I really don’t get the internet fixation on height. I don’t think I’ve ever heard it come up other than “wow you’re tall” or “wow you’re short” and “haha yup I am but at least I can reach the top shelf / don’t hit my head on things” like no one really cares?
A lot of women care
And women are a wide spectrum of people with different tastes. The most common thing I’ve heard is that they don’t care as long as they’re shorter than their partner. But then of course some are into tall guys, others actually don’t care at all, and some prefer the reverse.
I would go as far as saying that women care more about shorter men not having a toxic height complex than they care about actual height.
I’m 5’3 and I’ve had other dudes that are around the same height as me get pissed off and argumentative when I say that because they’re trying to pass themselves off as taller than they are (or maybe they’ve convinced themselves of that). It’s always funny to me because I’d have to be like 8" taller for it to improve anything with the people that give a shit about height. There’s no amount of lying that will cover that.
I have the opposite problem. People always insist that I’m taller than I really am because I have a long torso. I guess it lends to a better outcome in some social interactions? Maybe?
You would look higher when sitting, I guess. Not sure if it counts as a social interaction
I can tell if somebody is 2 meter tall or not, and if they are 170 or 180.
Where are all these people that roamed the earth a bunch and still can’t tell heights?
Unless you’re the same height as me, I’ll never remember how tall you are. I was mentoring some girl for half year and when she asked me to guess her height while she was sitting, I guessed ~170, turns out she was 180+.
Height just isn’t something I register about a person, and I don’t see why anyone would bother trying to remember stuff like that.
I don’t mean remembering, I mean estimating, in person.
If a person tells me they are 190 and they are actually 185 I can tell. Can’t you?
Next time someone comes up to me and says “Wow! You’re tall! How tall are you?” Imma say I’m 5’9’’ instead of the actual 6’6’’ I am.
That weird American obsession over men’s height.
Unfortunately not just America. Heightism is also prevalent in a big part of Asia.
This is most likely one of the quirks brought to you by Survival of the Fittest rule. Thanks, evolution.
Don’t blame evolution for some peoples’ short sightedness
Exists in Australia too lol
In Europe too. Pretty sure it exists everywhere, just like other beauty standards.
I’ve literally never heard of a woman talking about “I don’t date men under X height” in my entire life. Then again I’d never even talk with a woman like that in the first place.
I’ve certainly noticed the trend of smaller girls always gravitating towards taller men, but nothing so silly as “I don’t date small men”. As a small guy myself, I actually dated a few tall girls without issue, and happily married to a lady two inches taller than me.
As I always say : my height isn’t the dimension you’re gonna care about, once we are lying down.
they may not say it out loud, but I think there’s quite a few women that prefer taller men
besides, there’s nothing wrong with having such preferences, as long as you don’t denigrate the people who don’t fit your preferences
Always fun to say I’m my legal height and have guys get defensive about their height because it would mean they’re shorter than they say they are. Maybe I round down a bit?
What is a legal height?
The listed height on my driver’s license (and probably passport?).
There’s a height on your driving license?
I’ve never seen one on a passport.
Yes. Also eye color is listed (despite there being a photo, making it seem kinda unnecessary). Also technically self-reported. So my legal eye color might be different than my actual eye color.
I don’t check my passport often, so I just assumed it would have that same kind of info.
lol where do you live that this is the case?
Texas. TBF, its not like my eye color is actually totally different from my listed color.
That’s so weird, we only have a name, date & place of birth, place of residence, black & white photograph and signature.
