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Re: Respected qualities
Elaine Hills (ehills@SOLEIL.ACOMP.USF.EDU)
Wed, 6 Mar 1996 16:44:14 -0500
On the subject of height...how many American presidents have been elected
that were "short?"
Elaine
On Tue, 5 Mar 1996, Ruby Rohrlich wrote:
> Couldn't agree with you more, Ronald. This is something that is more of a
> burden
> for males than for females, although women suffer from it too. Studies
> indicate that taller women, as well as men, get more prestigious,
> better-paying jobs than shorter women. But that very good novelist (using
> science fiction to make her points), Ursula LeGuin, daughter of the
> Kroebers, wrote Coming Home, in which her protagonists were "shortish"
> and "roundish.." A thread was started sometime ago on the stigma of
> shortness in the U.S., but was dropped. Robert Reich, who occupies an
> important position in the Clinton administration, is less than 5 feet
> tall. I believe he is the exception.However, I think average heights are
> dropping because of the influx of immigrants from Asia and Latin America.
> Ruby Rohrlich
>
> On Tue, 5 Mar 1996, Ronald Kephart wrote:
>
> > In message <Pine.SUN.3.91.960304165123.567A-100000@soleil> "Elaine Hills (UND)"
> > writes:
> > > I don't know that the American culture as a whole (if that is what you were
> > > referring to) respects any particular qualities or type of people.
> >
> > As a vertically challenged person (5' 6") with over 50 years of experience, I
> > can tell you that one quality, or perhaps I should say quantity, that our
> > culture respects inordinately is height. There are way too many too-tall people
> > in positions of power in our culture.
> >
> > Ronald Kephart
> > Dept of Language & Literature
> > University of North Florida
> > Jacksonville, FL USA 32224-2645
> > Phone: (904) 646-2580
> >
>
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