIBU to think this FB meme is mean and spiteful?", Of course you would!

I am short and people joke about it all the time. I don't mind at all but I can see why some short blokes might find it annoying. I guess if the intent is to insult someone then it's the intent that's insulting, rather than the actual insult (IYSWIM?!)

Maybe those very short women just fancy the same men you do and it has nothing to do with how tall they themeselves are.