How Does A Woman's Height Affect How People Perceive Her?

Good morning everybody. You are currently listening to a Tall Girls podcast hosted by a tall girl named India. I hope everyone who's tuning in today is doing super fantastic. Before I get into this episode, I do want to say, make sure you're following me on my socials at a Tall Girls podcast, on Instagram, TikTok, and Pinterest, so that you could stay up to date on all of the latest podcast episodes and catch a glimpse of my everyday life. Also, feel free to leave me review and let me know how tall you are. I'm genuinely curious. I apologize and advanced. If I sound a little congested, I am quite literally just getting over something. It was strange because this past week I was feeling fine, I was doing well. Then one day my friend came into class coughing it up, and I'm just sitting here like, of course, I sit right behind you and you are coughing it up. And it's not like he or me or I could have skipped class that day to just avoid that. In general, well, I wasn't really thinking about getting a class because I was fine. But it's not like he could have even skipped class because we had a presentation that day, and if you don't show up for the presentation, you're not going to get your grade. You're basically gonna get a zero. And that's that's something that we don't want. So yeah, of course he showed up, so it makes sense. But yeah, giving us whatever he had, so that's great. That day, I was perfectly fine. The next day I woke up with an inflamed throat. Awesome. So for the past few days, I can't even say I have been trying to rest because this weekend was stacked, like I had a lot to do. I had to go to practice, I had to meet people, I had to go to networking events and stuff like that, so I couldn't fully rest. But I did make sure to get at least eight hours of sleep instead of the four or five that I was getting during midterms. Said goodness, I got at least caught something like towards the end of midterms, so I was actually able to rest and get sleep. But I wasn't able to fully rest because I had a lot of things to do for projects in practice and all that awesome stuff, speaking of which I did mention a networking event. I went to a networking event and it was so cool. It was my first ever type of networking event or any type of conference if you will, like a diversity type of conference in a career fair and I met some people that were around my age. I met people who were trying to start nonprofit and going at well. These were a lot of creatives. I spoke to a lot of creatives, which makes a lot of sense because I'm technically a creative. I'm in marketing. I also had this podcast I'm a content creator, so I just felt like it was a decent place to be speaking to a lot of creatives. And there were also a lot of advertising agencies that were there, like recruiting, so I was able to speak with them as well. It was just a very interesting experience. This was the first networking event that I actually went to, and I went with a friend, so that was nice, and I will not lie, I was pretty nervous, and half the time I didn't know what I was doing or if I was saying too much or saying too little. I didn't know which questions to ask and all that. But I feel like I've tried my best, and this is the first networking event ever that I've been to. So I don't expect me to be the greatest at this, and I think that it's important that I should be going to more of these so I could get better and meet more connections and meet more people and talk to more recruiters and just see where it goes, because you never know. And I also mentioned that midterms is pretty much over at this point, Thank goodness. It feels so good. I can get a breather. Only tell what late November, so I have a breather for three weeks and then finals. Yay. Not excited for that. But a lot of my grades were midterms have come out and they're I'm not mad, let's just put it that way. I'm not mad. Some of the grades are higher than my I guess you could say requirement that I should be getting on these things, so that's good. And then others fell a little bit short, fell a little bit lower, but nonetheless, I passed in everything, so that's all that matters, and I'm proud of myself for getting through this. All right, enough with the updates today. This episode is actually inspired by one of you guys, so shout out to her. She wanted me to talk about how people perceive us as tall women or as tall people in general, and what characteristics and attributes are given to us because of our height. I have touched on this a little bit in my previous episodes. I haven't done like an actual full on episode about it, but just like bringing it up ever so often. And she did mention that I talk a lot about masculinity and intimidation, which I believe I do because that's what I mainly have experience in That's what I've experienced a lot growing up, especially when I was younger. A lot of people would tie those traits to me because I was tall, and then on top of that, I was also an athlete and I still work out to this day, so having a fit body along with being tall, a lot of people would just associate more masculine traits with me. But she did bring up a good point that there are a lot of other characteristics that are associated with us, such as powerful and confident and the lighthouse keeper of society or I guess, a person who if you have trouble or you have a problem, you go to them for help because you believe that they will have the answer. Authoritative attributes such as those, and I do agree that I don't really touch on those, and a lot of those attributes are actually good attributes or good characteristics to associate with us. All in all, no matter what the height, people are going to make assumptions about you because of it. Just like how people are more likely to ask a tall person if they play a sport rather than a shorter person. There's always going to be a set of qualities or a set of characteristics that are assigned to you because of your height. And it's interesting to think about the role that this plays in self esteem, because yeah, even if these good qualities and these good characteristics are associated with you, people are still going to be less likely to give you compliments or to say good things about you, because a it could be on the opposite end of the spectrum and they just don't believe it at all and they associate the bad qualities with you, or B they can take all these good qualities of you and they don't want to say nice things to you because they believe that everybody else tells you these nice things and they don't want to inflate to your ego. And with that, I think the most important thing to take from this episode is that your height doesn't and shouldn't define you, your interests, your actions, your personality, your character should honestly, physical traits play a very very very very like emphasis on very minimal role in who you are as a person, like, oh, just because you are slightly taller than the normal, taller than an average, you're like a basketball player, or you are more dominant, or you are arrogant and this, that and the other, when in reality, this person could be a musician. This person can be an artist. This person can be those people like you know how they have they do those like it's not trivia, but they have like the science competitions, the math competitions, that those academic competitions. It's just other. They could be opposite from what you first perceived. They may not be an athlete, they may be shy, they may be an introvert. But because when you first look at them, like kind of look as a first impression type of thing, Oh, you see their height, you see their physical traits, you automatically think something about them when you didn't even get to know that person. And that is not the vibe. And it's funny because this person actually brought up something super funny and a little bit interesting, but she said that people are jealous or tend to be jealous of tall people. And let's face it, the truth is, if you're tall, at least one person in your life is jealous of your height, whether or not they actually tell you. And it makes sense because, honestly, who wouldn't want to be tall? Like these people who are jealous of your height. They want that because they believe or they associate positive things with your height, like strength and confidence and power and success and things like that, and they want that. They feel as though they don't have those characteristics. I honestly, maybe it's not even like a thing of height, like maybe they don't like deep down inside, maybe they don't actually want your height. Maybe they just want the things that are associated with it. They want to be seen as strong, they want to be seen as confident, They want to feel strong, they want to feel confident, and they believe that if they have that height, if they have your height, then they'll be one step closer to actually acquiring those qualities. That is such a weird way of thinking about that. You know what, I'm not a psychologist or anything like that, a therapist. I shouldn't be psychoanalyzing anybody, but just the thought, just thought I would throw it out there. But maybe they feel as though they lacked those qualities and they want that so they believe that if they had that height, if they had the height that you had, then those qualities would easily come to them. And honestly, that's not always the case. It really comes from within, has nothing to do with their physical traits whatsoever. But something that has definitely helped me in my I guess you could say journey to becoming more confident in my height is just knowing in the back of my head that, yeah, like I had these difficulties or I have those mishaps because I'm tall. But people want to be tall, people want to have my height. There are people, not necessarily everybody, but there are people out there who would love to be as tall as I am. There are people who want to have super long legs, super long arms, long limbs, all that good, and that in and of itself should just help you appreciate your height more. It helps me appreciate my height more for sure, because you have something that's desirable to others. And that goes back to the last episode where it's like yeah, like our tall girls and attractive yahd YadA yah. It's like people sit, well, not everybody, because people have their own preferences, people have their own thoughts, opinions, et cetera. But some people see our height as something that's desirable. So yes, not everybody's gonna see us as desirable because there's a lot of people in the world out there. Everybody has different viewpoints. But there are people out there who see our height as desirable and that just helps me appreciate it more because it's like there are other people out there that are appreciating it. I need to start appreciating it too, and seeing the good things that come with it, such as the good qualities that are associated with it, and just go from there and grow from there. So it's also a great thing to remember that people want your height. People would love to have your height, So embrace it and appreciate it. And I know it's easier said than done. I've been there, I'm still there. I still have my moments. It's not easy to just always absolutely love being tall, because girl, there are times when my long legs get me mad. I be tripping over stuff and over i'd be tripping over air, like there are times when my long legs have me tripping over air. There are times where I accidentally smack people or accidentally hit people because of my long arms. I am still super clumsy at times because I'm still getting used to my body because it's still developing. But I'm also an able bodied person, and I should be grateful that my extra long limbs allow me to do things that not everybody is able to do. And you know, with the help of a Tall Girl's podcast, you can get there too, You know what I mean In terms of embracing your height and loving your height and respecting and appreciating your height and surrounding yourself with good people is also the way to go, because if you surround yourself with people who call you mean names and make fun of your height, girl, you need to get out of there. Get out of there. Stop surrounding yourself with people who call you beanstock and giant freak and Mommy long legs or Daddy long legs or sasquatch or big for all those crazy names like get out of there now. And it's not always the easiest to find a tall community or a tall girl community, especially if you're living in a place where a lot of people are where the average height is shorter than you, especially if it's a couple of inches shorter than you. But we have a tall girl community at a Tall Girls Podcast, So join this community. You are not going to feel alone, you are going to feel seen, you're going to feel hurt, you're going to feel appreciated, and you're gonna find stuff that's super relatable here. But I do want you to know in the back of your head that people secretly want your height, whether or not they actually tell you. So just take the time to understand that, yes, there are people out there that I actually appreciate it, even though they won't say a thing to you, and it's time that you start appreciating it too. So yeah, with that, I'm going to end it here. Thank you so so much for tuning in. I really appreciate it, and I appreciate you as always. Feel free to hit me up with my socials at a Toll Girls Podcast. Everything is going to be linked in the description and let me know what you think. Let me know if you feel as though a lot of assumptions about you are made because of your height, Like do people associate those qualities with you, like strength and power and all that stuff, or let me know if it's the opposite for you, if people don't associate those tras with you. I'm interested to hear your viewpoints. Also, feel free to let me know, like how your day is going and how your life is going. We could just talk about anything. I respond within a timely matter. You know, now that midterms are over, I'm I'm doing okay, I'm doing good, so we can we can chat it up if you will. Yeah, remember you are beautiful just the way you are, no matter how tall you are, no matter your height, I should say, and I'll catch you in the next one. Good night and goodbye.