http://www.reddit.com/r/short/comments/2yfhjv/my_husband_did_request_that_i_pick_one_on_the/
http://www.reddit.com/r/short/comments/1agtj1/not_at_least_59_you_arent_even_allowed_to_donate/
It's funny how many people say, "I want a designer baby that will grow to be tall, because I don't want my son to deal with heightism."
Imagine a woman asking her racial minority husband to bow out of the gene pool, so their kid can avoid racism. Is a couple selfish for breeding in a place where they are the minority?
If height prejudice is bad enough that it's understandable to promote eugenics, then surely the racism example has even more merit, because everyone says racism is worse. The kid would suffer even more then, right? But somehow, I think the race scenario would be much less likely to find supporters.
Instead of further perpetuating prejudice by only wanting tall sons and fathers, how about we stop treating short males like inferior scum? That would be too difficult for this (supposedly) tolerant and educated society, no doubt. This is also all in spite of how short DNA is not worse for health (more on this here). The best part is how people think tall fathers equal tall sons, like short mothers aren't even in the equation. If this really were about "thinking of the children," nobody would breed with women under average female height either, because that's where short guys come from too. Yet where is the same stigma towards short women, encouraging them to end their genetic line?
People think they can avoid heightism by breeding out short men, but I equate this to 'solving' racism by making everyone the same color. That teaches absolutely nothing about tolerating and embracing human diversity. Imagine a world where designer babies are common, yet you're the one short kid whose parents couldn't afford to make you tall.
