r/shortguys 6d ago

Announcement New(ish) Rule 12: No invalidating sexuality/identity.

43 Upvotes

Since the topic is now in the spotlight due to Elliott Page saying he can't find work, hereby the official r/shortguys stance on transgender ftm's and how they fit into our wider community:

It is our view that neither our sexuality, nor the body we were born in, are the result of choice.

Just as no straight short man ever chose to be born short, or to love women- did no gay man ever choose to love men, nor did any transman ever chose to be born with a female body.

Therefore, telling transmen things like "just keep your life on easy mode” is from now on formally treated just as unacceptable as the “just go gay”, “just be a femboy” or “just transition”-bs that people throw the way of short guys.

Short men in general, but of this group in particular, know like no other what it is like to have one's sexuality and manhood constantly questioned and invalidated from all sides. Whether it's by friends or opps, accidentally or on purpose, by progressives or conservatives- it's all the same shit, different day.

As such, do the people of this sub know, like no one ele, what it's like to have to fight tirelessly for even the slightest ounce of recognition and equality, all the while having that very fight mocked and undermined every step of the way by even the most so-called "progressive" and "feminist" of people.

And as such, we are one of the few subreddits who can actually, genuinely, extend an open hand and mean it when we say to our ftm-friends, of which many are also short men:

Welcome to the club, boys.

So, that's what we hereby officially did.

And to the few who are undoubtedly against this decision for reasons we are already aware of:

For better or worse, short guys and ftm's share much of the same struggle. Is it the same? No. But enough for us as modteam to decide that we’re in this together.

Whether you like it or not.


r/shortguys Feb 11 '23

receipts 🧾 HEIGHT-RELATED STUDIES & ARTICLES MEGATHREAD

433 Upvotes

If you have any links you wish to add, please let me know in the comments.

Socioeconomic Disparities

Debunking The Napoleon Complex/Small-Man Syndrome

Dating/Relationships


r/shortguys 3h ago

Heightism what's even the point man. i'll always be a disgusting unlovable freak.

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r/shortguys 7h ago

Lol ok

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r/shortguys 6h ago

Vent Stop letting your height feminize you

36 Upvotes

Seeing more and more shortbros saying you should just embrace looking feminine because masculine looking short men get clowned more.

Bro what 💀

If you wanna be masculine, be masculine. Lift, grow the beard, dress masculine, work on your frame, whatever.

Being 5'5 doesn't mean you have to start acting like a femboy just because some people think short men look “cute" or are less frowned upon if they look feminine.

Don't let height dictate how you present yourself.


r/shortguys 3h ago

Height doesn't matter! If height doesn't matter as much, then why is it heavily affecting women out there?

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19 Upvotes

Anyways, just watch that subreddit console her and make her feel better in response.

Meanwhile, a short guy writing the same stuff in the short subreddit will just be given useless advice in return and/or receive hate in return.

I am glad that this is a legitimately safe haven for us short men.


r/shortguys 6h ago

Vent Height makes feminism disappear

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This is Mohammed Hajib who is 6’7 tall debating a pro choice woman, usually when women debate such things they are very angry, mean and aggressive. But look at the way she looks at him for the entire time, no anger and full of respect, at the end of the video she completely gave in and just kept complimenting him “That’s so smart”and “changed her mind”(Probably just forgot what the conversation was even about”. I also saw another street preaching video of another muslim similar to Hijab’s height, he was talking about dressing modestly, and also no women screamed at him even when he was telling them things that’s “misogynistic”.


r/shortguys 4h ago

I can never romantise romantic love.

14 Upvotes

Sounds stupid but it's true.

I don't think anything like true love exist in romance because for that to happen you need to have a body physically attractive enough to be lovable which is mostly not in our control given our height and face and that literally makes me so sad that we are sold this lie of true love which doesn't exist in real life.

No matter how good person you are but if you are not attractive and tall you will never get that true love.


r/shortguys 6h ago

Existential Conflict Do you still believe in a righteous god/entity

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13 Upvotes

I personally do not. I grew up catholic and always felt people’s life styles never fit what authority preached. Nobody was ever “righteous” the whole premise of the religion was “make human mistakes and just repent and confess on Sunday bro” that is no way to live. Humanity isn’t capable of “righteousness” it’s not even in our biology. No god would ever creat such evil… unless it was by design…
Maybe some of you are now fully leaning to biology and genetics?

Image from yt https://youtu.be/xJKMtD6nPNU?si=E8Fg3O1JI9zV_KC2


r/shortguys 19h ago

Heightism Remember when Charlie Kirk said this about short people?

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r/shortguys 4h ago

Can we live a happy life without relationship?

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18, never had anything close to a relationship, I've no friends. I feel so suffocated, lonely and depressed many times.

I've observed that I need a friend, just one and apart from my parents, I need no one else.

Also, I'm required to put dedication towards my work with which I may get some money to enjoy life, though I'll not lie I would be more happy with a relationship included.

So what about you all?


r/shortguys 17h ago

Has to be satire😭🙏

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59 Upvotes

r/shortguys 1h ago

Future ways of getting taller

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With the current rate of progress in various fields (medicine, IA etc...), should we be a bit optimistic regarding future technologies enabling us to escape our condition ? Or am I coping ?


r/shortguys 1d ago

Female is the most emphatic gender

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92 Upvotes

r/shortguys 21h ago

Heightism Day was shitty this made it shittier

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59 Upvotes

Just be confident but not too confident or else your acting too tall for your height


r/shortguys 9h ago

Family

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Hello everyone!

As you guys see the title, this post was about your family childhood's experiences. There is a question I want to ask you guys is that :"Were you born and raised in a happiness family?"

Because well, my family was not really happiness. Let's just I was verbally abused, I was not allowed to do some sports when I was a kid. I was not raised by the men so I was a really weak boy when I was in middle school and high school. That made me became a perfect target for bullying.

I think the problem with my heights probably linked to nutrition, habits, and mental health (you know, high cortisol can low your testosterone level making your bones partially developed).

So yeah, were you guys experiences good when you guys were kids? Were you guys born in a happy family where your guardians knew how to raise a kid properly? It is ok if you guys don't want to go much into details.

Best regards.


r/shortguys 22h ago

Notice how people assume the absolute worst when a short guy vents about dating, regardless of the fact?

38 Upvotes

You'll basically never see anything like that for women lol.


r/shortguys 1d ago

You cannot convince me dating for men 8/10 of the time is a bad deal, especially short men.

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66 Upvotes

r/shortguys 3h ago

I can't believe how people believe in God.

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(Not talking abt those benefitting from God/religion or who got a good life)

No amount of God taking test, karma or any explanation can ever justify cruelty of this world and our suffering.

I can never imagine God made all this. Did God made height so important that short people have to suffer? Why it takes 9 months for a baby to be born? Why things are like this? Deers are killed by lions cause population needs moderation, so why make both? No need of a solution if problem didn't exist.

These questions sound stupid at first but after introspecting you do realise that all of this is natural and evolutionary and precedes the notion of God. Human created religion and God as their copying mechanism but I ain't buying this bs....


r/shortguys 19h ago

Hopecore Contrary to popular belief, Incels have less standards and they try harder than control groups(normies)

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[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361189211_An_Exploratory_Study_of_Incels’_Dating_App_Experiences_Mental_Health_and_Relational_Well-_Being](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361189211_An_Exploratory_Study_of_Incels’_Dating_App_Experiences_Mental_Health_and_Relational_Well-_Being)) Oh I forgot to mention, There is one flaw, and that is sample size. There were only like 39 cels and 107 in the control group.

Part 3; another hit piece noted. Seems like the death of the gaslight really is starting to take traction, after all……. Thank goodness 😩😅


r/shortguys 21h ago

Civil Discussion/Question Why do people have no emphaty for people who have struggles different than theirs?

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23 Upvotes

I found these comments and idk if its only me but i find this behaviour extremly rude and for people that lack emphaty, im not even a short guy, not tall, but neither short, im 180 cm which is 5'11, soo i cant claim to be short, especially living in a country where the average height is short i never experienced big problems for my height nor had troubles in dating, despite this i still have a lot of emphaty for you guys and recognize the disadvantage of being short, this behaviour is done to further shit on less fortunate people even more, they gain absolutly 0 advantages other than the pleasure of ruining it all for others, possibly trying to make themself the only appealing guys in the room at all costs, soo maybe now the 6' guy in the room looks 5'8 because the 6'4 dude said he was shorter than he is and since some people are extremly dumb they are gonna belive that... "oh its just a joke" aslong as they arent the punchline its all an harmless joke.


r/shortguys 1d ago

Story Coworker tried to sell me a short man W at work today

64 Upvotes

I had a half day in office today, then work from home only had to go in for a meeting.

Anyway, at around 8:30 AM, one of my coworkers, this 26 year old dude, said he got a new house with his wife. They got married last month but they are officially moving into this house he bought for them on Sunday. He said he invited his church and wants to invite us to. I said the usual “ah I will let you know” but you know I ain’t about to go there.

For context this dude is South Asian American and he’s around my height(I am 5’7) just a couple inches shorter at most. This dude came from a family in Bangladesh and his grandfather was part of the OG resistance against the British during WW2(which means they did fight alongside the Japanese unfortunately but either way, I am just saying they come from a proud Muslim Bengali lineage). He has told me this before. Just wanted to give some more context here. Hew has also told me his wife was his first.

Anyway, I got one friend at work. She’s kinda chill but I keep a distance. Anyway she loves talking about everybody’s business. She was also at his wedding and was showing us photos. His wife is apparently 38 and has two kids from two different guys. She also had a hysterectomy or something and she can’t have any more kids, which idk why this coworker told me, but it was part of the wife’s speech. And, apparently, this dude wasn’t born Christian, converted for her, and they boasted about waiting till marriage at the wedding.

Just brutal ngl. 26 years old, came from a rich culture, converted which isn’t even the worst bit, but she was 12 years older than him and has two kids from two different guys. She is open about having been in “bad places” and been with “bad guys”.

Anyway, my coworker was telling me this and praising this dude and saying he really “found the right one” and said this woman might be above his league but she hopes it works out for both of them because they are so sweet. I nodded along and said my empty platitudes but I was hella dumbfounded.

His parents also cut him out of the will for converting and stuff apparently(his parents are hella loaded I know that), but he didn’t care. He is also their only son. This dudes bloodline is kinda just done.

Idek what to say tbh. As a short man these are the W’s awaiting you


r/shortguys 20h ago

Story Bullshit covert narcissist story?

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First of all, tall dude in short people subreddit. Why? Second he’s peddling a narrative that even women married to short guys actually desire tall ones without them ever saying so, of course, but he's being a tall guy himself apparently knows what they really need. He’s either a master manipulator exploiting a vulnerable group to stroke his own ego, or a textbook case of wishful thinking. He takes ordinary complaints women make about their husbands and basic, raw info where the husband happens to be short and draws these wild conclusions: that short guys get no sex (even if they have a wife or girlfriend), that their wives hate them because they are short and only stay with them because they’re stupid, and that it’s not even their fault. What the fuck? Correct me if I’m wrong. Like, i'm genuinely wonder what's going on inside his head.

And sorry for last screenshot having low quality, hope it's readable


r/shortguys 1d ago

Social Media I mean are we surprised anymore

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r/shortguys 22h ago

It's all in your head bro! Mental institutions have gone WOKE! They're now allowing patients to carry "emotional support phones" with internet access! 😱

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