Why are girls hypocrites when it comes to height?

[SillyMentat]

Girls always say guys are more shallow than girls, putting looks before anything else. However, most girls won't even consider a guy shorter than them for dating. Yet, if a guy were to say for example "I won't even consider a girl who has breasts smaller than 34 C or weigh above 110 lb" he'd be yelled at for being a shallow pig. How come girls aren't considered shallow for having these height requirements when they're clearly that: shallow?

[Yeahhbro]

Yeah I hear you man, its OK for them to judge guys like that and call them pigs but if they do them its OK because they have preferences. Off course they also make the mistake to assume that all guys care about big boobs, when in fact that is not true at all. I can tell you right now that a guy will have sex with any woman, but a women wouldn't have sex just with any men. See what I am getting at?. Plus must men do not care so much about looks per se, but somebody to have sex with, that is why we prefer skinny women than fat women. We also would like to have sex with more women than women would with more men. See the difference?. Double Standards? I think so.

[sinful1620]

Girls care more about physical appearance than guys do. Girls are also more critical of other girls' looks than guys are.

Really, everyone's shallow. I'd say young men are shallower than young women (like... 14-19 year old range) but other than that, women are shallower than men on average.

[Niko-r]

First off I know plenty of men who set those standards, so why shouldn't women? I'm not saying it's right to do so but its true men expect women to look like celebrities these days, and it's not realistic. It's also wrong for women to judge a man based on height, but I also know a lot of guys who won't date a girl taller than them so you're doing the exact same thing to women.. Lets not point fingers here though, bottom line is, we do it to each other, its a media problem not a gender problem. The media creates these images of the perfect men and women, and its so unattainable. Don't hate on women hate on the media!

[aly-marie]

I don't find it hypocritical, but then again I don't judge guys for how they choose a girl. Height is definitely one of my things that I probably couldn't get over. We all have one or two. You don't really know someone when you just see them on the street, so looks are all you have to judge at that point, and some factors are more important to you than others. Sometimes people take it to an extreme where it might be called "shallow", but I usually don't think it is. You get interested in someone based on their looks, and then whether you stay with them or not is based on how you end up getting along.

[Greeneyes4242]

They are considered shallow, just like the guys who expect a girl to weigh less than 110 lbs and still be at least a C cup. But just like guys differ on their level of shallowness, so do women. Some guys will put restrictions on their girl (as you said above) and some women will vow to never date a guy shorter than 6 foot. Even so, those guys and girls (I hope at least) don't represent the majority of us.

[Channeleddan]

Hopefully not, or else I'm going to have a lot of problems! I'm pretty short at only 5'9".

[Greeneyes4242]

I don't consider 5'9 short, honestly. You'd be 9 (well 8 and 5/8ths) inches taller than me :)

[Channeleddan]

Thanks, I appreciate it. It sure seems like I'm short because something like 95% of the guys I see are taller than me :(

[sassyg1rl]

I don't think it is a conscious decision, probably more subconscious and attraction driven. Girls who do have a physical check list for their potential mate are shallow...

I personally don't care about height, only care about how muscular a guy is. I've dated guys who are 5'5" - 6'9".

[bunny420]

I don't see anything wrong with attraction being hypocritical.