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        Why? Height doesn’t automatically equate to back problems. Uneven weight distribution (belly, boobs, etc.), poor stretching habits, lack of excerise, bad posture/form/lifting, or injury equate to back problems at ANY height.

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          Its mostly because we gotta use the kitchen sink, bath sink, toilet chairs, bed, couch etc for mini people. So having to crouch all the time would do your back in quick.

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            Beingmuch closer to her height than his I can confidently say that’s just not true, short of your feet literally hanging off the end of a bed. You just have bad posture, bad form, and don’t stretch.

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      I have one nephew at 6’10” and another that is 7’1”. They both cope well enough even when challenged with size obstacles. They are young and generally positively motivated which helps.

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        Oh yeah, being young would be great. I’d dunk on everyone.

        I will clarify that being in my forties there’s no way that would be a good time.

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    Holy cow. I thought this comment section would be filled with light hearted jokes. Some of yall need get your chronically online asses outside.

    The is the most reddit esque comment section I’ve seen on lemmy and it’s gross

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      That’s a light-hearted take. Why do some people like to work themselves into a froth with their imaginary scenarios?

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      There are plenty of reasonable comments. Most have more upvotes than the sexualizing ones. That said, look closely at what she is wearing in the pic. If she put shorts on, the sides of that thing would still be above the shorts. The image was designed to have sexual appeal. She is showing more skin than most people have. So of course some people are going to go in that direction. Men in general haven’t evolved enough not to.

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        With an image designed to have sexual appeal, is it wrong to see the sexual appeal?

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      Lemmy is full of the worst reddit bullshit. I was genuinely surprised at first, primarily because I thought it was going to be a bit of a refuge from bottom of the barrel idiocy. Instead, it’s the worst of it.

      The unbelievably pathetic trash is why I am still looking for a good reddit alternative. Seeing all of the problems we solved on reddit years ago is honestly kind of sad.

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        Seeing all of the problems we solved on reddit years ago is honestly kind of sad.

        How were they solved?

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      Lemmy is pretty great compared to reddit so long as the topics stay away from anything to do with feminism or women’s rights. Otherwise it starts to feel like the reddit cesspit is leaking, and it’s depressing. Anyone remember the few days when “the bear” discussion took over the fediverse? Those were dark times. Or any time someone even mentions the word “mansplaining”, even if it’s satirical.

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      I’m not disagreeing with you but try using a period now and again they don’t cost any money

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    GOOD thing she isn’t Trans! OTHERWISE she would have an Unfair Advantage! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

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    But it’s paramount that we ban the 5’5" trans girl who has testosterone lower than cis girls from playing volleyball because…reasons.

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      You clearly don’t know much about the sport. Women’s net is far lower because there’s a significant physical power difference between men and women. It’s not just about average height.

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      Stop making shit up to fit your narrative. It detracts from the actual issue.

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        We all know you what you really meant:

        “Stop drawing conclusions from empirical data, it interferes with my prejudice and bigotry.”

        Or, did you actually think you were courageously taking a stand for…what, exactly? Being a jerk?

        Did it really never occur to you that choosing to let your ignorant fear shape your perspective makes you weak??

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          Lol. There is plenty of empirical data to show that the best men are better than the best women.

          Have a gander at the records in all sports.

          If that does t cut it, how about the European studie that tested the strength and fitness of over 2 million kids. It showed that top 5% of male at birth is stronger than top 1% of at the age of 9. It gets much, much more skewed after puberty.

          https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/52/22/1445.long

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            None of this proves the op comment you replied to was “making shit up”, their only claim was that some trans women have less testosterone than cis women.

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            Please tell me you didn’t realize we’re talking about athletes that have undergone HRT and this study isn’t applicable in that case.

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            Not even the top men high school boys where better then the top female athletes.

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              There are of course differences depending on the sport. But eventually the best men are better than the best women, which is the whole issue summed up. At the very least in physical sports.

              Explosive sports exposes the issue more clearly. Which is why 15 year old boys win against the womens national team in football (soccer). 14 year olds have beat elite teams in womens hockey.

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            There is plenty of empirical data to show that the best men are better than the best women.

            Wow.

            We could pretend that you forgot to say something about “when it comes to sports” or some other kind of qualifier, but we all know that’d be a lie.

            So, thank you for proving my point. It is truly just sad and pathetic the way you try to pretend like you even know empirical data means.

            Take your bigotry and shove a back up your ass where it belongs.

            (Did you really think that quoting an extremely widely discredited study that did not involve any empirical data whatsoever was some kind of gotcha? Jesus Christ, that’s just pathetic)

            For the record, obsessing over other people’s genitalia is just fucking weird.

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              2 million people tested. Seems pretty solid if you ask me.

              We could pretend that you forgot to say something about “when it comes to sports” or some other kind of qualifier, but we all know that’d be a lie.

              Well, we are talking about sports? Are you actually trying to undermine my argument just because you can’t follow context? Stop arguing if you have nothing other than bad faith to come with.

              Give me a better study showing that the trans medication actually works. The best anyone has given so far was a study showing 15 random people of Facebook that didn’t even compete in sports.

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                Whoa. Seriously? So if we’re not talking about sports you seriously just believe men are better than women.

                Yeah goodbye. I’m done with you

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        What am I making up? This woman almost certainly has athletic advantages far greater than the vast majority of the trans athletes people get so apoplectic about.

        Stop making shit up to fit your narrative. It detracta (sic) from the actual issue.

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            If someone has ADHD and takes medication - as directed - to help them focus on their training regiment, would that make you as upset? It’s certainly a drug to “alter,” as you say.

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              I suppose if all could take adderall, then it wouldn’t be an issue.

              I think you are missing the point of competition though.

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                Pretty sure the point is fun and entertainment. Some people care about finding the “best,” but as the saying goes, it’s not about whether you win or lose…

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                  Now there is the actual issue at hand. Of course its about competition. That is the entire crux of the issue, and you can’t just wave it of like some irreverent side matter in the case of sports.

                  Kids already play mixed, since gender differences are small enough to be negligible. That is when the fun part matters the most.

                  I just find it funny that people are so willing to put actual trans rights in jeopardy just for the slight inconvenience of barely a dozen trans women in the US. Or you actually think it’s ok for men to compete with women?

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            Hey man if you ever find yourself in a situation where they make drugs that can make you better I think you should take them

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      do you know how hard it is to have a fetish for women being bigger and taller than you, when you are over 6 and a half feet tall?

      😭

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            Thats as much a fantasy as finding a 9 foot tall woman to pat me on the head and say she is proud of me.

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                I am an entire warehouse, filled with pods, which themselves are full of issues, trauma, and baggage.

                and I have had 2 therapists be completely dumbfounded and shocked at how well adjusted I am for all of it, lol.

                its rarely a good thing when you shock a therapist.

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                  We all are, to varying degrees. Some are just more aware of it than others.

                  But I didn’t approach your last remark by the harsher side. All the images coming to mind as I read it were censorable out of being plain stupid and childish.

                  Therapists can easily suffer of professional bias. I’ve done therapy as well and it came to a point when I felt my therapists were overly concerned and trying to victimize me. It is their role to help us be aware of things that may be lacking or holding us back but their trainning can make them view things as so damaging that a person being to cope and manage trauma by themselves and lead a somewhat balanced life is an impossible concept.

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        Yeah dont tell me im six foot which is the average where i live but women are just so much shorter… for me it actually helps that im 100kg with a pretty muscular build because I only care abou the height and from my experience taller women tend to like wider men. Idk. Still its hard out here lol

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          That’s a funny comment, but yeah - I’m the average height of men in my area, and like to be outmassed. I do like guys to be bigger than me in some dimension, and it hasn’t ever been height (tall guys here all seem to date short women). I have been about the same height as the guys of all my 3 serious relationships (not unusual since that’s the most common guy height) but have been the more slender of us always.

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      I wonder if we will ever evolve to the point where we can talk about women online without some mad lad needing to sexualise them.

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        Oh noes! They’re talking about s-e-x? Gross! We’re not supposed to talk about that! That’s naughty - we should be reading our bibles instead!

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        I’d be satisfied if women got to openly sexualize men and talk about it. That would level out the playing field and, hopefully, reduce the unnecessary sexualizing of trivial things.

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        That is literally the opposite of evolution, we evolve to procreate that means more sex and sexualizing.

        TLDR: if you don’t sexualize women on the Internet you are an affront to evolution and a sin against nature.

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          You do realize there is a difference between sexualizing someone and finding them sexy right?

          If people stopped treating others like objects this instant, people would still be attracted to each other and still want to have sex and procreate.

          Your statement is wrongheaded and ignorant. Do better.

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          Technically evolution is an emergent phenomenon from the reproduction of organisms. If you were to clone yourself with slight mutations it would still allow evolution to happen with zero inherent need for sex or sexuality whatsoever

          Regardless of that, sexualizing women typically leads one to be an incel not a successfully mating male which means it would be the opposite of evolution by your reasoning.

          It’s also interesting that your premise is generic but your conclusion is specific. “Sex is to be encouraged for evolution; that’s why we should sexualize women specifically” If you aren’t a misogynist, you might want to switch your TL;DR to “sexualize people” not specifically “women”

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            Sexualizing women does not “typically lead to being an incel”, that’s just crazy. Blaming women for failure to succeed in finding a sexual partner is what leads to that.

            It’s not inherently bad to see people in a sexual light, what matters is when and how you act on those feelings, and respecting that people are also more than sexual objects.

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              It’s not inherently bad to see people in a sexual light, what matters is when and how you act on those feelings, and respecting that people are also more than sexual objects.

              You are confusing ‘sexualizing’ someone with finding them sexy. When people talk about sexualizing women they are referring to treating them as sexual objects.

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            The secret lies in the balance - if i don’t sexualize women at least a little bit, i would probably don’t have a sexual preference for women.

            The important thing is being able to keep it in check - I can talk with every woman without hitting on them, even if i might have sexual thoughts about them in secret, just like women will probably sexualize their preferred gender and still be able to behave decently towards men.

            There’s a time and place for everything. If it were any other way, humanity would have probably died out by now - either by being primarily asexual or by being disgusted by the opposite sex and their inappropriate behavior.

            P.S.: My hypothesis is that since most people are alone while posting, they are mentally in a space where such thoughts are not suppressed as much, which leads to a higher occurrence of horny remarks than in real life. A minuscule amount of people of those who can’t stop themselves from expressing their adoration of those legs would be like that when meeting her. And yes, those legs are sexy as hell, and i’m pretty sure she knows it, or this photo would not exist.

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            It’s amazing how many hoops you’ll jump through to make a literal scientific fact sound bad but in any case I was obviously speaking in hyperbole to piss people off.

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        You are telling me that a woman practically naked from waist below is not sexual? You might be gay.

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          Do you have sisters? Do you ever go to the beach? No, it’s really not normal to find yourself reduced to base sexual impulses, and type them out on your computer just because you can see someone’s body.

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            It’s athletic long legs. Chill, person, it’s absolutely partnof human nature and not disrespectful in any way to appreciate that that is sexy.

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            Yes, I am sane enough to not have sexual urges about relatives. Everyone else is fair game.