I’ll disagree with you there. Wearing heels isn’t drag. Banning drag shows is bigotry and ignorance, and there’s plenty of hypocritical men who dress like women for fun while latheting up their voters and owners by targeting drag performers.
Also, the argument that taller people get elected is a post hoc fallacy. Taller people live entirely different lives from short people. They grow up with simultaneously additional expectations and confidence. Tall children are treated as if they are more mature, more advanced, and more athletic. They’re more likely to be eating well at home, getting exercise, and come from taller parents. The perception of maturity creates pressure to take advanced education classes, act as leaders among peers, and make decisions requiring authority, all advantages that compound across generations.
That doesn’t mean a short person couldn’t also experience the same advantageous upbringing due to the circumstances of their birth. It just means that, on average, society has a bias towards taller (but not too tall) people. Voters also have a slight bias towards taller candidates, but putting lifts in your shoes doesn’t give you a lifetime of easy confidence and increased expectations. If anything, it reveals a sense of insecurity and inadequacy, not to mention brazen dishonesty.
Almost all the big politicians have PR consultants construct an image and brand for them. Clothing, makeup, cosmetic surgery (like Biden’s recent lifts and fillers). The lying DeSantis is doing with his image is no different than the playbook of any public figure. It’s like the diaper Donnie thing or whatever people come up with. These people can literally shit themselves in front of a live press conference and it doesn’t make a single difference.
It’s not that he’s short. It’s that he’s so obviously lying and expecting to be believed.
It’s also the hypocrisy of banning drag while walking around in high heels every day.
You just know he’s got a secret closet somewhere
“My calves are so well defined in these pumps, I’m going to try to make this work at the office.”
I’ll disagree with you there. Wearing heels isn’t drag. Banning drag shows is bigotry and ignorance, and there’s plenty of hypocritical men who dress like women for fun while latheting up their voters and owners by targeting drag performers.
He didn’t ban drag, he banned children from attending sexual themed drag shows
Exactly. If he weren’t drawing so much attention to it, nobody would care. He’s not even that short.
Also, the argument that taller people get elected is a post hoc fallacy. Taller people live entirely different lives from short people. They grow up with simultaneously additional expectations and confidence. Tall children are treated as if they are more mature, more advanced, and more athletic. They’re more likely to be eating well at home, getting exercise, and come from taller parents. The perception of maturity creates pressure to take advanced education classes, act as leaders among peers, and make decisions requiring authority, all advantages that compound across generations.
That doesn’t mean a short person couldn’t also experience the same advantageous upbringing due to the circumstances of their birth. It just means that, on average, society has a bias towards taller (but not too tall) people. Voters also have a slight bias towards taller candidates, but putting lifts in your shoes doesn’t give you a lifetime of easy confidence and increased expectations. If anything, it reveals a sense of insecurity and inadequacy, not to mention brazen dishonesty.
Almost all the big politicians have PR consultants construct an image and brand for them. Clothing, makeup, cosmetic surgery (like Biden’s recent lifts and fillers). The lying DeSantis is doing with his image is no different than the playbook of any public figure. It’s like the diaper Donnie thing or whatever people come up with. These people can literally shit themselves in front of a live press conference and it doesn’t make a single difference.
where did he lie? are you suggesting that using aids to alter someones appearance is somehow lying?
He said he’s not wearing lifts.