I've just discovered that at 6 foot 2, I've squeaked into my own special interest group! According to columnist John Leo, the founder of the new Tall magazine is calling for "an inspirational culture of height."

I've never thought of myself as unusually tall, but according to the magazine's founder, in order to be a member of Tall Culture, one only need be a 6 foot 2 man or a 5 foot 9 woman.

And it even turns out that I've been experiencing discrimination and didn't know it! As Leo points out:

Associating tallness with menace has been a recurring theme in popular entertainment. Many 7-footers have never fully recovered from seeing those sky-high characters in "Yellow Submarine" trying to slaughter everybody with apples. You can't do this with short or handicapped people. Depicting tallness as evil may well be the last safe prejudice to have in America.

Not to mention knee-bruising airline seats and humiliating foreign car egresses. However, such discrimination is an outrage, and it cannot stand for long.

This is why activists are demanding a height-friendly college curriculum (reading "Wuthering Heights" is a must). On the agenda, too, are height-themed dormitories where tall and pro-tall students can mix their distinctive cultures. Maybe a Ph.D. could be offered in tallness studies. There is even talk that dismissive phrases like "That's a tall tale" (which sadly associates height with lying) may be declared hate speech by the Irish parliament, or even by the whole European Union.

It's about time.