Thoughts of a victim of excessive height

[nybiara]

Last week, Ben Goldacre posted the abstract of a paper about the history of giving oestrogen to tall girls in their teens in order to limit their growth to a more feminine height. It's quite an amazing read. I wanted to post this, even though I'm way out of my depth in the medical ethics, because I'm a little fascinated by the idea of medical

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[1st_law]

But tall women are hot!!!!!

Seriously though, that's terrible.

[nybiara]

The height-reduction paper does mention that the treatment was used on tall boys, but to a much lesser extent.

I'm sure I've read about studies that looked at effects of height on career, but I can only find this one in my bookmarks, which concludes: "Overall, tall women were rated as more intelligent, affluent, assertive and ambitious than shorter women." I wonder if this would have been true 50 years ago.