I keep hearing from many MTFs who wish they were shorter, but then everyone's response is that there are many tall women who have no trouble being seen as women. I know this is tru, because I have worn some footwear that has placed me at 6 feet, where I towered above most other women and nobody seemed to give me a second glance. It's actually kind of a confidence builder when that happens. Anyway, I found this article related to tall people getting paid more and thought it might help the taller women feel more proud of their height. Sorry FTMs.
Economists have known for a long time that it pays to be tall. Multiple studies have found that an extra inch of height can be worth an extra $1,000 a year or so in wages, after controlling for education and experience. If you're 6 feet tall, you probably earn about $6,000 more than the equally qualified 5-foot-6-inch shrimp down the hall.
That makes height as important as race or gender as a determinant of wages. And it works for women as well as men. Even among female identical twins (whose heights can differ more than you might expect), the taller sister earns, on average, substantially more than the shorter.
Full article at http://www.slate.com/id/2063439/ (http://www.slate.com/id/2063439/).
Melissa
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Dennis
Dennis, you own your own business now. It doesn't apply to you. :icon_joy:
Melissa
Quote from: Melissa on September 13, 2006, 10:43:22 AM
I have worn some footwear that has placed me at 6 feet, where I towered above most other women and nobody seemed to give me a second glance.
This makes me SO very happy!
Thank you for the confidence boost ;)
I get to 5ft 13ins in 3 inch heels... still under 6 foot!
Buffy
Well I'm 5' 8", and today I'm wearing 4" heals at work so that makes me 5' 12" :D Wait a second let me recalc that....
5' 8" = 68"
+ 4"
= 72"
/ 12
= 6'
Sorry for the wait... so that makes me a tall one huh - hasn't affected me any :)
Steph
5'11" here. And I like wearing clunky heeled shoes. :) So I do tend to stand out between that and the blond hair. I routinely see teenage girls who are almost as tall as I am and taller. Those who have admitted an attraction to me usually list my height as one of the reasons.
Valkyrur rule!
Quote from: Kate on September 13, 2006, 02:03:56 PM
Quote from: Melissa on September 13, 2006, 10:43:22 AM
I have worn some footwear that has placed me at 6 feet, where I towered above most other women and nobody seemed to give me a second glance.
This makes me SO very happy!
Thank you for the confidence boost ;)
You're welcome. Actually, I was thinking of you Kate when I posted this. I remember you being so concerned about height.
Melissa
My height doesn't bother me in so much as my chest cavity. I have a barrel chest and wide shoulders. Now, I have reduced the shoulders a bit but the chest is still large.
Sheila
I'm 5'11'' My height has always been a concern. Whenever I see a female in public who is tall the first thing I do is look at her shoes. Often she's wearing high heels or boots and she's shorter than me <sigh> but I have on several occasions come across GG's who were taller than me and YES!!!! they were wearing flat shoes. I guess being "tall" has turned me into a shoe watcher....or maybe I'm just wierd. LOL
I do have a TS friend who is 6'2'' or 6'3"...she pulls it off nicely.....she uses her femininaty to offset any suspician of height.
Still.....I wish I was a little shorter LOL.
Quote from: BrandiOK on September 13, 2006, 10:03:09 PM
I do have a TS friend who is 6'2'' or 6'3"...she pulls it off nicely.....she uses her femininaty to offset any suspician of height.
Bingo! That's exactly what you do.
Melissa
Just before I had my surgery, I was working at a little hole in the wall company (the perfect place to hide by the way). There was a woman who couldn't reach 5' in heels. I generally wore heels back then with a business suit. She would always comment on my height.
One day she told me: "Cindi, you are soooo tall!" I respondied with "Sheryl, you are soooo short!" She never said anything about it again to me.
I am 5' 11" and I have never been concerned about my height. There are other things like my fat head, short neck, broad shoulders and chest that I don't like. But even those things don't seem to be a big problem, they're just things that bug me.
I just got back from town. I had to go get a blood test. I've been working, and I was wearing my crappy shop clothes; steel toed work shoes, jeans, and an astro tee. I'll never know why I pass in this garb. But I seem to get by somehow.
Cindi
Quote from: Cindianna_Jones on September 14, 2006, 02:34:15 PM
There are other things like my fat head, short neck...
LOL, the grass really is always greener...
Much of my height IS my neck. Kids used to call me "ostrich" in school. I always wished it would shrink...
Long necks are considered beautiful in some cultures. Me? I have a long neck too (as you can tell from my picture), but everything is proportional so it all balances out.
Melissa
Quote from: Kate on September 14, 2006, 02:48:09 PM
Quote from: Cindianna_Jones on September 14, 2006, 02:34:15 PM
There are other things like my fat head, short neck...
LOL, the grass really is always greener...
Much of my height IS my neck. Kids used to call me "ostrich" in school. I always wished it would shrink...
Kate, my female role models have always had long necks. It is a very feminine feature. Audrey Hepburn. Such an angel she was. You have a neck such as she. It is truly a
stunning feature.
;)
Cindi
Ah man. I gotta get some platforms :P Good thing I work online, nobody will see how short I am.
Oh...that blows! I'm five foot nothing!
Hey, I've got nothing against being short. Diversity makes life interesting. Brick is shorter than I am. And he's losing his hair. I still love him ;)
Cindi
Melissa,
Thanks for solving one obstical for me!
Now I have always found food a comfort when I get upset. Female hormores and my appetite are not a good combination for me. I think I'll change my nickname to Andress The Giant!
W
Wendy, I could be your sidekick:
Pinty McHobbitton
;D
I just had a physical yesterday and I'm shrinking? When I enlisted into the Air Force in 1968 I was 6 foot tall. I'm now just under 5'10" by almost a quarter of an inch. Thats over 2 inches that I have shrunk. That means I have to lose more weight cause I'm shorter. I just can't win. LOL Well, anyway the height doesn't bother me anyways. I get looked at and sometimes figured out, but I don't care just as long as they say Ma'am.
Sheila
Well, when I was in highschool, I was 5'9 3/4" tall, which I always just rounded up to 5'10". Prior to HRT, I measured at 5'9 1/2". Well, now I'm 5'9". I had heard about losing height due to HRT and I thought that was cool. You also lose height due to age as well. I know my dad has lost an inch from what he used to be. So I think it's really a combination of the 2, but the transsexual seems to lose the height much more quickly.
Melissa
1999: DMV and EPPC I was measured by both institutions at 6ft 2 barefoot......
2006: DMV and EPPC Im currently measured at 6ft even and 5ft 11 respectively....
Reguardless how you look at it Im tall for a woman.... especialy so in a town where the avrage man is like 5ft 7 or 8 and avrage woman is like 5ft 3...........
I dont mind though... makes it easyer to spot friends when Im lost in a crowd
Your DMV measures you? With mine, you just tell them your height and they enter it into the system. My DL currently shows the correct height.
Melissa
They make you stand against a wall and then subtract the heel of your shoe or boot...
Quote from: Cindianna_JonesI've been working, and I was wearing my crappy shop clothes; steel toed work shoes, jeans, and an astro tee. I'll never know why I pass in this garb.
It's because you look like a GG. ;)
Quote from: Melissa on September 15, 2006, 02:49:52 PM
Your DMV measures you? With mine, you just tell them your height and they enter it into the system.
Same here. I just put 6'1" on the form and nobody said anything. I used to say 6'2" but don't know which is more accurate. Last I tried to measure my own height I got 6' even with a big huge margin of error... :P
Here's another good resource to help you feel more comfortable with your height. It's a list of the world's tallest women starting from 5'10".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tallest_woman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tallest_woman)
And I'm only 5'9". Boy that makes me feel better. ;D
Melissa
Quote from: Melissa on September 19, 2006, 06:08:09 PM
Here's another good resource to help you feel more comfortable with your height. It's a list of the world's tallest women starting from 5'10".
Neat! Somehow, being in the same league as Maria Sharapova doesn't seem so bad! ;)
See Kate, it's all in your head! ::) We might as well have these pretty heads up there where we see what's going on. Actually, I never thought of tennis players being particularly tall, but several of them are. With all the scurrying around the court, I visualized some perky dinker. Oh well, ... now I know. Thanks, Melissa.
No problem. Sometimes we need a little change of perspective to help us accept ourselves. So rather than looking at height as an obstacle, we can see it as an advantage. I guess that's just the optimist in me.
Melissa
Wow, you know what I don't feel so bad being in between Julia Child and Terry Farrell. :D Thanks for posting that!
I am 6' and I love heels - 3" are perfect for me except it just makes me tower above most everyone. It gives new meaning to "stealth" or an attempt at that. Self confidence is much easier in flats tho - LOL ;-)