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23 years ago two of the greatest and collectively influential films of all time (The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter) starred two short actors, Elijah Wood and Daniel Radcliffe, both 5'5". In the 1980s and 1990s, the celebrated Back to the Future starred Michael J. Fox, also 5'5". Even before that, actors like Tom Cruise (5'7") and Dustin Hoffman (5'5") had gone down in history as iconic, short, but beloved actors. There are other examples, too.

Sadly, the last major appearance of short men was in Big Bang Theory, which, coincidentally, featured three sloppy, nerd "losers". A TV series that, in my opinion, completely shamed shortness. Game of Thrones' dwarf, Peter Dinklage, is in a class of his own.

In today's world, for at least 15 years, the entertainment world has been completely devoid of short-to-average height leading actors, as well as supporting roles, who have been completely replaced and outclassed by actors of perfect height or muscular builds (Chris Hemsworth, Jason Momoa, etc.). Consider also the new generation actors like Timothee Chalamet, twinkish and handsome, yet of perfectly average height. Other Gen Z actors, on the other hand, are generally very tall and slim, like the new Jacob Elordi, who is 6'3". No male actors under 5"8 excerpt Thom Holland.

No prominent short figures represent what is probably the most disadvantaged category of men of all, which obviously impacts the transformation of collective and social aesthetic standards and progressively exacerbates the already long-standing phenomenon of heightism.