Shedev, Gigi and Mochi, thanks for the validation -- it's always therapeutic to hear that other small women feel the same way!
Astrid and Staysfit, I completely agree with you re. your tall-girl mentality -- I think it's a real thing -- it's like I said upthread to Maneera, about my friend who's about 5'2" but didn't know she was short. She was a tall girl all through elementary school, then stopped growing at age 11 or 12. She never really noticed that everybody else had surpassed her!
La Pedestrienne, one of the good things about having long feet is that they look good in ballet flats. I like the look of ballet flats, but I've always felt that they make my feet look disproportionately miniature! And I hear you about the feeling of being unable to run away. I worked with a woman once who refused to wear any shoe that she couldn't outrun an attacker in!
bj1111, I do believe the studies. There are too many of them that all point to the same thing, sadly. We talk about male privilege and white privilege and thin privilege, but height privilege is a real thing, too.
BC, if I were tall, I'd be happy to wear cropped pants (they're in right now anyway!). It'd be a good trade.
No worries at all, Kate -- I could tell you didn't intend to be hurtful. I was just pointing out that height privilege is invisible to people who have it, in the same way that thin privilege often is!
Janet, it's so funny how, even as a tall gal, your hubs and stepsons make you understand what it's like to be a short one! One thing that I've noticed: everyone talks about how much harder it is to be short as a man vs. short as a woman, and there's some truth to that (men generally don't discriminate against short gals when it comes to dating, at least), but if you're a short woman, you are child-sized, and are judged accordingly. A man is short when he's about 5'7" or less, but that's the same height as a fairly tall woman, so he's still at eye-level with many other adults. I, on the other hand, almost never am.