little man syndrome

[sawyerloggingon]

I don't mean to offend any little men in here but I just had another run in with one yesterday. Will you guys get over it please! I realize that looking up at everyone, being outweighed by everyone and being weaker than everyone must be intimidating but we are all shorter, smaller and weaker than somebody else you know so really dudes GET THE F*** over it, you don't have to try to cut the big man down to size. eace

EDIT: I meant for this to go in off topic not the lighter side, my mistake.

 

[Canell]

I don't mean to offend any little men in here but I just had another run in with one yesterday. Will you guys get over it please! I realize that looking up at everyone, being outweighed by everyone and being weaker than everyone must be intimidating but we are all shorter, smaller and weaker than somebody else you know so really dudes GET THE F*** over it, you don't have to try to cut the big man down to size. eace

EDIT: I meant for this to go in off topic not the lighter side, my mistake.

Why should size be an issue? As the word goes, Mr. Colt made all men equal. :wink2:

 

[Jetboogieman]

 

[OscarB63]

Why should size be an issue? As the word goes, Mr. Colt made all men equal. :wink2:

why indeed, but there are many "little" guys out there with chips on their shoulders about it. I'm a fairly big guy (6'3", 210) and I have been treated rudely by short guys with the "wee-man" syndrome on many occasions. I don't get it. I was a "late bloomer" so all through most of HS I was one of the shortest, smallest guys in the school and was never an ass about it.

 

[sawyerloggingon]

why indeed, but there are many "little" guys out there with chips on their shoulders about it. I'm a fairly big guy (6'3", 210) and I have been treated rudely by short guys with the "wee-man" syndrome on many occasions. I don't get it. I was a "late bloomer" so all through most of HS I was one of the shortest, smallest guys in the school and was never an ass about it.

I think society has put a lot of pressure on men to be big and strong like it does on women to be small and pretty. I am 6' which used to be considered pretty tall but these young guys all suddenly seem to be like 6'2 so I am looking up a lot these days.:lol:

 

[sawyerloggingon]

So I'm guessing you're around 5'6? :lol:

 

[MaggieD]

I don't mean to offend any little men in here but I just had another run in with one yesterday. Will you guys get over it please! I realize that looking up at everyone, being outweighed by everyone and being weaker than everyone must be intimidating but we are all shorter, smaller and weaker than somebody else you know so really dudes GET THE F*** over it, you don't have to try to cut the big man down to size. eace

EDIT: I meant for this to go in off topic not the lighter side, my mistake.

I think "The Lighter Side" is appropriate.

 

[OscarB63]

I think society has put a lot of pressure on men to be big and strong like it does on women to be small and pretty. I am 6' which used to be considered pretty tall but these young guys all suddenly seem to be like 6'2 so I am looking up a lot these days.:lol:

the average height for a man in the US is 5' 9.5"". It would be higher except for all the mexican americans

Whites: 5' 10.5"
Blacks: 5' 10"
Mexicans: 5'7"

 

[Diogenes]

I think society has put a lot of pressure on men to be big and strong like it does on women to be small and pretty. I am 6' which used to be considered pretty tall but these young guys all suddenly seem to be like 6'2 so I am looking up a lot these days.:lol:

A story in our local paper yesterday was about a woman arrested for punching her son in the face and giving him a bloody nose. The kid is ten years old, 5'11" tall, and weighs 210 pounds.

 

[Superfly]

I don't mean to offend any little men in here but I just had another run in with one yesterday. Will you guys get over it please! I realize that looking up at everyone, being outweighed by everyone and being weaker than everyone must be intimidating but we are all shorter, smaller and weaker than somebody else you know so really dudes GET THE F*** over it, you don't have to try to cut the big man down to size. eace

EDIT: I meant for this to go in off topic not the lighter side, my mistake.

Maybe he just doesn't like you, and size has nothing to do with it?

 

[sawyerloggingon]

Maybe he just doesn't like you, and size has nothing to do with it?

Being a woman you don't have experience with this. It is a lot like when a little dog is yapping at you and nipping at your heels.

 

[sawyerloggingon]

A story in our local paper yesterday was about a woman arrested for punching her son in the face and giving him a bloody nose. The kid is ten years old, 5'11" tall, and weighs 210 pounds.

I have a theory on this sudden surge of kids getting so big so fast. I think it's the growth hormones that have been given to our livestock for the last couple of decades but that could be a thread of its own.

 

[clownboy]

Heh, I've always thought the air is better down closer to the ground. :mrgreen:

 

[Diogenes]

Heh, I've always thought the air is better down closer to the ground. :mrgreen:

Confucius say, "Elevator smell different to midget." :mrgreen:

 

[Aunt Spiker]

I have a theory on this sudden surge of kids getting so big so fast. I think it's the growth hormones that have been given to our livestock for the last couple of decades but that could be a thread of its own.

What's changed is the opinion of when a person becomes 'full grown.' People say this about 17 and 18 year olds as if it's a shock that, after almost 2 decades of living, one reaches physical maturity. The idea of a 17 or 18 year old being 'immature' is very modern. Countless years ago they would have been out of school before that age, thus, they would have been seen as 'an adult' when they reached their full height.

Disease and other things stunt growth, as well.

On top of that - the type of food you eat affects how fast you grow, and where that extra 'add' is - thickness, or height.

 

[OscarB63]

I have a theory on this sudden surge of kids getting so big so fast. I think it's the growth hormones that have been given to our livestock for the last couple of decades but that could be a thread of its own.

that's why you have all these 12-13 y/o girls walking around with 36DD racks

 

[Diogenes]

What's changed is the opinion of when a person becomes 'full grown.' People say this about 17 and 18 year olds as if it's a shock that, after almost 2 decades of living, one reaches physical maturity. The idea of a 17 or 18 year old being 'immature' is very modern. Countless years ago they would have been out of school before that age, thus, they would have been seen as 'an adult' when they reached their full height.

Very true. I have read that the average age of a cowboy in the late 19th century was 15. Buckskin & Blanket Days is a good autobiographical account of one young man born in 1840 who was left in charge of his mother and two younger brothers when he was 10 years old. The county then farmed him out to a foster family and he served a year of forced labor there before he ran away. At 15 he got mixed up in Bleeding Kansas and managed to get himself shot and hanged before he turned 21. He had an adventurous life, was the Socialist People's Party candidate for vice president in 1904 and died in 1928. His experience wasn't that far off norm for the time and place, but it must seem pretty dramatic for those who now believe in keeping "children" dependent until they are 26 - Minnesota has a State Childrens Health Insurance Program where 2/3 of the enrollees are old enough to vote.

 

[radioman]

that's why you have all these 12-13 y/o girls walking around with 36DD racks

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Really?
What do the 21 year olds look like?
Where do you live?

 

[Aunt Spiker]

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Really?
What do the 21 year olds look like?
Where do you live?

LOL - yes, very few people achieve those numbers without being overweight.

Yes - I see things like that written out and it makes me wonder what they imagine 'girls' should look like - etc - I see nothing really different between now and what girls looked like when I was young, 30 years ago or so. :shrug:

It's that perception, that odd illusion, that 'back then we were all less-mature looking than they are today' - I think what's really happened is that people's perceptions have been stilted by their relative age to 'the decade in question'

As for women's sizes - sorry, but you can't claim it's a sign of anything when what's really changing are the industry standards for 'what a bra size is'

American Bra Size Average Increases From 34B to 34DD In Just 20 Years, Survey Says

I'm all the time reading articles and stuff that state that women 'don't know how to measure themselves properly for a bra' :shrug: If I go to V-Secret, I'm a 32B. If I go to Walmart, I'm a 34D, and I have money left over. (Guess where I shop?)

Maybe in the days of corsets and more full-formed braziers they had more universal methods of measuring (I doubt it) but that's just not indicative of what every woman on earth actually deals with.

 

[TheGirlNextDoor]

Heh. Thread title misleading.

Exiting now...

 

[OscarB63]

- I see nothing really different between now and what girls looked like when I was young, 30 years ago or so. :shrug:

meh, I graduated HS 32 years ago. when I was in school, most of the girls in our class were flat chested until 8th or 9th grade. there were a couple who developed earlier but not many. My first teaching job was at a middle school (grades 6,7 and 8) in 1995 and most of the girls in my 7th and 8th grade classes could have easily passed as being 16-17 years old.

 

[TheGirlNextDoor]

meh, I graduated HS 32 years ago. when I was in school, most of the girls in our class were flat chested until 8th or 9th grade. there were a couple who developed earlier but not many. My first teaching job was at a middle school (grades 6,7 and 8) in 1995 and most of the girls in my 7th and 8th grade classes could have easily passed as being 16-17 years old.

I wish that'd been the case. I developed early and was teased without mercy. I had breasts in third grade and started my period a year after. It sucked.

I graduated hs in '87, btw

 

[Superfly]

Hormones added to milk makes sense. I've always wondered why girls seemed to "blossom" so much earlier than they did when I was a kid.

 

[Aunt Spiker]

Let's rewind: we know that the average body fat of individuals has risen - not even saying that the average person is obese, but body fat is just slightly higher than it was before person to person.

For girls - the menstrual cycle is triggered when you achieve a certain level of bod-fat to tissue (etc) ratio.

If, on average, girls are slightly heavier than they use to be - it only stands to reason that they, in direct relation to that, will start puberty earlier.

It is diet - but not in the way you're imagining it to be. . . don't feel bad, even scientists didn't know what triggered female development until just recently. Whereas the myth that it's all trigger by hormones that some consume has been around for decades - in part because scientists didn't actually know.

It makes no sense that girls 'blossomed' mid high-school when the average age for puberty was much earlier for that, even in the past. I think what happened is boys paid more attention.

Breast development happens in various stages - and for most girls, it happens before you begin to menstruate.

My sisters and I, my mother, and so many other women in my life all started puberty between the ages of 8-13.

That's why anyone who was in junior high or high school and undeveloped was made fun of for being a late-bloomer.

 

[clownboy]

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Really?
What do the 21 year olds look like?
Where do you live?

Think stretch marks. :mrgreen: