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caio  ·  5040 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Short and Male
The bone-surgery reminded me of the chinese practice of foot-binding. As newgreen said, the lenghts we'll go for acceptance and conformity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_cranial_deformation

I'm 165cm (5''5') -- shorter than the policeman. My friends are, generally, taller than me. But I'm ok. I sometimes think about it, but it's not something that bothers me.

Cosmic irony: I have a friend who was shorter than me when I met him. He was young, though, and some years later, when I encountered him again, he'd grown taller than me. Now I, who used to tease him about his size, was teased back. It was a friendly revenge, but still it shows how this -- and many others -- preconceptions are hidden beneath our lives.