Why is being a below average height male considered worse than being a below average height female?

[Anonymous]

[Guy13]

As it relates to preferred height here’s what the guy who was treated like gay friend but not gay heard,” he’s only loud because he’s ‘physically challenged’,“ “We have Mr Scrooge on this shoot, can’t help he’s short and old.”

Commonwealth Park/Beacon Hill Boston: “what you want to bet there’s 5 foot man driving that Lamborghini…65 is my guess”.
Girl code around a short guy with a look and honor me for I am god power position: whistled Itzy Bitzy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini 👙. My enlightenment for that day was itzy bitzy Teenie WeineeeR….

[suzzieQ]

Because for some reason height is associated with masculinity. Western society has put a ton of emphasis and pressure on men specifically to be hyper masculinity not to mention unrealistic beauty standards.

In the US the average height for an adult man is about 5ft 9inches, and that is just average, meaning that there are a ton of people that are going to be taller or shorter. Like it is with many societal beauty standards, many are unrealistic. For women the epitome of western beauty standards is to be white, skinny, hairless, smooth unblemished skin, big round eyes, small nose, narrow face and blonde.

For men, it's to be tall, fit, and have a full head of hair.

[tiajoka]

For women it’s also generally to be short or average height as well.

[suzzieQ]

@tiajoka it’s generally what?

[tiajoka]

Ideal or desired

[DoctorSex]

Quite the opposite my dear. Western society puts a lot of pressure on men to temper their masculinity and embrace femininity. Behaving like a man often gets you punished.
I thought females would have realised this with the rise of Andrew Tate and Trump. They are figures telling me to fight the feminisation.

Kind regards,
DoctorSex

[DoctorSex]

*telling me to fight the feminisation

[DoctorSex]

Men* lol

That was not a Freudian slip xD

[suzzieQ]

@DoctorSex you aren’t even from the west so I can understand why you might think that but western beauty standards for men in the meat push hyper masculinity

[DoctorSex]

@suzzieQ I live in London, have done for the last 20 years.

[suzzieQ]

@DoctorSex But as you said that isn't where you're from. Crazy how those formative years have such an impact on development. Also isn't illegal to pretend to be a doctor or call your self one when you're not...

[Anonymous]

I guess because short men are less desirable than say 6ft men in general to women whereas men don't discriminate too much on height. For example I'm 4f10 yet I'm just not attracted to men under 6ft.

[Sacha_Chudoba]

YES, Obviously.

Short women aren't immediately unattractive to the opposite gender based solely on height, short men on the other hand are unattractive to a fairly large percentage of women by default unless they have something else they bring to the table to balance the attractive scale, i. e. Huge bank account or resources unavailable to the common guy.

Sad really but biological Imperative is a bitch of a current to swim against.

Goodluck to any manlettes reaading this, my sympathies.

[NamerOfStars]

Because sexual attractiveness is rooted in reproductive viability; you want someone with the cues that indicate you'll be able to have many healthy children who will survive to adulthood together. Or rather, your genes do- what YOU want doesn't enter into the instinctive equation.

For women, that means having the physical markers of youth, health, and fertility- height doesn't affect that. For men, it means having the markers of health, strength, and status- and height DOES affect those.

[JamesDiaz11]

Probably because I've never met a guy who cares what height a girl is in comparison to other girls- it's not one of the factors we judge on. Do we want a girl who's prettier than average? Yes. Do we want a girl who's less run through than other girls? Yes. But as far as how tall she is we don't give af. What, do you imagine guys bragging to their friends about how tall their girls is? The only way they'd brag about her size is if she's SMALLER than usual, which would mean they'll get to "throw her around in bed," or if she's got bigger boobs (for those who are into that- I'm personally not).

Girls generally want a guy taller than them because they want someone bigger than them who can protect them. In the US there is an obsession with 6 feet because that's the demarcation of what's average and what's tall- girls want to brag to their friends about how tall the guy is she's dating.

[Effably]

Lets be honest, this is very simple.

Height is part of the generally attractive qualities in men.
Height is not a part of the generally attractive qualities in women.

And that's the full reason. We could dive into how height is a biological signal of your ability to procure food and good nutrition (a core reason the tall countries are taller is an early use of dairy products) and a few other things and so it makes a lot of evolutionary sense. We can also talk about how it conforms to the sense of masculine and feminine but the core is simply that to one gender it is attractive and to the other it doesn't matter as long as it is somewhat normal.

[Berethor]

It because tallness is a masculine trait, that's why men are 5 inches taller on average.

https://www.worlddata.info/average-bodyheight.php

[PraviteliNahuiValite]

And early sex hormone treatment impacts height growth, as does DHT administration improve penile growth.

We know that genderless science deniers disliked your opinion.

[Berethor]

Yea the genderfluid nonsense, men are naturally stronger than women, that's a fact.

en.wikipedia.org/.../Transgender_people_in_sports

[God_of_Thunder]

I would assume it's because women generally prefer tall men, and somewhere around 6' is typically stated as a preference.

Men, on the other had, generally like short women, so a woman being below average height isn't usually seen as a negative thing.

[DryGermanGuy]

Probably something considered masculine and being dragged along since the Stone Age - the tall man, protecting women and children. Maybe there is a certain element of historic truth in it, after all see what happened to Nick Nack in The Man with the Golden Gun! 😂

[monorprise]

Its a lot easier for a short woman to find a man who wants to marry her than for a short man. Because women tend to want to marry up both financially and in height.

The financial bit makes sense as proving fitness the physical height bit is a bit confusing given all the modern day downsides to being big.

[ChillaxingLove]

Because people associate hight with strength, even though that isn’t correlated. Being tall gives the impression the person is strong and powerful and that makes women feel safe if the man is taller then them which makes tall men attractive to women.

[Asad1ONE1]

It's not. It's no different for men and women in what they actually prefer. Many women lie because they are much more insecure than men. They worry much more about looking smaller in public than men worry about looking bigger in public. It's all nurture.

[suzzieQ]

Never met a woman who lied about being taller than she really is

[tiajoka]

@suzzieQ My sister used to lie about being a couple inches shorter than she was, and then go on dates with guys who said they were taller. 💀 he’d end up being shorter even though based on what they both had said he should’ve been taller.
I didn't “lie” But when I was 5’7 3/4 I would round down. Now I’ve grown a bit and I just say 5’9 even though its more like 5’8 3/4

[suzzieQ]

@tiajoka sounds like your sister has some issues with being honest

[tiajoka]

@suzzieQ she doesn’t do it now but she’s no different then the guys who were doing it so probably at least 50% of young men have issues with being honest if you wanna be consistent 💀

[suzzieQ]

@tiajoka that is what liars what you to believe

[tiajoka]

@suzzieQ she stopped doing it because she kept getting guys way shorter who also lied lol. I wouldn’t call her or a man distrustful for a little edit on their profile page, just insecure and lonely… you wildin 💀 wasn’t even my point yet you’re focusing on it cuz it disproves yours. CrAzy.

[suzzieQ]

@tiajoka so she says

[tiajoka]

@suzzieQ 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Asad1ONE1]

@suzzieQ not lying about height. Lying about actual preference.

[suzzieQ]

How would you even know if someone what lying about their preferences? Preferences are subjective, and so is attraction. Just because someone is attracted to one person doesn’t mean they have to be attracted to everyone else with similar features, that is ludicrous

[Asad1ONE1]

Because it seems unlikely that the numbers of women that actually want a much taller partner are higher than the numbers of men that actually want a much shorter partner.

Well overall, many men prefer the same height or taller women too, and vice versa for women, who may also prefer the same height or even shorter.

[suzzieQ]

Im sure many do, but that is not the majority.

[lightbulb27]

Men need to demonstrate some power to make the female feel feminine.

Tall guys and short girls is somewhat "normal".

It's all generalities, Valdimir putin is short, so was Napoleon...

[ZoeyMercer]

I don’t think that’s a valid comparison. I think you need to compare short guys with tall women because short women are actually desirable to most men

[suzzieQ]

That is true

[nitsuj86]

Because most women like men that are taller, AND most men like women that are shorter.

Pretty simple

[Hardworkingguy]

Because I have never known a woman who would go out with a man shorter than her they usually try to find someone taller. My question would be why do women only care about guys who are taller than they are?

[inhua]

men don't care about a woman's height nearly as much as women care about a man's height.

[tiajoka]

I’ve never discriminated in dating a guy based on height… but I’ve had that done to me many times. As well as for other tall women I know, they’ve had the same experience.

[inhua]

@tiajoka the discrimination tall women face is not the same reasons short men face discrimination. most women tend to prefer men taller than them thus men assume taller women want even taller men hence the "discrimination"

[tiajoka]

Nope. I've been rejected for my height, and in school i was often bullied for it. A lot of men don’t want a woman his height or taller, or he just wants a woman who is much much shorter even if he is 6’2. It’s fine, there’s plenty of people for anyone. Just a reality i learned from a very young age. I noticed it a lot because I and others like me went through it. Tbh if it wasn’t for the internet I wouldn’t even really know that short men were discriminated against as well.

[inhua]

@tiajoka if you're over 6 feet tall, you're already taller than 85% of the male population and it's assumed you would reject any guy shorter than you.

[tiajoka]

I’m 5’8, but I've been 5’8 since i was like 14. Im taller than the majority of men just by being near the average height of men. (I added the 6’2 because often even men considerably taller will want a woman who is 5’2 even!)
Women 5’4 and under are highly preferred, which is OK! I prefer things myself as well; height is just something I don’t care about personally. But a woman who is taller than the average (in my area the average is 5’6) even by two inches is deemed much less desirable. But lots of guys don’t care, just like how lots of women don’t. Being short is feminine and being tall is masculine…. I don't know how its hard to understand that a lot of guys would prefer the most feminine type of woman LOL

[tiajoka]

Because being a tall female is where we’re disenfranchised. Lots of guys view a woman over 5’7 as masculine or not very feminine. It’s the same thing just a different standard.

[DoctorSex]

Incorrect. Height has nothing to do with feminity. It's just that a woman taller than a man has never been promoted in Hollywood was a desires pairing, that's all. In other cultures it's not a problem.

[tiajoka]

@DoctorSex 🤷‍♀️

[PraviteliNahuiValite]

Height is somewhat linked with androgen estrogen ratios, with many other factors. So of course females given male and anabolic hormones grow taller for example than they naturally would.

[msc545]

Because women have a major issue with men being under 6 ft tall and find them on attractive as a result of that. Men do not have the same issue with women's height at all.

[UniquelyBasic]

Height is more attached to a mans masculinity.

[Anonymous]

Tall is a masculine trait and short is a feminine trait. Unmasculine men and unfeminine women unfortunately get judged.

[Friendlybro79]

Who's saying these things? Is there a committee that has concluded your question to be a true statement? Lol

[HippieVeganJewslim]

Men are socially considered to be protective, strong, fast, smart, big, etc, so of course they are judged to be worse than taller-than-average height.