Platform shoes used to be all the rage, when I was a lad....
Yes, everything for 'lifts' in one's shoes to stilts will reliably place the OPs eyeline significantly higher than normal, but people are sensitive about their height and there are certainly cases of bullying going on surrounding those who appear smaller and weaker. Anything that visibly shows difference is a reliable source of hectoring by the rabble. As a general rule, such people don't seem to be sophisticated and often have a secret 'difference' that could make them the target.
In another sphere, the MEP Victor Orban whose entire platform was built of popularist homophobia was caught climbing out of a house where a large (100 people plus) gay orgy was taking place. The fact he had 5 condoms in 1 pocket and 5 MDMA tablets in another lead to some quite amazing extemporising on his part.
'Oh, I put on the wrong jacket after hanging mine up in the wrong house. My coat was on the hook to the LEFT of the gimp mask'
Why did I climb out of the window? Well I thought I smelt smoke and believing their was a fire, took the quickest way out. The matches? They were for lighting my pipe which I seem to have forgotten. I didn't shout 'fire' or alert anyone because I believed everyone else already know'
I mean, you have to hand it to the man. For an unscripted response it has EVERYTHING. Oh wait, everything but factual truth.
Sorry to OT but it still makes me laugh, Like a bully that beats up small kids but on closer inspection turns out to be 2 small kids, one on the others shoulders...
I know some people who have been victims of sizeism taking up martial arts and such to prove that one's size need not reflect one's ability to defend from such characters, but I am presuming that this is now almost a trope. Like 'don't hassle that little dude - he's a cage fighter'.