Anonymous
Post 09/27/2024 23:41     Subject: Height height height
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This height obsession is stupid and recent
I’m 50 and 5’10. Never felt short growing up in 80s never had a problem dating in 90s, 00s and I feel this phenomenon of height obsession is pretty recent

I’ve dated short average and even a bit taller than me. But nowadays women old and young seem to be obsessed. Maybe it’s social media pushing onto to them what high value attractive man is supposed to be

I’ve also spent a lot of time in EU and many countries the average height is much more than USA but I never had difficulty dating there being “below average” by some EU standards and my dates there were close to my height or more

So it’s dumb American women being brainwashed by dumb American social media

Nothing else.

But agree if a guy is 5-10 and woman is 6-1 the sex would be awkward in traditional positions 😂


I'm Eastern European and agree this is completely American thing. Growing up in former USSR, my mom was always telling me not to look at men's height at all. Women are pretty tall in my family, so I was told as long as he's my height or taller it's fine. Men were in shortage post WWII so other qualities than the height (like ability to provide, education, smartness) were what I was taught to look at.

It's very common for EE women to date and marry shorter, distinguished men. People would just think he's very successful or a great human to land a long-legged model


Isn’t the Ukraine president pretty short? His wife looks hot af especially compared to Putins.
Anonymous
Post 09/27/2024 23:26     Subject: Re:Height height height
I'm 5'8 woman and I don't really understand why any woman needs a 6 ft plus man! I prefer him to be at my height or slightly taller so we can be kissing on the same level. I dated men over 6 ft and they were clumsy dancing, and in bed and almost too heavy for some positions (all were slim or athletic).
Anonymous
Post 09/27/2024 23:21     Subject: Re:Height height height
Anonymous wrote:I know a lot of women that are still single and navigating the current dating market. When they meet a new guy to date, I will ask them to tell me about him. The FIRST thing they always say is...

"He's tall!"

They never lead with info about his personality, career, or other physical attributes. It also seems they're willing to overlook obvious red flags as long the dude checks off the height box first.


I don't know I'm dating a 6'1 most handsome guy I've met and we have a mutual attraction (relationship wise) I don't do hookups. I always start with he is sweet and funny. We can talk about a lot. But he doesn't check off all my boxes and I don't trust him. He was raised very Catholic and he was very promiscuous in the past but according to him he only had 8 partners.
Anonymous
Post 09/27/2024 22:38     Subject: Re:Height height height
I know a lot of women that are still single and navigating the current dating market. When they meet a new guy to date, I will ask them to tell me about him. The FIRST thing they always say is...

"He's tall!"

They never lead with info about his personality, career, or other physical attributes. It also seems they're willing to overlook obvious red flags as long the dude checks off the height box first.
Anonymous
Post 09/27/2024 21:19     Subject: Height height height
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.


Wow, I’m so glad this world doesn’t exist yet. With no other information at my disposal I might have chosen not to have my son, who is 5’8” and an incredible human being. Saved from my own stupidity, I guess.
Anonymous
Post 09/27/2024 21:10     Subject: Height height height
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.
Anonymous
Post 09/27/2024 20:40     Subject: Height height height
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.
Anonymous
Post 09/27/2024 20:37     Subject: Height height height
Anonymous wrote:I am 5'11 and always say that I am 6'0 and women don't even notice lol. They just agree along smile and compliment me on my height. I just declared to be 6'0 while actually 5'11, it makes me wonder the kind of ruler that women use in their mind lol




The ruler we use is attraction. I’m not attracted to liars, it’s so screamingly insecure
Anonymous
Post 09/27/2024 20:36     Subject: Height height height
I am 5'11 and always say that I am 6'0 and women don't even notice lol. They just agree along smile and compliment me on my height. I just declared to be 6'0 while actually 5'11, it makes me wonder the kind of ruler that women use in their mind lol
Anonymous
Post 09/27/2024 20:34     Subject: Height height height
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I am 5’2 and I don’t like tall men towering over me. Much prefer shorter ones.


Same but tall men just stride ahead and don't care who they push and shove. It's so rude of them. They think because they are tall they are only required to see other tall people and forget everyone else.


Totally disagree! I’m 5’3 and date tall men. I can easily smile and maneuver my way to the front of a concert- he can’t.
Anonymous
Post 09/27/2024 20:33     Subject: Height height height
I love tall men. I’m a dynamic strong athletic 5’e women who doesn’t want to feel like I could break a dainty lil guy.

Shamelessly admit it, am fine with it, we all have preferences. I’ve never dated a guy under 6 feet.
Anonymous
Post 09/27/2024 20:28     Subject: Height height height
Anonymous wrote:I prefer a handsome face and zero belly fat. That's just me... I am super turned off by men who have any squish.[/quot]

Me on the other hand I love squishy women. They are great in bed too.
Anonymous
Post 09/27/2024 20:08     Subject: Height height height
I prefer a handsome face and zero belly fat. That's just me... I am super turned off by men who have any squish.
Anonymous
Post 09/27/2024 20:06     Subject: Height height height
I am 6'5 and an introvert and I made okayish money when I met wife..I'll admit my height helped me compensate for my shyness. I can't say how women treat short men, but the few times I have approached women they genuinely seemed interested in wanting to know more.
Anonymous
Post 09/27/2024 19:50     Subject: Re:Height height height
I wish I was like six-foot-nine, so I can get with Leoshi
'Cause she don't know me, but yo, she's really fine
You know I see her all the time everywhere I go
And even in my dreams, I can scheme of ways to make her mine
'Cause I know she's livin' phat
Her boyfriend's tall and he plays ball
So how am I gonna compete with that?

I wish I was a little bit taller, I wish I was a baller