Why Men Prefer Short Girls

[Anonymous]

1. The average is preferred

Average woman is around 5'3 or 5'4 depending on the area, and the average is always preferred. Most women are short anyway.

2. They are cute

Petite girls are always considered cuter and much more feminine. Small hands, small feet and small shoulders are so cute! Then a short 5'3 girl can put on 6" heels and be 5'9 and sexy and take them off again and be cute. Short girls can be both cute and sexy!

3. They can survive on less food

A taller person needs to eat waaaay more than a short person, which isn't really a good thing. A short girl can eat less and therefore has better survival chances in case of shortage of food. Just from an evolutionary perspective.

4. They have better bodies

A short girl with a 24" waist will look much curvier than a tall girl with the same waist size. Look at models, they are incredibly skinny yet they always look like a rectangle/inverted triangle shaped body. That is because the more compact you are the more defined the curves will look. Yes, some tall girls can look curvy but curves look way better on short girls and its a lot easier to be curvy as a short girl.

5. They look dainty and small

Which makes guys think the girl is submissive and in need of protection. No one ever thinks they need to protect a tall girl as she looks stronger/more masculine which means she can take care of herself.

6. Estrogen stops growth earlier

Yes, height is genetic. But the reason why girls are usually shorter than guys is because estrogen stops growth quicker while in men testosterone takes a while to convert to estrogen. Also girls usually have their growth spurt earlier than guys so they are usually done growing and shorter.

7. Women are supposed to look weaker

Women are supposed to look dainty and small. They are supposed to be much smaller and shorter, being taller than 5'7 isn't favored.

8. It is considered feminine to be short

And masculine to be tall. Stronger/bigger/taller is associated with masculinity and men, and shorter/smaller/weaker is associated with femininity.

9. Short girls have been proven to have more children than tall girls

And the most popular couples are always tall man/short girl. Either way short girls are more preferred.

10. They make men feel more masculine

The height difference makes a girl feel small and cute, but it also makes the man feel protective and masculine. It is a good feeling for both partners.

Hope you enjoyed this take.

[lifelearner011]

I think short and tall girls are beautiful. Preference is pretty subjective. I'm a short woman and it has it advantages dating and disadvantages with men.
Some of the pros': The assumption of positive traits without knowing you as being innocent, trustworthy, good with kids, gentle & kind.
Cons: Naiveness, not taken professionally seriously, guys who "look at you as a potential wife material in a "passive" way with considering your professional dimension, guys who approach you tend to be sometimes aggressive "in your face". As well as very very shy guys who approach and look as if you are a "cristal" dainty person.

I celebrate being a pixie chic since its a gift as well, helps me connect better with people and I feel very cute and sassy when I'm styling myself since I try to look my best in a cute way.

[BrittBratt2416]

And thats why i don't understand why some guys get angry when some women prefer taller men when their are men who prefer short girls. Yes, most girls are short, but there are men who specifically don't want to date girls who may be tall or taller than them at all. I've seen guys say that if a girl is 6ft, then they don't want to date her.

[TheUglyMan]

Because if the shirt girls prefer tall guys what's left for us short guys

[Berethor]

Sure but that take itself was made by a girl. Also girls do in fact tend to care about height more than guys, because they tend to be more selective about it, but yes many guys care about it too, and in any case it's okay to admit it. Also as the @TheUglyMan said girls tend to be more extreme about it, and even short girls are going for that tallest guy around, while guys not necessary goes for the shortness girl.

[TheUglyMan]

@Berethor a short guy will obviously go for a short girl. Don't you see? tall guys have far more choices leaving us short dudes out.

[ForteExe]

@TheUglyMan This is a "the grass is always greener" topic. I'm over 6 feet tall and I'm lucky if I can manage to get a first date. The general public seems to think that since I'm tall I must be swarmed by women or that I don't have trouble getting any. It's a load of bullshit either way. I remember once I was online getting lunch and these two girls behind me started chatting about how some guy one of them was into was "so tallll" like he was some gift from god. I was ready to lose it with the two of them. I've never gotten attention like that in my life so I have no better understanding of this than you do.

[TheUglyMan]

@ForteExe I never said all tall dudes get lots of girls. But there's is no doubt that tall dudes are far more attractive to women than short dudes

[HereIbe]

You forgot the #1 reason:

BEST AT SEXY TIME! YOW! I mean, if they're enthusiastic, that is. If they are?

SO.
MUCH.
FUN!

I mean, it's a LOT of fun if I can lift her up and swing her around with one arm. I can just pick her up and plop her down on my carnival ride (yes, I've done that).

And it makes it SOOOOOO easy for her to curl her legs around me and me to stand while we bang.

[jamesj03]

This about sums it up.

[Lynx122]

So many jelly women in the comments lool. I actually like like both short and taller girls, but there's definitely something about short girls. #4 is a big factor for me. The taller a girl is, the less curvy she looks and if there are no curves I'm just physically not attracted to a girl, no matter what. #2 is also true

[SamanthaGG]

There's just two types of short girls. They're skinny or obess.
Most the tallers are curves.

[MirageSlipstream]

@SamanthaGG
There are just two types of short girls skinny and not skinny.
Two types of tall girls curvy (not skinny) and don’t forget skinny! Models that fit into those: size 0, -2 & -4 outfits not curvy.

Sort of stating the obvious, but I understand, I’m blonde too.

[MirageSlipstream]

Just teasing you ;)

[SamanthaGG]

@MirageSlipstream
Best and Prettiest of Curvy Women are Just the Tallers , specially Blondes.

[user191828]

Um there are many tall women that are curvy. And there are many short girls that are skinny and obess

[vishna]

Oh no, look how gross and manly Candice Swanepoel and Miranda Kerr are. If only they weren't tall, then they could be beautiful and favored by men :'c Damn, if only they were shot, then they would be as beautiful as you :'C I'm sure they're heartbroken *sarcasm*
men just don't like this
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they find her repulsive
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icky, truly
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this is torture for poor men
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poor girl doesn't know how low on the totem pole she is
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lmao

[Anonymous]

Not all men, I prefer tall girls.

1. Depends on the country, in some countries girls are quite tall. Anyway, I never prefer the average.

2. I prefer hot rather than cute, and I never liked heels. Naturally tall girls are sex, they don't need heels.

3. Well, depends, some short people are fat.

4. No way, most fitness supermodels are tall, and they have much better bodies than any short girl.

5. I'm not attracted to submissive girls, I prefer dominant girls.

6. Women also have testosterone, men also have estrogen, levels of hormones vary form person to person, regardless of the gender.

7. Only in patriarchal society, in reality - I can't stand so called "gender roles", nobody is "supposed to be" like this or like that.

8. As I said above, "feminine" and masculine" aka "gender roles" are a social construct... and I don't like such terms.

9. Number of children is irrelevant, short girls have more only because insecure "macho" men are afraid of taller girls, that's why they usually choose short girls to have kids with.

10. I already explained, I don't believe in gender roles, and I prefer dominant girls, not "girly girls" who need to be protected.

Sure, conservative, religious and old-fashioned people will enjoy this take... but my kind of girl is a modern Amazon ;)

[Opinion Owner]

Typo *Naturally tall girls are sexy, they don't need heels*

[CHARismatic110]

More divisive nonsense. It is considered feminine to be a female. Whether you're short, tall, big, or small. My sister is 5'9 and always looks more feminine than my 5'5 ass lol. And she's never had a shortage of admirers. There isn't one uniform, universal look when it comes to women. We come in all shapes and sizes, and men like all shapes and sizes. Don't diss what you are not to make you feel better about what you are.

[passinby]

Interesting take actually,

The most important attractants to me are, face, and frame proportions. I am equally attracted to a tall woman as I am to a short woman if she has a certain body proportion that takes me. The actual height really doesn’t matter as long as we are reasonably physically compatible.

I can’t argue with your take but:

3. is funny because I envisioned this couch whale with a remote when I read it.

Is 9 true? I have read taller women have much less childbearing pain because of the tall pelvis.

10 well being with a 6’3” woman doesn’t extract my masculinity any. It goes well in the business world to be with a tall woman as an SO by the way.

[CubsterShura]

Wth man? I'm short and still didn't like this take. Women of all heights can be beautiful, feminine, cute, sexy and desirable. I've seen many 'cute' tall girls. Only because short IS actually a feminine trait, it doesn't mean that tall women are automatically masculine.

[Berethor]

Yes everything is relative, as long as the woman is smaller it's not looks odd.

[CubsterShura]

@Berethor what's odd about a woman being taller than a man in a relationship?

[Unit1]

I agree.

[user191828]

Right.

[Ana_Moonsong]

I’m sorry, but this is simply not true. Everyone has different preferences, and being tall doesn’t make you more or less attractive. Guys do however tend to prefer a girl who is shorter than him but not too much shorter, so tall guys tend to like tall girls and vise versa, but of course that isn’t always the case as everyone has different preferences.
I also do not like how you are basically saying that being skinny and less curvy is less attractive. I am not very curvy, and I am tall but I have long legs and I still find myself quite attractive.

[VIVANT]

NONE of this is good lol.

im an adult im not looking to be dainty or cute nor do i want kids.

im also sure being tall makes birth less painful. bc larger bones.

im not aiming to be curvier im athletic and i want to be toned and not run weird.

if everyone is short why would i want to be the same?

why would i want to be a certain height just to make a guy feel masculine.

I've got an entire life beyond men. this is all about how it makes guys feel.

what is the advantage as far as just being a competent human?

[VIVANT]

there are advantages& disadvantages to any height. if you are in good health its easier to live longer, and with less complications, shorter.

obviously of you are tall, its easier to be stronger and reach things from high up lol

i dont thin men prefer one height over the other. depends really.

[Berethor]

Yes there is advantage in being a amazon, but most guys don't want a amazon.

[VIVANT]

@Berethor

I don’t want most guys. 😊

[VIVANT]

Certainly not a guy who wants to date a child. Nothing wrong with being small but I’d definitely find it creepy to be wanted for looking like a kid.

[Berethor]

@VIVANT well you have a point with girls who looks very short and/or very young can look like a child, but still many guys are going for girls who are much younger than them, as well as for girls who are much shorter than them. Plus you can add small boobs to that, and a girl can technically look very child like and/or guy-like. Being shorter/weaker associated both with femininity and youth.

tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PetitePride

[Odysseas]

Why people especially from the US, think that the rest of the world works the same way as their society. Across the Mediterranean countries, tall women are considered "more attractive" and I think that's the case for some other European countries as well. So, it's not as much of a "universal" preference, as this take presents. I prefer tall girls myself for example.

[VaIiant]

I think I actively lost brain cells reading this MyTake. Especially since you went and hid behind Pink Anon, probably fully knowing this Take was retarded. What, are you 5'0 and think you keep being rejected based on height?
FYI, I'm 5'3, and I think tall, and short, women alike are beautiful. Tall women have longer legs, can look more elegant. Beauty comes from your face, being healthy, having a good personality. Not by how tall you fucking are. This was retarded.

[Mornin23]

Look, I can see why a lot of guys prefer short girls, but for me, the only benefit of being with a short girl is that it's easier to pick her up. I'm a very tall guy, and while, yeah, it'd be weird if a girl was taller than me, I don't mind a girl being 6'. Honestly, I prefer it. I'm confident in my masculinity, or whatever you want to call it, I don't need a super small girl to confirm that, and a girl being taller means I'm not craning my neck to look down at her. A short, or even average, girl for a guy my size seems like a miniature person. So yeah, guys like to be taller than their girls, but it really depends on the guy.

[Audiofox]

Okay, I guess as a six foot tall woman I’m not allowed to exist and be considered attractive at the same time.

Beauty isn’t one size fits all. Just throwing that out there if we’re on the subject of being judgmental.

[plsgiveadvice]

PREACH I'm 5'8 us tall girls gotta stick together lol

[NYCQuestions1976]

@Audiofox Would you ever date someone shorter?

[Audiofox]

@NYCQuestions1976 I would and have. I was in a long term relationship with a guy nearly a foot shorter than me.

[NYCQuestions1976]

@Audiofox Very cool. I'm 5'6" and have dated women shorter and taller. However a lot of times women who are taller than me look past me both literally and figuratively. 😂

[AuroraRoseat]

I disagree. Men are individuals and have varied tastes. They don't prefer one more than the other. This is heavily biased against tall women which many men do prefer.

[devilish-cutie]

its funny have people can't understand term GENERALY... like yeah, there are individual cases where guy will prefer taller girl, or lets say even 30% of them prefer taller girls while like 60% of them prefer shorter girls and maybe like 10% doesn't care about the height at all
But like 90% of guys want girl shorter than them and like 10% dont care

[dantetheexplorer]

Statistics please. Where did you get 90%? Link?

[devilish-cutie]

@dantetheexplorer published statistics are unreliable, this is street knowledge

[dantetheexplorer]

Okay. So as long as I say something and claim that it is "street knowledge" it obviously must be true. Let me tell my scientist and researcher friends to quit their jobs. 96% of women have inverted belly buttons. Street level.

[FýrdracaDócincel]

"Public statistics are unreliable, this is street knowledge."

I'm using this^ Thank you.

[devilish-cutie]

@FýrdracaDócincel
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[Berethor]

@devilish-cutie and guys who say that they don't care, tend to be very desperate.

[Kaneki05]

This take is wrong and i don't mind tall or small, 1st guys don't care if they can surrive on less food no guy ever goes oh yes what good reason if someone told them that, also most guys don't really want that many children like i only want 1 or none, they have better bodies then you clearly have never seen tall girls bodies and ps there about the same good in most mens eyes. I think the only one on this list that was right about why guys like smaller girl cause there cute.

[Berethor]

And that guys tend to feel more masculine around short girls, and rightfully so.

[Berethor]

Yes shortness is a feminine trait, and it's also true for mammals in general.

tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OneHeadTaller

[Chief16]

Yeah... No. I don't think so.

[OatsnWhey]

Lol speak for yourself dude, I’ve always had a thing for tall girls. I think it’s superior genetics and simply means I’ll have taller and stronger kids. If you need a small and weak girl to feel masculine, then you’re not very masculine in the first place. My girl is about 6ft and I’m one inch taller than her. Still feel like a man. My sense of masculinity isn’t that fragile.

[Anonymous]

Dear god...

*"Women are supposed to look weaker" + "Which makes guys think the girl is submissive" -
You must be sooo boring in bed if you think this is how it is.. nahh i like being a switch so i can dominate my boyfriend in bed, as well as switching to wrapping my long legs around his waist or over his shoulders for when he wants to take the reigns.

*Next time, conduct a survey if you wanna pretend you know your shit. Many men in these comments are replying they'd prefer tall women. Which you could've known if you actually talked to men enough. But it seems you, a female, just are making random assumptions. Why? Is it to make yourself feel better about your possible short height? Dw babe, men are all different. Some like us tall, some like us short.

But what do I know, right? Im dating a shorter guy, and our relationship is going strong. Your empty words tooootally have solid proof over others' relationships😂

[AD240pCharlie]

It's still a general fact. Men IN GENERAL tend to prefer shorter women, just like how women IN GENERAL tend to prefer taller men. It says nothing about an individual man or an individual woman.

[Opinion Owner]

@AD240pCharlie This is wrong considering many men that i have met "in general" have said they like a taller woman especially because of the long legs. Maybe not you, but many.

[Opinion Owner]

It's more of a fact to sau some prefer short and some prefer tall, not "men prefer short"

[AD240pCharlie]

I never said that "men prefer short", I said that "men in general prefer shorter women", which IS a fact, just like how it is a fact that women in general prefer taller men. You cannot use your own experiences as an argument against statistics, because your experience is just that; YOUR experience. I know fully well that many men prefer tall women over short women, my friend (who's an inch shorter than me) prefer women his own height or taller, but I don't use that as a counter-argument.

[Opinion Owner]

@AD240pCharlie "men prefer short" is the title of this mytake, to which your first sentence of reply is "it's still a general fact". That means you agree to it even though you didn't directly say it. But if you wanna retract that for your following point, i understand.
This mytake is implying all. Youu are saying in general. Thats two different things. Making the debate between you and i redundant.

Now, my experience, along with the milions of others' experiences and preferences aren't not-credible just cause according to you they're in the minority. But once again, you brought up an argument to which is not what i was referring to and therefore this went over your head. But i will point out that in your separate point, you are accounting for some Western preferences only, not other countries where a taller woman is actually looked at differently.

[AD240pCharlie]

That's a common misconception, that what we find attractive is based on our culture. It CAN be, but it's most often based on our biology and genetics. Just look at the west! Most models are tall, and in media, tall is considered more attractive, but yet - if you look at what men (IN GENERAL) claim to prefer - short women are actually seen as more attractive, even if our culture doesn't agree.
But anyway, that wasn't the point, and yeah, I understand why what I said can be misinterpreted, but there are also many people who try to use their own experiences as an argument against facts.

[Opinion Owner]

@AD240pCharlie But that "can be" is what i mean. For instance, in Australia, and i assume America, tanned girls are ideal (as with men). There are tanning salons, people trying to toast themselves in the sun at beaches, etc. But in countries like Korea, and i thiiink Japan too, it is beautiful to be pale. They're actually borderline-racist when it comes to darker-skinned individuals, because in the olden times, the darker skinned were the ones who worked out in the sun, whilst the wealthy got to stay in, sheltered and relaxed with their skin staying pale & untouched - a sign of wealth. Anyway, im side-tracming, sorry, my point is the beauty standard there is culturally pale, but west; tan. Thats all i meant when bringing up beauty differences of different countries.

I see, I respect your opinion. But I have to disagree. I can't go with these alleged statistics when all around me, I see the interest in tall over short girls. Just look at the comment section here, even. But i get you.

[Jemini_Crocket]

I am short in height 5'2 (average here is 5'6) but I don't have small shoulders nor small feet.

Number 3 is not true by the way. Nor no.4 because it depends on your hip to waist ratio, on your other measurements not just the waist size. Also, many tall women have their admirers. If short girls would be so wanted, they'd be the ones who do modeling. Not the 5'7+ tall ladies.

[Berethor]

Sure but on the other hand most guys are not dating with models anyway, and girl who might look good on the screen, is not necessary look good when she beside guys.

[Jemini_Crocket]

True but there still is a plenty of women around, especially here and so far from I have seen and read, guys like them very.

[dantetheexplorer]

I find it amusing that some Anonymous woman on GAG is telling men what we prefer. Because of course, men are all some hive mind and we all agree to have the same preferences and we can't make up our minds on our preference until some woman tells us so. *rolls eyes*

I've dated girls around my height (184 cm) or slightly shorter at 178-179 cm. Most are athletic girls as I find the athletic built attractive in girls. I felt very masculine going out with them, thank you very much.