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Given that this seems to be the thread all about discussing Harris, can I bring up the fact that she is TINY.
She is only 5 foot 2. Versus Trumps 6 foot 3! I don’t mean to sound like some Height obsessed incel (probably too late for that now but anyway) that is just a yuuuge difference. If I were Trump I would demand any debate be on an open floor in a townhouse style so that it maximizes the height differential. Advantage: Trump
The more salient facts about her are: she can't keep staff, huge turnover, she apparently refuses to read her briefings and then lashes out at them for it.
she's apparently so socially insecure she ended up rehearsing for a dinner at some donor or..
https://www.axios.com/2024/07/22/biden-kamala-harris-election-chances
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As with many things in life, men have the burden of performance, including Doing the Bare Minimum of being tall and not being short.
Calling 5'2" Harris "Little Kamala" would just be perceived by normies as somewhere between a weird non-sequitur and just plain mean-spirited, even for what they view as Trump's standards. After all, Hillary is/was only three inches taller than Kamala and it wasn't an issue at all. In contrast, calling 5'9" Marco Rubio "Little Marco" on stage basically ended Rubio's Presidential campaign. There was tremendous compass unity in laughing at "Little Marco" getting pwned.
Despite the average Burgerland heights of women and men being 5'5" and 5'10", respectively, a 5'2" woman is just a woman. At worst called "petite," which can even be a positive. Most women like feeling smol, even if they don't like openly admitting it. A 5'9" man may very well find himself in manlet territory and mocked accordingly.
From recollection, studies on the height premium in the workplace (e.g., compensation, CEOs, or CEOs and compensation) tend to show a materially... higher... height premium for men than women. One way academics have tried to cope with this is to claim that African Americans are More Affected:
Or that, secondly, if there's less of a height premium for women, it's because male insecurities and female internalized misogyny punish tall women:
Men Judged Harshly for Their Height (or Lack Thereof): Women, Minorities Hardest Hit.
Except the whole losing thing
In my Emotional Truth, Hillary won in 2016, Federer won in 2019, and it was The Berenstein Bears the whole time *crosses arms and turns away*.
The question is, would she had been better off being a 5’10” man in the 2016 campaign? It’s a definite no for me, especially since she could had then easily gotten dabbed upon with a “Little Hillary” like Marco did. It’d be even for worse for Kamala to be a 5’7” man.
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Height doesn't really matter in women as long as it is within the normal range, which 5'2" is. If she had been a man, it would've mattered at least a bit, but she isn't.
I remember Obama saying Buttigieg was unelectable. Not for being gay, but too short at 5'8".
When looking at the height pay gap (tall people get paid more than short people), it exists in both women and men, but is much larger in men.
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