a few women receive the procedure, but it’s mostly men who plunk down the cash and undergo the torment and lost work, as you would expect if you still hold to superstitious beliefs about the existence of two sexes having secondary biological characteristics — including a large difference in mean height.
gayomali doesn’t disclose his exact height, which is significant in itself, but confesses to being a “short man” who is “towered over” by his 5’9” wife. (she misses wearing high heels.) his own story of subtle psychological conflict adds as much to his feature as the stories of the perpetual micro-insults suffered by height-disadvantaged males.
this is where i get to say specifically that i, as someone who can admit to being midway between 5’11” and 6’, learned a lot from the article. or maybe it’s better to say i was usefully reminded of a lot. almost everybody gets handed a certain quantum of physical challenges and flaws by life, and most men will be snared by one or another of god’s little traps: if you’re tall and you have all your hair at 50, you may already be in a privileged minority.
this is not just a mating-market question, either, although you would be naive or insane to take the “just” seriously, considering how much human behaviour falls into that category. the advantages enjoyed by the tall in every corner of human life, from lifetime income to u.s. presidential elections, are abundantly documented.