Below you'll find all my writing tagged with the word On being tall. The posts are listed in chronological order. Click the post title to read more.
Back in December my friend Adam, who I do the OxPod with, made a crack about how when I get ready in the morning I throw on my “work jammies” and trot downstairs. It’s funny because he’s right. A lot of the freelancer sites that I read say that pajamas are the scourge of productivity [...]
Since reading about Normal at Any Cost: Tall Girls, Short Boys, and the Medical Industry’s Quest to Manipulate Height over on Bookslut last week, the book has been bugging the hell out of me. I’ve been waffling between wanting to read each of the book’s 400+ pages and not wanting the book in my house. [...]
Generally, I am a big, big fan of Buzzfeed, but they’ve pissed me off twice this week. First, they called Olympic Gold Medalist Stephanie Brown-Trafton a giantess for being 6’4″ and some two-hundred pounds. That got my heckles all up in a tizzy. It feels derogatory. I can’t think of any situation where the giant [...]
Since I was about thirteen or maybe fourteen (and 6’1″ thankyouverymuch) I’ve worn a men’s size 12 shoe. Since I wear a men’s size 12 shoe, I generally abhor shopping for shoes because I have to get clunky, ugly man-shoes and not sparkly, cute girl-shoes. This is one of the greatest tragedies of my life, [...]
Last week I was standing around Caribou waiting for my coffee and gossiping with Al, the cutest girl on earth™, when a woman approached me. “Can I ask you a question?” she said. I started to shake my head yes. “It’s not how tall you are,” she started. “I have a daughter who is 6’3″.” [...]
What is kinoki? They’re these totally funky pads that you stick to the bottom of your feet to remove all your toxins. They are also a total scam. How do you know how tall your gonna be The doctors can measure the spaces between your bones when you’re a kid. I guess that gives them [...]
On this day of thanks, I want to give back to the community. Here, I have answered some of the Googler’s questions to the best of my ability. What’s the illusion song from South Park Guitar Hero? Carry on My Wayward Son by Kansas Why does a person tell you that they need a break [...]
As a public service, we here at Supergenius Headquarters like to spend some time answering the googlers questions, the very questions that bring them here to iwilldare.com why is it that boys can just hurt girls with no problem? It probably has something to do with the penis. I am not sure. do short men [...]
So Buzzfeed’s got a piece up on tall women dating short men. I’ve wasted most of the morning reading the posts and accompanying comments. A few of may favorites? Not wanting to date shorter men is sexist, Jezebel comments where all these 5’10″ women are talking about how hard it is to find taller men, [...]
Okay, let me get this out of the way first. I am afraid of heights. Go ahead, laugh. Everyone seems to find this eensy bit of irony the utmost in hilarity. Yes, yes the 6’5″ woman is afraid of heights. Hardee-har-har. I’ve been over this before. The height thing was a topic of conversation at [...]
Success Is Relative, and Height Isn’t Everything from the Times. I was rooting for the taller people are way smarter researchers to be right, apparently not so much.
Whenever I tell anyone about my phobia they laugh uproariously. Because, apparently, it’s really funny to laugh at people with psychological problems. Listen jerks, I know it’s funny. The irony that I’m 6’5″ and afraid of heights is not lost on me. It’s not your average fear of heights either. I don’t mind flying, or [...]
last week i was chatting with the Uncouth Heathen (UH) about who knows what, when he asked me about my superman tattoo (i am sure he can dig up the link to the photo, i can’t remember what it is). “what on earth made you get a superman tattoo there?” he asked. “what?” i asked. [...]
my pants are too short today and i don’t know what to have for lunch.
one of the things i hate about being freakishly tall is the rude, unabashed staring by those not as gifted as i (for those who are new, i’m 6’5″ and a woman). of course, i talk that talk, but i don’t come even close to walking that walk. whenever i see someone who is a [...]
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