Being Short Women
Feel like most of the people on here on men and I see a lot of posts talking about how being short as a woman is fine and way more socially acceptable. I'm really not terribly short for a woman in my country (5'2, 158 cm), it's less than average surely. I am the smallest in my family and there are a lot of things I do not mind about it. I fit very comfortably in airplanes and twin sized beds for example and because I am so short I fit in like 5$ Large kids clothing if I want.
What really bothered me was how other people treat me. It was mostly men who would use it I think to try and flirt with me but it ended up coming off condescending usually. Originally I would laugh it off even though it got old fast (I'm short, everyone tells me that. I get told that a lot. Very original) but then when I started politely telling people who called me short that I wasn't comfortable with it, again mostly men, they'd get upset and use any excuse to skirt them stating a fact. It didn't matter that I said it nicely, or that I tried explaining that it got very tiring being called short every other day, or that being a short woman meant that a lot of people treated me like nothing I did was serious, they would be upset because, it's true, I am short!! Why can't they state a fact?
I don't think that being short is bad. I don't mind it honestly, it does kind of suck as I feel like it has effected my path in physical based media (theatre and dance) but being very tall affects that too. It's mostly just that being told I am short. Constantly. By everyone I know. By strangers. It gets really tiring and after so long of that I guess who wouldn't feel bad about themselves?
My friends who are taller seem to be treated differently, they did well in sports naturally and I have asked and they say people rarely comment on their height.
I mean at the end I am grateful for my health and cannot control others.