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Re: BEING SHORT

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From: Robert James Harris
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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From: Robert James Harris <bob@bobthecomputerguy.com>
Subject: Re: BEING SHORT
Date: 1997/01/15
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