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The obsession with men’s height should be given short shrift

horter men appeared to be having a moment last year. A social movement, which had started in 2018 with a tweet by a young American comedian, was hitting the mainstream. Jaboukie Young-White had been tired of “short” being used as an insult. “‘Short’ gave you Donald Glover,” he said, before also listing the actors Tom Holland and Daniel Kaluuya as successful, shorter men. “Short kings are the enemy of body negativity, and I’ll be

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