“From where I stand — at five feet even — being tall is a widely held fantasy of superiority that long ago should have been retired,” writes @maraaltman. “Early human desires and biases have stuck in our minds like a particularly catchy marketing jingle, so much so that we vote for tall candidates assuming that they are better leaders and often choose tall people as partners with no definitive data that they make better spouses.” Or, as Mara has personally experienced, people go to unimaginable extremes: spending thousands of dollars on limb-lengthening surgeries or taking hormone treatments with unknown side effects to rectify any difference in height. All of this is foolish, Mara says, “because short is better, and it is the future.” Click the link in our bio to read her reasons why. 🎨 @samdotpdf 📷 Man_Half-tube, via Getty Images #nytopinion