I have always been “the tall one”. I will always be “the tall one”. I’m okay with that, I love my height and I’m proud of it. I will always stand out in a crowd. I will always see the best at concerts–suck it.

I’m okay with being “the tall one”, but acknowledge it in a respectful way.

Everyone is guilty of the “wow you’re tall”. Whatever. I’m fine with that. But just know that you’re really not creative at all and if you greet me with that the first time you meet me I will probably fail to find you interesting after the first 20 seconds of conversation, but I digress. It doesn’t irritate me enough to carry around a business card that I hand out to former strangers. If I got annoyed every time someone acknowledged my height in a cliche way I would be in perpetual state of RBF.

It’s not offensive when you ask me how tall I am.

But what’s disrespectful is pointing it out like it’s a bad thing. If my height is that emasculating to you, I can only imagine the size of your penis. If me wearing my hot pink  heels to the bar and being 6’2 really affects your life that much I will gladly print out a detailed list of hobbies for you and give it to you as a Christmas present. I will even laminate it.

If my height is emasculating, don’t be so easily emasculated. For my senior capping project, I will be presenting on the roots and causes of men’s stereotypical perception on women over 5’9.