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Unladylike

Tall Girl Therapy

Unladylike

Unladylike Media

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.83.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Did you know doctors used to put "too tall" girls (aka, over 5'7") on estrogen to stunt their growth? They even called it "tall girl therapy." Cristen breaks that old news to standup comedian and tall woman Marcella Arguello, who is constantly getting clocked for her height. Marcella and Cristen question societal around height, gender policing tall women and straight women's obsession with tall men. - Hear the latest CONSPIRACY, SHE WROTE - Get in touch on Instagram or [email protected] - Join the Unladies' Room Patreon - Advertise with Multitude Productions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You know that really, really tall girl that you go to school with? Well, that's me.

0:06.5

16 years old, 6 foot 1 and a half.

0:11.0

Well, how's the weather up there?

0:13.0

Nice sweat pants, Sasquatch. I'm Lady Light.

0:24.0

A lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady

0:31.0

like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like. Lady Like, I'm Lady Like. I've had a love.

0:35.0

This is Un Lady Like.

0:38.0

I'm Kristen.

0:40.0

And that was a clip from the trailer for the 2019 Netflix teen romcom, Tall Girl.

0:47.5

Tall Girl is about a 16 year old named Jody who is 6-1 and no one lets her forget it and there's also believe it or not a tall

0:58.8

girl too.

0:59.8

You're like Miss Popular now it's cool.

1:01.6

Do we need to form an un-Ladylike movie club just so that we can collectively watch these

1:06.2

pieces of cinematic art together. What is kind of wild to see though is just how much we cannot get over tall girls.

1:18.0

Let's go back all the way to 1942 from a November issue of Parents magazine,

1:26.0

Parents magazine, I repeat.

1:29.8

Tallness can be a real handicap for a girl. She may find release in athletics if only

1:35.6

she doesn't turn into an Amazon trying to beat the boys at their own games and

1:40.3

in this way make up for the fact that she lacks the ability to be normally feminine.

1:47.4

Cut to 2019.

1:48.8

I just want you to feel normal.

1:51.4

Dad, every time you try to make me feel more normal you just end up making me feel normal. Dad, every time you try to make me feel more normal,

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