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    similarly tall, similarly "imposing' men and women are corrected by outsiders

I will never be one of those women - tall, or imposing, or on average physically built anything like a male. While it would be interesting to use physical size as one way to measure and/or compare how people of different sexes or genders are treated, due to the fact that women are in general physically smaller and lighter than men, I do not think that such an experiment would demonstrate an accurate assessment of how women as a whole are treated.

Are you saying that this behavior happens because women are in general physically smaller and therefore less imposing, and that the behavior would prove to be an equally common experience of both sexes if only men and women were the same size?