my mate is 4"9 and he has more attitude than all my other friends put together.i try not to generalise as a rule but i have noticed this time and time again.is it because of their feeling of inadequacy imposed on them by a sometimes unjust society?are they trying to over compensate?
2006-06-25 00:15:22 · 17 answers · asked by karlos 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
Oh yeah! and they can whip all the men and screw all the women! I once got pretty good at the latter after my divorce I was angry and out to prove that I was a man. I also got upset when the store wouldn't sell me a pack of cigarettes on credit and I threaten them to quit and I did. Anger is a power.
2006-06-25 00:26:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I don't know about small men but small boys do if my son's past experience at school is anything to go by. He was always the tallest boy in every class he attended (he is now a 6ft 4in adult). My friends son who attended the same classes was what I would (kindly) describe as a 'titch'. This did not stop him however from having a real nasty attitude and picking on my son as often as he could. My son never retaliated because the boy was much smaller than him and he knew he could effectively knock '10 bells' out of him if he wanted. So I would be inclined to agree with the 'inadequacy' theory.
2006-06-25 00:33:10 · answer #2 · answered by Linda C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
It is the battle to survive an environment where the large majority of people are over 5 foot five (in the western world anyway) so smaller people are in the minority.
If larger people were the minority it would be the same situation.
It is the feeling of not being in control, as thats where bullying comes from, you cannot control an aspect of your life, so you take control by bullying.
Grow up smaller people....and take that chip off your shoulder, unless you've been involved in assault and battery in that chip shop.
2006-06-25 00:35:40 · answer #3 · answered by realdragonflame 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's possible but I know large men who have a chip on their shoulder, too. I agree that generally it's dangerous to generalize!
I've noticed that quite a few famous male actors are relatively short...I've wondered if they've taken up acting (and fame) to compensate for their imagined inadequacy:
Tom Cruise
Danny DeVito
Michael J. Fox
Dustin Hoffman
Dudley More
Al Pacino
The Three Stooges (My favorites)
Anyway, anybody with a chip on their shoulder has a grudge with something-or-other. It could be his height but it could be money, a women, a job...or anything.
I guess that's what psychologists are for!
2006-06-25 00:29:44 · answer #4 · answered by 4999_Basque 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some may have the feeling they have to act tough to avoid being "picked on" and feel like a man. Shouldn't be necessary though. I've had friends short in stature that did very well in life being nice guys, including getting the girls. They did it with their personality, which seems to need an adjustment in your friend. He's compensating in a manner that is giving him more grief than his size ever would.
2006-06-25 00:26:15 · answer #5 · answered by Dale P 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Being 5.5" - as a young person, you have to learn to stand your yourself, or you will get picked on. If a small person stands up to a taller person, it quite often gives the taller person a shock that he is being stood up to.
The taller person may then back off through the potential embarrassment of being shown up - although he will probably do it by trying to laugh the situation off.
The above refers to fighting btw.
I'm not saying small people have the right to have more attitude - they don't. But they must stick up for themselves.
2006-06-25 00:23:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Old Scottish saying......
"If all the big folk in the world were as crabbit (mean,aggressively unhappy,grouchy) as all the wee (little) folk then there wouldn't be any wee folk left to BE crabbit"
I think that they get mad because dogs breathe on them (and pee on them),they can't go up stairs 3 at a time!!!
2006-06-25 06:59:29 · answer #7 · answered by normantrousdale@btinternet.com 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Studied that in mental health! There is really a 'Little man syndrome'. They have a 'big (No pun) issue about their height, feel inadequate, lack confidence thus tend to be more aggressive about it! There is ony one solution, it is for them to accept that, no matter their size, they have to love and value themselves so that other people can love and value them too!
2006-06-25 21:00:50 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Small man syndrome is quite a common phenomenon.
More often than not they do have an attitude, but you can't generalise.
Anyone these days who is noe the norm, has to fight harder.....
2006-06-25 00:20:32 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree.
I'm 6ft 2" and always find the short blokes more likely to kick off than the taller ones.
I suppose it's the runt mentality. They have to fight harder just to survive.
2006-06-25 00:23:09 · answer #10 · answered by 'Dr Greene' 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋