Most women don't really understand these male specific issues tbf. Many who would have the potential to understand height simply can't because it's taboo and they're acutely aware of that
@@michaelring6077 All the "women's issues" nowadays are directly antithetical to the needs of women. As we've tried to fix these "women's issues" by instating egalitarianism, they've become miserable; there's no faster way to kill a woman's love for her husband than putting her on par with him.
100% agree. I'll never make fun of someone for something they have pretty limited control over. So many other opportunities, haircut, dressing style, small calves, etc.
Women: haha your 5’7 Man:haha your 300lb overweight Women:😡🤬😡thats not funny, fat acceptance is a thing And being overweight is genetic not a choice Man: you can reduce your weight, you cannot increase your height I’ve actually seen this conversation play out somewhere
@@orhuna_4493 sounds like such a frustrating lifestyle tbh. By the time he finally fits through the doorframe by leaning over and facing sideways due to the massive lats and broad shoulders, he’s just flooded by women and has to spend all day turning them down, that must get old.
This is a rare video. Only a tall man could have made this video. If a manlet made this video, he would be labeled a complainer and needs to “man up.” The irony is not lost here. You have many good ideas and perspectives. 👏👍
@@Panzer_Runner Why make the video at all. Jeff nippard is 5 5" is he feeling sorry for himself? No he is Killing it. Mac method at 5 7 too. And Fitxfearless at 5 7". I'm 5 8" and never once have I felt sorry for myself. I jacked up and killed it out there...
Just asked my gf if she would’ve dated me if I was under 5’ 9”. She said “no, just being honest, I like to feel you are physically dominant over me.” She also said almost every woman she knows feels the same. She also said women are hypocrites because if men went solely on ass/breast size, we’d be called shallow pigs.
that's funny, given how even a 5'1 male could be "physically dominant over" 99.5% of the female population with _ease_ (as long as he has a healthy, trained body) and as for how your gf claims most of her female friends _feel_ the same, that's just talk -don't look at what they say, look at what they _do_ for example my good friend who's 5'7 has ever since high school, routinely slayed it with girls, he's certainly doing much better than me who I'm 6'2 tall another example was a coworker of mine from an old job who must've been between 5'5- 5'6, and he also seemed to do really well with girls, he would show me texts of a number of girls he'd already hooked up with/was planning to, all of them various levels of cute/hot (2 girls he knew had dropped by the shop at different points to say "hi" -one was an ex-gf of his, the other a current gf/fuck-buddy(?), both very cute)
Idk seems like a her group thing. I’m 5’8 and am skinny so you would think I’d have problems but I’ve honestly had more women hit on me than the other way around. However, I have a good face and wear Harry Potter glasses so I appeal to girls that like nerdy smart guys. Also have a 5’4 Asian friend who slays because he is cute. The point of this is that women have a variety of tastes and large niches exist where a non conventionally attractive person can hold massive appeal.
what i hate the most is when people get super offended when somebody talks about their weight, but in the next breath they make fun of small men. iam 5'7 so i might not seem like a manlet to alot of people, however i live in nothern germany between denmark and the netherlands, and the average height here is basically above 6 feet. ive ALWAYS been the smallest guy in my class AND in my friendcircle. the manlet hate needs to stop ,thanks for this NH!
Yeah, it's a weird height to be. We're average height, but it's so much easier to compare up rather than down. Let's focus on the things we can change rather than the things we cannot!
Yeah, I'm 5'8 here in Spain where most guys are in like the 5'6-5'10 range, but there are a lot of people over 6 feet so sometimes I feel like average height but others like I'm dwarfed by everyone lol
I am going to live in Bremen for the next six months and I am used to being the tallest guy in my circles (I have only lived in southern Italy and Portugal) so it's gonna be fun for my 5'9 ass
I'm a short man, I had cancer in my teen years and cancer and chemo stunted my growth. I fought hard, and after high school I was in remission. I thought life would be happy, but I was wrong, as the years went on I struggled so much being a short guy, from getting rejected constantly, to being made fun of, to people not taking me seriously. Even body positive people crap on mens height. It was so painful, even more painful than the cancer to be honest. It's enough that I wish I never survived cancer, and it should have just took me out during my teens. I might have been cancer free but now society treats my height like cancer. I tried to be positive but it's just coping at this point. Now my cancer came back very aggressive, It's tearing my body, at best I only have a year to live and honestly I don't mind it anymore because the experience of being a short man is infinitely more painful than the cancer I had to deal with, now I can just finally rest and be free from the shackles of heightism.
Damn, this is so sad, but I'm not surprised. I'm tall but I've seen how brutal short guys get treated and it's so unfair. I don't know what to tell you with in regard to your illness, but if you're saying being short is more painful, that just speaks at how lonely and emasculating that experience must be. I'm actually crying at your story, I'm sorry society wasn't kinder to you.
As a 5'4 manlet, I grew out if my insecurities when I realized that nobody will be able to swing at me because their punches will just fly over my head.
At 5'4 you may have evolved past that but you sure as hell didn't "grow out" of ANYTHING. Totally kidding ;) just noticed the somewhat ironic choice of words hehe
It is undeniable that I am short. I am 5'2". I never lie about it either, I own up to it bc it is true. I cannot hide or change this aspect of myself, and lying about it will only further awkward moments of ridicule and jabs at me. Despite being short and looking much like a 14-year-old with a beard, I still have the respect of everyone in my gym, men and women, and I have a lovely fiancee who I've been with for 3 years now and plan to marry next year. And this is because of what NH says at the end of his video: work on yourself and do NOT allow yourself to be your first and biggest hater. Don't internalize bs ppl say and make it part of you. Keep going, even if ppl joke to you at first to try and knock you down a peg. Prove to them that you have the mental fortitude to keep at it, whatever it is--gym, better attitude, martial arts, a team sport, a craft, etc. Self-improvement like this will help you let go of hate. Once you let go of that self-hate, you will notice ppl will approach you with a better attitude bc you are less angry and bitter. That is something that your body language almost always gives away, and that body language looks closed-off and insecure. If you want to be a "short king" and feel respected, then act like you are deserving of respect by first respecting yourself.
@@1heilpeatler1 5'3", so not a huge difference. But everyone is taller than I am, so I had resigned myself early on that I would most likely end up dating and marrying someone who is taller. I honestly feel like such a chad showing her off when she wears heels and is then much taller than I am. "Look at the bad bitch I pulled" vibes, y'know?
Short men, balding men, men with small penises - all of these groups get clowned on without repurcussion, and if you speak up against it you're called sensitive (if you're a guy) or a pick me girl if you're a woman. Sad, imo. Either everyone should get clowned on fair and square, or no one should get clowned on for what they can't control. (and no, you can't control balding, taking finasteride is not the same as not eating cake anymore or shaving a neckbeard)
I'm 5'7, so right on the cutoff. I can tell you I've had multiple women who were interested in me and have said "I just wish you were taller" or "I prefer guys closer to 6 feet". So it can be a hit on confidence for sure. It's absolutely part of the reason I got into bodybuilding. I felt that having abs and capped delts would make up for me being short. And then I honestly fell in love with working out. So in a way, I owe my love of fitness to being short. I don't want to be corny and say "there's a always a brightside" because there really isn't. Life is cruel, the basic tenet of Buddhism is that life is suffering. So it's not necessarily about always seeing a positive, but about accepting the hand you've been dealt and understanding that there's nothing you can do to change it. There are just some things you cannot change, focus on the things you can change.
Always be sure to not be selfish and immediately dump a woman that says something like that. If all men did that, no women would dare say stuff like that. In the end, it's men's selfish desire to get their dicks wet in the short term that leads to women being able to enforce this stupid shit.
Yeah I'm also 5'7, 5'7 is like the tease height, its the height where girls will go out with you, but they still will make fun of you as they go out with you that you're slightly shorter than the average man.
and this was said by a dwarf in a fantasy movie 🤣🤣 in the real world the avg height has been increasing for over a century, why? because women select tall men to procreate with (there are other factors too such as diet ,etc... but in general it is increasing due to this natural selection).
@@AnatolyVll There's stuff you can do to appear taller. As a vertically challenged man myself, I never leave the house without my discreet hight-boosting shoes. They add about an extra inch and a half of height, which gets me to 6'0, at least. Highly recommend it.
I’m almost emotional…. Every word that this man spoke resonated with me on an entirely different level… For someone whose first language isn’t English, this man’s articulation is beyond amazing. His philosophy is rock solid. Im 5”6 and every girl I’m interested in said that she’s interested in tall men. I just lost hope and felt insecure on a level that propelled me into bodybuilding aggressively and I hurt my back, shoulders, neck, wrist, knee, hip and ankle along with calves to some degree chasing strength with half knowledge. This video inspired me so much to first accept myself and then become stronger and mature towards losing my hatred for myself. Thank you NH. You have my deepest respect and admiration. Thank you for speaking on this matter
These are all facts. I’m 5’4 and the amount of fights I’ve had to encounter throughout my life is tiring. Your the first to get picked on but if you lack cowardice like me then your going to get shit tested a lot and beat for it. However I will say me not willing to put up with taller guys bullshit and ready to fight the second I was disrespected earned me their respect and friendship afterwards the only thing more impressive than watching someone win a fight is when they are disadvantage in height and weight but still give it there best. We will have to prove ourselves many times throughout our lives more than others but it will also make you stronger! Keep moving forward and literally roll with the punches and just punch back. Don’t ever feel sorry for yourself because literally nobody cares, suck it up and fight back.
As a 5'4 guy you absolutely nailed this. It's quite literally the best example of damned if you do damned if you don't. I got fit, I got relatively wealthy, got cosmetic surgery for my face, learned social skills, dress well and overall try to be as good a person as humanly possible and it still doesn't make up my small stature. I don't try to appease people anymore, because I know there isn't much I can do other than go through an awfully painful/expensive surgery that will make me disproportional. I'm done hating myself for something I never chose or asked for and I appreciate you making this video.
@Borsalino Kizaru Maybe that's true for some but I don't regret getting cosmetic surgery, I think it helped my facial looks at least a little bit. I had a slightly big nose with a huge dorsal hump and a somewhat recessed chin. It didn't cost too much and I was satisfied with the results.
From my observations the shorter people are usually more attractive in other areas. A lot of tall guys I see are unattractive, skinny fat, obese , etc. So if we take away the height factor, the shorter ones are usually more attractive elsewhere, face, body, etc.
It’s crazy how much height matters to women. I’ve seen women throwing themselves at some pretty goofy looking dudes just cause they’re over 6’. Lol. Now that I’m older, that stuff doesn’t bother me. It makes me laugh lol. In fact, I regret being bothered by it when I was younger. Life’s too short to be bothered by things you can’t control.
I wish the whole world would see this, and I'm the same. I spent the majority of my life under 5'7", then had a huge growth spurt, in my MID 20s (incredibly late onset puberty) and got to 5'9". With a good set of shoes I can gauge people's reaction to my existence around them at nearly 6', and the difference is palpable. I'm able to evade the discrimination that short men face, and my heart truly, truly goes out to the men who cannot. I am so sorry.
4'11. I had to develop some weird toughness. What's funny is that I've still got laid but it's harder. I've grown proud of being different somehow. But sadly I will probably not be able to get rid of the lurking insecurity. I got pissed when you said that we aren't shaped like humans (dehumanizing) so it still affects me somehow but maybe it's true that some of us are in a perpetual state of anger because of it
I wholeheartedly support the message of stopping manlet hate. Then again, I’ve been restless waiting for Fake Merc Character Study Part 22 to fuel my ments addiction, and this is the one manlet who needs to be bullied.
I'm average 5'9, but growing up partly without social media was a blessing. No social media whatsoever in elementary school (we didn't even have smart phones), and facebook just started to get popular in high school, so we weren't overflown with trash content online so essentially noone really cared much about their or other people's heights.
Do you think that’s why? I thought the height insecurity was only an American thing, but the more I hear about it the more unsure I am about the origin. I’m 5’9 as well and I never heard about people being insecure about height until I started to read reddits and comments on youtube videos, and now I’m starting to think that maybe the reason why I’ve never perceived height as being an issue is because I’m average height, so I’ve never been made fun of for it and I’ve never been complimented for it, but maybe it’s different for short guys. I remember in highschool joking around with a shorter friend about his height by, for example, putting my arm on his head and resting my weight on it, and at the time I thought of it as just having fun and being silly, but now I’m questioning wether his experience of it was to be more insecure about his height (although he never seemed bothered by it). What do you think?
@@juanmejiagomez5514 I personally never heard it in real life either that someone complained about height but then again, people are more honest online anonymously about their insecurities. The lack of social media was definitley a good thing, so short guys couldn't just watch tik toks and insta posts all day about how bad it is to be short, probably they still had insecurities they just didn't talk about it, and it wasn't a topic online so the insecurity wasn't as big as today.
Height prejudice has been going on long before the advent of the internet/social media. People may not have been as open to discussing it before the internet spread red pilled ideology, but it was there. You may have noticed things like the 'jocks' getting all the girls. These are the football players basketball players ect, who are 6 ft and above. You may have wondered why a 6'4 ugly troll fat lineman got girls at parties and the smaller kid got bullied and called a nerd. Looks up jock and nerd on Google image and I gaurantee you'll see a height difference
Also 5'9(0.5), I think we are at the spot where it doesn't really come up. Feel perfectly comfortable with my height. I imagine 5'7 it starts to become an issue.
@@baldr2510 I'm 5'7 and I've never really thought about or cared about my height unless other people bring it up, or if I'm standing next to someone who's like 6'4 or something. In any other case, 5'7 standing next to someone of average height isn't really noticeable.
Its true. I have been 5'6 for almost a decade(turned 5'7 a month ago) but my height was never an issue to me. I actually(maybe wrongfully) was happy the doc said my growth plates were sealed in high school when I reached 5'6. Cuz i figured I could go ahead and lift heavier weights without fear of hurting my growth plates and being the cause of my own short stature. I reveled in lifting heavy. Got the short man swoleness, and was having alot of fun. I had a few gfs that were taller than me and my height was never used as a way to bully me by other men. It may have been a way to test my attitude, like a friend saying "you're so short" and id reply "im not short, you're just taller". Sure it would be cooler and more fun yo be tall, but in my mind, focusing on things I can't control is for women
As someone who is 5’7, I was only made fun of for being short when I was overweight. It was always “fat and short” never just short. Now that I am respectfully lean and muscular, it is as if all the talk about my height has gone away. Curious if anyone experienced anything similar.
my friend is 5ft9, probably around 170-175lbs muscular (not crazy lean, around 20% bf) and women flirt with him no problem, so yeah you are pretty much right
@@naughtiousmaximus7853 It all boils down to how incredibly brainwashed peoples standards are from social media and men lying lol. Im 5´10 or 5´11 and I been called dwarf plenty of times by my taller buds lol.
I’m also 5’7 but I’ve never been made fun for height most likely because I was always lean and muscular. I go to UCLA now and find that most women don’t care as long as you’re fit, confident, smart, emotionally mature, etc. Picking you battles wisely helps exponentially
The worst part is when people try to tell you “no your height isn’t the problem no one cares that you’re short” all this gas lighting is so annoying makes me think they might aswell just say nothing at all
Thank you for honesty NH. Most people are in denial about this, they will claim it is all about personality and confidence, specially women. There has always been a subconscious, moral judgment based on looks in society... and as you mentioned, it is only socially acceptable to point those out when it comes to manlets nowadays. I am 5'7" and I've always been smaller than most kids all my life, I am also particularly ugly. Working really hard on bodybuilding, being very good at academics and focusing on my career was my coping mechanism but nowadays all these things seem to fall under the paradigm of "toxic masculinity". It is very hypocritical that people will perceive hyper-productive tall/handsome men as "confident" and hyper-productive short/ugly men as "toxic" it really does come down to rationalization of biological responses. I'd say there's really no other option for people in my position than to be stoic about this. Can't succumb to slave morality, just accept that this is the way the world works and go do whatever it is that makes you happy. I have opted out from the dating game entirely and I have purposely become very asocial, simply because social dynamics seem to be based mostly on biological hierarchies. Instead I choose to spend my time lifting weights and working on my hobbies, I am happier now than when I tried my hardest to be likeable just to be looked down upon because of my looks.
Its a mix of the Halo Effect, and old societal standards from the Ancient Greeks. Beauty is often associated with moral virtue, and it's such a bad mindset.
You are delusional for going 'asocial' that's not in any way gonna battle Manlet hate, that's just you giving up and being pathetic, I know guys who look worse than you ( I guarantee it) and one guy in particular is literally 5'3 looks like a dwarf and have slept with stunners... you know why? they're dumbasses! they see a girl walking down the street and they only think with their dicks, they go to parties and start dancing like maniacs and hitting on every girl out there! they get slapped and don't even give a fuck... now I don't agree with that lifestyle, but it just goes to show you that your excuses are bullshit. this the problem with too much mental masturbation and intellectualization, sometimes you just have to listen with your d*ck when it comes to women, and let's not hide with philosophical wheelchair justifications here, save that for later when you at least stop being a loser. if you never had the internet at your disposal, and you lived carefree without giving a f*ck about biology (what the f*ck is that? lol) and started being a stupid monkey, you would actually find more women that way, I'd guarantee you would not sustain a relationship if you stayed that way though, I'm talking strictly and purely about attraction and s*x here.
One of the damndest things for short men is how much handwaving it away people will give you for your problems, along with making it seem like they want you to think it's all in your head and you should blame yourself.
Thank you for aknowledging this. As a short man the consequences are very brutal but the worst thing is the dishonesty and gaslighting you recieve about your ,,Personality'' or how Looks dont matter
When I first met my wife's twin sister's, she talked about how her Bf was 6ft3 (the fact that this was randomly brought up by her out of nowhere is already quite telling). I met him a few weeks later. He's shorter than me and I'm 6ft1. He's 6ft. Being the blunt and naive person that I am, I just flat out told her that he's lying to her. As an intelligent rational person that values honesty and transparency, in my head I'd envisioned (optimistically thinly hoped it would lead to) her confronting him about this and dumping the scummy idiot, because who adds 3 inches on? When you're a good height to begin with too... Anyway she just went straight into defensive mode and told me repeatedly that I was wrong. Fast forward 5 years and she doesn't trust him at all. He never lets her anywhere near his phone and she's pretty sure he's cheating on her. Who ever could have seen this coming? If only somebody would have pointed out to her that was lying untrustworthy scum years ago. Morals of the story: people who will lie about something as easy to find out such as their height are pathetic. They're untrustworthy and they're insecure. Just be you. Don't pretend to be something that you're not. Also, my sister-in-law is an idiot. P.S. Napoleon wasn't 5ft10. It is believed he was around 5ft5/5ft6, which was around average (or slightly below) height at the time. I think when he's referred to as being 5ft10, it's because that's today's equivalency for a European man.
this is also why some girls and people say 6ft is short. they have a very skewed perception of what 6ft actually is because dude lie about their height all the time. A true 6ft is actually quite tall and taller than most men in most areas A true
@@angadgrewal9324agree I was good friends in university with two athletes that were 6 1 and 6 2. They're actually taller than around 95 % of men we encounter. The only reason everyone thinks this is normal height or short now is because of inflation. 5 5 guys often claim 5 8. 5 8 claim 5 11 and so forth. If people saw real 6 ft guys they'd be pretty surprised how tall it actually is.
I'm 5'10 I've never understood the hate because I'm from Mexico and I was raised mostly in Asia and the Middle East. I'm used to towering over most people, until I started living in the USA or trios in Europe. I think it's a matter of perspective and learning to accept immutable facts. I'm not upset about my height, I'm just grateful to be alive and for the chance to be a better man. God believes in you, try to believe in yourself. I'll pray for yall, brothers.
It definitely depends on region. I was actually tall for my age in Japan because I reached 5'8" by the time I was like 12. For context, average JP man is ~5'7". Problem is, I never grew past 5'8". I was very upset about that lol. Aside from growing a beard, I basically have not changed since I was freaking 12 and it gets to me sometimes.
My man has said "short" "Manlett" "dwarf" "midget" like 1000 times in 10 minutes... If you're trying to beat the insecurity out of us this will definitely do the trick 😭😂 it's like exposure therapy.
By accepting you're what you are, your skin will grow thicker and those things should never bother you again. I have come to the point of meeting people (men and women) shorter than me and treating them with the respect I think I should have received in the past. Once you've suffered enough, you'll come out of it a greater human being.
As a 5ft6 & 3/4 man (yes, I usually say 5’7), I definitely noticed a difference in how people treated me. I went from 162lbs out of shape… dropping to 135lbs and then building intelligently to 165lbs for a little over two years. I definitely am happy with some of the manlet visual advantages. I thought it would make a big different with how women perceive me, but I have found that is only observable infrequently. The behavior of men around me is much more noticeable. A good example would be if I hang out with a friend’s friend group, the dudes are much more likely to gravitate toward me and strike up conversation.
5.7 here, same thing happened. Basically turning myself from skinny fat to a fit looking dude (v-taper) made even men that are taller than me respect me more.
@@doublejacketjimmy391 it’s interesting though, because if you go by NH’s wisdom… this is a path to status. Being admired by dudes translates indirectly to women. But if you didn’t meet their height “requirement” in the first place it was never going to matter how you look. There are probably much quicker and effective paths to do better with women than weight training… but natural bodybuilding definitely helps at least a little.
Fr at 5'7 building muscle and being in shape is a must. Like I get girls checking me out all the time at 5'7 190 abs showing when flexed at 20-22 percent body fat , v taper big shoulders 18 inch arms , 265 bench for 5x5. Ive realized I'm genetically blessed since it's only been a year and half.
I was 5 7 in high school until my senior year. I grew to 6 ft. I don't notice a difference, but I also didn't try to get bitches. Watching these videos online with women making fun of shorter dudes is brutal. Keep your heads up guys.
Life sucks down here but thanks for the consideration for us short guys. I’m 5,5 the biggest struggle for me is wanting to wear vans, or converse but knowing I’m a a fuckin midget walking around so my brain instead tells me to wear my air forces which boost my height
You're lucky. I reached 5'8" by about age 12... then just stopped growing. I was so ready to get a couple inches in during high school and was so mad when I realized I was done growing. It hurt extra because 5'8" is a pretty damn good height for a 12 year old, especially in Japan where I was at the time. So I was convinced I'd be a good height by adulthood.
I’m 5’7. Back in college, a couple of girls made fun of my height quite a bit (despite being as tall as them) and showed no interest in attraction for me at all. Few weeks pass, one of them wanted me bad. Obviously I said no. I’ve never had problems with women but was I insulted for their own egos? The other girl would brag about her tall boyfriend all the time. It’s like an accessory.
It's a status symbol. It's a doomed relationship that's completely reliant on external factors when anyone who's been in a LTR knows the internal is ALL that matters. I'm actually a little suspicious of my dudes wife's tall comment.
If women make fun of your height just make fun of one of their physical insecurities. There's always a physical deficiency a woman has that she's insecure about.
Most women (who are usually short) deep down are also insecure about their own height and lack of power, so they will make fun of you to try and mask their own feelings. Just remember when someone makes fun of you for any of these reasons, 99% of the time it's because they have those same insecurities
I'm 5'7", so I get auto-filtered in various situations by various people... It is what it is, can't do anything about that. All my friends are taller than me. I'm the super energetic, gregarious, outgoing, upbeat fitness freak in my friend circles. I take good care of my body, I dress decently, I work on my interpersonal skills and I'm always trying to grow as a person. Can't let the roll of genetic dice get in my way. Winners focus on winning, I'm not going to focus on one of my few "lacking" characteristics when I can focus on my gifts. Everything has a silver lining - I can do pullups on my friend's janky calisthenics station without needing to pull my ankles up to my rear ^_^
I'm 5'3 and I was seriously never insecure about my height until like 2017 when this whole hate for short men was memed on. Now I think about it a lot but in real life I've never really dealt with bullying or rejection because of it. The internet overblows that shit.
True. I’m short too and never really gotten any of this treatment. Especially the whole part of him saying men see shorter men as “bitches”… like, wtf dude… he’s traumatized or something, from being short, has grown to be taller and yet still can’t get over the trauma. It’s sad.
@@moritzwagner4332 Yeah the part withe the bitches might overblow it a little. THose dudes do exist, but they are either sociopath animal´s, or try to impress someone else. Most dudes- especially in a gym context- are actually feeling for you, as far as i can tell
@@licklack6370 yeah and I’m not saying people don’t notice your size, but it’s not that important in real life, most people aren’t animals and don’t think that way. I definitely don’t get as much respect at first like a tall guy, but tall guys also definitely have an easy time losing that respect by being douchebags
Being 6' myself, related to the thing about people lying to make you taller. My favorite is downsizing myself. when someone tells me they're 6' and I'm a little drunk, I'll say something like "there's no way because I'm 5'10" and I'm a little taller than you." I might just be an asshole though
I'm 5'6 and my height was something that I got over when I was still in school. In my experience, while some men and women certainly had less respect for me because of that, there are so many other factors relating to how people perceive you (looks, body language, intelligence, humor, etc.), that I never actually felt that I was held back because of it in any social sense. I'm sure there were girls who weren't interested in me simply because of this, but my experience has overwhelmingly been that when you are strong in many other dimensions, people are in some sense forced to respect you. I cannot count the number of men who I've known as friends, acquaintances or co-workers who, despite being much bigger than me, were nevertheless somewhat intimidated by me on a personal level due to my intelligence, humor, and how I carry myself. I don't say it to brag, it's simply my experience. I wholeheartedly agree with the message of this video and to any man who feels bad about their height I would say just develop your character as a man and make the most of what you have in a complete sense, and if you do, people WILL see and appreciate your value.
My younger cousin is in the shorter side (170cm/5`7@22yr), he's been training with me for about 6 months, but last weekend he seemed sad and said to me: "what's the point of lifting when you're short, I'll never get really big". He has not come to train this week... sad.
As a 190cm male I was talking about this with a friend the other day, he asked me if I thought being in a good shape was the most determinant thing in terms of my dating background. But I've never doubted being tall has been the number one factor when it comes to get girls or being consider attractive, it in fact scared me just thinking how much harder would have been for me to be succesfull with woman if I was smaller and how powerfull can this factor be. Wish the best for all of you who are suffering from this, it's very unfair that society is like this but you got this homies.
@@daarioxjw3438 probably second biggest physical factor after face, some girls even have height fetish so they will choose taller ugly guy over handsome average height guy.
My advice for other manlet's fellas: have a long term goal and dedicate your life to it. Nothing else will matters and your goal depends uniquely on you.
This is gold. The bit about no one caring about your problems/oppression/whatever unless you ALSO fit into another category (i.e. a man AND gay, a man AND black) is really true. Whatever else you are has to overpower the fact you're a man before your problems counts. Also, where all woman have a certain innate value, only a small select group of man (the high value men) get all the power and care instead and have to ability to lord over everyone. This means the non-high value men and all the women are under the high value men... but the women just look up and see the powerful men doing bad but fail to see "the patriarchy" is hurting everyone, not just them. But because most men are invisible, the oppression doesn't factor in so it's just "men bad". Hopefully that made sense, trying to get this out after work but before the gym so I don't forget.
Achieving anything in life through hard work is considered compensation or Napoleon "short man" complex if you are short! Height trumps nearly every other attribute in the dating market....at least with online dating. Face to face is a bit easier if you're jacked, athletic, intelligent or have game but to get there takes a strong mind and you're accomplishment's will often be diminished in society. Good video....you actually pointed out my previous point a the end! I've even seen gaslighting on limb lengthening surgery comments....those guys should be commended that they've got the balls to go through that procedure to overcome their genetic disadvantages, not ridiculed for being insecure!
Love the truth man especially coming from a tall man sick and tired of being told it’s in my head when reality constantly proves it time and time again it was never my fault
Thank you for this video NH, never seen the perspective of a manlet broken down in such a thorough way. Short men really are the most discriminated against in society, never thought of it but it's true
Im 5’3 but my outlook is that if you have a problem: If you can change it -> Change it If you can’t -> Then ignore it No point worrying about something you have no control over. Use the cards life dealt you to do the best you can. And maybe if it helps you psychologically, don’t think about it as if you’re disadvantaged - look at it like you’re playing the game on a higher difficulty level, thats all. And yes, its something that you cant control but that doesnt mean people arent allowed to discredit you for it. It might sound strange but say for example a girl doesn’t like you because you’re short, thats not shallow its just preference so while I don’t think you should try to “force” others to accept you, you should try to better yourself in every possible way you can. You can’t change others but you can change yourself. Whatever “weakness” you might have in life, though it may seem insurmountable you can still build around it. If you’re short like me then try to get a good education, physique, try to become financially well off, make an impact in the world, get close to God, try to become a better person. There’s SO MUCH that you can do, enjoy life. Don’t spend your years crying about a problem when theres a huge world out there to enjoy. And not to invalidate anyone’s problems, but for everyone there will almost definitely be someone who wishes they were where you are RIGHT NOW. So keep your head up and try and improve yourself as best you can ❤
@@scrappycoco3641 that permanently alters your athletic ability and you're gonna be outta commission for EVERYTHING for a year in recovery. If you feel like your height is holding you back significantly, + if you have enough money to afford the surgery / recovery, + you're ok with sacrificing your athleticism, then go for it
@Scrappy Coco if this is that bone lengthening surgery (sorry if I'm talking about the wrong thing) It firstly only adds a couple inches. I think the max is 6 or so but then all your muscles will be too short, you'll be in bed for a year and people will judge you for how incredibly insecure you are. Even if you take people's opinion out, I think sacrificing a year or 2 of your life for a few inches is wild. Imagine everything you could do in that time?
@@david_thomas im 17 still, im taking a year off going uni to find 50k through tutoring. I'll go to turkey get the surgery done and go to uni the year after. It does not take 1 year to recover bro ull be walking good again in 3 months
@@david_thomas btw at what age did u start working out? I fell into the powerlifitng rabbithole when i was just 15 and all my friends who started with me ended up sub 6' while everyone else grew.
I care more that people perceive and value me differently at 5'7". If I had a magic lamp I would not wish to be taller but instead wish that people cared a lot less about height. I don't know how else to describe it, I care not that I am short but that people see short men as something other.
Sadly people will never stop I was short throughout most of my life and towards the end of my puberty at 17 I hit a growth spurt which pushed me to 6ft. The difference in my confidence is night and day. I never got bullied directly because of my height but I would always feel it subconsciously that I was shorter than most.
5'4 man here, although you make good points about the difficulity and disadvantages of being short there are certain things which are not true. You say that if you are short you are a chiwaua and you will be that way forever. From personal experience I can confirm to the very opposite being true. I grew up in a tough part of town which caused me to fight a lot growing up, after a while people automatically know you for being someone you cannot mess with. I never was someone to backdown and therefore all the fighting and struggle further enhanced my characteristics so despite being short I'm always respected everywhere I go, even when meeting new people. So yes, in order to get respect you need to be someone capable of putting fear in others and that is something that you CAN work on. As for myself, having a personality that does not allow me to take shit from anyone, a very deep voice alongside an intimidating face and body which I built myself is what brings me respect
When i was back in primary school, we had a math teacher who couldnt have been taller than 5’6, but he was one of the most feared and respected guys out there.
Can also confirm this as a guy at 5 foot 3. I was a consistently a big target for bullying and it wasn’t until I beat someone who used to terrorise me throughout school with a hockey stick so hard the end was broken and covered in blood that all the bullying and teasing ceased the next day. It’s not impossible to gain respect but you really do just have to be meaner the taller guys to make up for it. Luckily as you grow up all you need is to have resting bitch face and big enough build to get basic decency at our height.
I'm glad no one has called me a short king. I've always felt that it's essentially a veiled way of still putting someone down. I don't like manlet either. Just say I'm short. Nicknames are insulting.
Same here, I couldn’t even get a date to prom because I was too short 😂 I was 16 & 5’3.. I’m now 6’4 and some of the reactions when I bump into people from school are hilarious, especially the girls lol
@@Keralite29 Honestly I hated it so much, as a man you’re expected/encouraged to be dominant and assertive in society but it’s so difficult when you’re short because nobody takes you seriously and it’s emasculating, so I fully empathise with shorter guys. My Dad is 6’1 and my Mum’s 5’10 so genetically I always expected to be Tall but it took SO LONG that I really started to think I was some sort of anomaly.
Society: The only circumstance where compensating is seen as negative, is if you're a short man. If this is the case, then it just means that people want a certain demographic of people to stay down, so they can hate them, so they can feel superior to them, not alot of men will like seeing a guy who is 20 cm shorter than them, yet his biceps are twice as big, or his shoulders be wider.
I'm 5'5 and it is basically life on hard mode. Everyone around you is an enemy and people see you as easy prey, not to mention you basically need to forget about women as they will not be into you (unless you have a model face or you're rich). You have to be tough to make it as a manlet, it's why I think the gym, stoicism and some kind of weaponry are necessary to even have a chance.
I seriously believe that this obsession with height (for expample you getting asked by friends of friends how tall you are) is a product of social media during the last years. Don't get me wrong: I 100% agree that being a short dude is bad, you are making tons of negative experiences you would not be making if you were taller, it is not fair and everyone should care a lot more about this issue. But honstely, I'm 5"9 and when I was in school (I'm 27 now, german) until like 18, NOONE of me and my friends even talked about our height, and I had many friends. It has never been an open issue. There were a lot of dudes who were slightly taller than me (like 5"10 to 6 foot or something), but none of us made a thing out of it. There definetely weren't millions of memes around the "public" internet except maybe on 4chan or whatever, but within the last 7 years it really blew up.
Agreed. I didn’t even give af about my height till around 2018 with all the 6ft+ and manlet crap that started. When I was younger I didn’t even want to be tall.
The final part where you explain how to overcome the problems that happen to manlets surprised me absolutely. I did not expect to hear your stance and it makes me incredibly happy that I did.
I'm at 5'8 and this is basically the spot where you're not short enough to be treated different but not tall enough for it to be a source of pride or a selling point. In terms of weight and being jacked though I started looking like it once I got over 160 and pretty lean. My female cousins think getting any bigger would be a mistake and I'm under 170 right now that's why I pay weight comments on this platform zero mind because that number means nothing without context lmao
Yeah this height is SUPER weird lmfao. Like I never ever had someone make fun of me for my height, but you literally cant take pride into this height XD I also personally wont ever go below 175 pounds. I cant imaigne being 160 no matter how much muscle I build.
@@naughtiousmaximus7853 Well I couldn't imagine being below 170 starting at 185 3.5 years ago, and then ended up at 152 a year later and even weighed in at 150 on light days 😆 The discovery that my body was more suited to being lighter.
@@naughtiousmaximus7853 I wouldn’t say dysmorphia, just sounds crazy when you ain’t been there in so long. And while 175 isn’t low at our height by any means if you’re lifting consistently you don’t need to go lower than that at all.
"Okey, it's been three years since the last time I felt insecure about my height, I th..." NH: "Short souls II: scholar of the first sin" Seriously loved this, also love how NH does not hesitate to call a friend of his an "ogre".
my father once told me about a buddy he had on a job that was known by a certain nickname which wasn't outright offensive but it wasn't a compliment either (can't properly translate). In most cases, it's just men getting along in the work environment, I bet everyone calls a friend by a nickname here. But when my father asked him about it a long time afterwards, if he actually liked the nickname, he told my my dad that deep down he hated it and it fucked him up a bit, but he couldn't say anything because it would disrupt the environment and the relationship that he had built with the guys over the years. Makes you think how much we, specifically men, overlook in terms of being aware of the emotions of our comrades, the manlet situation being one facet of this problem as well.
This is the kind of discussion that earns my respect. Honest, humble, straight to the truth. I'm 5'6" and have experienced completely bull**** levels of the discrimination you described. Ostracized, thrown in trash cans by big guys, sexually assaulted, mocked, disrespected, etc. As you said, the bullies (who are very common) commonly gaslight me by saying either explicitly or implicitly that I hate my height or have an inferiority complex or Napoleon complex or some nonsense like that. They intentionally try to piss me off just so I will get irritated and they can misconstrue my irritation as "proof" that I have one of those issues and feel insecure about myself. I also experience lots of disrespect and rejection from women who don't even know me and automatically have no interest in getting to know me. My exceptional intelligence, skills, and abilities are completely off the table as far as most people are concerned because they don't even care enough to find out. I'm also relatively strong, ambitious, and especially competitive but as you said these traits are usually perceived as inadequate attempts to compensate. People also talk crap about short men being hyper aggressive but completely overlook the fact they are the victims of aggression so much and have to learn to fight back against the discrimination. I know every time I have started at a new job I got bullied by new people that didn't know me yet and then they only stopped when I got aggressive. Then if I go to a new place I have to deal with it again and "prove myself" again. They only leave me alone after I show off and make them feel intimidated. This has been consistently true for many years now. This sucks @ss and I hate it. I do not like having to repeatedly "prove myself" through aggression rituals and power demonstrations. I don't like having to show off that I can outwork everyone just to be treated like a normal person. That said, it's a fact that I have to face even though I would never choose for it to be this way. I legitimately have to dominate the workplace just to be treated with a moderate level of respect from the men and women around me. Trust me, from my years of experience being bullied I can verify dominating the bullies is the only way they ever stop. The hardest and worst job I ever had was working the Tyson back dock in Grannis AR. The same guys that would tell me to kill myself and throw me in a trash can gave me high-fives and treated me like a friend after I demonstrated I could unload trucks faster than they could and hang more birds per minute on the poultry live hang lines. Unfortunately it took years of suffering and misery to achieve those feats because the big strong guys you find in those occupations are usually very good at what they do. It was physically impossible for me to match them in strength. I got lucky that my intellect was able to EVENTUALLY find ways to get ahead in a field based primarily on strength, stoicism, and sadism. I don't work there anymore but it's the best example of the worst period of my adult life. Even though I have had better jobs since then I have still been bullied at every place and the bullying never stops until after I outmatch the bullies in a way that truly impresses them. I'm sick of showing off. I'm sick of impressing them. I'm tired of having to overperform for minimum respect. The fact is I don't have a choice because the alternative is even worse. The alternative means getting treated like the scum of the earth despite all my personal qualities. Nobody ever guesses I could have useful or admirable qualities. The default assumption seems to be that I'm a useless, lazy piece of **** unless I shove enough special abilities in their faces like a dancing bear. That is the only thing that justifies my existence in their eyes.
I’m 5’11 at 17 years old and sub 10 body (regular gym goer and play lot of sports) fat and let me tell you that having a “desirable” or aesthetic physique helps in all aspects of life! Don’t worry about others opinions and just be confident and try to be better than you were yesterday.
@@himeshsinghshishodiya There is truth to that I agree with your statement, but that doesn’t stop you and others from striving to fulfill their potential in whatever endeavors they pursue.
I’m 5’8”. One of my best friends (he has since passed away) was also 5’8”. He received a lot of comments and jokes about his height/size, whereas I rarely did. Apparently there is more that goes into a perceived “small stature” than just height alone. I can remember giving him shit one day and he replied “dude, we’re the same height”. That wax the moment I realized I was considered ‘short’. Even below average according to the statistics for US men. However, neither of us ever let our height hold is back. ;)
yea no your not going to get killed because of height but people get killed for the race everyday you've got to be kidding this might be the dumbest comment I've ever seen
Bullying someone for their height is worse than racism, because there are more short people than there are of any given race. So by and large the bullies are bullying more people
@@misanthropist3yup, especially since there is a social stigma associated with racism. Unfortunately, there is none correlated with height. What's even worse - there is social encouragement for that. Have you seen the videos on the internet (usually yt, instagram shorts), where midget is jumping to the water and some other dude does something in another edit? (throwing to the bin, to the tea cup and so on). Not to mention discriminating videos where women giggling about men shorter than 6" tall. Imagine video where people giggle about black women, where guys saying that they would never date them, and compare them for example to animals. That's what literally happening on the internet right now. Not to mention that we have some combos. Where there is not only racism but also heightism involved. Like women expecting from black guy being basketball player, or from white men to be like those dutch swimmers...
@@HCforLife1 The meek shall inherit the Earth. The animals will be put in their place brother. Come to Jesus. Hate that which is evil. The Sun will bring judgement to the Earth soon enough.
I'm 5'6" and 20 years old. I could have been 5'7" or 5'8" if I hadn't been on fu*%ing antidepressants. Sometimes, I envy how people treat my taller friends. Even though I'm a dominant person and people can sense and respect that, there are times when they don't take me seriously. If it helps, I'd like to share a few things that have worked for me: Grow a Beard: I have a beard, and my friends don’t. People sense the testosterone, and I get the recognition and respect I crave. Without a beard, people try to intimidate me and stare me down. I learned the hard way that I always needed to stand up for myself, and now I've gained respect for myself. Avoid Disadvantageous Situations: I avoid situations that put me at a disadvantage. If you try hard, you'll realize that you could make someone guess that you are strong, but by putting yourself in a bad position, anything can happen. So avoid fights, even arm wrestling. Taller people have longer limbs, so don’t try to fight it. Build Muscle: Gain more muscle or even fat to appear broader. Even though my skeleton is narrow, I notice more respect when I bulk up. People don’t try to do me dirty as much. Act Confidently: Don’t do what people expect you to do. If someone tries to make fun of you, react like a man. People often look at short people like babies, so if you compensate with confidence and maturity, you'll gain even more respect because it highlights something unexpected. Dealing with Women: This one is tough. You can’t judge women for their preferences, so try to compensate in other areas-financially (even though I’m broke), with beauty, hair, muscles, etc. If you want to experience a one-night stand, the best chance you have is by using a 3-inch insole. Boom, from 5'6" to 5'9", and the problem is solved. In the end, you can’t change everyone’s minds. People are different, and even if you were 6 feet tall, you wouldn’t be perfect. People will try to put you down because it’s the first thing they notice. But at the end of the day, those people don’t matter because they treat you like shit. Just focus on the people who matter and try to date a woman who is your height or taller for better genetics for your future son.
Yeah, definitely working out for yourself & your health, otherwise you just become a manlet. 😬 A lady friend of mine (who rejected me because I was too short) told me there's no gym for my short stature. 🤣
I thought I was 5'10" for years, only to discover that I'm only 5'9". Brought back some youthful insecurities. A nice pair of boots took them away again.
ngl, I remember some manlet i used to live with (around 5'4 or smth) He used to claim that I'm 5'9 instead of 5'10 because of a slight lacking of inch. I also have a pair of shoes that boost me to 6ft or 5'11 so I roll with 6ft or 5'11 depending how I feel, but then again, guys at my height think they are 6ft so i don't really even know my height tbh, I rocked in the club and make out with girls and thats about it
5’6 truth. Being short your playing life on hard mode. We definitely suffer more but life has more to offer. We have to play the cards were dealt. Focus on the things we have control of and control it. Suffering and Discipline is not “bad”.
i’m 5’6 and i honestly never realized how many fitness/bodybuilding influencers are also short. Camera angles can be deceiving, but you can’t hide short limbs. I know guys shorter than me, but look taller in pictures because their arms are longer in proportion to their body.
there's nothing inherently wrong with the short stature itself - it's harmless genetic variation - the issue is with society at large that believes the length of your limbs is what determines your value as a human being [more specifically, a human male] healing from this acquired insecurity will take time, but it's worth it. you are worth so much more
Im 5’6 and not only am i short but i was born with pectus excavatum so no matter what i do i can never look like a normal person But that doesn’t matter Because that doesn’t mean I can’t improve Maybe I can’t reach the physique of most men but i can still better myself I’ve always been the shortest among my friends but I’ve also been the strongest and the fittest So guys from my experience get over your genetics and start improving yourself Go shower Get a haircut Get jacked Get a good job Focus on growing yourself as a person And before you know it you’ll be doing a lot better Ever since i started doing these things I’ve been doing a lot better off with girls so start now It sucks but know that not matter how much it sucks there are people worse off than you and those who made it besides the odds So give it your best and don’t listen to the haters because in the end only you matter!
Before I watch this video. I'm 5'7, I have some decent mass and have started martial arts....this is all compensation. But instead I have found a sense of impregnable individuality which is one of the most powerful things I have. I wouldn't have gotten this if my manlet insecurities didn't push me
Insecurity, like all negative emotions, can be used as a tool for progress. But you eventually want to conquer them. You should be proud of your accolades and proud of yourself. You've earned the right to confidence. And as a martial artist you either can or will soon be able to beat the shit out of 95% of the men taller than you.
Even if you are short if you know how to fight really well then people's perceptions will change. Though people will always see that weakness at first glance.
Between 5’6” and 5’10” is a hard height to be as man. If you’re (I am) 5’8”/5’9” you’re the in the category of “a little short”. You’re not a short king at 5’4”-5’6” but you’re not tall either. What the phrase “a little short” literally means is that you’re not quite short but what it does practically is put “little” and “short” right next to each other which isn’t a good look. 5’10-6’ is “kinda tall” territory. Sure “kinda” takes the edge off of being simply “tall” but “tall” is still in play. 6’2”+ is indisputably tall. Once you hit 6’7” you’re a giant. A friend of mine is 6’8” and when we go out together it looks like a little kid hanging out with his daddy. It’s tough out there lads
5'7" Zoomer here, late intermediate lifter of 4 years. Good video. Love my manlet strength. Best of luck to my taller brothers in iron, keep up the grind.
A bit late to the party but as a 5'7" dude who's never had issues with women, it's always been because "you've never acted like you're short". With that being said, I'm very ambitious, practice martial arts, work on myself, etc., and they recognize that. But ultimately, being grounded in yourself and not caring about anyone else is the only thing you can really do as a man to overcome what this life has given to you or thrown your way
When I was short I have always been good with girls but other than that it’s always shit my friends makes fun of me and I was bullied in high school by bigger guys, and people treat you different like you’re not equal and I had a growth spurt and hit 5’10 and people treat me differently now and the person who bullied me is now the same height as me 😂 and now like you I train lethwei and jujitsu to better protect myself and always tried to be a better person
This is an internet fad . 5’8 or even 5 foot 6 is normal not short . There were tribes of short stocky blonde warriors in ancient Europe. Sub 6 foot men have an advantage in wrestling or football or any sport where taking out your opponents legs is beneficial . Sub 6 foot men are also more often capable of superior muscle building . Tall men usually have high metabolisms and have trouble gaining weight . That’s why most tall guys are super skinny when young . Average height men can build muscle faster . This nonsense that you are “short “ if you are not 6 feet tall is a dumb internet meme .
the manlet cut off thing is mainly an incel thing, its an excuse/reason for their failings. its not that their failings are their fault, its the very social structure that the internet, alongside mass globalisation has forced us into that is the cause of our social problems. if youre short that means your forefathers were short, but they managed to procreate why? because they had something almost none of us do,a healthy social community in which they are a living breathing part of.
@@dinfastglobally the average male is 5'7. So yeah 5'6 isn't that short. If the average height is 5'9 than roughly 70% of men are between 5'6 and 6ft. I see 5'6 dudes everyday. I'm 5'6 myself, everyone I know who is my height thinks they are 5'8. Even at 5'6 I don't feel much smaller than a 5'9 or 5'10 dude. The difference ain't much in photos either. He is dead right, 5'6 isn't abnormally short for a man and is a lot more common then you think, everyone is just lying about height.
This was an interesting topic of discussion. Definitely makes me reflect on the times when I was short prior to my growth spurt as a sophomore in high school. I certainly didn’t receive much respect back in those days, and my height must have a contributing factor. I don’t intend on feeding my short friends bull shit positivity, but I will definitely make an effort to be more considerate towards their predisposition in the future. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this NH. Take care
Being a manlet only made a impact on me because of woman. In the moment I removed woman from the equation (not becoming homosexual) trough celibacy my life has become insanely better. You guys can say it is copium, but I honestly couldn't care less. If you are younger than 20, you really shouldn't be looking for a woman, because you probably aren't good enough to be able to start a family (yes only look for woman when you want to start a family, and understand your responsibilities. Do not accept a woman that you think she is not virtuous enough to be the mother of your kids. Better off alone than in a bad relationship.)
If you're a short man (like me), go hit the gym, pick things up and put them down, aggressively. It's what we've been made for. I'm 1.69 cm, 5'6 1/2, and developed from short fat f*ck in middle school, bullied and resentful toward the world, to Hypertrophy fiend whose told by his friends that if he was like 15 cm taller, they wouldn't dare look him in the eyes... And I haven't even been lifting for a full year by today. So, i call upon everyone of my fellow short guys - hit the gym, turn into fucking fridges, and mogg the living shit out of everyone else. Turn into the monsters society makes you out to be (respectfully). It's what we're literally meant to be doing by nature.
@@spanishjohn420 i wanna be 175 atleast because i look smaller compared to them . I mean when we are next to each other. if I can become like 6/7cm taller it would be perfect, but if not we still will be the same height as Messi and Baki(from anime)xd
Because it doesnt. 5'2, 23 year old, married to a 5'8 beautiful girl, and have a fairly good professional life. It's just easier to blame your height rather than your capacity to gain knowledge, be a better version of yourself, and have alot of social interaction. If you only talk to 1 girl every month, you'll only get rejected. Talk to one new girl every week, see how the odds work. Stop blaming shit that holds no value especially when shorter men than you had more success than you.
The last message is everything and so true. This is real body positivity - not being an lazy a-hole and feeling good but actually accepting the immutable and improving what you can.
5’4 and i love being short. I worked extremely hard to compensate for my height. Communication, fitness, money, spiritual, education, and mental all above average. 💪
why would you like being something if you need to compensate for it? or are you saying you’re happy your short because it made you not be lazy and actually work on yourself to compensate for it?
As a 6' man, I have always found that shorter men have very interesting and fun personalities, maybe to overcompensate. Two of the shortest men I've known were actually two of the funniest and smartest men I've ever known. Taller men tend to have almost no personality for some reason, except when they the "gentle giant" archetype.
I'm 5'10, but the smartest dudes I've ever met have been short. My manager is 5'7, dude knows everything about hardware, it's impressive, one of my best friends is 5'6, dudes a fantastic artist and incredibly intelligent, I know a guy who's like 5'4 and has a photographic memory and a nearly psychopathic level of social competence and gravity. If you're short, hopefully you make up for it with extreme competence.
Being 5'9 I understand how strict height requirements are for society. In my country, where people are just not that tall, I do 'kind' of well, because of the reference point. Most younger generations are either my height or taller, 6 feet +. I would recommend short men to really do the effort to move to countries where people are on average shorter, and hopefully who share the same or similar ethnical backgrounds as yourself. I know it sucks, but one should try everything to win at life. Don't get discouraged, bring power to yourself, with strenght, skills, money, martial arts, weapons, etc... Become resourceful, kind, help others, detach yourself from your ego, and lift the weight of shame and blame out of your shoulders. Just focus on what you can control and try to bring as much beauty to your life as possible.
I think you're right about a lot of things in this video, but you're wrong about something: as a short man I would never want to be of normal stature. Being short is eye opening, and I care about truth, so I wouldn't want to change that.
That's a perspective obtained after experiencing immense suffering and understanding. I'm 100% with you. People open up to you and show you who they are around you if you're perceived safe, whether they're mean or kind. My height helped me see a brutal world for the way it is while folks remain trapped in their biased delusional ways. Growing up short, fighting lots of people and observing them with age helped me stay aware and sharp, it was humbling and enlightening. Take care
Most important thing about this video is it was made by a 6' man.
Had it been a short man it would've been just called coping.
or ppl would’ve just accused him of having “napoleon complex” lmao
Same reason we need women talking about issues tbf, no one cares what men have to say.
Most women don't really understand these male specific issues tbf. Many who would have the potential to understand height simply can't because it's taboo and they're acutely aware of that
@@zaarongaming8174So why we should understand their "issues" as everyone tries to force us to "know what women feel" bollocks typ of narrative?
@@michaelring6077 All the "women's issues" nowadays are directly antithetical to the needs of women. As we've tried to fix these "women's issues" by instating egalitarianism, they've become miserable; there's no faster way to kill a woman's love for her husband than putting her on par with him.
100% agree. I'll never make fun of someone for something they have pretty limited control over.
So many other opportunities, haircut, dressing style, small calves, etc.
or being French
@@naughtiousmaximus7853 that's sound like hell
Or living in china
Women: haha your 5’7
Man:haha your 300lb overweight
Women:😡🤬😡thats not funny, fat acceptance is a thing
And being overweight is genetic not a choice
Man: you can reduce your weight, you cannot increase your height
I’ve actually seen this conversation play out somewhere
@@derekfrommoreuprightrowsmo600 Female moment
One hack is just to film your content in a basement with low ceilings, everyone will assume you’re 6’3+. I know a guy that does this
lol is this you? (Your name 🤣)
You mean the 6’9 merc who is also 5% bf and a monster. He is also not bald and has a harem of cheerleaders.
@@orhuna_4493 sounds like such a frustrating lifestyle tbh. By the time he finally fits through the doorframe by leaning over and facing sideways due to the massive lats and broad shoulders, he’s just flooded by women and has to spend all day turning them down, that must get old.
@@orhuna_4493 bald by choice + bigger irl + bigger than serge
Im 6"4 and my cousin has a basement ceiling that is maybe 6"6. If i stand on my heels my head hits the ceiling
This is a rare video. Only a tall man could have made this video. If a manlet made this video, he would be labeled a complainer and needs to “man up.” The irony is not lost here. You have many good ideas and perspectives. 👏👍
Just the fact that it requires a tall dude to make this video to not be labeled as cope and just "man up" only confirms his statement
@@Panzer_Runner
Why make the video at all. Jeff nippard is 5 5" is he feeling sorry for himself? No he is Killing it. Mac method at 5 7 too. And Fitxfearless at 5 7". I'm 5 8" and never once have I felt sorry for myself. I jacked up and killed it out there...
@@stevemann1299 5ft 8 isnt even short so your point is not relevant. Jeff is a major YT influencer... again you may as well have used a celeb.
This man is short compared to my grandpa
@@James_36yea it is my grandpa & cousin are close to 6’4
Just asked my gf if she would’ve dated me if I was under 5’ 9”.
She said “no, just being honest, I like to feel you are physically dominant over me.” She also said almost every woman she knows feels the same. She also said women are hypocrites because if men went solely on ass/breast size, we’d be called shallow pigs.
Love is a lie, we never left the jungle.
Women are also hypocrite because they want too much "gender equality" while they gravitate towards "superior" men than them
that's funny, given how even a 5'1 male could be "physically dominant over" 99.5% of the female population with _ease_ (as long as he has a healthy, trained body)
and as for how your gf claims most of her female friends _feel_ the same, that's just talk -don't look at what they say, look at what they _do_
for example my good friend who's 5'7 has ever since high school, routinely slayed it with girls, he's certainly doing much better than me who I'm 6'2 tall
another example was a coworker of mine from an old job who must've been between 5'5- 5'6, and he also seemed to do really well with girls, he would show me texts of a number of girls he'd already hooked up with/was planning to, all of them various levels of cute/hot
(2 girls he knew had dropped by the shop at different points to say "hi" -one was an ex-gf of his, the other a current gf/fuck-buddy(?), both very cute)
@@marimoerostrawHow handsome are their faces?
Idk seems like a her group thing. I’m 5’8 and am skinny so you would think I’d have problems but I’ve honestly had more women hit on me than the other way around. However, I have a good face and wear Harry Potter glasses so I appeal to girls that like nerdy smart guys. Also have a 5’4 Asian friend who slays because he is cute. The point of this is that women have a variety of tastes and large niches exist where a non conventionally attractive person can hold massive appeal.
what i hate the most is when people get super offended when somebody talks about their weight, but in the next breath they make fun of small men. iam 5'7 so i might not seem like a manlet to alot of people, however i live in nothern germany between denmark and the netherlands, and the average height here is basically above 6 feet. ive ALWAYS been the smallest guy in my class AND in my friendcircle. the manlet hate needs to stop ,thanks for this NH!
Yeah, it's a weird height to be. We're average height, but it's so much easier to compare up rather than down. Let's focus on the things we can change rather than the things we cannot!
Yeah, I'm 5'8 here in Spain where most guys are in like the 5'6-5'10 range, but there are a lot of people over 6 feet so sometimes I feel like average height but others like I'm dwarfed by everyone lol
I am going to live in Bremen for the next six months and I am used to being the tallest guy in my circles (I have only lived in southern Italy and Portugal) so it's gonna be fun for my 5'9 ass
@@artu262 Bro really? LMAO
Manlet hate is not a real thing. Ya'll youtube fitness enthusiasts need to go outside more
Just the fact that it requires a tall dude to make this video to not be labeled as cope and just "man up" only confirms his statement
everyone would've said "cope more" if he was 5'11 .very sad
"Man up" is not a bad advice, you are girl, you should talk about girl's problems
I'm a short man, I had cancer in my teen years and cancer and chemo stunted my growth. I fought hard, and after high school I was in remission. I thought life would be happy, but I was wrong, as the years went on I struggled so much being a short guy, from getting rejected constantly, to being made fun of, to people not taking me seriously. Even body positive people crap on mens height. It was so painful, even more painful than the cancer to be honest. It's enough that I wish I never survived cancer, and it should have just took me out during my teens. I might have been cancer free but now society treats my height like cancer. I tried to be positive but it's just coping at this point. Now my cancer came back very aggressive, It's tearing my body, at best I only have a year to live and honestly I don't mind it anymore because the experience of being a short man is infinitely more painful than the cancer I had to deal with, now I can just finally rest and be free from the shackles of heightism.
Damn, this is so sad, but I'm not surprised. I'm tall but I've seen how brutal short guys get treated and it's so unfair. I don't know what to tell you with in regard to your illness, but if you're saying being short is more painful, that just speaks at how lonely and emasculating that experience must be. I'm actually crying at your story, I'm sorry society wasn't kinder to you.
If you live in Asia I swear you won't have this fucken bad western experience.
I am 166cm living in Indonesia and most of my people at 150 to 170cm it's completely normal.
holy f man... you dont know if this is true or not but this is really really heartbreaking...
@SerialMogger-YT what the suicide that you western countries have ?.
As a 5'4 manlet, I grew out if my insecurities when I realized that nobody will be able to swing at me because their punches will just fly over my head.
At 5'4 you may have evolved past that but you sure as hell didn't "grow out" of ANYTHING.
Totally kidding ;) just noticed the somewhat ironic choice of words hehe
@@Strangepete notice no one liked your comment 😂
@@gregoriomiller8241 yeah well give it a few more hours, it's not like my joke was in poor taste or anything 😬
Hitbox advantage
Just get good at wrestling and you’ll be a beast
It is undeniable that I am short. I am 5'2". I never lie about it either, I own up to it bc it is true. I cannot hide or change this aspect of myself, and lying about it will only further awkward moments of ridicule and jabs at me. Despite being short and looking much like a 14-year-old with a beard, I still have the respect of everyone in my gym, men and women, and I have a lovely fiancee who I've been with for 3 years now and plan to marry next year. And this is because of what NH says at the end of his video: work on yourself and do NOT allow yourself to be your first and biggest hater. Don't internalize bs ppl say and make it part of you. Keep going, even if ppl joke to you at first to try and knock you down a peg. Prove to them that you have the mental fortitude to keep at it, whatever it is--gym, better attitude, martial arts, a team sport, a craft, etc. Self-improvement like this will help you let go of hate. Once you let go of that self-hate, you will notice ppl will approach you with a better attitude bc you are less angry and bitter. That is something that your body language almost always gives away, and that body language looks closed-off and insecure. If you want to be a "short king" and feel respected, then act like you are deserving of respect by first respecting yourself.
Damm how tall is ur gf?
@@1heilpeatler1 5'3", so not a huge difference. But everyone is taller than I am, so I had resigned myself early on that I would most likely end up dating and marrying someone who is taller. I honestly feel like such a chad showing her off when she wears heels and is then much taller than I am. "Look at the bad bitch I pulled" vibes, y'know?
You dropped your crown, King ✋👑
Good job man I salute you!
You are an inspiration!
Short men, balding men, men with small penises - all of these groups get clowned on without repurcussion, and if you speak up against it you're called sensitive (if you're a guy) or a pick me girl if you're a woman. Sad, imo. Either everyone should get clowned on fair and square, or no one should get clowned on for what they can't control.
(and no, you can't control balding, taking finasteride is not the same as not eating cake anymore or shaving a neckbeard)
Just take the Jew pill
balding manlets with pp below average are living on veteran difficulty
balding isnt controllable, preventing hair loss and hair transplants are.
@@Hejustlikemefr-km1mxcastrating or turning yourself into a zombie doesn't count as a viable prevention bro..
@@shred9475look at jason blaha
I'm 5'7, so right on the cutoff. I can tell you I've had multiple women who were interested in me and have said "I just wish you were taller" or "I prefer guys closer to 6 feet". So it can be a hit on confidence for sure. It's absolutely part of the reason I got into bodybuilding. I felt that having abs and capped delts would make up for me being short. And then I honestly fell in love with working out. So in a way, I owe my love of fitness to being short. I don't want to be corny and say "there's a always a brightside" because there really isn't. Life is cruel, the basic tenet of Buddhism is that life is suffering. So it's not necessarily about always seeing a positive, but about accepting the hand you've been dealt and understanding that there's nothing you can do to change it. There are just some things you cannot change, focus on the things you can change.
Always be sure to not be selfish and immediately dump a woman that says something like that. If all men did that, no women would dare say stuff like that. In the end, it's men's selfish desire to get their dicks wet in the short term that leads to women being able to enforce this stupid shit.
Yeah I'm also 5'7, 5'7 is like the tease height, its the height where girls will go out with you, but they still will make fun of you as they go out with you that you're slightly shorter than the average man.
I have the same story lol
@@blackpus5263 Make fun of them back, they like it a lot 😂
I am 5'7 as well and I don't care since I look like a tank
"Never forget what you are, the rest of the world will not. Wear it like armor and it can never be used to hurt you" - Tyrion Lannister
Very fittin id say.
great fuckin quote man. thats gold and truth
and this was said by a dwarf in a fantasy movie 🤣🤣 in the real world the avg height has been increasing for over a century, why? because women select tall men to procreate with (there are other factors too such as diet ,etc... but in general it is increasing due to this natural selection).
cope using quotes from rich, statusmaxxed dwarf with chad face
That suicide rate of short men is actually heart breaking.
That suicide rate needs to turn into ER rate
Anywhere i can read about it ik weird question just curious
They're taking themself out of the human gene pool, thereby improving future generations' average height. 'Tis a noble cause to die for.
@@AnatolyVll
There's stuff you can do to appear taller. As a vertically challenged man myself, I never leave the house without my discreet hight-boosting shoes. They add about an extra inch and a half of height, which gets me to 6'0, at least. Highly recommend it.
@@epaminon6196 bro i hope you can find peace cause 6ft is tall. If you are slightly under you're just normal.
I’m almost emotional…. Every word that this man spoke resonated with me on an entirely different level… For someone whose first language isn’t English, this man’s articulation is beyond amazing. His philosophy is rock solid. Im 5”6 and every girl I’m interested in said that she’s interested in tall men. I just lost hope and felt insecure on a level that propelled me into bodybuilding aggressively and I hurt my back, shoulders, neck, wrist, knee, hip and ankle along with calves to some degree chasing strength with half knowledge.
This video inspired me so much to first accept myself and then become stronger and mature towards losing my hatred for myself. Thank you NH. You have my deepest respect and admiration. Thank you for speaking on this matter
I hope your life gets better from here on out.
I feel like this is very relatable. How do we overcome these injuries while building our body with limited knowledge? Get a PT?
These are all facts. I’m 5’4 and the amount of fights I’ve had to encounter throughout my life is tiring. Your the first to get picked on but if you lack cowardice like me then your going to get shit tested a lot and beat for it. However I will say me not willing to put up with taller guys bullshit and ready to fight the second I was disrespected earned me their respect and friendship afterwards the only thing more impressive than watching someone win a fight is when they are disadvantage in height and weight but still give it there best. We will have to prove ourselves many times throughout our lives more than others but it will also make you stronger! Keep moving forward and literally roll with the punches and just punch back. Don’t ever feel sorry for yourself because literally nobody cares, suck it up and fight back.
bro's a wolverine
As a 5'4 guy you absolutely nailed this. It's quite literally the best example of damned if you do damned if you don't. I got fit, I got relatively wealthy, got cosmetic surgery for my face, learned social skills, dress well and overall try to be as good a person as humanly possible and it still doesn't make up my small stature. I don't try to appease people anymore, because I know there isn't much I can do other than go through an awfully painful/expensive surgery that will make me disproportional. I'm done hating myself for something I never chose or asked for and I appreciate you making this video.
We are going to die anyway
Search about your destiny after death
feel you man and good for the hope you'll fill better and be happier
@Borsalino Kizaru Maybe that's true for some but I don't regret getting cosmetic surgery, I think it helped my facial looks at least a little bit. I had a slightly big nose with a huge dorsal hump and a somewhat recessed chin. It didn't cost too much and I was satisfied with the results.
From my observations the shorter people are usually more attractive in other areas. A lot of tall guys I see are unattractive, skinny fat, obese , etc.
So if we take away the height factor, the shorter ones are usually more attractive elsewhere, face, body, etc.
It’s crazy how much height matters to women. I’ve seen women throwing themselves at some pretty goofy looking dudes just cause they’re over 6’. Lol. Now that I’m older, that stuff doesn’t bother me. It makes me laugh lol. In fact, I regret being bothered by it when I was younger. Life’s too short to be bothered by things you can’t control.
I wish the whole world would see this, and I'm the same. I spent the majority of my life under 5'7", then had a huge growth spurt, in my MID 20s (incredibly late onset puberty) and got to 5'9". With a good set of shoes I can gauge people's reaction to my existence around them at nearly 6', and the difference is palpable.
I'm able to evade the discrimination that short men face, and my heart truly, truly goes out to the men who cannot. I am so sorry.
First time I've heard of a growth spurt that late.
thanks bro
4'11. I had to develop some weird toughness. What's funny is that I've still got laid but it's harder. I've grown proud of being different somehow. But sadly I will probably not be able to get rid of the lurking insecurity. I got pissed when you said that we aren't shaped like humans (dehumanizing) so it still affects me somehow but maybe it's true that some of us are in a perpetual state of anger because of it
I am 5.3.
I feel with you.
If i get treated like a joke you get treated as subhuman.
U get laid it good achievement at that height even tho I don't like hookup culture
I wholeheartedly support the message of stopping manlet hate.
Then again, I’ve been restless waiting for Fake Merc Character Study Part 22 to fuel my ments addiction, and this is the one manlet who needs to be bullied.
Preach
who is it
@@wtfhahahaha bloach
Manlet hate is so fucked up
On Mexico, Manlets bully everyone 😂👍 But, I agree every hate is kinda fucked up
I'm average 5'9, but growing up partly without social media was a blessing. No social media whatsoever in elementary school (we didn't even have smart phones), and facebook just started to get popular in high school, so we weren't overflown with trash content online so essentially noone really cared much about their or other people's heights.
Do you think that’s why? I thought the height insecurity was only an American thing, but the more I hear about it the more unsure I am about the origin. I’m 5’9 as well and I never heard about people being insecure about height until I started to read reddits and comments on youtube videos, and now I’m starting to think that maybe the reason why I’ve never perceived height as being an issue is because I’m average height, so I’ve never been made fun of for it and I’ve never been complimented for it, but maybe it’s different for short guys. I remember in highschool joking around with a shorter friend about his height by, for example, putting my arm on his head and resting my weight on it, and at the time I thought of it as just having fun and being silly, but now I’m questioning wether his experience of it was to be more insecure about his height (although he never seemed bothered by it). What do you think?
@@juanmejiagomez5514 I personally never heard it in real life either that someone complained about height but then again, people are more honest online anonymously about their insecurities. The lack of social media was definitley a good thing, so short guys couldn't just watch tik toks and insta posts all day about how bad it is to be short, probably they still had insecurities they just didn't talk about it, and it wasn't a topic online so the insecurity wasn't as big as today.
Height prejudice has been going on long before the advent of the internet/social media. People may not have been as open to discussing it before the internet spread red pilled ideology, but it was there. You may have noticed things like the 'jocks' getting all the girls. These are the football players basketball players ect, who are 6 ft and above. You may have wondered why a 6'4 ugly troll fat lineman got girls at parties and the smaller kid got bullied and called a nerd. Looks up jock and nerd on Google image and I gaurantee you'll see a height difference
Also 5'9(0.5), I think we are at the spot where it doesn't really come up. Feel perfectly comfortable with my height. I imagine 5'7 it starts to become an issue.
@@baldr2510 I'm 5'7 and I've never really thought about or cared about my height unless other people bring it up, or if I'm standing next to someone who's like 6'4 or something. In any other case, 5'7 standing next to someone of average height isn't really noticeable.
Its true. I have been 5'6 for almost a decade(turned 5'7 a month ago) but my height was never an issue to me. I actually(maybe wrongfully) was happy the doc said my growth plates were sealed in high school when I reached 5'6. Cuz i figured I could go ahead and lift heavier weights without fear of hurting my growth plates and being the cause of my own short stature. I reveled in lifting heavy. Got the short man swoleness, and was having alot of fun. I had a few gfs that were taller than me and my height was never used as a way to bully me by other men. It may have been a way to test my attitude, like a friend saying "you're so short" and id reply "im not short, you're just taller". Sure it would be cooler and more fun yo be tall, but in my mind, focusing on things I can't control is for women
”focusing on things I can't control is for women”, based.
@@YamanoRyuu Thank you
Yea the growth plate thing is scientifically false as you suspected in parentheses, but great job livin life man 👍
As someone who is 5’7, I was only made fun of for being short when I was overweight. It was always “fat and short” never just short. Now that I am respectfully lean and muscular, it is as if all the talk about my height has gone away. Curious if anyone experienced anything similar.
my friend is 5ft9, probably around 170-175lbs muscular (not crazy lean, around 20% bf) and women flirt with him no problem, so yeah you are pretty much right
@@naughtiousmaximus7853 5'9 isn't really manlet size.
@@doomedgeneration1917 Neither is 5ft7 and I am right in between.
@@naughtiousmaximus7853 It all boils down to how incredibly brainwashed peoples standards are from social media and men lying lol. Im 5´10 or 5´11 and I been called dwarf plenty of times by my taller buds lol.
I’m also 5’7 but I’ve never been made fun for height most likely because I was always lean and muscular. I go to UCLA now and find that most women don’t care as long as you’re fit, confident, smart, emotionally mature, etc. Picking you battles wisely helps exponentially
The worst part is when people try to tell you “no your height isn’t the problem no one cares that you’re short” all this gas lighting is so annoying makes me think they might aswell just say nothing at all
Petition for NH to do a whole 1h+ segment on a serious topic in his micky mouse voice. That shit cracked me up.
NH about to lose his voice for 1 month after that
that would get annoying really quickly
This is the most catharsis I've ever felt. Thank you for taking the time to do this.
Thank you for honesty NH. Most people are in denial about this, they will claim it is all about personality and confidence, specially women. There has always been a subconscious, moral judgment based on looks in society... and as you mentioned, it is only socially acceptable to point those out when it comes to manlets nowadays. I am 5'7" and I've always been smaller than most kids all my life, I am also particularly ugly. Working really hard on bodybuilding, being very good at academics and focusing on my career was my coping mechanism but nowadays all these things seem to fall under the paradigm of "toxic masculinity". It is very hypocritical that people will perceive hyper-productive tall/handsome men as "confident" and hyper-productive short/ugly men as "toxic" it really does come down to rationalization of biological responses. I'd say there's really no other option for people in my position than to be stoic about this. Can't succumb to slave morality, just accept that this is the way the world works and go do whatever it is that makes you happy. I have opted out from the dating game entirely and I have purposely become very asocial, simply because social dynamics seem to be based mostly on biological hierarchies. Instead I choose to spend my time lifting weights and working on my hobbies, I am happier now than when I tried my hardest to be likeable just to be looked down upon because of my looks.
Its a mix of the Halo Effect, and old societal standards from the Ancient Greeks. Beauty is often associated with moral virtue, and it's such a bad mindset.
You sound very bright and insightful from this comment alone. More men need to adopt this mindset, not just manlets.
You are delusional for going 'asocial' that's not in any way gonna battle Manlet hate, that's just you giving up and being pathetic, I know guys who look worse than you ( I guarantee it) and one guy in particular is literally 5'3 looks like a dwarf and have slept with stunners... you know why? they're dumbasses! they see a girl walking down the street and they only think with their dicks, they go to parties and start dancing like maniacs and hitting on every girl out there! they get slapped and don't even give a fuck... now I don't agree with that lifestyle, but it just goes to show you that your excuses are bullshit.
this the problem with too much mental masturbation and intellectualization, sometimes you just have to listen with your d*ck when it comes to women, and let's not hide with philosophical wheelchair justifications here, save that for later when you at least stop being a loser.
if you never had the internet at your disposal, and you lived carefree without giving a f*ck about biology (what the f*ck is that? lol) and started being a stupid monkey, you would actually find more women that way, I'd guarantee you would not sustain a relationship if you stayed that way though, I'm talking strictly and purely about attraction and s*x here.
Br00tal obsERvations
One of the damndest things for short men is how much handwaving it away people will give you for your problems, along with making it seem like they want you to think it's all in your head and you should blame yourself.
Thank you for aknowledging this. As a short man the consequences are very brutal but the worst thing is the dishonesty and gaslighting you recieve about your ,,Personality'' or how Looks dont matter
When I first met my wife's twin sister's, she talked about how her Bf was 6ft3 (the fact that this was randomly brought up by her out of nowhere is already quite telling). I met him a few weeks later. He's shorter than me and I'm 6ft1. He's 6ft. Being the blunt and naive person that I am, I just flat out told her that he's lying to her. As an intelligent rational person that values honesty and transparency, in my head I'd envisioned (optimistically thinly hoped it would lead to) her confronting him about this and dumping the scummy idiot, because who adds 3 inches on? When you're a good height to begin with too... Anyway she just went straight into defensive mode and told me repeatedly that I was wrong. Fast forward 5 years and she doesn't trust him at all. He never lets her anywhere near his phone and she's pretty sure he's cheating on her. Who ever could have seen this coming? If only somebody would have pointed out to her that was lying untrustworthy scum years ago.
Morals of the story: people who will lie about something as easy to find out such as their height are pathetic. They're untrustworthy and they're insecure. Just be you. Don't pretend to be something that you're not. Also, my sister-in-law is an idiot.
P.S. Napoleon wasn't 5ft10. It is believed he was around 5ft5/5ft6, which was around average (or slightly below) height at the time. I think when he's referred to as being 5ft10, it's because that's today's equivalency for a European man.
this is also why some girls and people say 6ft is short. they have a very skewed perception of what 6ft actually is because dude lie about their height all the time. A true 6ft is actually quite tall and taller than most men in most areas
A true
This is a phenomenon that I have only ever witnessed in the USA, not so much in europe at all.
@@angadgrewal9324agree I was good friends in university with two athletes that were 6 1 and 6 2. They're actually taller than around 95 % of men we encounter. The only reason everyone thinks this is normal height or short now is because of inflation. 5 5 guys often claim 5 8. 5 8 claim 5 11 and so forth. If people saw real 6 ft guys they'd be pretty surprised how tall it actually is.
I heard he was even shorter than 5 5
I'm 5'10 I've never understood the hate because I'm from Mexico and I was raised mostly in Asia and the Middle East. I'm used to towering over most people, until I started living in the USA or trios in Europe. I think it's a matter of perspective and learning to accept immutable facts. I'm not upset about my height, I'm just grateful to be alive and for the chance to be a better man. God believes in you, try to believe in yourself. I'll pray for yall, brothers.
Mr. Worldwide over here, damn bro 😂
5'10 is definitely tall.
I'm 5'11
@himesh2006 it's average
It definitely depends on region. I was actually tall for my age in Japan because I reached 5'8" by the time I was like 12. For context, average JP man is ~5'7". Problem is, I never grew past 5'8". I was very upset about that lol. Aside from growing a beard, I basically have not changed since I was freaking 12 and it gets to me sometimes.
My man has said "short" "Manlett" "dwarf" "midget" like 1000 times in 10 minutes... If you're trying to beat the insecurity out of us this will definitely do the trick 😭😂 it's like exposure therapy.
It does work though.
reminds of John Mulaney's managers saying that "midget" is the same as the n-word lmao, the less you use a word the more power you give it
u still a midget though
He’s not saying it in a bad way so maybe it could desensitize us lol
By accepting you're what you are, your skin will grow thicker and those things should never bother you again. I have come to the point of meeting people (men and women) shorter than me and treating them with the respect I think I should have received in the past. Once you've suffered enough, you'll come out of it a greater human being.
As a 5ft6 & 3/4 man (yes, I usually say 5’7), I definitely noticed a difference in how people treated me. I went from 162lbs out of shape… dropping to 135lbs and then building intelligently to 165lbs for a little over two years. I definitely am happy with some of the manlet visual advantages. I thought it would make a big different with how women perceive me, but I have found that is only observable infrequently. The behavior of men around me is much more noticeable. A good example would be if I hang out with a friend’s friend group, the dudes are much more likely to gravitate toward me and strike up conversation.
Yeah, same happened to me
5.7 here, same thing happened.
Basically turning myself from skinny fat to a fit looking dude (v-taper) made even men that are taller than me respect me more.
Exhibit A for a case of: if you gain a physique that will attract mostly male attention rather than female.
@@doublejacketjimmy391 it’s interesting though, because if you go by NH’s wisdom… this is a path to status. Being admired by dudes translates indirectly to women. But if you didn’t meet their height “requirement” in the first place it was never going to matter how you look. There are probably much quicker and effective paths to do better with women than weight training… but natural bodybuilding definitely helps at least a little.
Fr at 5'7 building muscle and being in shape is a must. Like I get girls checking me out all the time at 5'7 190 abs showing when flexed at 20-22 percent body fat , v taper big shoulders 18 inch arms , 265 bench for 5x5. Ive realized I'm genetically blessed since it's only been a year and half.
I was 5 7 in high school until my senior year. I grew to 6 ft. I don't notice a difference, but I also didn't try to get bitches. Watching these videos online with women making fun of shorter dudes is brutal. Keep your heads up guys.
Thanks for the support bro. It means alot coming from someone 6ft that can relate to being short. If that makes any sense.
Life sucks down here but thanks for the consideration for us short guys. I’m 5,5 the biggest struggle for me is wanting to wear vans, or converse but knowing I’m a a fuckin midget walking around so my brain instead tells me to wear my air forces which boost my height
You're lucky. I reached 5'8" by about age 12... then just stopped growing. I was so ready to get a couple inches in during high school and was so mad when I realized I was done growing. It hurt extra because 5'8" is a pretty damn good height for a 12 year old, especially in Japan where I was at the time. So I was convinced I'd be a good height by adulthood.
I’m 5’7. Back in college, a couple of girls made fun of my height quite a bit (despite being as tall as them) and showed no interest in attraction for me at all. Few weeks pass, one of them wanted me bad. Obviously I said no. I’ve never had problems with women but was I insulted for their own egos? The other girl would brag about her tall boyfriend all the time. It’s like an accessory.
It's a status symbol. It's a doomed relationship that's completely reliant on external factors when anyone who's been in a LTR knows the internal is ALL that matters. I'm actually a little suspicious of my dudes wife's tall comment.
@@AnimosityIncarnate pray for NH, he’s trapped
If women make fun of your height just make fun of one of their physical insecurities. There's always a physical deficiency a woman has that she's insecure about.
I am 4.9 my neighbor girl is much taller than me she is 5.1 she always make fun of my small height
Most women (who are usually short) deep down are also insecure about their own height and lack of power, so they will make fun of you to try and mask their own feelings. Just remember when someone makes fun of you for any of these reasons, 99% of the time it's because they have those same insecurities
I'm gonna fight people in a bagel shop.
Based
😂
Why was he one of my first thoughts watching this? Lol
Rip legend
I'm actually gonna do that
I'm 5'7", so I get auto-filtered in various situations by various people... It is what it is, can't do anything about that. All my friends are taller than me. I'm the super energetic, gregarious, outgoing, upbeat fitness freak in my friend circles. I take good care of my body, I dress decently, I work on my interpersonal skills and I'm always trying to grow as a person. Can't let the roll of genetic dice get in my way. Winners focus on winning, I'm not going to focus on one of my few "lacking" characteristics when I can focus on my gifts. Everything has a silver lining - I can do pullups on my friend's janky calisthenics station without needing to pull my ankles up to my rear ^_^
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I'm 5'3 and I was seriously never insecure about my height until like 2017 when this whole hate for short men was memed on. Now I think about it a lot but in real life I've never really dealt with bullying or rejection because of it. The internet overblows that shit.
The internet made people too comfortable with disrespecting others
@@gerrick5803 ya because of internet it made worse for man .they messed up women standards 😕
True. I’m short too and never really gotten any of this treatment. Especially the whole part of him saying men see shorter men as “bitches”… like, wtf dude… he’s traumatized or something, from being short, has grown to be taller and yet still can’t get over the trauma. It’s sad.
@@moritzwagner4332 Yeah the part withe the bitches might overblow it a little. THose dudes do exist, but they are either sociopath animal´s, or try to impress someone else. Most dudes- especially in a gym context- are actually feeling for you, as far as i can tell
@@licklack6370 yeah and I’m not saying people don’t notice your size, but it’s not that important in real life, most people aren’t animals and don’t think that way. I definitely don’t get as much respect at first like a tall guy, but tall guys also definitely have an easy time losing that respect by being douchebags
Being 6' myself, related to the thing about people lying to make you taller. My favorite is downsizing myself. when someone tells me they're 6' and I'm a little drunk, I'll say something like "there's no way because I'm 5'10" and I'm a little taller than you." I might just be an asshole though
I do the same lol😂😂
lmao
Hahaha nah you’re hilarious 😂
That's brilliant 🤣 Also, if they're 5 11 and claiming 6, then they're lying and deserve everything you're giving them. They're the asshole 👍
That’s genius 😂
I'm 5'6 and my height was something that I got over when I was still in school. In my experience, while some men and women certainly had less respect for me because of that, there are so many other factors relating to how people perceive you (looks, body language, intelligence, humor, etc.), that I never actually felt that I was held back because of it in any social sense. I'm sure there were girls who weren't interested in me simply because of this, but my experience has overwhelmingly been that when you are strong in many other dimensions, people are in some sense forced to respect you.
I cannot count the number of men who I've known as friends, acquaintances or co-workers who, despite being much bigger than me, were nevertheless somewhat intimidated by me on a personal level due to my intelligence, humor, and how I carry myself. I don't say it to brag, it's simply my experience.
I wholeheartedly agree with the message of this video and to any man who feels bad about their height I would say just develop your character as a man and make the most of what you have in a complete sense, and if you do, people WILL see and appreciate your value.
My younger cousin is in the shorter side (170cm/5`7@22yr), he's been training with me for about 6 months, but last weekend he seemed sad and said to me: "what's the point of lifting when you're short, I'll never get really big". He has not come to train this week... sad.
that's fuckin depressing. but ngl that was almost inevitable to happen when working out is framed as "you need to get big".
As a 190cm male I was talking about this with a friend the other day, he asked me if I thought being in a good shape was the most determinant thing in terms of my dating background.
But I've never doubted being tall has been the number one factor when it comes to get girls or being consider attractive, it in fact scared me just thinking how much harder would have been for me to be succesfull with woman if I was smaller and how powerfull can this factor be.
Wish the best for all of you who are suffering from this, it's very unfair that society is like this but you got this homies.
@Just be , just be broo yeah, it can be number one factor, but height is for sure one of the main ones.
@@daarioxjw3438 probably second biggest physical factor after face, some girls even have height fetish so they will choose taller ugly guy over handsome average height guy.
ugh...out of curiosity, what is the circumference of your head?
Wow preferences are unfair 🤡 says the privileged male.
@@nevergiveupbaby1720you again came here to spread hate ..so you hate short and tall both men in general you hate men 🥀😂
My advice for other manlet's fellas: have a long term goal and dedicate your life to it. Nothing else will matters and your goal depends uniquely on you.
This is gold.
The bit about no one caring about your problems/oppression/whatever unless you ALSO fit into another category (i.e. a man AND gay, a man AND black) is really true. Whatever else you are has to overpower the fact you're a man before your problems counts.
Also, where all woman have a certain innate value, only a small select group of man (the high value men) get all the power and care instead and have to ability to lord over everyone. This means the non-high value men and all the women are under the high value men... but the women just look up and see the powerful men doing bad but fail to see "the patriarchy" is hurting everyone, not just them. But because most men are invisible, the oppression doesn't factor in so it's just "men bad".
Hopefully that made sense, trying to get this out after work but before the gym so I don't forget.
This needs to be shouted from the rooftops. Well said, Tim.
Achieving anything in life through hard work is considered compensation or Napoleon "short man" complex if you are short! Height trumps nearly every other attribute in the dating market....at least with online dating. Face to face is a bit easier if you're jacked, athletic, intelligent or have game but to get there takes a strong mind and you're accomplishment's will often be diminished in society. Good video....you actually pointed out my previous point a the end! I've even seen gaslighting on limb lengthening surgery comments....those guys should be commended that they've got the balls to go through that procedure to overcome their genetic disadvantages, not ridiculed for being insecure!
Love the truth man especially coming from a tall man sick and tired of being told it’s in my head when reality constantly proves it time and time again it was never my fault
Thank you for this video NH, never seen the perspective of a manlet broken down in such a thorough way. Short men really are the most discriminated against in society, never thought of it but it's true
166cm/5'5 manlet here. Since I'm 75kg/165lbs and do martial arts, nobody bothers me. (Also I have huge calves )
Im 5’3 but my outlook is that if you have a problem:
If you can change it -> Change it
If you can’t -> Then ignore it
No point worrying about something you have no control over. Use the cards life dealt you to do the best you can. And maybe if it helps you psychologically, don’t think about it as if you’re disadvantaged - look at it like you’re playing the game on a higher difficulty level, thats all.
And yes, its something that you cant control but that doesnt mean people arent allowed to discredit you for it. It might sound strange but say for example a girl doesn’t like you because you’re short, thats not shallow its just preference so while I don’t think you should try to “force” others to accept you, you should try to better yourself in every possible way you can. You can’t change others but you can change yourself.
Whatever “weakness” you might have in life, though it may seem insurmountable you can still build around it. If you’re short like me then try to get a good education, physique, try to become financially well off, make an impact in the world, get close to God, try to become a better person.
There’s SO MUCH that you can do, enjoy life. Don’t spend your years crying about a problem when theres a huge world out there to enjoy. And not to invalidate anyone’s problems, but for everyone there will almost definitely be someone who wishes they were where you are RIGHT NOW. So keep your head up and try and improve yourself as best you can ❤
u can change it tho however, LLS is pretty safe nowadays all u have to do is get your money up
@@scrappycoco3641 that permanently alters your athletic ability and you're gonna be outta commission for EVERYTHING for a year in recovery. If you feel like your height is holding you back significantly, + if you have enough money to afford the surgery / recovery, + you're ok with sacrificing your athleticism, then go for it
@Scrappy Coco if this is that bone lengthening surgery (sorry if I'm talking about the wrong thing) It firstly only adds a couple inches. I think the max is 6 or so but then all your muscles will be too short, you'll be in bed for a year and people will judge you for how incredibly insecure you are. Even if you take people's opinion out, I think sacrificing a year or 2 of your life for a few inches is wild. Imagine everything you could do in that time?
@@david_thomas im 17 still, im taking a year off going uni to find 50k through tutoring. I'll go to turkey get the surgery done and go to uni the year after. It does not take 1 year to recover bro ull be walking good again in 3 months
@@david_thomas btw at what age did u start working out? I fell into the powerlifitng rabbithole when i was just 15 and all my friends who started with me ended up sub 6' while everyone else grew.
"Being a short man is life on hard mode. "
This is the way.
@@blub-tf6rtis nightmare mode
I care more that people perceive and value me differently at 5'7". If I had a magic lamp I would not wish to be taller but instead wish that people cared a lot less about height. I don't know how else to describe it, I care not that I am short but that people see short men as something other.
Healthy mindset
Same bro
Sadly people will never stop I was short throughout most of my life and towards the end of my puberty at 17 I hit a growth spurt which pushed me to 6ft. The difference in my confidence is night and day. I never got bullied directly because of my height but I would always feel it subconsciously that I was shorter than most.
5'4 man here, although you make good points about the difficulity and disadvantages of being short there are certain things which are not true. You say that if you are short you are a chiwaua and you will be that way forever. From personal experience I can confirm to the very opposite being true. I grew up in a tough part of town which caused me to fight a lot growing up, after a while people automatically know you for being someone you cannot mess with. I never was someone to backdown and therefore all the fighting and struggle further enhanced my characteristics so despite being short I'm always respected everywhere I go, even when meeting new people. So yes, in order to get respect you need to be someone capable of putting fear in others and that is something that you CAN work on. As for myself, having a personality that does not allow me to take shit from anyone, a very deep voice alongside an intimidating face and body which I built myself is what brings me respect
I am 5'4 as well and also have a very deep voice. It's a fun combination.
When i was back in primary school, we had a math teacher who couldnt have been taller than 5’6, but he was one of the most feared and respected guys out there.
Can also confirm this as a guy at 5 foot 3. I was a consistently a big target for bullying and it wasn’t until I beat someone who used to terrorise me throughout school with a hockey stick so hard the end was broken and covered in blood that all the bullying and teasing ceased the next day. It’s not impossible to gain respect but you really do just have to be meaner the taller guys to make up for it. Luckily as you grow up all you need is to have resting bitch face and big enough build to get basic decency at our height.
The accent really makes the video for me, its like the guy from pink panther talking and makes it alot less harsh
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I'm glad no one has called me a short king. I've always felt that it's essentially a veiled way of still putting someone down.
I don't like manlet either. Just say I'm short. Nicknames are insulting.
I was super stressed about being short in HS/MS, grew out of it, but it made me respect the manlet struggle
“Grew out of it” lol literally grew out
@@Shadow.behind.mountains kek
Same here, I couldn’t even get a date to prom because I was too short 😂 I was 16 & 5’3.. I’m now 6’4 and some of the reactions when I bump into people from school are hilarious, especially the girls lol
5'3" at 16, to 6'4" by the end of your growth cycle...you were blessed by the gods dude
@@Keralite29 Honestly I hated it so much, as a man you’re expected/encouraged to be dominant and assertive in society but it’s so difficult when you’re short because nobody takes you seriously and it’s emasculating, so I fully empathise with shorter guys. My Dad is 6’1 and my Mum’s 5’10 so genetically I always expected to be Tall but it took SO LONG that I really started to think I was some sort of anomaly.
5’7 reporting in. 🫡
Hello I'm also 5"7 :)
best height 🤝
You need to be under 5 3 to be a manlet. 160 cm
@@Ahmed-jv7oc wassup playa
@@Anduehan97 thas rite
NH really gets into it. Impressive philosophical and social commentary gains
Society: The only circumstance where compensating is seen as negative, is if you're a short man. If this is the case, then it just means that people want a certain demographic of people to stay down, so they can hate them, so they can feel superior to them, not alot of men will like seeing a guy who is 20 cm shorter than them, yet his biceps are twice as big, or his shoulders be wider.
There’s not enough WoW expansions to cope with your existence. Ova, buddy boyo.
5'3" reporting in. Thank you brother appreciated
I'm 5'5 and it is basically life on hard mode. Everyone around you is an enemy and people see you as easy prey, not to mention you basically need to forget about women as they will not be into you (unless you have a model face or you're rich). You have to be tough to make it as a manlet, it's why I think the gym, stoicism and some kind of weaponry are necessary to even have a chance.
I seriously believe that this obsession with height (for expample you getting asked by friends of friends how tall you are) is a product of social media during the last years. Don't get me wrong: I 100% agree that being a short dude is bad, you are making tons of negative experiences you would not be making if you were taller, it is not fair and everyone should care a lot more about this issue.
But honstely, I'm 5"9 and when I was in school (I'm 27 now, german) until like 18, NOONE of me and my friends even talked about our height, and I had many friends. It has never been an open issue. There were a lot of dudes who were slightly taller than me (like 5"10 to 6 foot or something), but none of us made a thing out of it. There definetely weren't millions of memes around the "public" internet except maybe on 4chan or whatever, but within the last 7 years it really blew up.
Agreed. I didn’t even give af about my height till around 2018 with all the 6ft+ and manlet crap that started. When I was younger I didn’t even want to be tall.
i also never thought of it until recent years after school, always had taller friends. never gave it a single thought back then
The final part where you explain how to overcome the problems that happen to manlets surprised me absolutely.
I did not expect to hear your stance and it makes me incredibly happy that I did.
I'm at 5'8 and this is basically the spot where you're not short enough to be treated different but not tall enough for it to be a source of pride or a selling point. In terms of weight and being jacked though I started looking like it once I got over 160 and pretty lean. My female cousins think getting any bigger would be a mistake and I'm under 170 right now that's why I pay weight comments on this platform zero mind because that number means nothing without context lmao
Yeah this height is SUPER weird lmfao. Like I never ever had someone make fun of me for my height, but you literally cant take pride into this height XD I also personally wont ever go below 175 pounds. I cant imaigne being 160 no matter how much muscle I build.
@@naughtiousmaximus7853 Well I couldn't imagine being below 170 starting at 185 3.5 years ago, and then ended up at 152 a year later and even weighed in at 150 on light days 😆
The discovery that my body was more suited to being lighter.
@@bill_monty idk its my body dysmorphia speaking LMFAO
@@naughtiousmaximus7853 I wouldn’t say dysmorphia, just sounds crazy when you ain’t been there in so long. And while 175 isn’t low at our height by any means if you’re lifting consistently you don’t need to go lower than that at all.
Yeah 160 at 5”8 is the sweet spot, I’d say around 155-170 depending on bone structure, limb length etc is perfect
"Okey, it's been three years since the last time I felt insecure about my height, I th..."
NH: "Short souls II: scholar of the first sin"
Seriously loved this, also love how NH does not hesitate to call a friend of his an "ogre".
And apparently this shrek-looking friend still managed to find a Fiona.
Yujiro Hanma
A.K.A. "Ogre"
God i love dark souls 2 so much
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Short Man: Oh I‘m 5,10
Natural Hypertrophy: „Men are props on the stages of life. And no matter how tender or exquisite, a lie will remain a lie!“
I can't understand how people don't like the accent it's like half the reason I watch this channel
we are joking, him being French is 90% why I watch this channel
my father once told me about a buddy he had on a job that was known by a certain nickname which wasn't outright offensive but it wasn't a compliment either (can't properly translate). In most cases, it's just men getting along in the work environment, I bet everyone calls a friend by a nickname here. But when my father asked him about it a long time afterwards, if he actually liked the nickname, he told my my dad that deep down he hated it and it fucked him up a bit, but he couldn't say anything because it would disrupt the environment and the relationship that he had built with the guys over the years. Makes you think how much we, specifically men, overlook in terms of being aware of the emotions of our comrades, the manlet situation being one facet of this problem as well.
Qual era o apelido? Kk
@@rrschch nem lembro, mas nada demais mesmo.
This is the kind of discussion that earns my respect. Honest, humble, straight to the truth.
I'm 5'6" and have experienced completely bull**** levels of the discrimination you described. Ostracized, thrown in trash cans by big guys, sexually assaulted, mocked, disrespected, etc. As you said, the bullies (who are very common) commonly gaslight me by saying either explicitly or implicitly that I hate my height or have an inferiority complex or Napoleon complex or some nonsense like that. They intentionally try to piss me off just so I will get irritated and they can misconstrue my irritation as "proof" that I have one of those issues and feel insecure about myself. I also experience lots of disrespect and rejection from women who don't even know me and automatically have no interest in getting to know me. My exceptional intelligence, skills, and abilities are completely off the table as far as most people are concerned because they don't even care enough to find out.
I'm also relatively strong, ambitious, and especially competitive but as you said these traits are usually perceived as inadequate attempts to compensate.
People also talk crap about short men being hyper aggressive but completely overlook the fact they are the victims of aggression so much and have to learn to fight back against the discrimination. I know every time I have started at a new job I got bullied by new people that didn't know me yet and then they only stopped when I got aggressive. Then if I go to a new place I have to deal with it again and "prove myself" again. They only leave me alone after I show off and make them feel intimidated. This has been consistently true for many years now. This sucks @ss and I hate it.
I do not like having to repeatedly "prove myself" through aggression rituals and power demonstrations. I don't like having to show off that I can outwork everyone just to be treated like a normal person. That said, it's a fact that I have to face even though I would never choose for it to be this way. I legitimately have to dominate the workplace just to be treated with a moderate level of respect from the men and women around me. Trust me, from my years of experience being bullied I can verify dominating the bullies is the only way they ever stop.
The hardest and worst job I ever had was working the Tyson back dock in Grannis AR.
The same guys that would tell me to kill myself and throw me in a trash can gave me high-fives and treated me like a friend after I demonstrated I could unload trucks faster than they could and hang more birds per minute on the poultry live hang lines. Unfortunately it took years of suffering and misery to achieve those feats because the big strong guys you find in those occupations are usually very good at what they do. It was physically impossible for me to match them in strength. I got lucky that my intellect was able to EVENTUALLY find ways to get ahead in a field based primarily on strength, stoicism, and sadism. I don't work there anymore but it's the best example of the worst period of my adult life. Even though I have had better jobs since then I have still been bullied at every place and the bullying never stops until after I outmatch the bullies in a way that truly impresses them.
I'm sick of showing off. I'm sick of impressing them. I'm tired of having to overperform for minimum respect.
The fact is I don't have a choice because the alternative is even worse. The alternative means getting treated like the scum of the earth despite all my personal qualities. Nobody ever guesses I could have useful or admirable qualities. The default assumption seems to be that I'm a useless, lazy piece of **** unless I shove enough special abilities in their faces like a dancing bear. That is the only thing that justifies my existence in their eyes.
'i'm tired of having to overperform for minimum respect' - felt this one in my soul man
I’m 5’11 at 17 years old and sub 10 body (regular gym goer and play lot of sports) fat and let me tell you that having a “desirable” or aesthetic physique helps in all aspects of life! Don’t worry about others opinions and just be confident and try to be better than you were yesterday.
You are 5'11, my guy, of course you won't face much shit. It's a lot worse when you are a manlet.
@@himeshsinghshishodiya There is truth to that I agree with your statement, but that doesn’t stop you and others from striving to fulfill their potential in whatever endeavors they pursue.
I’m 5’8”. One of my best friends (he has since passed away) was also 5’8”. He received a lot of comments and jokes about his height/size, whereas I rarely did. Apparently there is more that goes into a perceived “small stature” than just height alone.
I can remember giving him shit one day and he replied “dude, we’re the same height”. That wax the moment I realized I was considered ‘short’. Even below average according to the statistics for US men.
However, neither of us ever let our height hold is back. ;)
What was the difference between you guys then?
@@adamek9750 I guess he just had a more slender build? More petite overall. I’m not sure to be honest.
the double standards of people are indeed absolutely sickening. bullying someone for being short is just as disgusting as a racist remark in my eyes
I agree. They’re both things you can’t change and both have stereotypes and social stigmas attached to them.
yea no your not going to get killed because of height but people get killed for the race everyday you've got to be kidding this might be the dumbest comment I've ever seen
Bullying someone for their height is worse than racism, because there are more short people than there are of any given race. So by and large the bullies are bullying more people
@@misanthropist3yup, especially since there is a social stigma associated with racism. Unfortunately, there is none correlated with height. What's even worse - there is social encouragement for that. Have you seen the videos on the internet (usually yt, instagram shorts), where midget is jumping to the water and some other dude does something in another edit? (throwing to the bin, to the tea cup and so on). Not to mention discriminating videos where women giggling about men shorter than 6" tall. Imagine video where people giggle about black women, where guys saying that they would never date them, and compare them for example to animals. That's what literally happening on the internet right now. Not to mention that we have some combos. Where there is not only racism but also heightism involved. Like women expecting from black guy being basketball player, or from white men to be like those dutch swimmers...
@@HCforLife1 The meek shall inherit the Earth. The animals will be put in their place brother. Come to Jesus. Hate that which is evil. The Sun will bring judgement to the Earth soon enough.
I'm 5'6" and 20 years old. I could have been 5'7" or 5'8" if I hadn't been on fu*%ing antidepressants. Sometimes, I envy how people treat my taller friends. Even though I'm a dominant person and people can sense and respect that, there are times when they don't take me seriously.
If it helps, I'd like to share a few things that have worked for me:
Grow a Beard: I have a beard, and my friends don’t. People sense the testosterone, and I get the recognition and respect I crave. Without a beard, people try to intimidate me and stare me down. I learned the hard way that I always needed to stand up for myself, and now I've gained respect for myself.
Avoid Disadvantageous Situations: I avoid situations that put me at a disadvantage. If you try hard, you'll realize that you could make someone guess that you are strong, but by putting yourself in a bad position, anything can happen. So avoid fights, even arm wrestling. Taller people have longer limbs, so don’t try to fight it.
Build Muscle: Gain more muscle or even fat to appear broader. Even though my skeleton is narrow, I notice more respect when I bulk up. People don’t try to do me dirty as much.
Act Confidently: Don’t do what people expect you to do. If someone tries to make fun of you, react like a man. People often look at short people like babies, so if you compensate with confidence and maturity, you'll gain even more respect because it highlights something unexpected.
Dealing with Women: This one is tough. You can’t judge women for their preferences, so try to compensate in other areas-financially (even though I’m broke), with beauty, hair, muscles, etc. If you want to experience a one-night stand, the best chance you have is by using a 3-inch insole. Boom, from 5'6" to 5'9", and the problem is solved.
In the end, you can’t change everyone’s minds. People are different, and even if you were 6 feet tall, you wouldn’t be perfect. People will try to put you down because it’s the first thing they notice. But at the end of the day, those people don’t matter because they treat you like shit. Just focus on the people who matter and try to date a woman who is your height or taller for better genetics for your future son.
Thanks for the 1 hour roasting session I think I'm going to leap off a building now
As 5'4 guy i can agree with this video. Working hard in the gym and improving everyday. Dont let the haters affect you , keep going
Yeah, definitely working out for yourself & your health, otherwise you just become a manlet. 😬 A lady friend of mine (who rejected me because I was too short) told me there's no gym for my short stature. 🤣
I thought I was 5'10" for years, only to discover that I'm only 5'9". Brought back some youthful insecurities. A nice pair of boots took them away again.
ngl, I remember some manlet i used to live with (around 5'4 or smth) He used to claim that I'm 5'9 instead of 5'10 because of a slight lacking of inch. I also have a pair of shoes that boost me to 6ft or 5'11 so I roll with 6ft or 5'11 depending how I feel, but then again, guys at my height think they are 6ft so i don't really even know my height tbh, I rocked in the club and make out with girls and thats about it
@@ERROROVER9K sure
5’9 is such a strange height. I don’t feel short, but sometimes I just wish I was at least 5’10.
5’6 truth. Being short your playing life on hard mode. We definitely suffer more but life has more to offer. We have to play the cards were dealt. Focus on the things we have control of and control it. Suffering and Discipline is not “bad”.
very true
5'6 actually isnt too bad or at the very least not the worse height to be
i’m 5’6 and i honestly never realized how many fitness/bodybuilding influencers are also short. Camera angles can be deceiving, but you can’t hide short limbs. I know guys shorter than me, but look taller in pictures because their arms are longer in proportion to their body.
there's nothing inherently wrong with the short stature itself - it's harmless genetic variation - the issue is with society at large that believes the length of your limbs is what determines your value as a human being [more specifically, a human male]
healing from this acquired insecurity will take time, but it's worth it.
you are worth so much more
Im 5’6 and not only am i short but i was born with pectus excavatum so no matter what i do i can never look like a normal person
But that doesn’t matter
Because that doesn’t mean I can’t improve
Maybe I can’t reach the physique of most men but i can still better myself
I’ve always been the shortest among my friends but I’ve also been the strongest and the fittest
So guys from my experience get over your genetics and start improving yourself
Go shower
Get a haircut
Get jacked
Get a good job
Focus on growing yourself as a person
And before you know it you’ll be doing a lot better
Ever since i started doing these things I’ve been doing a lot better off with girls so start now
It sucks but know that not matter how much it sucks there are people worse off than you and those who made it besides the odds
So give it your best and don’t listen to the haters because in the end only you matter!
I like this :)
Why did you not shower before?
@@skeliman9864 jajjaja i did but I didn’t do other things like wash my face for example
Before I watch this video. I'm 5'7, I have some decent mass and have started martial arts....this is all compensation. But instead I have found a sense of impregnable individuality which is one of the most powerful things I have. I wouldn't have gotten this if my manlet insecurities didn't push me
Insecurity, like all negative emotions, can be used as a tool for progress. But you eventually want to conquer them. You should be proud of your accolades and proud of yourself. You've earned the right to confidence. And as a martial artist you either can or will soon be able to beat the shit out of 95% of the men taller than you.
Even if you are short if you know how to fight really well then people's perceptions will change. Though people will always see that weakness at first glance.
Guns 😏
Not really, cuz then you would have to get into a fight with everyone, so they can know you're strong, but this ain't practical I guess
Between 5’6” and 5’10” is a hard height to be as man. If you’re (I am) 5’8”/5’9” you’re the in the category of “a little short”. You’re not a short king at 5’4”-5’6” but you’re not tall either. What the phrase “a little short” literally means is that you’re not quite short but what it does practically is put “little” and “short” right next to each other which isn’t a good look. 5’10-6’ is “kinda tall” territory. Sure “kinda” takes the edge off of being simply “tall” but “tall” is still in play. 6’2”+ is indisputably tall. Once you hit 6’7” you’re a giant. A friend of mine is 6’8” and when we go out together it looks like a little kid hanging out with his daddy. It’s tough out there lads
5’9 is exactly average for a man in the United States. It logically can’t be considered “a little short”.
5'7" Zoomer here, late intermediate lifter of 4 years. Good video. Love my manlet strength. Best of luck to my taller brothers in iron, keep up the grind.
i just deadlifted 80kg
(zoomer 60kg 5'8")
DWARF POWER🤚🤚🤚
This is probably the best video about heightism I’ve ever seen. Love your French straight forwardness.
A bit late to the party but as a 5'7" dude who's never had issues with women, it's always been because "you've never acted like you're short". With that being said, I'm very ambitious, practice martial arts, work on myself, etc., and they recognize that. But ultimately, being grounded in yourself and not caring about anyone else is the only thing you can really do as a man to overcome what this life has given to you or thrown your way
I actually just had this conversation the other day. All about how you present yourself and mindset
When I was short I have always been good with girls but other than that it’s always shit my friends makes fun of me and I was bullied in high school by bigger guys, and people treat you different like you’re not equal and I had a growth spurt and hit 5’10 and people treat me differently now and the person who bullied me is now the same height as me 😂 and now like you I train lethwei and jujitsu to better protect myself and always tried to be a better person
You didn't even watch the video right. You are considering average not short. Lots of differences between 5'5".
I'm 6'3 and I approve this message
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It’s good to be 6’3”!
im 6'5
I'm coming for your shins
@@ihajees don't be lanklet
This is an internet fad .
5’8 or even 5 foot 6 is normal not short .
There were tribes of short stocky blonde warriors in ancient Europe.
Sub 6 foot men have an advantage in wrestling or football or any sport where taking out your opponents legs is beneficial .
Sub 6 foot men are also more often capable of superior muscle building . Tall men usually have high metabolisms and have trouble gaining weight . That’s why most tall guys are super skinny when young .
Average height men can build muscle faster .
This nonsense that you are “short “ if you are not 6 feet tall is a dumb internet meme .
the manlet cut off thing is mainly an incel thing, its an excuse/reason for their failings.
its not that their failings are their fault, its the very social structure that the internet, alongside mass globalisation has forced us into that is the cause of our social problems.
if youre short that means your forefathers were short, but they managed to procreate
why?
because they had something almost none of us do,a healthy social community in which they are a living breathing part of.
@@dinfast Earth
@@dinfast mens average height is not over 6 foot tall . This is a psyop . If you are over 6 feet tall you are abnormal .
5'8" isn't (with shoe lifts you can be close to 5'10," but 5'6" definitely is a problem.
@@dinfastglobally the average male is 5'7. So yeah 5'6 isn't that short. If the average height is 5'9 than roughly 70% of men are between 5'6 and 6ft. I see 5'6 dudes everyday. I'm 5'6 myself, everyone I know who is my height thinks they are 5'8. Even at 5'6 I don't feel much smaller than a 5'9 or 5'10 dude. The difference ain't much in photos either. He is dead right, 5'6 isn't abnormally short for a man and is a lot more common then you think, everyone is just lying about height.
I’m a Manlet and I’m dying of laughter at you calling me a dwarf every 2 seconds lmaoooo. Also I rather enjoy your accent no homo 😂😂
This was an interesting topic of discussion. Definitely makes me reflect on the times when I was short prior to my growth spurt as a sophomore in high school. I certainly didn’t receive much respect back in those days, and my height must have a contributing factor. I don’t intend on feeding my short friends bull shit positivity, but I will definitely make an effort to be more considerate towards their predisposition in the future. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this NH. Take care
Being a manlet only made a impact on me because of woman. In the moment I removed woman from the equation (not becoming homosexual) trough celibacy my life has become insanely better. You guys can say it is copium, but I honestly couldn't care less. If you are younger than 20, you really shouldn't be looking for a woman, because you probably aren't good enough to be able to start a family (yes only look for woman when you want to start a family, and understand your responsibilities. Do not accept a woman that you think she is not virtuous enough to be the mother of your kids. Better off alone than in a bad relationship.)
As a 5'6 apelet, I've had to hone my swinging skills in order to survive in the jungle.
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Apelets survived natural selection as they would just swing away from all types of danger.
excuse me apelete... fucking??
I just checked out your channel, and tbh you aint lying
"Emancipation only comes through strength"
If you're a short man (like me), go hit the gym, pick things up and put them down, aggressively. It's what we've been made for.
I'm 1.69 cm, 5'6 1/2, and developed from short fat f*ck in middle school, bullied and resentful toward the world, to Hypertrophy fiend whose told by his friends that if he was like 15 cm taller, they wouldn't dare look him in the eyes...
And I haven't even been lifting for a full year by today.
So, i call upon everyone of my fellow short guys - hit the gym, turn into fucking fridges, and mogg the living shit out of everyone else. Turn into the monsters society makes you out to be (respectfully). It's what we're literally meant to be doing by nature.
Thanks for this brother. I feel inspired.
Idk but the youtuber sounds like short man cant beat him up xd. I personally think that 30% of the things he said ain't truth
same as me 169cm and its never bothered me that much could be shorter
@@spanishjohn420 i wanna be 175 atleast because i look smaller compared to them . I mean when we are next to each other. if I can become like 6/7cm taller it would be perfect, but if not we still will be the same height as Messi and Baki(from anime)xd
GymÇel-ing bruh fr fr 💯💯
I like your honesty here and bringing the issue to light. As a 5’5 man myself with a small frame. I don’t like people who say height doesn’t matter.
Because it doesnt. 5'2, 23 year old, married to a 5'8 beautiful girl, and have a fairly good professional life.
It's just easier to blame your height rather than your capacity to gain knowledge, be a better version of yourself, and have alot of social interaction.
If you only talk to 1 girl every month, you'll only get rejected. Talk to one new girl every week, see how the odds work.
Stop blaming shit that holds no value especially when shorter men than you had more success than you.
@@BeneDiv-lu4gx I stopped reading at “23”
@@josephshatrowsky then stay in your safe bubble thinking your height is what make your life bad and stop complaining lmfao
@@BeneDiv-lu4gx blah blah blah you're sharing her blah blah blah 😂😂😂😂
@@nyud Weirdo + cope virgin
The last message is everything and so true. This is real body positivity - not being an lazy a-hole and feeling good but actually accepting the immutable and improving what you can.
5’4 and i love being short. I worked extremely hard to compensate for my height. Communication, fitness, money, spiritual, education, and mental all above average. 💪
Good for you, but that sounds like cope.
@@PieceOfCandyPS and you sound insecure 😬
@@PieceOfCandyPS everything in life is a cope for another thing
why would you like being something if you need to compensate for it? or are you saying you’re happy your short because it made you not be lazy and actually work on yourself to compensate for it?
King shit.
As a 6' man, I have always found that shorter men have very interesting and fun personalities, maybe to overcompensate. Two of the shortest men I've known were actually two of the funniest and smartest men I've ever known. Taller men tend to have almost no personality for some reason, except when they the "gentle giant" archetype.
I'm 5'10, but the smartest dudes I've ever met have been short. My manager is 5'7, dude knows everything about hardware, it's impressive, one of my best friends is 5'6, dudes a fantastic artist and incredibly intelligent, I know a guy who's like 5'4 and has a photographic memory and a nearly psychopathic level of social competence and gravity. If you're short, hopefully you make up for it with extreme competence.
Insane how I can’t have a good personality just for personality’s sake it’s always seen as overcompensating AM I SUPPOSED TO BE MISERABLE?
@@DonJon-m2f whenever a short mf has any redeemable qualities he's just overcompensating 😂
Whether short or not it doesnt matter, choose to take the oppurtunities you have and work hard to develop yourself
Being 5'9 I understand how strict height requirements are for society. In my country, where people are just not that tall, I do 'kind' of well, because of the reference point. Most younger generations are either my height or taller, 6 feet +. I would recommend short men to really do the effort to move to countries where people are on average shorter, and hopefully who share the same or similar ethnical backgrounds as yourself. I know it sucks, but one should try everything to win at life. Don't get discouraged, bring power to yourself, with strenght, skills, money, martial arts, weapons, etc... Become resourceful, kind, help others, detach yourself from your ego, and lift the weight of shame and blame out of your shoulders. Just focus on what you can control and try to bring as much beauty to your life as possible.
I think you're right about a lot of things in this video, but you're wrong about something: as a short man I would never want to be of normal stature. Being short is eye opening, and I care about truth, so I wouldn't want to change that.
That's a perspective obtained after experiencing immense suffering and understanding. I'm 100% with you. People open up to you and show you who they are around you if you're perceived safe, whether they're mean or kind. My height helped me see a brutal world for the way it is while folks remain trapped in their biased delusional ways. Growing up short, fighting lots of people and observing them with age helped me stay aware and sharp, it was humbling and enlightening. Take care