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Inside the Minds of the Short Men Who Get Their Legs Broken to Add 3-6 Inches of Height (futurism.com)
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[–] alyaza@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

more like “the society’s ridiculous standards made some men insecure about their heights”.

yeah this is a thing which is more or less directly caused by conventional beauty standards, it's not a thing that happens in a vacuum! phrasing it like that is a weird choice.