Is “Height discrimination” a real thing?

Is it rude to comment on the heights of tall people? For example, at work today, a taller customer came in: A about 5 foot 3 worker here said something along lines to a 6 foot 6 customer “Hey Big man, hows the view up there? You’ve got a good look! You see it all! You’ve got A real Birds Eye up in the sky?”

basically, if you’re a “taller height person; Do you ever find those comments “funny” or “just playing around”? Or do “tall joke insults” maybe “annoy” you? Or don’t find them amusing or funny?

 

I just wish that people would see others for who they are and not what they are. There is discrimination in all sections of society and it really pisses me off.

 

Any comments that include race, gender or any physical attributes are only wrong if they are used in a negative context or intended to be hurtful.
For example, their is nothing wrong with using comments such as "You need to speak to Joe, the black guy over there". In this case you are describing Joe in a positive light.
It is the nanny state rules, that confuse people and in many cases they are completely wrong. Taken to the extreme, they would involve completely banning comedy.

Here in the UK a few years ago, a politician was forced to resign for saying that a situation was not black and white. In reality, that expression goes back to print and film, to distinguish it from the earlier sepia. (brown and cream pigments).

 

I think there is no way for you to know someone else's lived experience. You don't know how that particular tall person views comments about their height. I don't think it is necessary to point out differences in people like that. I'm sure the guy already knows he's tall and that everyone else can tell that he is tall as well. There's really no reason to be pointing it out, so why do it? Of course, allowing for the possible exception of using the fact that he is tall as a descriptor as wilsjane pointed out. The comments you are referring to might seem good natured on the surface but could be taken as tedious at best and hurtful at worst. Just because shorter and average height people might see it as some sort of compliment, it's really not. Compliments, and insults for that matter, are better when they are about things the person has control over not things they were born with (or developed naturally in this case, since he wasn't born 6' 6"). Not that I am advocating insulting people, just sayin'.