As a 5′ 4″ male adult, and it’s something I am not proud of.
I have been discriminated upon all my life. I cannot date women, participate in certain sports everyone else takes for granted like basketball or football, or be viewed favorably in a professional environment unlike my taller counterparts. I am often compared to despotic anti-Christ dictators such as Napoleon (5′ 6″), Josef Stalin (5′ 5″), Nikita Khrushchev (5′ 3″) and Kim Jong Il (5′ 3″). Short people like me have been the justification for genocide, like they have done in Rwanda and in Bosnia.
This is the life I live, which is a life in which I cannot enjoy basic things that others take for granted. There is no way for me to fly planes, become a politician or head of any company, even though I hypothetically be the most-qualified individual out there. Being short is not like being fat or being skinny or even being weak-willed. There is nothing that I can do to make myself taller and become complicit with everyone else in society. You can say it’s like being born black, hispanic, or Asian, even though I am white.
But I suppose all the tall people out there wouldn’t know that, since you people don’t have to deal with the bullshit I have to deal with. THAT’s why I’m not religious, anymore; because if God intended for everyone to be happy, He would have made everyone tall.
