Heightism: The New Annoyance

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As a 6' 5" guy, I'd like to give my two cents...
I've never considered that the reason why I've always been relatively tall was because I was genetically superior to people in some way. My parents are both 5' 10"- I'm really just a genetic anomaly more than anything.
I've talked to several women about why girls are attracted to tall guys, including my girlfriend, because it really didn't make sense to me.The fact is I didn't earn my height, and to be honest I've never made much use of it until I started going to the gym when I got to college. And it turns out I totally SUCKED at lifting weights, and I'm still not great compared to a lot of shorter guys. Now to say my height hasn't helped me in any way when it comes to women would be a lie, but I'm definitely not a chiseled athlete.
Meanwhile I have a pretty good looking friend who's 25, got his own apartment, a nice truck, and has a job that he loves working in construction for a firm. The supposed "catch"? He's 5' 3". So what, right? Granted, it's kind of funny when we hang out together, but for a lot of women I've talked to, that's really been a deciding factor as to whether or not they would find him "dateable". And that's really sad to me, because I think he's really got his life together more than I do.
He's had some success with women, but it's been almost a year and a half since he broke up with his girlfriend (who was taller than him) and as far as I know he hasn't been on a date since. Socially he's pretty average, albeit he does have a slight stutter, but I just feel bad for him because I know that his height does play a factor in his attractiveness and his own level of confidence, and I don't think it's fair. (inb4 "the world isn't fair yada yada")
 
Until I saw this thread, I thought this whole "manlet" thing was just one of the imbecilic things people shitposted about on 4chan that nobody actually believes in or cares about.
 
AnOminous said:
Until I saw this thread, I thought this whole "manlet" thing was just one of the imbecilic things people shitposted about on 4chan that nobody actually believes in or cares about.
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I feel the same for 99% of the bizarre things i stumble upon on the internet.
 
Snackpower said:
The fact is I didn't earn my height, and to be honest I've never made much use of it until I started going to the gym when I got to college.
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It's just a fact that height is considered to be a biological advantage somehow, so some women are likely to find it inherently attractive for that reason.

AnOminous said:
Until I saw this thread, I thought this whole "manlet" thing was just one of the imbecilic things people shitposted about on 4chan that nobody actually believes in or cares about.
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Now you know that it's an imbecilic that shitposted on 4chan and elsewhere on the Internet!

But seriously what the hell is this thread?
 
The evo-psych explanation brings one obvious question: if height is seen as an adaptative trait in itself, why aren't guys especially attracted to tall women?
 
F. Hausdorff said:
Google?

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/fulfillment-any-age/201306/why-women-want-tall-men

Please bear in mind that I'm not making a sluthate-esque argument. In fact I'm making a completely vague statement that SOME women MAY find height to be an inherently attractive trait for biological reasons.
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It's all cool. I have read many studies myself, regarding human psyche and behaviour and such (also quantum physics, which has nothing to do with me trying to build a time machine, really) and was simply interested in a link. Which you gave me.

Btw, it's, as far as i know, also fact that most humans are attracted to people looking "average" (not to be confused as a judgement value, we're talking the median of the population, that is, "normal" here), the reason behind this being the evolutionary advantage, apparently, namely the fact that the average population seems to be best suited for survival and genetic comparability. Also, we apparently consider people with average faces more trustworthy than people with more attractive faces.

My point being, since 5 ft 10 in is considered the average height in the US, there's absolutely no need to worry about attractiveness. At least when it comes to pure body height (most women do look for more than that though, so if you're a douche, you got a problem).

But something tells me, guys who seriously thinking Heightism is a thing, have other, more serious issues going on and simply looking for an easy to grasp, external root of the problem. As humans tend to do.
 
I don't want to turn the thread into Notes From Fareal's Ladyboner, but as a very short woman, I've always felt kinda intimidated by very tall people (of any gender).

I married someone a bit shorter than average. I don't think height was a consideration for me. Certainly not a conscious one.
 
Fareal said:
I don't want to turn the thread into Notes From Fareal's Ladyboner
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By all means...

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Oglooger said:
most military FPS and shit usually have tall muscular males, so they got nothing to complain about.
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Wait, i'm confused. I thought we're talking about "guys who happen to be under 5'9". and think "the whole world discriminates against them"?
 
The Damned Thing said:
Wait, i'm confused. I thought we're talking about "guys who happen to be under 5'9". and think "the whole world discriminates against them"?
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As I said before, this crap was made in /fit/ and /sp/ as a joke. eventually some stormweenies on /pol/ took it a little to seriously and tried making it an actual thing for redpill.
The scary thing is that poe's law goes in effect here, so you can't tell if it's a troll or a butthurt incel.

SJW might not give a shit about height since they're all angry midgets.
 
Oglooger said:
As I said before, this crap was made in /fit/ and /sp/ as a joke. eventually some stormweenies on /pol/ took it a little to seriously and tried making it an actual thing for redpill.
The scary thing is that poe's law goes in effect here, so you can't tell if it's a troll or a butthurt incel.

SJW might not give a shit about height since they're all angry midgets.
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I have never seen so many Internet neologisms in a single post.
 
Lurkingjay said:
Wikipedia suggests that average adult male height in the United States is just over 5'9" and that 5'9" is, at worst, about an inch shorter than average anywhere aside from a few northern European countries where everyone's gigantic. (And Montenegro/Serbia/Croatia, for some reason?) Guys who are 5'9" or 5'10" and convinced they are freakishly short are running on pure Invented Problem Logic.
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This is a really good point. They're working from false premises.

I'm always surprised when I encounter data about the height of Hollywood actors and they turn out to all be 5'4" or something, but I come from a family of Germanic giants, so my idea of normal height is pretty skewed. I wonder if some of these guys have the same problem? If they grew up surrounded by tall people, it could have given them a complex.

If people are ignoring or looking down on them IRL, though, I'm guessing it mostly has to do with them being whiny buggers.
 
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