Reply #22: We STILL associate height with power...

[Captain Hilts]

here's something from Patricia Williams' comments in her column in The Nation:

"Let me pass on to the cruelty of shoes. Heel and toe. Power and pain. There is still no such thing as a women's shoe that conveys comfort and signals power simultaneously. A serious power shoe must lend height. Height means the sadomasochistic punishment of, say, four-inch bootlets in butter-soft suede from Bloomingdales. Despite the hard-won graduate degrees qualifying one as a professional woman of immense rationality, one nevertheless may be seduced by the ability to stand eyeball-to-eyeball with any man who challenges your word. It is vanity that will ensure a nightmarish escarpment of physical regret. For many moons after taking them off--and assuredly by the time you turn 50--you will hobble about at a dangerously forward-pitched slant."

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080901/williams2

Me again. We always vote for the visibly taller presidential candidate. That's the way it is. It totally pissed off men that Eleanor Roosevelt was taller than they were. One senator referred to her as "that Amazon." In the 1950s Winston Churchill was still having nightmares "about a tall, EleanorRoosevelt-like woman as president of the United States."

Politics ain't basketball folks, height shouldn't matter!