I have dated short and tall over the years, and I do prefer shorter guys. I am 5’3", and I guess they are a better “match.”
I ended up marrying a 6’2" guy, though, so even though I like the smaller guys, maybe I really do choose a taller guy for “breeding” purposes. Or maybe the guy I liked just happened to be tall.
I have heard about taller men earning more money also. Unfortunately, my tall husband is a public school teacher. so his income is pretty much fixed. Boo hoo.
I don’t care one way or the other. I am 5’11" and have liked guys as short as 5’4" and as tall as 6’1". Its whats inside that counts.
It’s not the height that matters, it’s the size of the heart…
Life is like a river, changing as it flows…
I like tall guys. I can’t decide if it’s some genetic quirk or because the men in my family are tall and I imprinted on their heighth (sp?) like a duckling.
The shortest guy I’ve dated was 5’8". The tallest was 6’5". It’s not a concious decision I make. I just tend to be drawn to the big ones.
OK, I’ve gotta step in.
I’m seeing a lot of “it’s the inside that really matters” sort of posts. I understand that; I really do. What I’m asking, though, is if two guys, one average height and one tall both had that good heart (or that sense of humor, or whatever), which would you choose?
The key phrase here is “all other things being equal.”
Thanks for your responses!
With everything else being equal, I would choose the tall guy. It is very sexy to be with someone who is way bigger than I am. (5’ 2", btw) Tall guys give me the feeling of protection and safety.
With everything else being equal, I would choose the tall guy. It is very sexy to be with someone who is way bigger than I am. (5’ 2", btw) Tall guys give me the feeling of protection and safety.
Well, I can’t speak for the women, but being tall myself, I prefer to be with someone else who’s tall.
You know, I’m 6’4". Without exception, every woman I’ve ever dated has been between 5’2" and 5’6".
'Cept for that one girl who was over 6 feet tall. I was perpetually drunk at the time, and didn’t realize that she actually did like me. Drat!
And, for the record, my wife (5’4") states that although she likes her men taller than herself, she would prefer I lop off a couple inches. Of height, that is.
OK, the tally so far:
Prefer the taller man: 11
Prefer the shorter/average man: 4
No preference: 4
Caveat: some of the responses were a bit hard to categorize (and my question itself may have been a bit unclear) but the above is my best interprestation of the results.
It’s a small sample, but there does appear to be a preference, on average, for tall men. Given a few millenia, we may yet become a race of giants…
Possibly. But if women are selecting for taller men, while men are selecting for shorter women, we might end up with sexual dimorphism (one gender being much taller than the other) instead of a race of giants.
TMR
If you believed in yourself, and tore enough holes
in your pants, there was always a mist-filled alley
right around the corner.
I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and gosh darnit, people like me.
—Stuart Smalley
I’m a 6’3" male. For the past 15 years my SOs have been around 5’2". Just to clarify, there are no “logistical” problems. The uh, configuration… to which we have been alluding is not a problem, believe me. Besides, there are many OTHER configurations upon which height has no bearing.
Having said that, I did not seek out small women. To be honest, they sought me out. I don’t know how far that goes to upholding the hypothesis here, though.
Forgot to mention this before:
I’m 6’1" and every woman I’ve been in a relationship with has been in the 5’4"-5’8" range.
TMR
If you believed in yourself, and tore enough holes
in your pants, there was always a mist-filled alley
right around the corner.
I saw a show on tv about this very subject. It was within the last year and was on a 60 minutes type of show. Unfortunately, I cannot remember what show it was.
A male professor at a University (he was short) ran an experiment to test if women preferred taller men. The experiment consisted of him lining up four men. Two were tall, one average, and one short (about 5’4"). Woman were randomly picked and asked which man they would most like to date.
One tall man was attractive as was the shortest man. The other two were average looking.
The professor gave a description of each man beforehand and from the descriptions the woman picked who they would most like to date. Then they got to see the men from behind a curtain and change their answer if they wanted.
At the beginning, one tall man and the shortest man were described as successful, the other two average. The women were pretty evenly split between the men until they saw them. Then almost every woman chose the tall man. As the experiment went on, the description of the short man was made better and better and the three other men’s descriptions were made worse. At the end the shortest man was described as a surgeon who loves to cook and the other three men were described with low paying jobs. The vast majority of the woman still did not pick the short man!
I don’t know what kind of sampling was done for this study, but I found the results interesting.
Does anybody else remember this show??
“It’s like banging your head against a wall because it feels so good when you stop.”
I saw a show on tv about this very subject. It was within the last year and was on a 60 minutes type of show. Unfortunately, I cannot remember what show it was.
A male professor at a University (he was short) ran an experiment to test if women preferred taller men. The experiment consisted of him lining up four men. Two were tall, one average, and one short (about 5’4"). Woman were randomly picked and asked which man they would most like to date.
One tall man was attractive as was the shortest man. The other two were average looking.
The professor gave a description of each man beforehand and from the descriptions the woman picked who they would most like to date. Then they got to see the men from behind a curtain and change their answer if they wanted.
At the beginning, one tall man and the shortest man were described as successful, the other two average. The women were pretty evenly split between the men until they saw them. Then almost every woman chose the tall man. As the experiment went on, the description of the short man was made better and better and the three other men’s descriptions were made worse. At the end the shortest man was described as a surgeon who loves to cook and the other three men were described with low paying jobs and no ambition. Almost all of the women picked the short man from description alone, but when they saw him the vast majority of the woman switched to one of the taller men!
I don’t know what kind of sampling was done for this study, but I found the results interesting.
Does anybody else remember this show??
I have had several friends who were handsome, smart, and with great personalities. Every single one of them had trouble meeting women because they were short.
“It’s like banging your head against a wall because it feels so good when you stop.”
DAMN!!!
Sorry about the double post.
*%%# bulletin board!
“It’s like banging your head against a wall because it feels so good when you stop.”
Swimmingriddles:
It seems to me that this is an inherently submissive fairy tale.
Wendall, I just wantd to say that my SO is 4’11", and we are probably the happiest couple I know personally. It dosen’t really solve any problems for you, but I thought you might want to know that some women–absolutly fantastic women in my case :)-- have better sense than to discount a man because of such a silly thing. On the same note, I have friends, male and female, who are physically as average in every respect as a person could be, but who get the exact same treatment–people look to them only as potential friends. I had that problem in spades before I met my SO. I don’t know what the solution might be, except for patience, which sucks. And a certain amount of derision for the snooty bitches who don’t know what they are missing.
As to the OP, all things being equal I like average men, about my hieght. To tall and they are seeing the world too differently from me.
I’m six feet tall (and was, up until TopazAntares showed up, the tallest female poster. Where’s Procrustes when you need him?), and I have never dated anyone taller than 5 foot 6. Personal preference? No, it’s just the way it worked out. I have always wondered what it would be like to not have to look down at my SO, though…
Here lies Pierre de Fermat. Unfortunately, there is not enough room on this tombstone for a proper epitaph.