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Article #93Re: BEING SHORT
From: Robert James Harris
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 00:00
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 00:00
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Todd Gillespie wrote: > > F. Calderon (fmartin@herald.infi.net) wrote: > : Frank Calderon wrote: > > : As someone who's 5'9" (OK, OK, I'm actually 5' 8-1/2") I thought I'd throw in > : this little bit o' info: > > : 20/20 (on ABC) had a story about short men and their dating problems this > : Friday night (think their producers might be reading some of these posts?). > : And guess what they found? Most women prefer tall men (surprise, surprise)! Actually not. It was a typical lying liberal media type setup predesigned to seperate people, create new underclasses and to dehumanize men. What did you expect - truth, honesty, morality or dignity - not from the press - they are strangers to such concepts. The first thing they did was strip them of an environment where anything but looks mattered. Then they dressed them all casually, seeming to favor the taller guys. They stood them up, line up style behind a glass wall and told a bunch of bimbos - make your choice - basically which Boy Toy for tonight? Only after they had made choices were they told stuff to try to change thier mind. The short men would have had a much better chance in a typical MEAT Market. All force of personally was ignored, all signs of wealth and taste removed, the scent of cologne ingnored, and any grace of motion denied etc etc. Any pre-knowledge of accomplishment, passion, profession etc - the things that a person uses to help shape a choice - everything was absent. The closest comparison would be to line up six topless women, stick two flat chested girls in, and with only that info, decide that men have an overwhelming propensity to choose big breasted women and itty bitties have no chance. You know how close to reality that would be viewed. Fact - for thousands of generations, women have selected mates on a basis of strength and power. Is he capable of protecting me and able to provide for me and our future children? Yes - it's a go, no find some one else. Of course in todays society, it's not AS conscious a choice as in previous generations, but it is still there. Short fat old bald guy's in Aramini suits being chauffer driven to an exclusive club from thier Beverly Hills home get into a hell of a lot more relationships with much nicer people than studly nobody just off the bus. Fiction - women go for studly nobody just off the bus because he's a hunk. This only happens in romance novels and soap opera's. One of the sexiest movie stars of all time was Maurice Chevailer - a short older French type - who played extremely classy wealthy playboy type roles and was dearly loved by millions of much younger women fans. He portrayed the power, class, refinement, dignity and manliness that women want in a man and did it without resorting to camera gimmickery to hide his height. If the only way you have a chance to get a date is to completely de-humanize yourself and stand in a line up, then maybe this program has some relationship to reality. Otherwise it's pure media crap.
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