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‘The Tinker Bell Syndrome: can being small in stature drive ambition?’

July 18, 2010 By admin

DailyMail fluff piece about short women:

“…men – and society in general – will often infantilise petite women, underestimating their intelligence, their strength and their ability to perform even the simplest task. Men, it has to be said, do like to be looked up to by their women.”

He believes that this infantilising of small women can breed a sense of resentment and rebellion that makes them more ambitious and more flamboyant than average-sized females.

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