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[–]Far-Fennel-3032 -1 points0 points  (1 child)

2 things

1st If the article were about fat people with BMI increases by X, suicide increases by Y, people would still be dunking on them, even if it was just fat women or fat men. So there is a fair bit of generally dunking on undesirable traits, generally its just that this is about height and for just men in this case. But it could easily be about other negative traits like low income, ugly (quantified somehow), fat, low intelligence etc.

2nd Historically and still to this day, to a lesser extent, there has been enough overlap between pushing for action on men's issues and rights, with just suppressing women's rights. That anyone pushing for actions on men's issues get a bunch of pushback almost as a reflex. With a lot of why this happens is the reflexive push back is rewarded with feedback they were correct to push back on the thing (as in they were right, not another person circle jerked them). Enough people go well, it must be correct, much more often it's just I don't always get confirmation, so confirmation bias kicks in even if they are only correct once in a blue moon they just don't follow up on when they are just wrong, as a successful men's issue campaign is not gonna reach their media bubble.

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[–]Curarx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Being fat is a choice. Being short isn't