Why do so many people think women under 5'5 are short?

[TommyWiseau69]

The worldwide average height is 5'3

[MCheetah]

I think any woman 5'6"/167 cm and under is short.
The so-called "average" does not mean optimal or ideal, and so many people cannot understand that. The average American woman weighs 167 pounds, but that doesn't make it "the perfect weight" for women. It only means America has an obesity epidemic.

Likewise, being short as f*ck, like 5'10" for men or 5'5" for women, doesn't make you not short just because it's "average" when the optimal height for Homo Sapiens is 6'0.5" or 184 cm for males and 5'7" or 170 cm for females (especially pre-dating the Agricultural Age 6,000 years ago, when humans WERE fully sized and not the dwarves they've been since then).

All the "average" means is that 90% of y'all human being suck ass and have sh*tty health and genetics. Literally only northern and western Europe have things right. Their politics may suck, but their health and genetic optimality is on point!

In short, "average" is not "acceptable" in any metric or "good" whatsoever and only underachieving losers think that. ("Average" people, that is.) No one gives a f*ck what the "worldwide average" is when the "worldwide average" person on Earth doesn't have enough food to eat, is starving to death, and makes $0.50 a day. You ALSO want to be like that, too?

[SnowedIn]

Possibly because those people are taller than 5'5" and therefore anyone shorter than they are is short.

[TommyWiseau69]

That still doesn't make sense. Most guys are taller than 5'5 so thats retarded logic to think that the only women that are short are under 5'5. Its possibly average and tall guys that have manlet mentality. If women under 5'5 are short then that means that guys under 5'10 are short too. Then the only ones not short are those above average height.

[Sour-rose]

... Because they are?

[TommyWiseau69]

The worldwide average height is 5'3.

[Sour-rose]

Well as someone who might be taller and see them able to at least touch their thigh... maybe that's why

[TheSpaceGnome]

Because they are stupid.