dang!!
gettin' in on this "short hair, don't care" game..

Right, because there are definitely no tall, bearded men out there.

Because on the other side, they're conditioned that being shorter than a woman is a sign of inferiority.

But it's the same thing. Whether you want him to make you feel petite or you don't want to seem gigantic compared to him, it's the same motivation. Why should his height matter, unless the difference makes things difficult, like kissing? (I always shake my head when i see a couple where the lady is like 5'2" and the…

I've read that, too. For me it would be so unlikely to find someone tall enough for me to relate to that way that I've never, uh, cultivated that sort of response. I did go on a date with a guy who was 6'7" and frankly, I found it strangely uncomfortable to constantly talk up and lean up and kiss up. I pretty much…

i said this elsewhere - but its more about women feeling self-conscious about THEIR size so wanting to be dwarfed by a man than about just preferring tall men. maybe not MORE but it plays a big role.

the height thing is this - most people lie about their height. so if you say you're 5'10, you're probably 5' 7. so if a guy says he's 5'9, he's probably 5'6 - which is fine but most women want a man taller and bigger than they are. it all part and parcel of the same problem with beauty - women are self-conscious about…

Same here. I've only dated one person who was significantly taller than me, and tbh I found it pretty weird. In the UK the average height of a woman is between 5 foot 3 and 5 foot 4. I'm 5 foot nine, which is the average height of a man.

No more or less shallow.

Yeah, it's a matter of insecurity. Dudes and ladies do it to prove to themselves they deserve the hottest person they can find as a method of compensation.

To be fair, the practice of saying "I can't find a man attractive unless he's over 6 ft" sounds just as silly as whatever arbitrary measures dudes will impose on women. Online dating just magnifies it 1000% because it's basically shopping for someone using mailorder catalogs. There's always someone else, so why settle…

This is a discussion of systemic inequalities. It's not that men go out LOOKING for a domestically imbalanced partnership, but that's what they traditionally GET and benefit from, whether anyone wants it or not. And, by extension, that's how a lot of people (men and women!) unconsciously expect their relationships to…

"I've heard too many horror stories from my single friends about guys lying through their teeth on their dating profiles."

Nah... women are much bigger on the height thing than men are in my experience.

Back in the day when I was on Match.com, I listed myself as a grad student. For a while I changed it to law student (which had the bonus of being the truth) and I got responses to damn near anything I sent out and numerous emails. I changed it back to grad student figuring I'd probably like women who responded to…

If I received that, I would have responded... "And what about General Motors? Did you want to discuss their bailout? Are you for or against it?"

Oh yeah... I knew about that for years. Women are great about Talking about how they want 'something more' than something physical... but when it gets right down to it, they're no more or less superficial than men.

Yeah, the height thing isn't too surprising, but sorry dude, you just look way better with a beard than without one. And I'm guessing your beard isn't a gross scraggly one.

The height thing is one of my biggest pet peeves. "Message me if, you're funny, intelligent, a good human being, and tall." Wait, wtf, shortness became a negative character trait?

Whatever. Tall people die sooner.