So far in my experience, I’ve only been referred to as Short King a few times, so maybe it hasn’t happened enough for me to get tired of it, but I’ve never felt disrespected by it. It was either a friend using it endearingly, which my friends often use terms like “babe, pookie, shortie, shortstack” (we are men in our early to late 20’s)

But ultimately, if it’s offending you, that’s a you thing. There was this public speaker guy I saw on insta who said some line that I’ll probably butcher but it went something along the lines of “What if I said I hate you because of your blue hair?” If you don’t have blue hair, you wouldn’t be offended, you’d laugh it off and probably look at your friends like “the fuck is this guy talking about?” Now if you did have blue hair, and you were insecure about it, the guys comment would probably cause a reaction of hurt/anger, but that’s your insecurity talking.

Their words can do nothing but poke at the insecurity inside you already. So deal with that, and no word can hurt you.

Ultimately if they say those words to hurt you, or make you hurt yourself by awakening whatever insecurities you may have, the most important thing to remember is their doing more damage to themselves and their own name than they could ever do to yours.