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u/TrojanVP 12d ago
Yall can’t even get in
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u/MysteriousTravelator 12d ago
People on the internet would hunt short dudes for sport if they could.
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u/Laprasy 12d ago
I really don’t get it. Hating on people for something they had and have no control over. It’s just insecurity.
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u/johnnygonfarm 12d ago
I literally got banned from r/short for being positive 😂 and im a 5’6 guy most of the users there are 5’8 or 5’9
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u/smellsberry 12d ago
Im 5'3" and was banned for posting about how that sub is filled with people of average height crying about being short. This comment thread is uplifting compared to that whole sub.
Pun intended
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u/2Slow2Nice 12d ago
Never heard of this sub. I’m short and the posts on that sub are cringe af. “Would you follow a 5’1 fitness influencer?” It’s sad that some people solely see themselves as being short. People are hyper focused on physical traits across the board, lookmaxers, people addicted to plastic surgery etc, but walking around feeling lesser because of your height has to be exhausting
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u/Winthefuturenow 12d ago
Since when is 5’8 short? I’m 5’8 and while I am shorter than many of my peers I also have never been called short, or felt some type of way about it unless I am struggling to see something and there’s a crowd in front of me.
Also, I get a lot of “you’re only 5’8?”. Yes, I am only 5’8. I have good posture and dress well, apparently this makes people think I’m taller than I am 🤷♀️
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u/BigBananaBerries 12d ago
It depends where you are. Go to Holland & 5'8" would be considered short. Average being 6ft. Go to the Philippines & 5'8" would be considered quite tall with the average being 5'5". Funnily, the US average height is very average at just under 5'9". Which makes the obsession with being tall quite comical.
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u/Winthefuturenow 12d ago
I’ve been to Holland and hooked up with a cop chick who was a foot taller than me (or so, that’s what it seemed like-this was 19 yrs ago mind you).I did feel short there, but it never really bothered me.
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u/BigBananaBerries 12d ago
I was there for a year myself & I'm 5'6". You do get some strange looks but even still it's rare anyone will say anything about it. I've never been to the US but most Americans I've met in person have made it a point to mention my height, be it outright mocking or just in passing. It seems the insecurity runs deep over there.
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u/why-names-hard 12d ago
Damn sounds like gotta hit up Holland if that’s where all the tall women are. I’d say I’m average height but it gets annoying when I get called short all the time. Doesn’t help that my friend group is a bunch of giants. Shortest other person is 5’11”…
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u/Dokard 12d ago
People who are chronically online think that everyone bellow 6'0 is short so idk, I'm 5'9 and never been called short
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u/Sean_Brady 12d ago
5'9"? You're short.
Got em can't say that again bro inflation's a bitch
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u/PeterAnthony_Jackson 12d ago
The suit of armour image where one for adults is listed as six foot, the one for a child is listed as five eleven, It's only one inch, but people just see the five and think the worst.
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u/Mediocre_Hockey_Guy 12d ago
Im 5'10 and the amount of 6' dudes that are shorter than me is wild. I bet most of those 5'8 guys are actually shorter. Average male height in America is 5'9
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u/AdSudden7173 12d ago
I’m 5’4” and my boyfriend is 5’6”. My ex was 6’5” and I was miserable dating someone so much taller than me. Hugs sucked. So happy with a “short” guy. He doesn’t seem that way to me at all.
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u/imthe5thking 12d ago
Isn’t 5’8 the average height for a man? The fuck are they doing in the short sub?
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u/TorrenceMightingale 12d ago
Im 5’9.5” and do not consider myself short. Not tall. Not short. I’m good with it.
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u/NoOffenseImJustSayin 12d ago
This is someone desperately trying to find ways to feel better about themselves
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u/Scudman_Alpha 12d ago
Short men are one of the few groups that it's not only acceptable to make fun of, but it's incentivized on the internet.
"Make up for your short height" is a very common statement as well as "Napoleon complex" whenever the short guy rightfully gets mad at all the mockery.
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u/Toannoat 12d ago
short or/and bald men are universally socially acceptable to mock, its not an internet thing. Not excusing it, to be clear
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u/Fliptheshoe 12d ago
First time in America huh? Lol
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u/DeficiencyOfGravitas 12d ago
Yes. This only happens in America. No where else. In glorious Europe, people are only made fun of for their chosen qualities. Skin colour? Height? Absolutely not. Europe is NEVER racist.
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u/IsThatHearsay 12d ago
I just don't get the women who have as their primary criteria that the guy must be tall. Like, if that is what matters first and foremost to you, not personality or anything, you're highly likely not to be compatible as a couple.
Why anyone would want to be with an incompatible partner with the reasoning of "well at least he's tall!" is beyond me, it's just dumb.
Also, I think I saw a stat that said guys between ages 20-50 who are single and over 6'1" make up like 2.5% of the US population, it's just such a rare metric to "require", and most girls having that requirement don't bring anything reciprocal to the table, lol.
Also, guy's perspective - I'm tall (6'5", and happily married), I would never want to date someone who is just with me for my height. I also would never want to date someone super short as that's just a pain in my back. Y'all short girls aren't really that desirable to many of us tall guys, especially with that arrogant pick-me attitude and hardset height requirement...
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u/Nemisis_007 12d ago
And bald dudes... Except r/bald they're cool.
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u/CappnMidgetSlappr 12d ago
Damn, bald dudes are being hunted?
I picked a real bad time to shine up my dome with some Turtle Wax.
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u/Mammoth-Glove3273 12d ago
No, there has never been a time in human history that it was more socially acceptable to be bald than it is right now.
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u/DaRealKovi 12d ago
Yeah, it's a fair social shift when you think about it. Most people (men at least) will eventually go bald. Might as well not make a huge deal out of it. Hair transplants are expensive as fuck and if I go bald, I'm not trying to spend thousands of dollars to pretend that I'm not balding.
Also avoids the unnecessary bullying of chemo patients as well. I know it's fairly rare, but that's a positive side effect of this social change regardless
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u/Loner2014 12d ago
If you are bald, work out. Muscle + bald is the combo.
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u/GonzoTheGregarious 12d ago
Or just stop caring about your appearance all that much, just be clean and comfortable in your own skin and you'll be attractive to someone.
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u/Average_Muffin_999 12d ago
There was a time somewhere overseas where the local population was lead to believe bald heads contained treasure, so there were numerous bald people butchered and killed for “treasure”
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u/Scampi-the-shrimp 12d ago
Somewhere in Africa, and not that long ago at all tbh, if not still
Something about if you’re bald you have gold in your skull. They also believe that the body parts of albino people are good luck (they make talismans out of people) and that sex with an albino will cure HIV, so there have been several cases of albinos being killed or brutally S/A’d
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u/ncocca 12d ago
try being short AND bald. Honestly, it hasn't affected me that much, but i've been married for 9 yrs, so why would it
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u/Sockoflegend 12d ago
Literally people treat us like we just decided to be short as if it is some moral failing I chose not to be 6'2"
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u/Dependent-Year6711 12d ago edited 12d ago
Kids and young adults are pretty brutal overall, but the thing I've noticed now the past decade is this brutal pick-apart of any feature of a person. Someone makes a post about some life advice, I scroll down, and clear pattern of absolutely unnecessary judgement on appearance comes out of nowhere.
It's beyond what it used to be, now it just seems so normalized, because the world has been raised to be sight hounds. You get people over-inflating the visual side of life to such an extent that it's worrying. It actually must cause intense anxiety with how importance has been placed on it.
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u/Michael1795 12d ago
Younger generations see random people less as people and more as objects. They have never known a world without the next source of dopamine/entertainment being a swipe away. And since the new shiny better thing is one swipe away... I might aswell bully and make fun of the person on my screen now, cause my future friends are on this next swipe.
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u/Ok-Hedgehog-4455 12d ago
I think the younger generation feel they’ve been dealt a pretty shitty hand (fairly, probably) so the only power they can exercise is picking people apart or cancelling them.
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u/CEREALBUTTMUNCHER 12d ago
This is a direct result of social media, and influencers, and glamorizing vanity.
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u/Towels_are_friends 12d ago
This just reminded me of a post I made that had my wife’s arm in the picture. About half of the replies from people were so fixated on her dry skin and her ‘man arm’ rather than the actual post. It’s like it’s all they cared about… she’s 5’4 and 120lbs… but her watch was a little tight and she doesn’t shave her arms like MAJORITY of women that I know. Instantly jumped to calling her a man and that I needed to buy her lotion.
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u/Dependent-Year6711 12d ago
We are raising absolutely surface driven kids. Not all of them, but too many. To me, I think part of it is: if I can't analyze, muse, or be as creative as others, AT LEAST I look good. So those types are going to focus far too often on looks, so much so, they don't even participate.
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u/Otherwise-Win7337 12d ago
That's exactly what I think. Complete lack of personality but hey atleast I look good that's what matters most right?
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u/FlyAirLari 12d ago
Past decade?!
You have clearly not seen schoolyard bullying in the '70s.
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u/Mother_Lead_554 12d ago
And because of that now everyone has a broccoli haircut. The times a tough
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u/fedroxx 12d ago
Meanwhile The White Death stood a daunting 5' 3".
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u/ethelosaff 12d ago
5'3" doesn't matter when you're the reason 542 are 6' under
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u/Necessary_DaNoodle 12d ago
They'd hunt anyone if they were given permission to dehumanize them, this is just a safe target, but it's superficial, I've never personally experienced real trouble with my own height in terms of meeting women or getting into any kind of relationships.
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u/Mental-Device-9546 12d ago
I'm a tall guy and was short and under weight till like my junior year. These ppl stopped talking shit when they had to look up to me. Fuck these guys. That man their probally has more skill and personality then any of them.
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u/Tripesixmafia 12d ago
You can tell he does because whomever took the picture did it out of jealousy!
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u/Creative_Garbage_121 12d ago
Irl as well, I talked with gen Z girl recently and she says that she want a guy to be tall and handsome, so being tall is totally new metric that is not included in being handsome. Also she complained that she met few guys recently but they were not tall so she is not interested and I was there like wtf and just nodding
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u/Scudman_Alpha 12d ago
That's an interesting point.
At lot of these guys who say they're married and that "you just need to be a nice person" while they're short are either: lying or they did it before height was really pushed as a dating metric. As early as 5 years ago things were really different.
Because I see it in irl too, most gen z girls I meet and try to get with are always mentioning they want tall and attractive men, as well as men that have decent jobs to provide for them.
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u/jb0nez95 12d ago
My young dude, it's always been a thing. Trust this gen X on that. Biology doesn't change in 5 years. Nothing new here except maybe more willingness to admit it.
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u/sashby138 12d ago
I will never get the whole tall thing. I’m a 5’10” woman and have never cared if someone was taller than me. It doesn’t matter even a little bit.
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u/SparkEE_JOE 12d ago
It doesn't help there's an accidental/evolved filter in place online in most dating spaces - most filter by 6ft tall since they have to pick physical preferences. Unknowingly eliminating 80% of the male population from consideration.
Of course people are entitled to their own preferences, but I think the additional filter adds another factor in play in modern dating.
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u/Long_Tie4078 12d ago
I don’t understand it. Height is not important at all. Goodness, humanity, compassion, thoughtfulness, kindness. These matter
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u/BusterGonad25 12d ago
Folks can't help their height any more than they can help their eye colour or race. Stupid thing to give someone grief for.
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u/ElectricGlider 12d ago
It doesn't help that when there are legitimate aholes, people here latch onto their short height as a way to criticize them rather than the bad behavior itself like what happened with Ken Rosenthal, the short MLB sports reporter who bumped into his cameraman but did not help him up.
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u/wild_cherry1987 12d ago
Especially when this heightism began to rise in last 5 years. It wasn't even a thing like 10 years ago. Now it's just open dehumanisation.
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u/soyboysnowflake 12d ago
Last 5 years?
Bro “tall, dark, and handsome” was a thing before most of us were alive
Tall was the first criteria
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u/Pubesauce 12d ago
Eh, as someone who was dating in the 00s, it was absolutely a thing then. And women were nasty about it. I'm not even that short either at 5'8.
The funniest incident was when I showed up to a date and the girl scrunched up her face and said "I thought your profile said you were 5'10". Literally first words out of her mouth. I never lied about my height. She just hadn't bothered to actually read my profile and was now disappointed to have to be seen in public with a guy that was 2" below her arbitrary minimum. She was like 5'4.
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u/Comfortable-Arm3452 12d ago
It’s always been a thing. It’s become a bit more mean spirited but in high school in the 80s and 90s people still got made fun of for being short and lost out on dates. Go look at old movies from the 70s and 80s and plenty of short men’s appearance is basically the punchline of a joke scene
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u/Relative-Relief-8816 12d ago
They tried it with Danny Devito but he just stole your girl.
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u/Fake-Chef 12d ago
I’m 5’6” and I promise you that it’s been a thing. I met my wife on dating apps but while I was on them there were plenty of women listing height requirements.
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u/WC_Flyer 12d ago
It absolutely was a thing 10 and 20 years ago. There’s nothing and no one more shallow about it than white women. With the possible exception of overweight white women.
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u/wild_cherry1987 12d ago
It was but absolutely not to this degree. If you were same height it wasn't a problem. Now all the midgets deciding they are not settling with someone below 6"
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u/Pastaiscool123 12d ago
Downvoting for telling facts. Heightism has never been worse, social media blew it way out of proportion.
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u/Nulleparttousjours 12d ago
Suggesting short guys had a “Napoleonic complex” was always a thing but it absolutely ramped up to ridiculous proportions as dating apps grew I would say.
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u/DocFungal 12d ago
I'm 40, and about 5"5, heightism is actually at it's lowest in the last 4 decades, still too much of it though. The "woke culture" of being more thoughtful about poor treatment of people for things they can't control has progressed a lot in my experience the last ten years.
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u/Mountain-Alarm-477 12d ago
People are awful
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u/hamarok 12d ago
Bro I used to have a friend that would constantly take pictures of people without them knowing, I never entertained this and would always scold him, wtf, imagine walking around and now you have to worry about people making fun of you behind your back and you pictures circling around some chat thread...
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u/diurnal_emissions 12d ago
We used to call people like your friend perverts.
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u/External-Repair-8580 12d ago
True. And the obsession that younger people have with height is incredible.
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u/sorry_con_excuse_me 12d ago edited 12d ago
There is something really funny to me being an “unc” who’s short as hell yet has been in more relationships by 30 than these people lol.
Such weirdass seething. That redpill/incel shit has really breached containment.
Like I’m not even trying to brag, I’m a terrible catch (nobody over 30 would date me unless they also have a ton of baggage); it’s just like, come back to reality man.
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u/That_Jicama2024 12d ago
The funniest part is 90% of people who are 5'7" - 5'11" all say they're 6'1" because the four foot tall women who "only date guys over 6 feet" can't tell from down there anyway.
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u/saturday-project 12d ago
If 5'7 passes for 6'0, I have a lot of profiles to update
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u/Lazy-Substance-5062 12d ago
Height, face card is the currency for the new generation.
With millenials and gen X it’s always the wealth and bank account lol
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u/Oops_All_Bans 12d ago
Lol not true at all. I'm a millennial who was regularly broke and I had no problem getting women. My partner makes more than me and neither of us give a shit about it. Not everyone is as shallow as media would like you to believe.
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u/its_all_one_electron 12d ago
People want to feel better about themselves by putting others down
Putting people down should be seen as an act of desperation. "Look look I'm better than this guy, please validate me so I don't feel so bad about myself."
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u/Impossible_Offer7988 12d ago
Reminds me of this meme
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u/a_of_x 12d ago
At 5 6 I'm glad I never fell for this tall man BS. I am only inconvenienced at reaching the top shelf.
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u/TheScrote1 12d ago
I’m 5’7” and never had an issue when it came to girlfriends, but when I was partying in college I wasn’t ever super successful at the casual thing, which always bummed me out. Women have really high physical standards unless you are willing to commit (or lie).
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u/sixth_hokage06 12d ago
Even when short men are just chilling, people still make comments
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u/HometownShowman 12d ago
He’s got a decent sense of fashion, looks like he’s in great shape and has a fresh haircut. He’s also got the confidence to talk to women in the first place, bro is just fine.
I’m going to give the benefit of the doubt and say that the person who took a picture here is one of his friends trying to gas him up or inspire other people, because that’s the most reasonable assumption to make without rushing to call the camera guy a creepy weirdo
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u/tobaknowsss 12d ago edited 12d ago
Growing up I had a really good friend at the cottage who was always such great energy and full of life and laughter. Unfortunately he was very small, but he was my friend and that never really mattered to me. However I knew it really had an effect on him and I could see it eat away at him. At 20 he was 5'5 and this lead to a ton of cruel treatment in college (oddly enough a lot of it was from women) and a lot of self confidence issues. He took his own life on his 25 birthday. I have a feeling he just couldn't take all the cruelty the world threw at him because of something he had no control over.
People can be heartless.
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u/Illustrious_Date8697 12d ago
Some people have a weird obsession with height and its ingrained from a young age.
Im 5'4 and my wife is roughly the same height, one day we were walking and we overheard some teenage girls saying something to the effect of "see, I could never, my man has to be alot taller".
This has to be some chronically online disease.
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u/Mikemtb09 12d ago
You aren’t wrong, but it makes it easy to weed out the shallow.
They’d leave (or cheat) as soon as their bf/husband lost his hair, his job, or gained weight and often won’t hold themselves to the same physical standards when their metabolism slows down too.
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u/Nucleartides 12d ago
I’m 30 but yea imo it’s definitely a chronically online thing. I’m part of the first generation of people who utilized the “swiping for dating” thing and I think it negatively impacted the youth people my age and younger. Basically those first initial stats are really all most people look at and number one is always height for the guys. I know tons of women who if they saw a dating profile would never swipe for a guy who was under 6’. Yet when out at a bar, in the real world, would have no problem talking to or even eventually dating shorter. My point in the funny-ness of it is how these apps have created a false sense of standards. Like when you’re setting your parameters for potential partners in the apps, you hold yourself to these strange metrics that you don’t even really care about in practice. So now you have people saying “I’d NEVER date a man under 6’” or “I’d NEVER date a woman over 5’10”” cause that’s what they told tinder. But in reality, there’s probably loads of men and women outside of those parameters they would actually date. So you end up with teenage girls who have normalized saying “I would never date a shorter man”. It’s normalized because they told the app that. Obviously if you have a standard there’s nothing wrong with that, I just think the normalization of shopping for partners has led us to create standards that we don’t even really care about.
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u/Z0idberg_MD 12d ago
I don’t think I will ever understand that. It’s like people who make these comments jokes in high school continue to make them until they’re in their 50s etc.
I’m average height so I’m not sensitive about this at all and IDGAF, but being tall seems like a massive annoyance and disadvantage to me. Statistically taller man live shorter lives, and every piece of structural engineering in our world is designed to be too small for their stature.
None of it makes sense.
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u/Intelligent_Box_8247 12d ago
the guy is making moves while haters be watching on the sideline..
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u/Weekly_Towel_8247 12d ago
I miss the days when we can go outside and not worry about being filmed, let the man enjoy his time in peace.
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u/firefly081 12d ago
Aye. Growing up in the 90s/early 2000s was ideal, we had access to cool new tech but didn't have the dumb shit we did posted across the internet.
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u/Flipflopsfordays 12d ago
I had a very close childhood friend whose growth was stunted by chemo. I’d have much rather seen him talking to people than dead at 18.
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u/nobolognastoney 12d ago
I had a 5'9 girlfriend once. I am 5'4, 5'5 on a good day. 6ft if I spike my hair though.
No but really, confidence and charisma will literally make you the size of Shaq.
Besides, we're all the same size while doing the no-pants dance 😂
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u/Used-Baby1199 12d ago
Nah, you’re taller during the no pants dance I bet. I’m tall, but it’s small
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u/NoOffenseImJustSayin 12d ago
That’s fkd up. None of us change how tall we are. Whoever wrote this has some serious confidence and maturity issues.
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u/Lebensfreud 12d ago
It's weird how normalised it has become to just take pictures of strangers and post them online.
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u/Less-Practice1247 12d ago
Funny how it is. Don t pick on fat people who overeat with no self control. But make fun or talk shit about someone who has no choice of how they look.
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u/RetnikLevaw 12d ago
I'm exactly 6' without shoes on, and I know two guys who are under 5'5".
Both of them are married and have children.
One of them (my best man) is married to a woman that's almost as tall as I am.
Usually when people are hyper-aware of some physical trait, they focus on it and it becomes their entire personality. They assume other people care about it way more than they really do, so any perceived sleight is taken as a confirmation that the other person is focusing on that trait and judging them for it. This makes them bitter, and bitterness is something that other people will focus on and will judge you for.
It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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u/Sean_Brady 12d ago
Ok but this picture?? Like someone took a picture of this guy specifically to post it online and make fun of his height?? Maybe it's not all in his head and actually is reality, people ARE focusing on this trait and ARE judging him for it and trying to claim it's "all in their head" is actually complete bullshit to make yourself feel better?
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u/ChuckaChuckaLooLoo3 12d ago
Five foot 6 inches here. Never had a problem with it, never lost out on a job because of it, have had multiple partners in my life, zero issues due to my height. I never get approached by assholes trying to pick a fight, either. Comes in very handy. Just depends on how well-adjusted you are to reality. I can't change it and wouldn't change it because I like who I am. BTW, there are MANY short women out there for us and guess what? When we dance we're eye to eye. Wouldn't have it any other way.
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u/SleepingRock13 12d ago
I’m also 5’6” and so is my wife. It’s amazing being the same height, it does pose some challenges at times but over all is way better than if we were different heights.
Bonus it feels just as comfortable being big or little spoon.
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u/Bigboss123199 12d ago
Nah, people are just assholes to short guys for no reason. You either learn to laugh it off or let it get to you. People that let it get to them get depressed or angry.
Heightism is the most common discrimination cause it’s social acceptable. There plenty of studies tracking how the gap between how tall men and short men are treated.
The gap between a tall man and short man is larger than the gap between a white man and a black woman.
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u/Shadowtirs 12d ago
Remember, women are queens no matter what size or shapes.
But short guys? Fuuuuuuuuuck them!
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u/GoblinWrangl3r 12d ago
I feel like on avg ppl see height. Im tall and i never feel taller than others. Its hard to explain but i feel on the same eye level as everyone else
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u/MediocreAnalyst2121 12d ago
Same here, I’m quite tall and the only time I’m thinking of people’s height is when someone brings it up. Not really something I consider.
Maybe it’s the same logic as well-off/rich people not looking at prices when they shop.
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u/OnMyNerves23 12d ago edited 12d ago
I’m average height of 6’1 and my wife is tall for a woman at 6’0 and I often think how tall she is but,
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u/useful_tool30 12d ago
A guy who self nicknames himself "chud" is all I need to know about what kinda guy he is
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u/Key-Proud 12d ago
You dont understand how many taller dudes try to belittle me or attempt to steal the girl I am with ... to justify their lack of action.
- they are like suicide bombers ... if they cant get girls no one can.
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u/basecoin_ 12d ago
Clearly their height don't make up for their fragile ego. How tall are you btw?
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u/mariposa-princess 12d ago
I was at a bar with my fiancé and some friends. While my fiancé was in the bathroom I was talking to our friend who’s. 5’6” guy. Some 6’5” guy walked in between us to start talking to me and my friend told him to move and that I’m not interested. I agreed and told him to leave me alone. The other dude put his hand on my friends shoulder and goes “I’ve got a foot on you bro” and walked off tail between his legs
He was so ass mad
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u/Key-Proud 12d ago
I call that the eclipse. Happens to me so many times.
One time ... tall dude would literally get in-between me and my girl using his body to block me. I would be in complete shock. My girl would be scared and eyeing me how awkward she feels. My girl is paralyzed for a moment to do anything because she is also shock. Tall guy buys her a drink. So I then I grab my girl's hand and walk away with her.
- lol ... guy was stunned ... my girl gave me the drink and I say thanks to the guy as we walk away.
- not sure why these guys think that will work.
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u/TurquoiseKnight 12d ago
I knew a 5' 2" guy in college. Premed. Always wore a shirt and tie, always looked well put together. He was average looking but he could talk almost any girl into getting a date. Id regularly see him with girls pushing 6'. It was impressive to watch.
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u/rebels-rage 12d ago
This dude looks like my buddy from high school but older. If it is him, he’s talking about science and is unaware that the girl is trying to fuck him.
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u/TooManyUsernamesHelp 12d ago
All I’m saying is happy people in relationships don’t do shit like this. Leave people alone good lord
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u/jacorgacor 12d ago
Genuienly why are they shaming him is he supposed to search only for women shorter than him and walk away as soon as there's a taller man in the vicinity 😭
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u/BatLegitimate8140 11d ago
I care more about the fact the chick is wearing a denim skirt and Uggs. Was this picture taken in 2006?
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u/dvdmaven 12d ago
A guy I was in ROTC with was barely 5'2", the legal minimum to get a scholarship. Jim never lacked for female company. I remember on party where a heated discussion resulted in a woman saying, "Bite my a$$" His response was, "Drop trow." She did, he did, they left together.
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u/Crafty_Lavishness_79 12d ago
I have never turned down a guy for being short, I have turned down a guy for being a deeply insecure and aggressive weirdo
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u/thack1_mcl 12d ago
There’s a guy in my neighborhood who looks just like this. He’s made himself wealthy with a business he started, married a 5’10” hottie and has very normal appearing kids. This dudes gonna be alright
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u/Hungry_Bluebird_4734 12d ago
You see them all the time. Big buff good looking guys standing to the side thinking women will just throw themselves at them.
They can’t hide that they don’t have the confidence to approach or have any faith in their own personality.
Which is why they get jealous of someone that looks worse than them (in their opinion) having the confidence to do things they won’t.
For the same reason they won’t approach women. Is why women won’t approach them.
Except with women. They can get away with having a shit personality because confident men will make up the difference. Women often won’t bother since they have more options.
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u/NonsensePlanet 12d ago
Being a social butterfly doesn’t mean you have a great personality, and vice versa
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u/CampaignHaunting7350 12d ago
Shorter men have dense masculinity lol all their testosterone just packed in there❤️
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u/BasicDecision 12d ago edited 12d ago
Do many women have a preference for taller guys? Yes
Does that mean it’s difficult for an otherwise well put together man who is on the shorter side to get interest from women? No
Lots of men who haven’t developed any social skills like to pretend like it’s superficial women rejecting them because they aren’t 6’2”. When in reality they get rejected because their personalities repulse women.
Edit: a few short guys below mad at the suggestion that there might be more than their lack of height to blame for women not being into them. Not hard to understand why women aren’t into them based on how they’re responding.
Edit 2: quite sad how many commenters below have clearly given up and resigned themselves to the belief women could never have any interest in them because they’re short. Lots of projection about some guys being born in a body that gives them an advantage, a pity party isn’t going to do anything other than warp your minds further and make it even less likely a woman would consider dating you.
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u/mattmaintenance 12d ago
My dad is 5’ 6” he has never had a problem pulling women when he wasn’t married.
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u/Duck_on_Qwack 12d ago
Meanwhile I'm 6'2 with no self confidence or game
Height isn't some secret cheat code to life ...
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u/TheFBIClonesPeople 12d ago
Well, don't invalidate short men who tell you it does make it hard for them to date.
Lots of women like to pretend that women are these perfectly unshallow beings, so if a man has a hard time dating, it has to be because of his awful personality. It's really unfair that men always have to be the bad guys, so any man who has a hard time dating has to be a repulsive incel. It's not true, and it's honestly sexist. Women have toxic dating practices just like men do.
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u/Spinal_Soup 12d ago
If some women are rejecting you it might be because of your height. If every single woman is rejecting you then it’s probably your personality. I’ve never seen anyone make the claim that no women are shallow, but there’s certainly a lot that aren’t. And if every woman is rejecting you, it’s not because every one you come across has shallow reasons.
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u/AlreadyAway 12d ago
You are 100% right. I'm 5'6" and before I met my wife, I use to date regularly because I learned to talk to people, not just women. It helps being raised by a single mother and having an older sister. I've always been more comfortable around women and just treat them like humans, which shouldn't be a novel concept.
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u/Guilty-Cow4325 12d ago
Us short kings do a lot better than people realize or would expect. All about confidence.
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