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by shkkmo 1313 days ago
They aren't hard to find: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Height_discrimination
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> Height discrimination (also known as heightism) is prejudice or discrimination against individuals based on height. In principle, it refers to the discriminatory treatment against individuals whose height is not within the normal acceptable range of height in a population.

> So many things are biased in favor of tall people, I have no problem with them having to pay more for a larger seat rather than externalizing those costs onto everyone else.

Case in point? Tall people are outside the normal, acceptable range of height. They certainly get micro- (and in this case, macro) aggressed for it. In my experience, the micro-aggressions seem more blatant because being tall is perceived as being an obviously good thing. People want to be comfortable in their bodies.

This is about human perception, not about things being designed with a bias in favour of tall people.
I said nothing about things being “designed with a bias in favor of tall people.'

Tall people earn significantly more on average. Asking short people to underwrite tall people's airfare does not seem fair given that fact.