r/shortguys

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Short Guys

r/shortguys

r/ShortGuys is primarily a space for short men to discuss all aspects of height, heightism, and how it affects us in all areas of life. Please read our rules & community guide before posting. Click this link to read our suggested Height-Related studies and literature : https://www.reddit.com/r/shortguys/s/2n2j2I57fi

Created Feb 24, 2013

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#Welcome to r/ShortGuys!

r/ShortGuys is primarily a space for short men to discuss all aspects height, heightism, and how if effects us in all areas of life.

Q: Is this subreddit only for short guys?

A: Everyone, regardless of height, is allowed to participate in this subreddit as long as they follow the rules.

However, if you are not a short guy then we ask that you read the pinned Studies & Articles Megathread before attempting to give members advice/sharing your judgements or your comment may be removed.

Also, be warned that we have a very low tolerance for trolls who come to this subreddit to bully short men so don't act surprised if you get permabanned after bullying members of the community.

Q: What is heightism?

A: Heightism or height discrimination is prejudice or discrimination against individuals based on height. In principle, it refers to the discriminatory treatment against individuals whose height is not within the normal acceptable range of height in a population.

#PLEASE SEE THE HEIGHT-RELATED ARTICLES & STUDIES MEGATHREAD

Q: Why is r/shortguys separate from r/short?

A: We feel that the moderation team of r/short has fostered an atmosphere of toxic positivity and victim blaming by banning short guys who are honest about their experiences related to their height. In addition, the moderation team has not done enough to protect their subreddit from trolls and other users who go there to disrespect short men as well as partnering with subreddits that routinely bully short men.

#Here is a comprehensive list of rebuttals to common gaslights against short men.

#RULES

1. No incel terms/incel content.

This NOT an incel subreddit and incel terminology will result in an immediate ban. (Examples of incel language include, but are not limited to: rope, blackpill, any word ending in "-cel" referring to various types of incels, incel phrases such as "over for shortcels" etc.)

Also, do not link to incel websites/incel content-creators. General incel/blackpill content will be removed.

2. No gaslighting.

While everyone of all heights are welcome to post in this subreddit, your posts and comments must be respectful of short guys. Denying the existence of heightism, using anecdotes to undermine the experiences of short men/scientific studies, and humble-bragging about your height (or your partner's height) will result in a ban.

3. No violent content.

This includes making threats to others, posting real-life violence/gore, talking about weapons, "ironic" calls for violence, explicit mentions of self harm, etc.

4. No trolling/low-effort posts

Participation in bad faith is not allowed. Don't troll, don't make idiotic threads, and don't come here just to argue.

5. No harassment of other users.

While crossposting entire threads is allowed, targeting individual users from other subreddits is prohibited. This includes tagging someone's username for the purpose of harassment or linking individual comments from other subreddits (post a screencap with the username removed, instead.)

6. No hate speech.

Racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, etc. will result in an immediate ban.

7. No body shaming other users of the sub.

Being that much of the userbase have been victims of persistent bodyshaming, insults based on other people's physical characteristics (ex: height, weight, penis-size, etc) to other users of this subreddit are not allowed. You must insult the argument and not the individual.

8. No concern-trolling.

Please understand that users often come here to vent their height-related frustrations in one of the only spaces that allows them to. However, posts and comments that complain about r/shortguys being "too negative" will be removed because they rarely lead to any productive discussions and almost always miss the bigger picture.

Positive content is absolutely encouraged but you don't need to call attention to yourself if you think this subreddit is too negative, you can simply leave.

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