joshishollywood:

• Privilege is definitely a thing but I think we need to draw the line somewhere
• I propose we do it at “tall privilege”
• Yes! That’s something I’ve seen on more than one occasion
• And the reason I’m suggesting we axe shit like that is because it’s honestly diluting a really important dialogue about the differences and benefits that we don’t take into consideration but harm others
• Now I know the first thing anyone making a claim like that will do is to refuse to explain what they mean and implore the inquirer to do some research
• So I did
• And found… nothing
• At best I found some blog posts about completely circumstantial crap involving relationships with people of different heights and the insecurities it fostered
• Which
• No that’s not
• No
• One blogger suggested that shorter people have a more difficult time making it as a model and also suggested carnival rides as being a way that tall people have privilege
• I mean sure that’s fair
• But I am also one and a quarter of an inch too tall to ever be able to be an astronaut and I have hit my head at least once a day every day on public transit since I was 15
• Tall privilege exists about as permeably as short privilege does
• Now when I say that I don’t mean it the way jackasses who claim “black privilege” is a thing mean it
• I mean it in that these are silly physical characteristics with equal pros and cons that nobody is being oppressed by
• Unless you lived in North Korea that one time Kim Jong-Il had short people shipped off to islands because that apparently happened
• Of course this doesn’t really speak of dwarfism/little people but that’s not really what people who claim they have tall privilege are talking about and the shit they have to deal with is a whole other form of actual oppression
• So if you claim you have tall privilege (or by that extension short privilege) I am just going to assume you really, really, really want people to think you’re humble
• Which is not really humble at all
• In conclusion
• This is the most asinine thing I have ever posted about