tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86762715920512501592024-03-20T02:28:22.804-07:00Walking ShortThe short guy's guide to living largeCorey Levitanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10082745833017086822noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676271592051250159.post-4332563956056882172011-07-26T14:36:00.000-07:002011-07-26T14:39:20.200-07:00HOOKING UPWARD: Tips to heighten your odds of getting laid<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijYsYJAlZKlgymwcH7tXcuGmT7MvlnbTTVrHnWgkmGJ4K35qpQev9aAWI385OFKqOzZmpaXUmalQ_M4zGnNlEZdqLh3sDJxlEKHMEpSXs0c-VSK7n_-Ueg187-Gia4mBmQGgDBcqDt_Vxf/s1600/walkingshort.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijYsYJAlZKlgymwcH7tXcuGmT7MvlnbTTVrHnWgkmGJ4K35qpQev9aAWI385OFKqOzZmpaXUmalQ_M4zGnNlEZdqLh3sDJxlEKHMEpSXs0c-VSK7n_-Ueg187-Gia4mBmQGgDBcqDt_Vxf/s320/walkingshort.jpg" width="216" /></a></div><div style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
<div style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.thesmokingjacket.com/humor/dating-tips-for-short-men">Click here for today's blog entry, which takes you to a piece I wrote for Playboy's new humor website.</a></div></div>Corey Levitanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10082745833017086822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676271592051250159.post-26406787322902517322011-07-18T12:24:00.000-07:002011-07-18T12:24:48.739-07:00VERTICAL BLINDERS<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:UseFELayout/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><img src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/video_object.png" style="background-color: #b2b2b2; " class="BLOGGER-object-element tr_noresize tr_placeholder" id="ieooui" data-original-id="ieooui" /> <style>
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<div class="MsoPlainText" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 200%;"><span> </span>"Dude, you have to get over your height complex," my friend Craig told me. "We're about the same size, and I rarely think about it."</div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 200%;"><span> </span>The first step in dealing with a problem is admitting it exists. Being short is considered undesirable for a male. It just is. There are thousands of Men's Big & Tall shops. There is not one Men's Small & Short one.</div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 200%;"><span> </span>Craig chooses not to see himself in an undesirable way, and that's easy to understand. But everyone else sees him that way.</div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 200%;"><span> </span>I'm not suggesting that what others think of you should influence your self-opinion. Realizing that you have a problem has nothing to do with whether you like yourself.</div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 200%;"><span> </span>A secretary with arthritis knows he has to work harder to impress the boss to make up for inadequate typing skills. He doesn't think less of himself for it.</div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 200%;"><span> </span>But if your self-esteem depends on denial of a real problem, it's about as useful to you as that one-size-fits-all bathrobe you bought on eBay that ties around your kneecap.</div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 200%;"><span> </span>Only 25 percent of American males are 5-foot-8 or under, 10 percent are under 5-foot-6 1/2 and 5 percent are under 5-foot-5. </div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 200%;"><span> </span>If everyone looks at you and notices the same something different, that's their problem, yes. But if you are required to function in their world, it's also yours. </div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 200%;"><span> </span>Although body length should make no difference in the way people perceive each other, it does. I'm writing this to motivate you, not depress you. But the fact is, if you are a short man (and I know you are since you've read this far), the cards are actually stacked so high against you, the tops of the piles are out of reach. </div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 200%;"> Incidentally, Craig has been out of fulltime work for years. </div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 200%;"><span> </span><span> </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoPlainText" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 200%; text-align: center;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Universal Male Height-to-Fucked Ratio</span></div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 200%;">5-foot-4<span> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">.</span></div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 200%;">or under<span> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">.</span><span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span> </span></div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 200%;">5-foot-5<span> </span><span> <span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;">.</span></div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 200%;">5-foot-6<span> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">.</span></div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 200%;">5-foot-7<span> <span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;">.</span><span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span> </span></div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 200%;">5-foot-8<span> <span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;">.</span><span> </span></div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 200%;">5-foot-9<span> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">.</span><span> </span></div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 200%;">or above<span> </span><span> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">.</span></div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 200%;"><span> </span>Unfucked Slightly fucked Moderately fucked Severely fucked Totally fucked</div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 200%;"></div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 200%;"></div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 200%;"><br />
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<span> </span></div>Corey Levitanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10082745833017086822noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676271592051250159.post-21930615506930606912011-07-11T12:45:00.000-07:002011-07-11T12:53:55.182-07:00A SHORT INTRODUCTION<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisOqczwA_L1xSuS-DG4vwiaGjOZ-Bj-DEsCAH4mdyjbogFVQ_nntAVv71ovS4HzG1pQtuAO9XcXROOek8_WPz1mNjhj7lekAraOX_4phhrUQNvAnzJeIyV4Zr2-G1ZQWnFgP060gfclkDI/s1600/meandmodel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisOqczwA_L1xSuS-DG4vwiaGjOZ-Bj-DEsCAH4mdyjbogFVQ_nntAVv71ovS4HzG1pQtuAO9XcXROOek8_WPz1mNjhj7lekAraOX_4phhrUQNvAnzJeIyV4Zr2-G1ZQWnFgP060gfclkDI/s400/meandmodel.jpg" width="318" /></a><span style="font-size: small;"> I know how lucky I am, believe me. But YOU may not realize how against the odds it was for me to land a beautiful woman (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/#%21/HeeeyNow">https://www.facebook.com/#!/HeeeyNow</a>) AND a good run of career success (<a href="http://www.aolnews.com/2010/04/26/las-vegas-writer-pads-resume-with-crazy-jobs/">http://www.aolnews.com/2010/04/26/las-vegas-writer-pads-resume-with-crazy-jobs/</a> ).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"> America is a heightist society. Tall men get laid more and paid more -- much more -- than their shorter peers. That's fact, not opinion, and not only in the Western world. Across every culture, tall men hold higher status.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"> Even language functions to keep good little men down. Webster's first entry for "tall" is "brave or courageous." For "short," it's "having little length." Obviously, the Webster who wrote the dictionary was not Emmanuel Lewis. Black men call women "shorties," since short is considered a feminine trait. A big man on campus is always looked up to. (Even that phrase, "looked up to," is heightist. It means "to respect.") And which end of the stick represents the worst side of an unequal deal?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"> As a verb-modifier, "short" means to provide less than expected. Stick it in front of the following words and watch their meanings shift negative. Go ahead, I'll wait...</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-change</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-circuit</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-coming</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-fall</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-handed</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-lived</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-sighted</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-shrift</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-staffed</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-tempered</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-fused</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-winded</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-stacked</span></span></div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Even the synonyms for short come up short. Diminutive? Wow, that's a positive word. The tall guy gets towering. We get diminutive. Wait, let me press my handy thesaurus icon and get some more … little, petite, dumpy, tiny, squat, undersized, stunted.</span></span><br />
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Because a man is short, however, doesn't render him helpless. He just needs to reach harder for the top shelf in life. I've done more reaching than you can possibly imagine. So I started this blog to share some of the tips I learned along the yellow brick road.</span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">Ridiculously checkered pants were far from my most severe problem while trying to negotiate life a foot downwind of the entire seventh grade. There I am, on the bottom right, at my normal-size friend Jon Farber's Bar Mitzvah. (In photographs, always look for me on the bottom <i>something</i>.) And remember, these are Jews here, not exactly known for our vertical prowess. (P.S. The kid in the middle doesn't count. He's 11.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">)</span><br />
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</tbody> </table><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: small;">But first, do you really belong here? Answer the following questions and see…</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">* Are your top shelves empty?</span><span style="font-size: small;"><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">* Can you comb only the top of your hair in a hotel bathroom mirror?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">* Do you avoid the short urinal out of principle?</span></span><br />
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Is your step stool in storage or out in the open?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Do short people skirmish over the seat behind you in movie theaters?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Do you get off at the 14th floor and walk up three flights because the 17 button is out of reach?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Do people pat you on the head for making them laugh?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Can you do a football huddle without crouching?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">* When you tell a woman, "Gee, your hair smells terrific," is it clear to which hair you're referring?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Does the automatic flusher in the tall urinals refuse to recognize you?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Do your feet appear in your driver's license photo?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Does an evil scientist dress you as a miniature version of himself?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> If you answered yes to any of these questions, then <b>you must follow this blog.</b> </span></div>Corey Levitanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10082745833017086822noreply@blogger.com1