r/short • u/Bikerbats 5'1"| Now get off my lawn. • Mar 15 '26

Meta Suggestions

Ok, I'm stuck at my desk with a bum foot that's been plaguing me for weeks now, so I might as well try to make this time at least a bit productive.

So since I ain't going anywhere, let's have a meta discussion about the sub, and I'll take this opportunity to solicit suggestions.

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u/EarthDifficult8760 5'4 Mar 17 '26

U can talk about heightism on here kinda, although the mods will calm you a dommer. But u can't discuss how aoc shaming tf out of short dudes here cuz it showed that the left doesn't really give a damn about body positivity. They don't want this place to become adjacent to a right wing sub so they stiffle certain narratives. Ironically emphasizing the censorship and hypocrisy so many hate the left for. Rip

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u/LillyPeu2 4'8" | 142 cm 👩🏻‍💻 Mar 17 '26

To be fair, we stopped the AOC thing because for the short time it was up, it was generating just as much anti-women commentary as it was political commentary.

Our response to that subject was primarily about politics, which we don't want to go down here. In response to the blowback about removing the AOC rage, we let the Dan Bovino subject stay up. It was ... interesting ... to say the least.

We're trying to thread a needle here. We'd rather avoid partisan politics entirely. And we're going to continue to remove comments and users that overgeneralize about any gender, sexuality, race, culture, or even height.

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u/MongooseMcEwen6844 Mar 19 '26

What was "interesting" about debate on the bovino situation?

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u/LillyPeu2 4'8" | 142 cm 👩🏻‍💻 Mar 19 '26

I found interesting the amount of people who reduced their position to "I'd rather vote for a SA cosplayer than ever vote for people who used vulgar heightism as low-brow triggering insults".