Sunday, February 05, 2012

Dwarfs & Amazons

I am feeling distressed & not a little harassed & alarmed by things I have been reading in The Times. Perhaps the Equalities Commission might take action on my behalf.

Polly Vernon wrote that men really don’t like British women in extreme high heels because, with an added 5½in of heel the average British woman of 5ft 4in will gazing down on the unprotected bald spots of most of the men (average height 5ft 9in) in any room, a Lady Gaga to their cowering Obamas.

I don’t wear high heels, but Alex Hardy laid into Robin Roberts, ‘an Amazonian 5ft 10in’ who reportedly refuses to wear flat shoes so that she doesn’t dwarf George Stephanopoulos, her 5ft 6½in co-anchor on Good Morning America. Poor man – how could he bear it when working for 6ft Bill Clinton*?

Such restrictions on wardrobe choices amount to discrimination on grounds of gender. He’s dwarfed anyway. Why is it not demanded that he wear 6in heels? Or sack him & employ someone taller, if you think there’s a rule against putting a man to work with a woman who is taller. Or let them both sit down & give him a booster seat. Or perhaps they should dig trenches for her to stand in, as Alan Ladd’s co-stars are reported to have had to do.

Or just get over it, & stop upsetting women who have to put up with this kind of language, just because of the way nature made us. Breastless we are not.

And then a leader writer demanded an investigation ino why female tennis players have grown so tall.



*According to Google Best guess for Bill Clinton Height is 1.89 Meter
Mentioned on at least 6 websites including wikipedia.org, celebheights.com and doctorzebra.com
Posted by at
Labels: