I’m short. 5’2″. (Same height as Prince! I could be one of Prince’s girls!)
My daughter’s shorter.
She used to complain about how in fashion everything revolves around tall people. Models have to be tall. She’d say when she grew up she was going to design clothes for short people.
I told her that was cool, but privately I was thinking, “Good luck with that.”
So when I heard Tyra Banks was looking for short models for the next season of America’s Next Top Model, I had to tell my daughter immediately. We bumped each other’s fists in victory. Yes! Way to go Tyra!
Tyra’s always trying to push the envelope a bit in the modeling world. She often has plus-size models on the show, and this season she has a contestant who has scars all over her lower body from a burn when she was a toddler. Problem is, the non-conventional contestants always seem to have confidence issues and don’t always do that well. Although last season (I think it was last season) the winner was a plus size model.
Anyways, I’ve been thinking lately about how in boxing and wrestling they have weight class divisions, but they don’t have anything similar in other sports. Why can’t basketball have height class divisions?
EDIT: I posted a fun “name these tunes” over at Kulturblog.com today, check it out here.
April 2nd, 2009 at 8:15 am
That’s totally a good idea.
April 2nd, 2009 at 1:38 pm
1. I love being short.
2. I must be very unkultured because I was only able to get the U2, Prince and Blister in the Sun songs for sure.
Next time you do one of those will you please include Push it by Salt N Peppa for me? That song makes me seriously happy. Yo Yo Yo Yo babypop, hey you come here give me a kiss.
Or this part. This song isn’t for everybody. Only the sexy people.
That is a fun blog I’ve never been to before. It did make me feel very unkultured.
April 2nd, 2009 at 2:07 pm
My best friend in high school was 5 ft and I’m somewhere between 5’7″ and 5’8″. She hated being petite, but when we were together I was the one who was self-conscious.
Those songs were tough. I only knew 5 by title and artist and another 3 by artist only.
April 2nd, 2009 at 2:11 pm
I thought I was going pretty easy on those songs. It’s really hard to get the right mix of easy/tough songs on these things.
Janelle, I’ll use that song in the next one. Just gotta figure out if I have that song anywhere.
April 2nd, 2009 at 5:07 pm
I was really self conscious about being short for a while, but now I love it. Finding clothes that fit good is a problem though.
April 2nd, 2009 at 8:51 pm
LOVE the title of this post!
April 3rd, 2009 at 8:29 am
I’m 5’10″ and have been since I was about 14 years old. Being tall does have some perks –I can reach things, see things, etc. But I don’t think too much about it. In HS my BFF was 5’2″ and we were the drum majors for the marching band together.
That sight was laughable (us doing drills with each other).
Anyway, I love your idea with height classes for basketball. One of the best b-ball players (in HS) I ever saw was only 5′ 6″ –but his vertical? Amazing!
April 3rd, 2009 at 9:53 am
I forgot to comment on this yesterday because I went immediately to Kulturblog for the Name That Tune. I think height divisions for basketball make perfect sense.
I’m 5’7″ and always think of myself as average height, but I’m not sure what average height really is because most of my friends have been much shorter than me and people have always referred to me as “tall.” It’s funny because my husband is only an inch shorter than me and he’s considered short. (I consider him short. I actually panicked when I realized that I had a crush on him because I thought of him as being so short. I’ve always preferred tall men. That’s another story, though.) Anyway, it’s only because he’s a man and I’m a woman. He pointed this out once, when we were with friends and someone said, “Get Mad to reach that, she’s tall,” and he said, “You know, she and I are effectively the same height, but no one ever says, ‘Get SD to reach that, he’s tall.”