Ideal height for a guy

[greenpapayas]

Originally Posted by lovesMountains

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Another reality we all need to face - discrimination exists EVERYWHERE.

That doesn't make it right, it just is what it is - we ALL face it in one form or another.

My point is, if a shorter man feels he has been discriminated against by a woman, he should consider himself as having dodged a bullet when she rejects him, because SHE isn't worth HIS time - she is a very shallow person, someone no good man would want anyway.

In life you can play a victim, or just learn to live your life to the fullest

Thank you for the counsel but I really don't need it. No one's crying here about the world being not fair and stuff, and also I never said women were wrong for preferring taller men over shorter men, I just said that's how things are and better to accept them for how they are.

Also, a lot of quality women do reject men for being shorter than their preferred height, I don't necessarily think about it as dodging a bullet because a lot of them are beautiful in every sense of the word, it's just that they have wider choice and so they tend to go with what they perceive as the best. I have however decided to go for leg lengthening and add 4" to my height, so I would not be discriminated for a lack of height in the future.

[Prince_Frog]

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Well call me clueless because I'm an average joe who's dated women taller than I am.

You won't get my secrets though. They're damn good secrets!

I don't care if the woman I'm interested in wants to date someone who's a few inches taller than I. I'll show her that her height preference doesn't mean jack in the real world.

If you do not show confidence, you will not get dates with ANY woman.

[greenpapayas]

Originally Posted by Prince_Frog

Well call me clueless because I'm an average joe who's dated women taller than I am.

You won't get my secrets though. They're damn good secrets!

I don't care if the woman I'm interested in wants to date someone who's a few inches taller than I. I'll show her that her height preference doesn't mean jack in the real world.

If you do not show confidence, you will not get dates with ANY woman.

You might go and take a look at one of my earlier postings about how I dated a woman who was 6', in fact she was the last one I dated which was 2 months ago, so please keep your secrets to yourself.

However, unlike you I respect a woman's preference for dating a taller man than I and I don't necessarily go around showing her why she has to date me etc etc.

As for confidence, although it does matter to a great deal, there's nothing even a confident person can do online when he's filtered out for being less than a particular height. So confidence only mostly matters in real life situations, not so much online.

[Info Guy]

What if the guy is like 7'5"?

[MariaKintobor]

Originally Posted by Info Guy

What if the guy is like 7'5"?

That falls into giantism and is a serious illness. Custom made clothes, special seats, barely able to fit into a car if you remove a seat, unable to find proper toothbrushes for the size of their teeth ect.

Height can be a real burden too. Just like being extremely short i.e. dwarfism can.

[greenpapayas]

Originally Posted by Info Guy

What if the guy is like 7'5"?

That's hardly ideal, and people who suffer from gigantism die very early as their body can't sustain the toll gravity puts on their muscles, bones, etc. Sad life.

[JetJockey]

Originally Posted by greenpapayas

You might go and take a look at one of my earlier postings about how I dated a woman who was 6', in fact she was the last one I dated which was 2 months ago, so please keep your secrets to yourself.

However, unlike you I respect a woman's preference for dating a taller man than I and I don't necessarily go around showing her why she has to date me etc etc.

As for confidence, although it does matter to a great deal, there's nothing even a confident person can do online when he's filtered out for being less than a particular height. So confidence only mostly matters in real life situations, not so much online.

And out of curiosity, what happened to that 6' woman?

I've dated plenty of shorter men and I would absolutely LOVE to go out with the 5'7ish guy I have a crush on, but he wont' give me the time of day.

Men don't like 'big' girls and I'm a big girl, and I've actually had men tell me to my face that they would never date me because of how tall I am. Hell, I had a guy who was almost 8 inches taller than me tell me that! I get poked fun at all the time (apparently, it's perfectly okay to make fun of a woman because she's tall) and it really can be a pain in the rear to be a really tall woman that isn't built like a supermodel. When men say they don't mind tall women, they think of the ultra slim, tall, willowy model types, not average women who happen to be 6' tall. I'm not Heidi Klum, I never will be.

That's actually a big problem I had with online dating. I look perfectly normal when I'm by myself in a picture, but next to girls who are 5'6 I look like a huge fat giant. I cried when I saw myself in my best friends wedding pictures. I looked fantastic in pictures by myself, but in the bridal party pictures I looked like a huge cow compared to the 5' tall 100 lb bridesmaids.

People have preferences, most guys don't like tall girls, most girls don't like short guys. I'm over it.

[greenpapayas]

Originally Posted by JetJockey

And out of curiosity, what happened to that 6' woman?

I've dated plenty of shorter men and I would absolutely LOVE to go out with the 5'7ish guy I have a crush on, but he wont' give me the time of day.

Men don't like 'big' girls and I'm a big girl, and I've actually had men tell me to my face that they would never date me because of how tall I am. Hell, I had a guy who was almost 8 inches taller than me tell me that! I get poked fun at all the time (apparently, it's perfectly okay to make fun of a woman because she's tall) and it really can be a pain in the rear to be a really tall woman that isn't built like a supermodel. When men say they don't mind tall women, they think of the ultra slim, tall, willowy model types, not average women who happen to be 6' tall. I'm not Heidi Klum, I never will be.

That's actually a big problem I had with online dating. I look perfectly normal when I'm by myself in a picture, but next to girls who are 5'6 I look like a huge fat giant. I cried when I saw myself in my best friends wedding pictures. I looked fantastic in pictures by myself, but in the bridal party pictures I looked like a huge cow compared to the 5' tall 100 lb bridesmaids.

People have preferences, most guys don't like tall girls, most girls don't like short guys. I'm over it.

Hey Jet, the 6' woman was when I was in a different city as I recently moved to this place, so it ended quite prematurely as neither she nor do I believe in long distance relationships.

Coming to what you said, some men do refuse to go out with a taller woman as they are intimidated, even a lot of taller men are intimidated for some reason by taller women. However, I have always liked taller women over the shorter ones and would never mind asking one out, I have actually sent messages to a lot of them online but most of the taller women reject me often stating that they are only looking for taller men themselves. So I guess it goes both ways, however, I think the proportion of taller women who won't date men shorter than they are is much higher than men who won't date women that are much taller than them.

Btw, why would you feel you are fat next to a tiny woman? If you are fat in reality, you could cut down your weight by a change of diet and workout right.