No. I don’t find many shallow preferences for dating/sexual partners ‘creepy’ or inappropriate. That might be because I have quite a few of my own (I am a woman - and I am not attracted to tall guys, to name just one item on my long list of utterly shallow deal-breakers. More than 5" above my average 65" is a big turn-off).
Exactly.
I myself generally prefer shorter women, with the exception of women who have really long legs and know how to use them.
I ALWAYS dated tall slim girls for YEARS. I ended up marrying a wonderful women who is 5 foot tall. I’m 6 foot tall. You fall in love with whoever you fall in love with. 
I’m 5’11" and I love petite women. Most of my serious relationships have been with women at least 6 inches shorter than me. They’re cute. I like cute. It has nothing to do with domination (not my thing at all), I just find smaller women attractive. It’s probably a bit of a learned preference, anyway: I’ve had good experiences with smaller women. I kind of associate “petite” with “nice”.
I’ve never ruled out anyone based on that, though, and have had a couple of girlfriends around the same height as me. I don’t find tall women unattractive, by any means, it certainly isn’t a deal-breaker for me.
Physical type is only important enough to sort women into the categories of “I could be interested in that” or “not for me, thanks”, and height really doesn’t have much impact on that. I’m not that picky.
I wonder if I was ever rejected because of being too tall. I know my first husband was insecure about it in college because he griped about me wearing heels to a dance. (I ignored him.)
My husband says that he always thought he preferred short women … until he met me. I told him he should have been looking straight ahead of him the whole time.
Ellen, 5’9"
Found yourself in the midst of a pack of amazons, eh? 
5’8" is short! I have 7 inches on ya!
Personally, I’m not a fan of the 5 foot nothing girls. I always feel like I’ll break em, and the extreme height differential makes walking together, holding hands, etc, a very big nuisance. Also, I have a propensity for picking them up when hugging them, which annoys some. Sorry, but bending that far over is very uncomfortable! 
No, I don’t think it’s creepy. It is a bit shortsighted, though.
Very punny.
Well, ***only ***liking any particular sort is vaguely creepy, inasmuch as it suggests a certain level of fetishism. I mean, if given the choice between a fabulous woman who’s 5’7" and a screeching harpy who’s 5’2", choosing the latter based solely on her height is creepy. For that matter, absent the choice of the former, being with the latter based solely on her height is still creepy.
Preferences, on the other hand, are normal, if not generally very rational.
I think the thread title pretty clearly offers an opinion. Why else would you use the loaded term “vaguely creepy”?
Why not ask if it’s totally hot that a guy only likes women who are significantly shorter than he is?
Not any more than if part of it is “huge boobs”, so long as he is reasonable about it. I don’t think I need to come up with examples of what’s reasonable and not, plus the reasonableness limits change from person to person.
And how are you doing?
As a very tall man - 6’4" - I find it really difficult with women because they are so much smaller. I mean, many women don’t clear my chin, which makes close conversation a literal pain in the neck for both of us. With a tall woman, we’re talking face to face. And a tall woman is a much better fit for dancing as the strides match much more closely.
It’s only vaguely creepy if he also wants her to call him Daddy, and never his name.
Yeah. I’m 6’1", and my wife is about 5’10". I like tall women, though not as any major preference.
During my life, I have dated women who ranged from a couple of inches taller than me to nearly a foot shorter than me. They were all wonderful.
SWMBO is about 5 inches shorter: 5’7" and change to my 6’0".
I gotta kind of wonder about people who spend their lives trying to shoehorn people into various forms of creepy. Those people seriously need to get lives.
I totally agree, if by “nuisance” you mean “fun.” Lately I’ve been seeing someone who claims to be 5 feet tall. Yeah, if she’s standing on her toes. On a stack of phone books. I have to bend waaaay over to kiss her. Far from being a chore, I love it. God, that woman puts a smile on my face!
I have to agree. Having a preference is one thing, being fanatical about it makes it weird. I like short women, but my last girlfriend was about 5’ 10 or a little more.
On the plus side, everything tends to match up pretty well once you get horizontal.
Nope, I don’t think it’s creepy. Why not? I suppose because it seems like a fairly common thing to me. Guys tend to like women who are shorter than they are, and as stated already, the common height difference between men and women is about 5.5in.
And on the flip side, I think it’s fairly common for women to define a guys attraction by his height. Obviously there are exceptions to the rule, but I don’t think either preference is ‘creepy’.
Let’s not brag.