I just never noticed height. I just wanted someone taller than me. If anything I always got crushes on shorter guys. I think it’s because my family is full of tall men and just wasn’t attracted to height having grown up around it. It seriously was not a requirement the other way general good looks, sense of humor and intelligence/ambition were.

I chose very very well.

Anonymous wrote:Women want to be submissive to men which is why they like taller guys. They can’t respect or feel attraction to a man who they feel dominant towards. Biology always gets in the way of ideology (feminism).

Speak for yourself, troll

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Anonymous wrote:It’s really easy theoretically to screen embryos for fatness, psychological problems, iq, height, heart problems, etc. All this stuff is either somewhat or mostly genetic. I wonder if most people will do that in the coming years. If your own genetic material sucks, you can just order materials from people with better genetic material. Then voila, you can have thin gorgeous smart girls and tall brave muscular brilliant boys.

Every one of those things you mentioned, besides height, is a flaw in and of itself. But there’s nothing actually wrong with being short (within a range obviously). You might be limited in a few sports which happen to be popular but besides that the only issue comes with how society treats short people. If you believe that we should eliminate shortness from the gene pool due to discrimination of short people then you could apply this logic to any other group of people with features that are discriminated against and argue that they shouldn’t reproduce either.

Another issue is that height is RELATIVE. A 5’7 man isn’t intrinsically short, he’s short because it puts him it the bottom 30% or whatever of height compared to the rest of the male gender. If we increase the average male height to 6’5 through selective breeding then men who are 6’2 will be considered short. There will always be men in the bottom 50% no matter how tall the average is.

Good point. All women may want a “tall” man, but they can’t all get one unless they’re comfortable with having a bunch of sister wives also. It’s statistically impossible.

George Clooney and Brad Pitt are both 5 under 6 feet.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm 6'4 190 and I was making $150k when I turned 25. When I was single friends would also say to me such and such finds you hot and take her on a date. But that nothing to do with my height. I have a great sense of humor and I am always kind and friendly.

I can go days without seeing a man taller than me. So when women say they want tall men it doesn't end there..they also want men who are kind and have great sense of humor....and they also want these men to have a good career or at least good prospects...So clearly these men are less than 5% of the mens population. Yet it appears that maybe 40% of women want such men. I honestly don't believe they truly desire such men or else.they will give up on love.

I don't want women to chase me. I want to chase them. And being 6'4 I tend to prefer women who are at least 5'6. My wife is 5'8. So while some women may want tall men, tall men don't necessarily look for short women below a certain height..so there is a vacuum where both men and women are wishing for a partner that simply doesn't exist or is super rare

Yeah right about the bolded. Lol

All else being equal, in my younger years, I'd have chosen a 25 year old 6'4 phd making 90k over a 5'6 phd/ software engineer/lawyer making 150k or even 200k.

Most educated women in this area can make 100k-300k and wouldn't mind a man making less if the man is ambitious in a low paying field ( hence i qualified with "all else being equal"). Very very few men are 6'4. So, in your case, your height is more important than your income.

Now if you were a musician or making millions, then your charm ( musician, and yes even broke musician[b]) or your money can become more important than your height. Or if you were a physician -- physicians are universally highly respected -- your profession could overshadow your height. But a 150k income, even with higher earning potential is not moving the dial much in favor of income for most short men vs. a 6'4 average earning man.

However, there are large enough populations of women, many of whom are very attractive, who don't care about height. Short men need to do their homework. I have several Jewish, Hispanic and Asian friends who don't even notice height unless a man is below 5'4 or above 6'2.

One percent of men in the United States is 6'4. Combine that with a salary of >= 150K, you're talking an anomaly, but women can dream, right?

The statement about a broke musician or a physician is so true. My 5'10 25 year-old DS did an unscientific experiment after he graduated from college, and took a gap year to prepare for the MCAT. He wore a pre-med t-shirt, strapped his guitar to his back, and hung out in Naples, Boca, and Tampa back in 2022. He talked to around 200+ random good-looking women on the street asking for directions to coffee shops because he was new to the area, and forgot his phone at the hotel. According to his unscientific experiment, he was successful in getting their phone number at a rate of 70% of the time (They texted him from their phones). Women gave him the benefit of the doubt because he wore the pre-med t-shirt and carried a guitar, even though he might not do well on the MCAT and broke af as a musician.

Women have many dating rules. However, they make the rules for Brad, but break those same rules for Chad.

Women want to be submissive to men which is why they like taller guys. They can’t respect or feel attraction to a man who they feel dominant towards. Biology always gets in the way of ideology (feminism).

Anonymous wrote:I’m relatively short and my only “requirement” was to be with someone taller than me. I have a great marriage with my 5’9” DH. That said, I do look at taller men and swoon inside.

X100

This is the real world — you settle happily. All the short incels can pound sand…there are plenty of women shorter than them out there. Everybody has something they want that they’re never going to get. Was it Mick Jagger who sang “YCAGWYW, but if you try sometime, you just might find, YGWYN.”

I’m relatively short and my only “requirement” was to be with someone taller than me. I have a great marriage with my 5’9” DH. That said, I do look at taller men and swoon inside.

Anonymous wrote:I'm 6'4 190 and I was making $150k when I turned 25. When I was single friends would also say to me such and such finds you hot and take her on a date. But that nothing to do with my height. I have a great sense of humor and I am always kind and friendly.

I can go days without seeing a man taller than me. So when women say they want tall men it doesn't end there..they also want men who are kind and have great sense of humor....and they also want these men to have a good career or at least good prospects...So clearly these men are less than 5% of the mens population. Yet it appears that maybe 40% of women want such men. I honestly don't believe they truly desire such men or else.they will give up on love.

I don't want women to chase me. I want to chase them. And being 6'4 I tend to prefer women who are at least 5'6. My wife is 5'8. So while some women may want tall men, tall men don't necessarily look for short women below a certain height..so there is a vacuum where both men and women are wishing for a partner that simply doesn't exist or is super rare

Yeah right about the bolded. Lol

All else being equal, in my younger years, I'd have chosen a 25 year old 6'4 phd making 90k over a 5'6 phd/ software engineer/lawyer making 150k or even 200k.

Most educated women in this area can make 100k-300k and wouldn't mind a man making less if the man is ambitious in a low paying field ( hence i qualified with "all else being equal"). Very very few men are 6'4. So, in your case, your height is more important than your income.

Now if you were a musician or making millions, then your charm ( musician, and yes even broke musician) or your money can become more important than your height. Or if you were a physician -- physicians are universally highly respected -- your profession could overshadow your height. But a 150k income, even with higher earning potential is not moving the dial much in favor of income for most short men vs. a 6'4 average earning man.

However, there are large enough populations of women, many of whom are very attractive, who don't care about height. Short men need to do their homework. I have several Jewish, Hispanic and Asian friends who don't even notice height unless a man is below 5'4 or above 6'2.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm 52 and have slept with 85 women between now and when I was 17. Not a single one of them weighed more than 125 pounds. So, I don't fault women for being picky over height. Luckily I'm 6 ft 2.

These women must have been really underweight if they were over 5’6 or really short

He probably has no idea what women really weigh.

Who discusses their weight with their partners anyway? You'd know their dress and shoe sizes, in case you want to buy them a gift. But many men have no idea what thin women weigh.

Anonymous wrote:I dated a guy who was 5’5”. He was so anxious he almost decked a poor guy who interrupted us while we were salsa dancing to try to sell us a rose. That kind of hair-trigger anger was disqualifying in ways the height never would have been. I told him as much when I declined the next date.

I have zero rhythm how hard would it be for me to learn salsa? I am 6'0 recently divorced. I want to learn something new

I’d rather a cute, short guy than ugly, tall one.

I’m 5’7

I dated a guy who was 5’5”. He was so anxious he almost decked a poor guy who interrupted us while we were salsa dancing to try to sell us a rose. That kind of hair-trigger anger was disqualifying in ways the height never would have been. I told him as much when I declined the next date.

DH is 4'10". I am in 5'6". We make it work. TIA

I'm 6'4 190 and I was making $150k when I turned 25. When I was single friends would also say to me such and such finds you hot and take her on a date. But that nothing to do with my height. I have a great sense of humor and I am always kind and friendly.

I can go days without seeing a man taller than me. So when women say they want tall men it doesn't end there..they also want men who are kind and have great sense of humor....and they also want these men to have a good career or at least good prospects...So clearly these men are less than 5% of the mens population. Yet it appears that maybe 40% of women want such men. I honestly don't believe they truly desire such men or else.they will give up on love.

I don't want women to chase me. I want to chase them. And being 6'4 I tend to prefer women who are at least 5'6. My wife is 5'8. So while some women may want tall men, tall men don't necessarily look for short women below a certain height..so there is a vacuum where both men and women are wishing for a partner that simply doesn't exist or is super rare