He Was 5'7". After Surgery, He’ll Be 5'10"
This guy is facing up to a real problem, but his solution is a brutal one. The plain fact that it is incorrect to mention is that both males and females tend strongly to judge people by their physical characteristics. To be crude about it, men like big tits and women like long legs. So short men and flat-chested woimen are way behind when it becomes to matching up. Sad but true.
The solution for women is relativel easy: A boob job. And it works well. Carolina Santos below is basically a skinny lady without great appeal, but a boob job has shifted her to the top of the heap in attraciveness. There is nothing comparable available to men.
I have always been relatively tall for my age (and have had a great time) so am probably not the ideal person to give advice on the matter but, as far as I can tell, a short man simply has to lower his sights. He either has to accept a fatty or import an even shorter bride from the Philippines. I have seen a bit of the Philippines solution and it mostly seems to work. The kids from such a union tend to be pretty good and the ladies from such unions tend to socialize with one-nother
Scott had what he calls life-altering surgery. He underwent a procedure that will make him permanently taller. There are no concrete numbers on how many people are having this procedure (though a 2020 BBC report found that hundreds of men have it every year), but Scott is among the men who, frustrated by how they’re treated because of their height, sought out a surgeon who could permanently lengthen his legs. Before the $75,000 procedure he had in January, he was about 5'7". By the time he’s done lengthening, a weekslong process after the surgery, he will be 5'10" — about an inch taller than the average American man.
The last few years have seen a notable rise in men seeking cosmetic procedures. From facelifts to Botox, men have been increasingly turning to cosmetic interventions to appear younger in the face of a culture that fetishizes youth. In 2018, Wired called this the “Brotox Boom.” The pandemic only accelerated the trend, as work shifted to Zoom and more men spent time looking at — and worrying about — their faces.
But height is another matter. There are fillers for jawlines and there is Botox for foreheads, but height — a major source of anxiety for men — seems unsolvable. The struggles for short men in the dating world are well documented. To improve their odds of matching with people, men have taken to lying about their height on dating apps. This happens so frequently that the dating app Tinder once rolled out an April Fools joke about verifying height, and men got very upset. Just last week, a TikTok went viral for devising a plan to “fact-check” guys who say they’re 6 feet tall. Height is even an advantage in the workplace, where taller men are more likely to end up CEOs and shorter men are less likely to get access to career opportunities. Short men are mocked on social media. Some research suggests shorter men are more likely to be depressed.
Scott, who is 25 and works in digital media, said that before the surgery, colleagues constantly made remarks about his stature. “I was not treated with respect,” Scott told me. “At every single workplace I’ve been in, there've been several situations where people commented on my height to discredit me entirely as a person.” One disagreement at work led to a colleague snapping at him and rebutting, “Don’t be so sure of yourself, short man!” Over the years, the insults began to take their toll. “I was waking up two hours before my alarm every day just to walk around the neighborhood and cry,” he said.
For Scott, demeaning comments about height are everywhere — whether in his personal life or in pop culture. He singled out TikTok particularly, where jokes about men’s height are rampant. “I don’t know how many times I have to hit the dislike button for your algorithm to learn I don’t want to see jokes about height,” he said. He flags the TikToks as harassment and bullying, only to receive a note back that says the app reviewed the content and didn’t find anything wrong with it.
He paused our interview and pulled out his phone to show me a TikTok from @flossybaby, one of his favorite influencers. “When I see a woman that is 5'8", I’m like, ‘That’s a tall woman,’” she says to the camera. “But when I see a man that is 5'8", I’m like, ‘Look! A garden gnome!’” In the comments, users had added to the bit: “No because who let him out unsupervised.” Humiliation flashed across Scott’s face. “Before the surgery, I was 5'7". I was not even a garden gnome to her.”
These kinds of comments drove Scott to seek out limb-lengthening surgery. In this elaborate procedure, a doctor breaks both femurs and inserts a titanium rod that slowly expands inside the patient’s body, making them permanently taller.
“I was not waking up and crying every day in my mask, walking around the neighborhood. Instead, it became ‘OK, I just have to get on my grind and figure out how to get the money.’” So Scott, who is bi, got to work and, in February 2021, started an OnlyFans page. Within a few months on the platform, he zeroed in on a niche: financial domination, a form of humiliation kink where clients pay him to degrade them and take their money. By January 2022, by supplementing his OnlyFans earnings with some of his savings and a small loan, he had enough to pay for the procedure.
When I met Scott, he was two months into a recovery that will take the better part of a year; this week, he was given clearance to stop using the walker. He can drive now, but sports are still off the table. The recovery requires stretching and regular monitoring. For the first three months, he will attend physical therapy four times a week. But for Scott, all of this is a small price to pay. “It’s surreal to be midway through the process,” he said. Everything has changed. For one, the cruel jokes don’t ruin his day anymore. “There’ll be days where I’ll see a meme that bothers me,” Scott said. “Then I’ll remember I had the surgery done.” He breathed a sigh of relief. “It allows me to not spiral out of control and lose hours of my day anymore.”
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Time runs out for town's 250-year-old 'racist' clock statue
A council has been accused of trying to 'remove history' by voting to take down a statue of a black boy from a historic building.
The potential removal of the 'racist' Blackboy clock statue in Stroud, Gloucestershire, comes after campaigners argued it was 'traumatic for people of colour'.
But the town's Conservative MP, Siobhan Baillie, said: 'I oppose [the] removal of history and statues.
'To do so serves no purpose other than to allow some people to decide or be selective with history, or decide what is most comfortable and causes no offence.'
Stroud District Council voted overwhelmingly to 'pursue' taking down the 250-year-old statue, which depicts a child with red lips and a leaf skirt holding a club.
But the council – run by a Labour-led coalition – may not have the power to compel the Blackboy Clock Trust, which owns the clock on a Grade II listed building, to remove it.
And the decision can be blocked by Communities Secretary Michael Gove if there is an objection from Historic England, under a law passed last year.
The heritage body has said taking it down would 'harm both the significance of the listed building and the character of the conservation area and would also seriously damage the integrity of the clock itself'.
A council meeting on Thursday heard that removing the statue and placing it in a museum, which councillors 'strongly recommended', would cost £33,500.
Labour councillor Natalie Bennett said: 'As far as we know there has been no precedent set for this because the change in the law is so recent, so it would probably be a test case.'
More than 1,600 residents took part in an eight-week consultation and 77 per cent said they wanted it removed.
Council leader Doina Cornell said the decision was 'us listening to the community'.
But Tory councillor Haydn Sutton said: 'Why are we sweeping history under the carpet? I've spoken to lots of people and they say it should stay.'
The clock, created in 1774, is one of Britain's 20 surviving jack clocks, which feature a moving figure striking a bell on the hour.
The first complaint about the statue came last year by an activist inspired by Black Lives Matter protests.
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Amid a supply-chain crisis, Biden administration policies are thwarting efforts to bring industrial jobs back home
Just a few months after Biden took office, the United States faced a crisis unanticipated by his agenda: a pandemic-related breakdown of worldwide supply chains that caused widespread shortages of goods ranging from medical gear and medicines to microchips and everyday items like cleaning wipes and toys. In February 2022, the crisis grew worse with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Sanctions, severed trade routes, and a ban on importing Russian oil provoked rare unanimity among Democrats and Republicans: the United States needs to make more stuff here in America, instead of relying on foreign suppliers.
How to pull that off remains the question. Facing intense pressure, the Biden administration issued a policy paper claiming that the U.S. could revive domestic industrial output by toughening employment standards—which inevitably would raise costs—to create “good jobs” and by subsidizing favored industries like clean energy. Some Republicans responded with plans that amounted to putting American industry on a war footing, with government decreeing certain sectors essential and requiring that their goods be made here.
What both sides largely ignored is something that industrial companies themselves have said for years: the Number One reason they’ve offshored jobs is costs, and 50 years of growing regulation at the federal, state, and local levels contributed enormously to that burden. By one count, industrial firms must adhere to some 300,000 federal regulations alone—a bureaucratic tax of hundreds of billions of dollars annually. Local zoning and environmental laws often short-circuit valuable industrial projects, even when they pass federal muster. The Trump administration, to its credit, understood this, which is why it initiated a regulatory review of industrial policy and began hacking away at some of the most arduous and outdated regs. But it didn’t get far enough in one term, and Biden already has undone much of what Trump accomplished.
Still, any cursory examination of the effects of these regulations, many decades old, suggests that the first step in re-industrialization—the low-hanging fruit—would be deregulatory policy that makes manufacturing in America more competitive, including enabling firms to build new plants and staff them at reasonable costs. It’s doubtful that the Biden administration, which somehow imagines that a green energy policy would alleviate the supply-chain crisis, will make such an effort. But some future pro-growth president will likely make that project central to bringing back more U.S. jobs.
https://www.city-journal.org/biden-regulatory-policies-thwarting-return-of-manufacturing-to-america
*****************************************************Elon Musk Is Not a ‘Racist’ Because He Supports Free Speech on Twitter
On April 25, Elon Musk—who describes himself as a “free speech absolutist”—purchased Twitter, the world’s primary marketplace for the exchange of ideas and information, for $46.5 billion.
Shortly after the announcement went public, Musk said, “Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated.”
He continued:
“I also want to make Twitter better than ever by enhancing the product with new features, making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating the spam bots, and authenticating all humans. Twitter has tremendous potential – I look forward to working with the company and the community of users to unlock it.”
Expectedly, Musk’s takeover of Twitter, which has been the antithesis of a free speech platform for the past several years, was a very triggering experience for many on the left, who apparently abhor freedom of speech.
Yet, instead of debating Musk (or anyone who supports a robust freedom of speech atmosphere on Twitter), many on the far left have resorted to ad hominem attacks and playing the race card.
For instance, leftwing media darling Shaun King tweeted this completely baseless attack:
“At its root, Elon Musk wanting to purchase Twitter is not about left vs right. It’s about white power. The man was raised in Apartheid by a white nationalist. He’s upset that Twitter won’t allow white nationalists to target/harass people. That’s his definition of free speech.”
King then posted a series of tweets decrying Musk as a racist who “created a work environment” similar to “Jim Crow.” And, that Tesla is wrought with “overt racism and bigotry within the company.”
As per usual, King offered zero evidence to substantiate his outlandish accusations of racism. Some might say King is guilty of spewing “misinformation.” Others, who believe in free speech, would say he is merely expressing his opinion.
However, King was far from the only leftist media acolyte parroting the racism card against Musk. MSNBC host Joy Reid said Musk purchasing Twitter is akin to “a racist taking over Twitter.” Like King, Reid lobbed her vile attack into the Twitter universe sans any evidence.
Make no mistake, these are but a few examples of the abhorrent attacks many on the leftwing Twitterati have spewed since Musk’s purchase became public.
Even more interestingly, in the days leading up to Musk’s takeover bid, the left’s big guns came out in full force pleading for more censorship on Twitter.
Hillary Clinton, who has been known to tell a tall-tale or two in her day, tweeted on April 21:
“For too long, tech platforms have amplified disinformation and extremism with no accountability. The EU is poised to do something about it. I urge our transatlantic allies to push the Digital Services Act across the finish line and bolster global democracy before it’s too late.”
Not to be outdone, former President Barack Obama made a rare public speech on the same day as Clinton’s tweet, in which he described Twitter’s “disinformation problem” as an ail to democracy and a threat that “tears at the fabric of our world.”
Who knew free speech was so despised by a former president of the United States, who took the oath of office to uphold the Constitution?
Like Clinton, Obama implored for more government oversight of social media platforms, saying, “regulation has to be part of the answer.”
Alas, it seems as if the left’s pro-censorship monopoly over social media could be in its dying days. This is a terrific development for any and all Americans who believe in the First Amendment and long for an open and honest civil discourse.
On the other hand, Musk’s takeover of Twitter represents an existential threat to the left’s heretofore unfettered reign atop social media. Such is why the left is in full panic mode, resorting to the lowest common denominator of lobbing racial epithets at Elon.
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