[Jedi Master Pikachu]

How come insulting ugly or fat people is rude, but insulting small men is ordinary? That group gets insulted by huge swaths of society. The guy was five foot four, so what? As the average American man's height is five foot nine, would a six foot two man be considered an object of ridicule?

[dirtbiker]

As the average American man's height is five foot nine, would a six foot two man be considered an object of ridicule?

I'm 6'2", and I pity the fool that wants to ridicule me, or my nephew, who's 6'4" and weighs 320!

[cgbg]

I am a five foot four man--and everyone trembles as I approach. :-)

[mkjessup]

As the average American man's height is five foot nine, would a six foot two man be considered an object of ridicule?

No, but perhaps six foot FOUR might be:

[McGavin999]

I don't think anyone was saying he was being ridiculed for his height, I think they were saying it was his own feelings toward his height.

[GMMAC]

"How come insulting ugly or fat people is rude, but insulting small men is ordinary ..."

IMHO, because - not withstanding it's many valid points - the entire article reeks of sexist agenda driven radical feminist bias & hypocrisy.

The reality of female violence & atrocities, particularly against males, is completely ignored.

As example, there are many well-documented instances of Muslim women mutilating the corpses of murdered 'infidels'.

In the cited case of Marc Lepine, actually his father abused his mother who then abused him both illustrating the reality of on-going non-gender-based circles of domestic violence & begging the question of who (& of which gender) was the abuser of Lapine's father?

What doesn't fit with the author's analysis are statistics (like those well-documented by Stats Canada) which show that acts of violence are virtually equally divided between the sexes &, thus, indicate that violence is a societal rather than a gender based problem. The intentional ignoring of same both feeds what's become a radical feminist funding 'domestic violence industry' throughout North America & works to advance the left's war against the traditional family by demonizing males & promoting self-serving acrimony between the sexes.