Every time I see memes about hight I ask myself why are americans so fixated on that. It's like this is the major thing american women look in a man. Never seen that anywhere else.
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It’s like this is the major thing american women look in a man.
My sister did the Tindr circuit back in the '10s, and she regularly passed on anyone who was shorter than 6'. Some of this might have simply been that all the men and quite a few of the women in her family were at least that tall, but she capped out at 5'3".
She struggled with dating for years, because a lot of the guys she went out with were either fuckbois or work-a-holics or otherwise unfun people to be around. Eventually, she got two requests in one day - one dude who was 6'1 and another who was 5'2". At this point, she was getting burnt out and felt a bit bad about not even giving the 5'2" a chance.
The date with the 6'1" guy was predictably awful. She didn't even bother suggesting another.
The date with the 5'2" guy was incredibly. The immediately clicked. She totally fell for him. He fell for her. A couple years later they got married. Now they've got an adorable little girl and we're all joking about how it would be funny of my sister's tall-family genes take over and she's towering over her parents in twenty years.
If you're not tall enough, you might not be able to see if there's a gazelle or lion behind a large rock, thus you will neither be able to feed your family nor save it from being eaten.
Look at long-neck-short-legs over here, thinking they can keep up with the tribe on multi day hunts.
We were all mostly, like, 5 and a half feet tall up until a couple of hundred years ago. Height wasn't a primary biological advantage for us. We weren't prairie dogs.
I've never actually heard anyone say they cared about height. I've only heard second hand stories.
Mostly saying, I think it's a fairly small amount of people that care.
Many of my American friends will not date someone shorter than themselves, I guess in part it's social inertia because it's just embarrassing more than unattractive
Thank you for adding one more second hand story to alexstsrfire's collection
Haven't been on one in years, but women would put "guys over x height only" in their dating app profiles. I saw it as an advertisement that those particular women were very insecure and should probably be avoided, but it was a significant number of them nonetheless.
It's relatively common in dating apps here in Germany. I just see it as an immediate red flag and move on.
Not true at all. Hugely important factor for women who are dating. You can literally look up the data on this, heigh is incredibly important for hetero women
Brazil here. My ex wouldn't date anyone shorter than 175cm and my current gf wouldn't even look at me if i was under that height.
If you're with someone so shallow it only speaks to your own mentality
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Meh, I'm 5'8" and have often found myself punching well above my weight class when it comes to women. LOL, and I'm always surprised.
I've also noticed a great many tall women dating/marrying shorter men these days. Used to be a rare sight, now it's commonplace. Hell, I've dated a few women that were 5'10".
The memes are coming from women on dating sites specifying a height of 6'. And yes, that's commonplace. I think it's a reaction to men lying about their height (women lie about their weight), and people I've dated have backed up that idea.
I think confidence is key.
Like I generally enjoy a petite woman, but I'm definitely not opposed to Amazon snu-snu. However, if an Amazon class woman tries to act like a shy petite girl, that is somewhat a turnoff. Own your stature.
Is it women tho? Or is it men telling other men they aren't good enough again?
I'm short AF and I've definitely heard that from women but I also dated several women who were taller than me, one of whom by almost a foot. People have preferences and that's just how it is. If someone isn't attracted to you there's not a lot to be done about it but move on and try someone else. It's usually not a judgement on you as a person, there's just no attraction there and as much as we would all like to pretend that doesn't matter, it usually does. I don't date women I'm not attracted to either so it goes both ways.
Better than most of these!
What a weird question. They do have eyes, do they not? If you cannot visually establish if someone is smaller the you then it's probably negligible.
For a beautiful strange moment, I thought you were going the other direction with this:
What a weird question. They do have eyes, do they not? If you cannot visually establish if someone is a roller coaster, then it's probably negligible.
Hah!
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fucking-roller-coaster
Of love?
No love, just fucking.
I can't help but see this with Nicolas Cage's face
Excuse the garbage AI slop, but I'm actually shocked this nearly worked...
This is one of the greatest use of ai I have seen
If you are above 6 feet she might be
yes
Are you handicap accessible?
Only in the rear.
This tall.
*Puts hand on top of head. Whilst sitting down.
Moving from hungary to sweden is wild. Going from tall to a bit above average is insane and it feels like less because some people tower over me here.
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I would see myself do this just to make fun of the situation XD. Honestly if height is a requirement your better of looking somewhere else 😅
And that's coming from a dutchie.
I think that's a good response.
"How tall are you?".
"Why, are you a rollercoaster? Haha"
Laugh it off and see how she reacts. If she's awkward and remorseful or she's pushy you can either go on with the date or ask her how much she weighs or her bra size. Then transition into how men can be offended by such a question.
Statistically taller people are seen as more attractive and therefore more successful. So good genes. So "you want to have kids with me? That's a little fast..." Could be a quip.
This is hopefully a more avoidable issue because the more toxic people put in rollercoaster requirements right in their bio.
"Must be at least this tall to ride"
Speaking of Dutch height requirements.... my wife is Dutch. We met at a dance. We chatted a bit, and she did a literal translation at one point of "hoe lang ben je?".
Her: You're pretty tall. How long are you?
Me: Long enough, I promise you!
That is one way to break the ice XD
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I've never had to be in the dating game, so I gotta ask: Is there any way this is a good question in a conversation? Is it possible that it's just an awkward opening, or is it always the equivalent of asking a woman what's her bra size or whatever?
Is there any way this is a good question in a conversation?
It's a pretty dumb question in a face-to-face encounter since you can see for yourself how tall somebody is.
So pretty much the same as asking for cup size
Maybe if your first date is to go on a rollercoaster
Usually it's not part of the date conversation for me because it doesn't matter if you date an average heigth guy. if a guy is really fucking tall and I'm genuinely interested about how tall he is I have asked, nobody ever minded. I think this whole height fetish is a little bit out if control because of dating apps maybe. Because I've met all of my boyfriend live and then you can see about what height they have. And I've never minded if somebody is small or tall.
Sure, and if a girl has mega huge 32h knockers I'm sure she isn't (that) mad either (except you're still objectifying the tall/giant tiddie person in a sense, even if that isn't the intent, and the man is less likely to even catch on to that to be mad about it, but I digress), but asking someone who has been repeatedly made fun of or rejected because they are "short" or "flat" is more likely to yield a different reaction.
Though yes there are also women who don't care, my first GF was taller than me for instance, just like there's men who actually prefer smaller boobs, like me, it happens. Though the existence of people like my ex and I doesn't indicate frequency (as in, though our preferences are as such, it is still entirely possible that most women prefer tall and most men prefer honkers, all we prove is the existence of people who do not fit that paradigm, too, but not in what ratio.)
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