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i wonder if you plot male height against male attitude towards trans women you get anything interesting
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honestly not sure but hypothesizing that you could see a bulge in anti-trans sentiment among men who are 1) taller than most women but 2) not taller than most trans women
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i'm a gentleman's 5'11" which means I'm pretty close to median male height but taller than >99% of cis women. my hypothesis here, i guess, is that if you are accustomed to being taller than women it is more disconcerting to encounter women who are taller than you
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so maybe you have ~3 buckets of men: 1) short kings who are used to a significant number of women being taller 2) midheight who are taller than most women but shorter than a good chunk of trans women 3) tall men who are still taller than most trans women
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this obviously isn't destiny, just kinda curious if there's an observable effect
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I mean, would you extend this to other secondary sex linked traits? Guys with high voices or that don't grow a lot of body hair or a small Adams Apple or whatever? Anyway I feel this's an unlikely line of research but maybe a way to insult transphobes about their gender expression... Not great
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Anyway I didn't mean that last bit to be implied as any kind of personal criticism, just wanted to explain I don't really feel comfortable with the idea
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fair nuff, i'm not trying to make anybody feel bad about their bodies, just bullshitting some social science-y stuff
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not really because those are not immediately ordinally comparable to the body I live in. like i could probably tell you with high accuracy and minimum thought which of my friends are taller than I am and which are shorter but i definitely could not tell you who's hairier or higher-pitched
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Eh as a guy who grew up with a pretty boy face and a higher pitched voice, I can say some people do notice. For instance, the randos who cursed me out or tried to start fights because they thought I was gay noticed... Gave me a lot of sympathy for LGBT, did not make me insecure about my gender ID
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Nah, I agree with you height is a lot more salient