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[Troubled Bat]

I'm 5'11" and my girlfriend is 5'2" Good to know.

 

[UberLevi]

I'm only 5'6'' but I make up for the height difference with a big

Spoiler

ego

.

 

[BBC]

Balderdash. Guys are neurotic about their height as it is without more of these articles feeding into those insecurities. Just be proficient at back rubs, gentlemen. And cooking.

I mostly agree, but you can't deny that there is a bit of a disadvantage.

 

[Metroxed]

I'm 6'9" and my wife is 5'3"

Happiest woman ever?

For the next 18 years, apparently

 

[BKatastrophe]

Oh I found it.

Heightism Exposed

It's...it's beautiful...

My god this is my new favorite thing

"Can't trust short men" is the best

Bring back the 'short guys can't date' thread, shit's gonna get real.

That thread was angry as shit

 

[Sealed]

welp

 

[Condom]

At least you guys don't live in the land of giants. At 5' 11" I am 2 inches taller than other people from my ethnic group but still lower than the national average.

 

[Vagabundo]

Boom: twenty years married here folks. Wife is taller than me.

Where's your science now GAF?

<---- 5'4" and proud.

 

[HarryKS]

Remember, there's handsome tall, then freakish tall.

Don't be a circus act.

Be pretty, like me.

 

[FortuneFaded]

Boom: twenty years married here folks. Wife is taller than me.

Where's your science now GAF?

<---- 5'4" and proud.

Just because you are married doesn't mean that she is happy.

 

[TheKaeptain]

Just be proficient at back rubs, gentlemen. And cooking.

Full body massages get shit done too.

 

[megamerican]

Women do seem fixated on the height thing. When flirting it's almost always mentioned, more-so than anything else.

Shorter guys who have a little swag and take care of themselves do fine from what I've seen, maybe it's more of a handicap in the online space.

I'm seeing someone who's 6'1 and she has never been with anyone shorter than her. So even being that tall it's still important to her, kind of a shocker for me!

 

[TheKaeptain]

Women do seem fixated on the height thing. When flirting it's almost always mentioned, more-so than anything else.

Shorter guys who have a little swag and take care of themselves do fine from what I've seen, maybe it's more of a handicap in the online space.

I'm seeing someone who's 6'1 and she has never been with anyone shorter than her. So even being that tall it's still that important to her, kind of a shocker for me!

Are you shorter than her? Because let me tell you something if you are. The shower sex is great when the chick is taller.

 

[Vagabundo]

Just because you are married doesn't mean that she is happy.

Oh trust me. She's happy!!

 

[megamerican]

Are you shorter than her? Because let me tell you something if you are. The shower sex is great when the chick is taller.

Nah haha I'm a couple inches taller but yeah I actually find I prefer the height being relatively the same for a lot of reasons!

 

[Always-honest]

That's a bit shallow.. But not surprising, given.,, well, people.

 

[Blastoise]

Give me all your tall women.

 

[EatChildren]

I'm 5'6" and I only date women 6'2" and up.

 

[B.O.O.M]

6 ft 1 inch...so yay?

 

[Blastoise]

I've always wanted the Snoo Snoo experience.

 

[Zekes!]

what if your penis is taller than your wife

I should go to bed

 

[Plywood]

what if your penis is taller than your wife

I should go to bed

Then you'd either have a very short wife or a very tall penis.

 

[Muppet of a Man]

are people really that simple that a study can sum it all up

makes me sad T____T

People are actually animals, regardless of how we want to dress it up. At the end of the day, only 2 things matter: survive another day (hopefully well) and get some of dat ass. Everything we know, love, and hate is derived from these 2 primordial drives.

 

[XAL]

Just because you are married doesn't mean that she is happy.

Oh well there it is.

 

[takriel]

Lol they Plagiatoren from the daily Mail.

 

[SgtCobra]

Most women prefer men taller than them.
Of course they're happier when the man they marry has their preferred physique.

Yeap, this isn't mind-blowing really. Same goes for a woman's choice between a fat guy or a fit one.

Oh boy, I thought it was funny, I guess I'm wrong.

Hmm, nah.

 

[DrM]

So I need to look for girls that are around 160 cm tall or less

 

[jorma]

Interesting. Now i just need to know the correlation between happy marriages and big boobs, and i'll have all the information i need before entering marriage.

 

[SilentRacoon]

Oh trust me. She's happy!!

Not thanks to you!!

Spoiler

I'm 6'3"

 

[Nostremitus]

I'm 6'1" and my wife is 6' even. Oh well, its been pretty good for the last four years. We plan on raising giants.

 

[BladeoftheImmortal]

I'm 6'5", ladies. B-)

 

[jerry1594]

Short guys just can't get a break

 

[Ayumi]

Suck it, survey.

 

[BladeoftheImmortal]

I'm happily married to a guy shorter than me.

Suck it, survey.

For now.

 

[Soriku]

Short guys just can't get a break

The impressions you get online are going to be highly skewed from the reality.

 

[Neidii]

Hm well the relationship I've been in the longest is with a tall and handsome guy so I guess we'll be 2gether 4ever

 

[Sinoox]

Honestly this sounds pretty unscientific, what was their hypothesis? If there's data suggesting something like this there's most certainly more to it than what they made it out to be.

 

[ajim]

Oh I found it.

Heightism Exposed

Oh wow. Some of those are really horrible...

Ayan Hussein &#8207;@AyannahH 1 Feb 2012

I've got an issue with short guys, if your 5'8 or less please kill yourself!!

Kushanna &#8207;@Sotyannaxo 5 Aug 2013

Cute short guys are a waste of sperm.

Eesh....

As a dude, I never put much thought into the whole short/tall thing, especially because I'd say I'm average height at 183cm. But I feel bad for the way some women view shorter men...

 

[-Plasma Reus-]

Edit: those tweets are disgusting.

 

[Soriku]

Oh wow. Some of those are really horrible...




Eesh....

As a dude, I never put much thought into the whole short/tall thing, especially because I'd say I'm average height at 183cm. But I feel bad for the way some women view shorter men...

You can always just call those women ugly, fat, etc. and see how they take it lmao. Wouldn't be surprising if they're very fickle.

 

[Psycho_Mantis]

Heard somewhere that the ideal height difference is 12cm.

 

[Akiyama_AE]

171cm cries ):

 

[SPCTRE]

Heard somewhere that the ideal height difference is 12cm.

rule of thumb for mnemonic purposes should be penis length + female height = (roughly) male height?

doesn't quite work out of course, since male GAF members are proven to have larger than average penises

 

[jerry1594]

Balderdash. Guys are neurotic about their height as it is without more of these articles feeding into those insecurities. Just be proficient at back rubs, gentlemen. And cooking.

Makes it sound like guys should compensate for their lack of height, by doing these things, lol.

 

[Greddleok]

Honestly this sounds pretty unscientific, what was their hypothesis? If there's data suggesting something like this there's most certainly more to it than what they made it out to be.

It's just correlation. Go read the actual article, it's a complete load. They don't even attempt to find a causative link, just "Evolution lol."

 

[Disxo]

Thats an interesting article, btw, you guys talking about height in a different unit creeps me out.

 

[Jonm1010]

Not surprising.

I actually remember my sophomore high school psychology class where we watched some John Stossel program where they did an experiment about this. Not the most scientific thing but fascinating.

Basically they put guys of varying height and a shorter guy behind two way glass and asked a bunch of woman to select who they prefer. They all picked the guy taller then they were.

Then they even replaced the tall guy with a less attractive tall guy, a much more attractive short guy and even started telling the woman the tall guy didn't have much going for him and the short guy was rich, successful, had an amazing life. All to no avail. They still picked the taller guy. To make it worse the woman basically said it would take them saying the taller guys were murders to change their mind.

 

[Can Crusher]

I think it's a daddy thing. Short guys can take comfort in that.

 

[MercuryLS]

Not surprising.

I actually remember my sophomore high school psychology class where we watched some John Stossel program where they did an experiment about this. Not the most scientific thing but fascinating.

Basically they put guys of varying height and a shorter guy behind two way glass and asked a bunch of woman to select who they prefer. They all picked the guy taller then they were.

Then they even replaced the tall guy with a less attractive tall guy, a much more attractive short guy and even started telling the woman the tall guy didn't have much going for him and the short guy was rich, successful, had an amazing life. All to no avail. They still picked the taller guy. To make it worse the woman basically said it would take them saying the taller guys were murders to change their mind.

I remember seeing this too, it's pretty shocking. I'm a tall guy so I never faced heightism, but I do see it around constantly. And I'm guilty of it from time to time.

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

It's just correlation. Go read the actual article, it's a complete load. They don't even attempt to find a causative link, just "Evolution lol."

The journal it was posted from is a joke
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/personality-and-individual-differences/