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A social experiment on OKcupid found that men lying about their height by increasing it by 3 inches received 13 percent more replies as well as lenghtier replies.<ref>https://www.huffingtonpost.com/benjamin-rubenstein/surviving-shortness_b_4240731.html</ref> Short-shaming sometimes overlaps with [[incelphobia]]. Discrimination against short men isn't limited to the dating scene. Data shows that for each inch of lower height, a man earns 789 dollars a year. In other words, its not your work ethic or competence that earns you money; rather it's your looks.<ref>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-trouble-with-tall-people/</ref> | A social experiment on OKcupid found that men lying about their height by increasing it by 3 inches received 13 percent more replies as well as lenghtier replies.<ref>https://www.huffingtonpost.com/benjamin-rubenstein/surviving-shortness_b_4240731.html</ref> Short-shaming sometimes overlaps with [[incelphobia]]. Discrimination against short men isn't limited to the dating scene. Data shows that for each inch of lower height, a man earns 789 dollars a year. In other words, its not your work ethic or competence that earns you money; rather it's your looks.<ref>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-trouble-with-tall-people/</ref> | ||
For many women, dating is about status and seem to have agreed that tallness means prestige. Women pick men who will inspire the envy of other women and getting a tall man seems like a victory in women's competition with other women, although this unspoken bragging right is not really openly discussed in society, since they want to downplay the [[blackpill]]. | |||
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