Remember
Randy Newman’s "Short People" song that offered a tongue-in-cheek swipe
at the vertically impaired? Turns out some parents are taking the
perceived disadvantages of short stature way too seriously. They’re
injecting their underheight kids with growth hormones in a bid to add a
couple of inches and overcome this "disability."
There is something creepy about such tinkering, especially considering the unreliability of predicting adult height.
After
all, short people are just as liable to make a mark in life: Look at
Napoleon, or Ross Perot (in photo), or Charlie Chaplin, or economist
Milton Friedman, just to name a few.
Short people have every reason to stand tall.
Posted by Randy Scholfield
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You’re right, but unfortunately, size does matter in the real world. Whether it be weight or stature.
Hehe, getcher mind outta the gutter.
I think the PC term is “vertically challenged”. ;-)
A friend once challenged me to spend a day kinda hunched over/crouched down, to see what the world looks like from the point of view of the “vertically challenged.”
Try it sometime, if you’re of average to above-average height, just to get that different perspective.
It’s not the vertical stature of the individual that is problematic. It’s the dwarfism of too many brains that creates the problems.
well said rm …
The examples of short people could have been better.Napoleon-crazyPerot- dittoChaplin- commie
These parents are incredibly stupid, tinkering with their kids with steroids.
My son was in the 97th percentile for size when he was little. That means that if you took a hundred kids there would only have been 3 shorter than him. Now he is in the 13th percentile. There was no chemical manipulation.
Size matters? I won’t go there.
Stature matters? Bill O’Relly is 6 foot 4. But he is a very “small” man!
Bill O’Reilly will always be a small man but he sure knows how to make millions off the sheeple.
There’s something creepy about short people in general…. small hands…
Why does it always have to be about short people? I am tall and no one gives a damn. Do you know how hard it is to find pants the right lenght? Short people can just get theirs tailored, you can’t lengthen pants. And what about low hanging signs and decorations in stores? Do you care that tall people must always be wary of where they are walking so we don’t hit our heads?
Short people can kiss my knee!
Notice that nobody will ask a smaller stature person “how short are you?” but have no problem going to a taller than normal person and ask “how tall are you?”Gee whiz people it’s none of your business!
Maybe it’s more PC to ask a short person how tall they aren’t?
Now Julie,
I’m fairly sure you do not get a lot of people asking how tall you are. You just KNOW someone who does :)
It is a shame that tall, or rather big individuals are instantly perceived as being more authoritative, and intelligent. But studies have repeatedly demonstrated that perception is the case, and they will advance more quickly.