HenryBHough
Diamond Member
Yes, boys and girls and liberals of all ages.....
Now there's a new entitlement class.
The vertically challenged!
OK, up to know that was just a sarcastic reference to the ridiculous. Y'know, like "differently abled".
But now there's scientific proof that VC is real and needs special accommodation!
Shorter people do feel inferior and weaker | Business Standard
The study was conducted at the prestigious Oxford University. As it says in the linked article:
"What they found was depressing. As Professor Daniel Freeman told the Guardian that our hunch was that the experience (of being small) would cause people to view themselves more negatively, reducing their sense of status and self-esteem, and triggering a sense of vulnerability."
The experiment involved computer generated "virtual reality" and 60 volunteers of varying size. They were sent on simulated subway rides once at a projected "normal" height and again at a projected size ten inches shorter. Next thing we know there was rampant paranoia amongst the volunteers.
Plainly this calls for accommodation. Will it come in the form of government-issued (taxpayer paid) elevator shoes for the vertically challenged? Or a more permanent solution like grafting an extra few inches into shin bones? Surgically? Perhaps....but since the whole thing is ongoing in England....might they not just bring back the rack?
How joyous will you feel when your tax dollars are being devoted to overcoming this ever (or not) growing challenge?
Now there's a new entitlement class.
The vertically challenged!
OK, up to know that was just a sarcastic reference to the ridiculous. Y'know, like "differently abled".
But now there's scientific proof that VC is real and needs special accommodation!
Shorter people do feel inferior and weaker | Business Standard
The study was conducted at the prestigious Oxford University. As it says in the linked article:
"What they found was depressing. As Professor Daniel Freeman told the Guardian that our hunch was that the experience (of being small) would cause people to view themselves more negatively, reducing their sense of status and self-esteem, and triggering a sense of vulnerability."
The experiment involved computer generated "virtual reality" and 60 volunteers of varying size. They were sent on simulated subway rides once at a projected "normal" height and again at a projected size ten inches shorter. Next thing we know there was rampant paranoia amongst the volunteers.
Plainly this calls for accommodation. Will it come in the form of government-issued (taxpayer paid) elevator shoes for the vertically challenged? Or a more permanent solution like grafting an extra few inches into shin bones? Surgically? Perhaps....but since the whole thing is ongoing in England....might they not just bring back the rack?
How joyous will you feel when your tax dollars are being devoted to overcoming this ever (or not) growing challenge?