Men Are Going Through Dangerous Surgery To Make Themselves Taller
And how our media environment drove them to it
Men are breaking the bones in their own legs to get taller.
Costing an average of around $80,000, the surgery involves snapping certain bones in the leg and installing a magnetic device in order to make the femur bone of the leg longer. The recovery process for this type of leg-lengthening surgery lasts months, and involves a lot of pain.
Some people make complete recoveries, others have physical problems for the rest of their life.
Surely nobody would want to go through a risky and potentially life-ruining surgery like that just to gain a couple of inches in height, right?
Yes. They would. They are. And leg-lengthening surgery gets more popular with each passing year.
It’s no secret that women like tall men. And they always have. But compared to the past, men have been growing more and more insecure about their height with each passing year.
For years, we’ve had a strange double-standard as a culture. It is absolutely unacceptable to make fun of or shame a woman for any aspect of her appearance. On the other hand, it’s perfectly fine to mock and openly ridicule men based on their appearance.
