Short People to the Rescue

[JoyJoyJoy]

A guest essay for the New York Times insisted that being short is "better" for the future to the amusement of several Twitter users on Sunday and Monday.

Author Mara Altman penned the essay remarking that not only do shorter people tend to live longer, but they’re also crucial in conserving food and resources in our dying planet.

"The short are also inherent conservationists, which is more crucial than ever in this world of eight billion. Thomas Samaras, who has been studying height for 40 years and is known in small circles as the Godfather of Shrink Think, a widely unknown philosophy that considers small superior, calculated that if we kept our proportions the same but were just 10 percent shorter in America alone, we would save 87 million tons of food per year (not to mention trillions of gallons of water, quadrillions of B.T.U.s of energy and millions of tons of trash),"

Altman went as far as to suggest people begin purposefully mating with shorter people in order to produce a shorter society.

https://www-foxnews-com.cdn.ampproj...guest-essay-argues-short-people-better-planet

Well now, top this story!! Having been *short* my entire life, I guess I am a climate saving super hero.
What will they think of next???

 

[Tall Timbers]

I'm on the tall side and I probably eat twice as much as a lot of shorter people, though I see shorter people out there who must be eating twice as much as I do. I guess when the decree goes out to bring the population down to half a billion, they'll come after everyone over 6' first.

 

[JoyJoyJoy]

It's the first time I ever heard of a positive side of being short.
I think it's hilarious.
One Twitter user said the author of the article is probably short and single.

 

[Tall Timbers]

So... if you're tall are you a racist?

 

[katt]

Count me in as an earth saving super hero..I've been five feet since I was 10 years old..

 

[GEOINTAnalyst]

So I guess if you are a Anakim, Emim, Zamzummin, Nephilim or Rephaim from the Bible you would be out of luck, since most of them were over 8 feet tall

 

[Tall Timbers]

Count me in as an earth saving super hero..I've been five feet since I was 10 years old..

I guess you're probably no racist, then.

 

[HisGloryIsPrecious]

Shame on these people for being heightaphobic . Where is LeBron James to call them out!

 

[JoyJoyJoy]

I think this is height discrimination...againt tall people. @Tall Timbers you may be eligible for some compensation. But you and your kind done used up all the earth's resources. I am bitter towards you!!

 

[Cloud Watcher]

I'm short, and all my kids and grandkids are taller than me. Only the great grandkids are shorter, and that's because they are so very young.

 

[lightofmylife]

I am 5'3 1/2 " tall so they probably consider me a short person, and I know it when it is hard to reach the shelves at the store. I need a ladder. I just read an article that said average height for women is 5'3'', and under 5' is short. Well all size Christians will live forever! Remember the song Short People by Randy Newman. https://vimeo.com/656715535

 

[JoyJoyJoy]

@lightofmylife I was thinking of that song too!!

Too bad that I am past child bearing age. Some tree hugging, skinny pants wearing boy with earrings and no job might would want me to bear his short child.<whew!!>

 

[Tall Timbers]

Pretty soon some enterprising entrepreneur will introduce a dating app thar requires those who sign up be below a certain height.

 

[lightofmylife]

Pretty soon some enterprising entrepreneur will introduce a dating app thar requires those who sign up be below a certain height.

That sounds like discrimination to me.

 

[Tall Timbers]

That sounds like discrimination to me.

I'm not familiar with dating apps but don't they already have ones aimed at certain people in the population as opposed to all people?

 

[Aiyanna]

I'm 5'1.... People are constantly commenting on how "tiny" I am. One customer looked at me and said "Are you really that short?"..... I had to really bite my tongue, the temptation to say something snarky was quite powerful.

 

[Carl]

I used to work with someone that had worked as a lineman in Canada. What he told me was that they liked to staff the workers with small people. They found that small people can do more work in a day and don't get as tired.
How big were the lumberjacks out west that started lumbering the redwoods? They used to eat 12,000 calories a day!

 

[JoyJoyJoy]

I'm not familiar with dating apps but don't they already have ones aimed at certain people in the population as opposed to all people?

I am not familiar either but I know several people that have used one called Plenty of Fish or something like that. And I have seen a Christian site advertised on TV.

 

[Carl]

I'm 5'1.... People are constantly commenting on how "tiny" I am. One customer looked at me and said "Are you really that short?"..... I had to really bite my tongue, the temptation to say something snarky was quite powerful.

Well are you? Of course how can one fake that? I used to be 5'-4" but somewhere in the past few years I lost the 4 inches. I don't recall people picking on my size though. Course I never cared either.

 

[Bethlehem57]

It's the first time I ever heard of a positive side of being short.
I think it's hilarious.
One Twitter user said the author of the article is probably short and single.

First for me as well. I’m 5’0”; DH is 6’2”.