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Re: Height Preferences In Humans May Not Be Universal Thread Starter

2012 study suggests that height preferences in humans may not be universal due to cultures where extreme sexual dimorphism in stature is preferred.

You can read the full study from Elsevier via PubMed here.

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Re: Are there any cultures that prefer shorter men?

When you say culture, I'm assuming that you mean with respect to romance.

That I am not sure about, however, I remember reading about businesses to have a preference for shorter workers.

This TAL podcast highlights the experience of Japanese workers at a Toyota Plant in Japan when some Americans came in for training.

From the transcript:

"The narrator in this Japanese public television program points out that the American worker is nine years older than his Toyota trainer. He also notes for his Japanese viewers that the Americans are so much larger than the Japanese, they waste a second or two more each time they get in and out of the vehicles they're building, which makes them 10% to 15% less productive than their Asian counterparts."

This makes it pretty clear that in this work culture, shorter men would be preferred. I picked up this stat here from Reddit. According to the data, men are more represented in the workforce than women, so it can be inferred again that there is a preference for shorter workers in certain sectors (in this case automotive) in Japan. I've never heard of this preference expressed here in the west.

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Re: In 2023, NYC made height discrimination illegal Thread Starter

In 2023, both height and weight were added to the list of protected classes as it pertains to employment in New York City.

You can read more about the new statue on the NYC government web page here.

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Re: Heightism just a form of sexism

This has been talked about at length for quite some time. In 1986, this very question was asked in the following journal article (screenshot above). You can find the entire September 1986 Challenge Journal article by Dennis D. Miller here.

There is an interlink between the two for sure, but one would be remiss to suggest that heightism is sexism. It's not. In the journal above, the author challenges readers by asserting that if it were sexism, then heightism should put shorter women at an even bigger disadvantage with no favoritism. This even then (almost forty years ago) was determined to not be the case.

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