Why The Internet Is A Scary Place for Tall Women…

Good morning everybody. You are currently listening to a Tall Girls podcast hosted by a tall girl named India. I hope everyone who's doing 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 pincher, so that you could stay up to day on all of the latest podcast episodes and catch a glimpse of my every day life. Also, feel free to leave your review and let me know how tall you are. I'm genuinely curious. Everything is going to be linked in the description. Ah, I did it again. I did it again. I didn't say to subscribe to my newsletter before that, subscribe to my newsletter that's also going to be linked in the description. Still have some getting used to for that. Anyways, How are we doing today? How are you guys doing today? I have had a very long week, very long week and a half by the time that this episode is up, because there's a lot of things in the works. As you guys may or may not know, I'm a freelance marketer and I've also been trying to, you know, do more with that as well as you know, get like a part time job or something, find something else to allow me to learn more about marketing and all that good stuff. So I've been working a lot on that for the past month and a half, and I will say over the past few days, I've gotten some good news in a couple of areas well, I could say for one of them, in my freelance work, I got a little promotion, a little promo, so that's really nice. Very excited about the new role that I have. I mean, it's gonna be what I've been doing the entire time, just a little bit more responsibility, I guess, which is exciting. And then there was a separate opportunity that presented itself. But it's going good, is what I will say. I got a nice email, but it's not like one hundred and ten percent set, so I don't want to jinx, so I'm not going to say too much of anything about that. But yeah, I've been doing a lot of meetings and calls over the past few days, and I really have had like a lot of time to devote to my socials and kind of engaging with you guys on there. That's something that I've honestly wanted to do. Like in twenty twenty four, I'm like, yeah, I'm gonna start doing more on social media, not necessarily more content, but more engaging with you guys and like stories and different types of videos, etc. But it's been hard to kind of keep up with that and manage what I'm trying to do all of the new things that I'm trying to do on the side. So I'm a little bit sad about that. I mean not sad, like it's good that good things are happening, but also sad that I couldn't devote that time to vibe with you guys, you know what I mean. So hopefully in the next coming days that everything starts to get a little bit settled, I'll be able to go back to my goal of engaging more with you guys over on socials. So I'm saying this to say that I'm going to try to do more on my socials and hang out with you guys, so make sure you follow me on there. All right, let's talk about the Internet and tall women. That is a really weird way to start this episode, but just bear with me for a second. Let's just talk a little bit about how this idea came about. So I was doing research on what to talk about this week on the podcast, and yes, I do research on podcast episode topics, Okay. I also try to make sure I include things that tall people tell women are searching for on the internet so they can find me. And in doing research for what to talk about, I came across something very interesting. Apparently there's a dating side for people who want to date tall women. Like it's literally called date Tall Girls. If you're watching the video version of this, I'm going to include it somewhere on the screen. How are are we feeling about that? Are y'all? Are y'all joining this dating site single tall Ladies? I just find it very interesting because I've never heard or seen anything like that before. I've heard of sites where it's like, yeah, trying to find other Christians, or trying to find other Muslims, or trying to find other black people, things like that. I think there's even one for Jewish people. I don't know for sure, but in terms of height, I don't think I've ever seen or heard of a dating site that caters to that. I mean, hey, it's a good it seems like it could be a good business idea, and it's still a thing. Like at the bottom of the site it literally says that it's copyrighted for twenty twenty four. Like this, this thing is literally existing like to this day right now, and I'm assuming they're making money off of it because they also have like subscriptions, like membership subscriptions that people are paying for. Hey, by all means, go for it, and if you want to join that site, no tin, no shade, and no judge here. I just think that that is very hilarious in my opinion. My concern is people signing up on that site for the wrong reasons. Okay, because there could be people genuinely there who want to connect with tall women, because you know, tall women are people too to emotionally connect with. I'm pretty sure there are people there who want to genuinely connect with tall women. But then you know there's that other side of those weirdos who have wrong intentions. I personally don't think that the site itself is like promoting any bad behavior, Like I mean, it seems like it could be a good thing for people to connect on, But part of me is kind of like when people sign up, there's some weird stuff going on, weird questions being asked, and weird conversations being had. But that's just my opinion because you know, just being a tall woman on social media and voicing that, especially with a lot of tall fashion creators or even someone like me who just talks about being a tall woman, there are a lot of people who have interesting thoughts about us. I'm trying my best not to say to too much about it because it's just so creepy, but it's like, think about it, people already send tall women really weird messages, ranging from telling us that they love our long legs all the way to asking us for videos of us doing certain things. Is one thing to have our preference, but projecting your fantasies and fetishes onto us is a big no no, especially when you don't even know us. And my theory is one of the big contributors of people sending us really weird messages and all that is tall girl fan pages. Tall girl fan pages are one of the most popular places where tall women are objectified. Like when you scroll through these accounts and see what these tall women are wearing and what they're doing and who they're interacting with in these posts and videos. I'm sure that you'll see a PA and be as disgusted as I am about it. Now, if you don't know what these tall girl fan pages are, essentially, what they are is that these are accounts, fan accounts, I guess or whatever of very popular videos relating to tall women. So there are tall women on the Internet who post themselves to post about their heights and just I don't know, comparing their heights to other people, to each other and stuff like that. Essentially, these tall girlfan accounts are taking very popular videos of tall women and posting it on their accounts. And you know, I'm not saying that all of them are bad, because I'm sure not all of them are bad. I'm assuming I've just seen some really weird ones and the more popular ones, the bigger ones, are posting some really interesting things. And you know, because these videos are popular, they're being pushed to a lot of people, and a lot of people are following these accounts expecting to see similar videos to that or similar posts to that. And I'm not gonna lie, do you. Some of these people that are seeing like all of these posts of the tall women on these fan accounts are taking it a little too seriously. I mean, obviously they follow these accounts because they like watching that content, but then it's like, ooh, they're gonna see other tall women that may pop up on their feet and be like, oh, like they should be like those women that's on that account that I follow, which is just crazy to me. And you know, that can really turn into harassment online. Harassment targeting tall women is very real. I'm talking about derogatory comments, unsolicited feedback, objectification, and sexualization all the way up to using assumptions about us to bully and mock us. And personally, I feel like a lot of this stems from representation of tall women in the media. You know, I used to say that there was a lack of representation of tall women in the media, but I would like to change that and say that you know, there is a good amount we got models, celebrities, athletes, business owners, you name it. But with the rise of social media, a lot of the representation of us is very poor, like tall women doing certain things for the wrong attention, if that makes sense. And as I've said before, obviously no tea, no shade to all of these women and the content that they're creating. I mean, as long as they consent to it and it's something that they want to do, then go for it. But I'm just saying that how it sits with other people. Obviously they can't control what other people think, but how it sits with other people is ultimately affecting the rest of us, if that makes sense. So I guess you could say some of the things that they are posting is them in certain outfits, whether it's clothes that are obviously too small for them or too short for them, or wearing very revealing stuff to you know, highlight certain things like their long limbs. Also them being around people who are significantly shorter than them and doing certain things like maybe adding them on the head or hugging them and their head is resting in certain areas of their bodies that I'm not gonna really mention. Just small things like that, and I think that with people seeing a lot of that on the internet, especially on social media, it's just kind of fueling certain desires that they may or may not have. But like I said before, no T no shade, Okay, no T no shade. I'm just saying that media representations of tall women can lead to body image issues because it can emphasize unrealistic beauty standards and focus on height as an unusual or overly desirable trait, and this can potentially overshadow many of the positive things about being tall and lead to feelings of self consciousness because the major thing is not a lot of us look like the very popular videos of the tall women that are out there on social media. A lot of these women are like six ' five sixty six, six seven six. A. Yes, some of us are out there, but not all of us are going to be that tall as well. We come in different shapes and sizes, and I don't know, it's just I feel like it's also kind of promoting this idealistic look that certain groups of people. I'm not gonna say men, because you know, I don't think that it is necessarily just men that could be into that as well, but certain groups of people is promoting this idealistic look of a tall woman that these certain groups of people want to have access to, want to see you, want to look, want to interact with. So these post circulating is ultimately affecting these people's fantasies and fetishes and just kind of feeding into it and then what they do with that is they try to project that onto other tall women who are on the internet just trying to exist, Okay, just trying to exist. We're not asking for this, We're just trying to exist. And they're taking those thoughts from those video or whatever that they've seen and trying to project out onto us because if they're into tall women, this is how they should be potentially just the thought. So, in conclusion, the internet is a very scary blaze for dall women. It can perpetuate negative stereotypes and objectification, making tall women feel uncomfortable and judged because of their height. So those are my thoughts on how the internet kind of affects tall women, how it affects the image of tall women, and if you want me to do a deeper dive into that or a specific aspect like the tall Girl dating app what is it called again, the date tall Girls website or other sites similar to that, or if you want me to do a deeper dive on those tall girl fan accounts, let me know I'd be open to doing that and exploring that. I honestly just feel like this is a very surface level conversation of tall women on the Internet, Like I feel like this is just the tip of the iceberg, if you will, so, if you want me to go down a rabbit hole, I can let me know, because I think that this is very interesting and honestly I wanted to hear I want to know your thoughts and comments about this. Feel free to hit me up on my socials at a Tall Girls podcast, like I said before, their links below, and let's have a conversation about this, and let's bring more awareness to this. Awareness is very important. Awareness is very powerful, and I would love to hear your thoughts on this. As I've said, so, thank you for tuning in. I really do appreciate it, and I appreciate you. And let's continue this conversation. And until then, I'll catch you in the next one. Good night and goodbye.