What is a BBW? 
I put that I have a cutoff but it’s not 5’9"…more like 5’7" or so.
But I am 5’8" and built like a big lumpy tree so I do not need a guy standing by me all the time making me look more super huge than I already am.
So it’s definitely my own hangup, nothing to do with the uh “shortcomings” on the guy’s part. I don’t need a man to be towering over me but I don’t want to be towering over anyone myself.
My SO is a couple of inches shorter than I am, and it doesn’t bother me at all.
The fact that the poll was done in the NYC are skews the results. People here are pickier because they can be. More A gamers here.
In NYC it is a lot more difficult for a short man to date unless he is from an ethnic group that is shorter than average and is dating within that group, is from an ethnic group that prefers to marry within that group or has one or more attributes that puts him above the rest of the crowd; such as a Tony or Golden Globe winner, prestigious family, extremely wealthy, etc.
I not only dated a guy shorter than 5’9", I married him.
I prefer guys around my height (5’3") but I’ve dated guys over six feet tall, too. Heck, if I was single and ran into a great guy 2’11" I’d date him. Height, or lack of it, isn’t a deal killer for me.
Big Beautiful Woman. It means fat, when it comes right down to it. I can’t speak for Senegoid but I believe he was trying to make a point about the superficiality of this kind of thinking.
Of course, and in fact I have. Height doesn’t matter.
As Archer would say: “Phrasing!” At 5’9" a man is taller than the majority of women, and I don’t think it’d be close to “impossible to find a date.” The more telling question would be would a woman date a man shorter than her? In my experience (someone who was 5’7" when he started dating), that would get a different response.
A good poll question for the forum would be how tall would people be if they could choose? I’m 6’1" and I’d love to have stopped at 5’10" or 5’11" myself - every car and motorcycle seems sized for that height.
If we went by the responses in this thread it would seem like the average height for males is about 5’3". I’m feeling tall.
Feel free to start your own thread then. Or stop posting and reading this one if you don’t like the subject.
I’m sure that the average Doper only looks for inner beauty but the rest of the world has certain physical things they find attractive or unattractive. It’s human nature. From listening to some women on the subject height difference is more than an attractiveness issue, it’s an issue of being uncomfortable. Maybe it’s cultural norms. Maybe it’s Darwinism as that article suggests. I don’t know.
Sure but that’s not how the poll in the article was written. I expect there to be some disadvantage to being short but the poll was skewed to one side so extremely I was curious how the same question would do here.
If I could choose I would be a couple inches taller at 6’0". To me it seems like men’s clothing is designed to look best at that height.
I’m neither straight nor a woman and while I have no problems dating men shorter than me and quite a few are, on the rare occasions I meet someone taller than me ( >6’2") there’s an undeniable attractiveness boost.
I just want the guy to be taller than me and I’m 5’4, so that’s the vast majority of men. I have an ex who is 5’5 and I’ve dated lots of guys around 5’7 or 5’8. Doesn’t bother me at all.
Geez, Im just glad Im not in NYC. My gf is 5’11" and Im about 4 feet tall (on account of the chair and whatnot). 
I’m 5’6 and I strongly prefer guys around my height. I like to look a guy in the eyes. Too tall and the scale feels wonky to me.
A lot of my friends have strong preferences for tall guys. I find it baffling. I think often it’s people who are uncomfortable with their bodies, and want a taller guy that makes them feel smaller.
Happy Anniversary!
My mother is 5’2" and my father was 6’3". She certainly didn’t need to feel smaller. The height difference was often commented on. Especially since my mother’s family was a miniature Italian family. My grandfather was only 5’1". My 4’6" aunt would be endlessly amused by standing next to my father.
The article looks to be about online dating, and I’ve seen a bias there towards tall men (at least the Reader Matches ads mention height a lot).
When looking at these results, please mentally deduct one vote from “would never date” and add one to “would date” – I’m a clumsy idiot, and checked the wrong box. :smack:
That will be noted on your permanent record.
Under 5’9"? Sure. Under 5’7"? I don’t know. I’d probably date a guy 5’6" sooner than one 6’6" though.
Never. I have always been the shortest person in the family. I get nervous around women shorter than I am; men shorter than I am are just too … atypical.
Now, women who are 5’ 9" and over, I cannot understand them caring either way, but I am 5’ 3" on a good day, and American men shorter than I am are so far to the left of the curve, that I … I think the socially responsible thing to do is leave them for the poor women who are even shorter than I am.
Okay, I am just horribly conventional about gender roles (that do not involve money, house work, or child care), and I would not date a shorter man.
Well, maybe Peter Drinklage.