Really? I get severe neck pain because of the desk height I have. I had to get a note from a doctor for them to let me elevate my monitor at no cost to them.

Really? I get severe neck pain because of the desk height I have. I had to get a note from a doctor for them to let me elevate my monitor at no cost to them. Why don't they manufacture desks at a height comfortable for me? The answer is simple: those of us who are more than one standard deviation from the mean will likely have to deal with the inconveniences that poses. Were there more women in said professional environment, things might change. It's the same issue I have with representation-itis, where every body believes he needs his exact representation in media. "I am in a wheelchair; why aren't more movie characters in wheelchairs? People in wheelchairs can be cool too!". Fine, I'm not saying they can't, but if we did this with every possible person, there would be several billion characters. Another analogy is how people are harmed by a disease and try to convince people to get tested. What they fail to realize is that were we all to be tested for all such things recommended by all such people, we would spend our entire lives in the doctors office. How does this tie back to the issue at hand? Were we to try to accommodate every type of person, we would fail miserably and go broke in the process. Were we to only accommodate one, we would have a lot of unhappy people. So where do we draw the line? I think about one standard deviation (about 2/3 covered well enough) is about right.