size can lower your 'odds' of living to a ripe old age... us larger folks put more Stress on significant organs (heart, lungs, kidneys, liver).. also more wear/tear on joints.. I pass off a lot of my behaviour/attitude due to repeated head trauma from low lying tree limbs, or ornate light fixtures (it's not a medically recognized excuse, but I hold to it).. My last vacation to the Caribean, the horse I was given buckled under load, so I ended up sitting out the trail ride up the mountain, much to the horses relief. As for little ladies (and I know that many women cringe at that term, but I say it with a lot of respect, admiration, OK, OK, even a modicum of lust too!)..oh, where was I? Yes, petite women... I've never met a woman who stated she disliked being petite, except for a gal who was under 5', weighed about 85 lbs and was constantly asked for proof of age despite being in her latter 30s at time. I think that was a fairly remote case... no other women in my personal experience ever expressed similar concern over being petite... except for finding clothes that fit... (I know a couple of ladies who buy all their shoes from kids store, and even a few, well, without being blatantly indiscreet, have to use a childs speculum.. I'll say no more... the ladies know the reference, anyone else it's none of your business).
However, on the male side, when working as a bouncer in my wild days, the most trouble was typically from the vertically challenged males. Trying to make up with aggression for perceived shortcomings, or perhaps they too were subjected to a form of bias/discrimination based solely on their physical stature (or lack of same).
In any event, either drunk or sober, a lot of the guys who deliberately targeted me or the other bouncers/doormen where typically short statured & short tempered.
I may sound judgemental, generalizing like that, but that was my experience. The fact that I never walked a mile in their shoes perhaps blinds me to the reality of the life they lived... I did come to realize that a lot of their anger & resentment is perhaps due to the way they were treated by the female of the species.. I saw a lot of women who liked tall men, a lot who liked big men, a lot who liked older men, and those who self identified as being 'chubby chasers', a term used around one of the larger, more rotund guys that I worked with as a bouncer... but I don't recall any women who came to the various clubs I worked at and left with a guy who was shorter than they... Now, this may sound like a condemnation of women but it's not meant that way.. I raised it to illiustrate the other end of the spectrum I commonly witnessed.. and to some extent still do. Taller women.. It seems to be fading, but there was a time when 5' 10" or more for a woman was akin to a social death sentence. I don't know just how many strikingly attractive women on the tall side would come to a club, and immediately kick of their shoes in order to increase the chances of being asked to dance (back in the days when women only danced with men in public - in case anyone forgot my age)... or how they would be stooped over, trying to disguise their height. Damned shame how their posture was affected... almost a dowager hump... Why? Our stupid culture, or the weak egos of the male of the species... so few men will date a woman taller than they.. Idiotic!. But, I'm rambling. And displaying the ignorance of myself, and my era. I hope the newer generations are less superficial than myself or my generation. It's a sad commentary that, despite being so called civilized beings, in a lot of ways we treat each other, and our respective differences, with just 2 dimensional thinking.
