Yes. 31, employed with a decent job, living on my own, have my own vehicle. I have definitely been rejected for not being tall enough (and being told so).

Alien is the prime example of a good outcome for this sort of thing. Many roles are percieved as written “white male” but are actually gender/ethnicity neutral roles, because aside from the character’s name and the biases of the director/writer/casting agent there isn’t a thing about them that requires them to be…

I’ve seen those arguments and agree. Many of them don’t recognize that they’re being influenced by the culture around them.

I too found that statement suspect.

I’m a short guy who’s very broad in the shoulders and chest - think Gimli from Lord of the Rings and you’ll get a good idea of my body type. I’m also overweight (which I am working on), balding (which I have no control over, though I do keep my hair trimmed close) and rejection comes constantly. Sometimes for no…

I suppose I’m an exception then. I’ll date women of any height/weight if they’re interested and interesting to me.

Interesting that you throw some traits together, as if they should go together (they don’t). I mean for me, the “short dude who didn’t have a job or prospects for the future” the bad part would be the didn’t have a job or prospects for the future not that he was short. I’ve been rejected because I was short, but I…

There’s been some talk in my family about this - my uncle married a Mexican woman. She just got her Canadian citizenship today through marriage to my uncle.

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You have scientific studies to back up your assertion?

Assumptions lead to strange arguments.

Ah, I should have been more clear - I look for women who, for instance, enjoy science fiction or fantasy, or read lots of books, or like any of a variety of things I do. I’m not looking for someone exactly like me, or someone who I’m going to get along with 100% of the time because we like exactly the same things.

Sometimes I feel like people telling me “you’d make a great boyfriend” is just blowing smoke up my ass, but other times I’m certain I would. Many of my women friends say they consider me a close friend and a great person who deserves a great person, and I waffle between believing them and believing they’re deluded or…

There is. I’m one of them. I’m overweight myself. I’ve dated across the weight spectrum.

Don’t use BMI. Ever. It’s a bullshit measurement meant for looking at large populations, not a single person.

There’s this weird standard for on-screen relationships that bleeds out into our everyday lives: that if one person is a certain level of culturally-determined hotness, their partner should be equally hot. That a “10″ should only date other “10s,” as it were. This is not how attraction works. And the unfortunate…

Judge’s reaction, gross. These girls? Pure gold, and I love the band name.

Jesus Christ Pose is a little more on topic.

That’s the little sexy moment just before he shoots Greedo under the table.

Oh good! The CPAP machine has helped me immensely. I don’t need caffeine at all some days, where before I was basically downing as much as I could get my hands on just to be able to function.