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Chicago Tribune, October 6, 1907. "The Tall Girl Problem: How Will Chicago Society Solve It?" Part 1 - Part 2

A word or two on sports

The article mentions that many professional sports favour height, which is true, however there are a number of examples where height is a disadvantage - Horse Racing jockeys, and most glaringly the scrum half position in Rugby Union. RU also features a "tall players" position - Second Row/Lock Forward, perhaps RU should get a specific mention for being an arena where height discrimination is used both ways? 82.13.249.178 (talk) 07:23, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

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A more balanced section on heightism and gender

There is a section for men and heightism, but nothing on women and heightism. This should be corrected and include references to the ethically contentious historical practice of giving female children hormone therapy to stunt their growth and avoid the social stigmas associated with being too tall. ArtesianAction (talk) 08:08, 27 April 2025 (UTC)

Modern Height Discrimination is Rooted in White Supremacy

This is neither conjecture, hypothesis, opinion, nor argument. This is a a bare and verifiable historical fact. It is part of our shared history that well into the 1950s Eugenic ideals of height where widely incorporated into the institutions and political structures of Western society as a matter of "genetic hygiene" of the population. This happened FULL. STOP. 2001:56A:718C:E000:A0EF:4964:D867:A33A (talk) 16:26, 26 May 2025 (UTC)

I'm not sure that the statement made in the lead that "modern Western height discrimination originated in 19th Century eugenic, Social Darwinist and white supremacist movements" has been verified. The sources provided state that height has been included in eugenic studies, not that this is the beginning of height discrimination. Unless better sources can be provided, this statement should be revised, perhaps to an observation that height has been linked to eugenics. Wcp07 (talk) 23:51, 5 August 2025 (UTC)

Short-associated and tall-associated words?

A quote from the article:

"A study done involving spatial attention showed that people who were unhappy with their height were prone to looking quicker to short-associated words and tried to avoid attention to tall connected words because they could illicit negative feelings"

This is unclear. Can this be rewritten or updated to clarify what 'short-associated' and 'tall connected' words are? ~2026-10237-05 (talk) 18:10, 15 February 2026 (UTC)

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