Longing to be taller

"Longing to be taller" [no author?]

Anybody who's seen Gattaca (my favourite SF movie, because it dispenses with the special effects and tells a great story) knows what this is about. Surgery to make one taller is increasinly popular in China. Not as reprehensible as eye surgery to make Asian women's eyes less "Asian" (but definitely more painful!), it's still an example of the lengths Asian women feel they need to go to to be 'acceptable'. Memo to Asian women: you're beautiful just the way you are!