I’ve seen people consider even 5’7" as short for some reason so i’m curious if it has happened with someone

  • @RBWells@lemmy.world
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    42 days ago

    I’m a tall lady (for my area, though shortest of my siblings), about the average height of guys here, and yeah. Some guys have sounded very accusatory actually - as though I grew tall on purpose to make them feel short. Oddly enough, none of those were literally short guys.

    No big deal, I like my height, shorter is not something I’ve ever wished to be. All 3 of my long term relationships have been with guys about my same height.

    • @Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      I’d consider myself to not care about if my partner was higher than me.
      But if I am really honest with me, I do think it would hurt my pride if my partner was taller.
      I am totally fine if equal or whatever else size. But I believe if the personality is near total hit and fits mine, I could totally see past that.

  • Kangy
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    102 days ago

    I’m 5ft11 and I think I just get rejected for being myself rather than my height 🤷🏼‍♂️

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    I’m guessing you’re a man ?

    I’m 5’4 male and average looking and a bit chubby

    Dude, if you have decent hygiene, are a basic human being and treat people with respect, you will rise above all the other men who are stupid, racist, sexist, entitled pieces of shit

    The bar is set REALLY low

    Really Really low

    Also if someone rejects you for your height consider he/she is doing you a favor by signaling he/she is not mature / has fucked up priorities for a relationship

    • @Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      This absolutely. I’m a 5’1" lady, and I do like my partner to be taller than me, but basically everyone is taller than me.

      If you lined up every man I’ve dated over my lifetime, you’d see men from 5’2" to 6’4".

      The right people are there for the person, not shallow bullshit. Hygiene is the best indicator, yes. Good hygiene, nice person, you’ll find success.

      When my now husband told me he was 6’3" my jaw dropped. Sure I was happy (he can reach the top shelf for me) but I seriously wouldn’t have batted an eye if he was shorter

      Date kind people, not shallow cunts and you should be okay.

      I dated one guy who told me he was 5’10". He was kind of a cunt. He was actually 5’7". It just showcased his insecurity. I didn’t like that. Wear yourself with pride. No one choses to be short/tall. Accept yourself and others will too.

    • dil
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      People do get rejected for their height lol, ppl are shallow, all woman aren’t saints, what you should be saying is you should avoid anyone that cares about height, theyll remove themselves and its a non issue, ive had girls attracted to me calling me 6 foot be less atteacted to me visibly when I corrected them and said im actually 5 10 no logic in it lol

      • @surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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        42 days ago

        People do get rejected for their height lol

        People also get rejected for not being 300 lbs. Everyone has tastes.

        I think the number of girls out there ACTUALLY rejecting people for height is not as many as you’d think. And good riddance.

    • @jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
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      The bar is set REALLY low

      There’s a saying “the bar for men is in hell”

      I thought it meant there was a drinking establishment for men in hell. They go and drink with the devil, and that’s where they get all their bad ideas. They’re doing shots and the devil’s like “say she’s fat”, and the guy is like “good advice bro”.

      Turns out the saying just means the bar is super low. So low you don’t even have to jump. It’s so low, it’s deeper than the depths of the earth and in the fires of hell that burn below.

      But yeah, so many men are so horrible, it’s shockingly easy to rise above them.

      • dil
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        33 days ago

        How old are you, im curious if its a generational thing, like mid 20s women will straight up openly say theyd never date a man under a certain height openly in public lol

        • @jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
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          I’m ~40, so I don’t date or spend much time with people in their 20s.

          I have seen the occasional profile demanding a certain height, but I just skip on it immediately.

          I wonder if it correlates with other attributes? I’m also very left wing so I don’t interact with conservatives much, for example. Maybe “I need a tall man and I’ll say it out loud” happens more there?

          • dil
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            ive seen both political ends say it, some ppl are hung up on height for whatever reason

      • dil
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        idk im thankful for my friends but ik its a bubble forsure, everyones divisive and shallow lately, woman especially, because modern woman, have infinite choice, you wont feel content, compared to modern average dude with minimal choices desperate to keep what they can get coming off desperate and insecure lol

  • @SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    I’m 5’6. Yeah. So much. I was rejected like crazy for my height in my teens and early twenties, but I lived in a particularly shitty part of the United States, so I’m not surprised in retrospect. I also dated a ton, so there was a lot of opportunity for rejection. I even remember a woman I was not interested in and had shown absolutely no interest in going out of her way to tell me she would date me if I wasn’t so short.

    I relocated to a much more progressive part of the country and it hasn’t come up once in nearly a decade.

    Edit: I should mention it was only an issue with women, I never heard anything about it from men.

                • @LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world
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                  I’d say it’s a expression that does have gender associations, but it’s not offensive or anything to call a woman dude in the right context. If anything it is usually used as a gesture of camaraderie, in this case because a woman has suffered in a way that men can understand.

            • @SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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              53 days ago

              Can be agender, can be a gender.

              Fuck dudes, hanging with the dudes, “… Duude…”, “sex with dudes”

              Same with bro or man. Also, progressively, defaults shouldn’t be masculine and people shouldn’t push that narrative.

              Like, “I like having sex with multiple dudes at the same time”, but, also, my gf is not a dude, dude.

              But ALSO to complicate things further, sometimes chicks ARE dudes or bros just because they want to be and that’s okay. And the more you think about that sentence the more your brain will hurt.

              I dunno. Just… Don’t be a dickhead and respect people, and it’s probably fine. “Gotta know the rules before you break the rules.”

    • MaggiWuerze
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      Being 205cm (6’9"), yeah what kinda problem is that? Now let me go tend to the bump on my head from running into a doorframe again

        • MaggiWuerze
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          it’s fine I only have a 47 (13.5) so I can still buy them in regular stores. usually around 50€ if it is everyday wear1

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            I’m at 13 and have a hard time with availability in stores sometimes. I’m so glad they didn’t get any bigger than that.

            P.S. thanks for the translation.

            • Sixty
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              13 days ago

              13 too, I usually go with the Ecco brand. Last forever and the shops usually have a few models in stock that aren’t Runners.

            • MaggiWuerze
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              Once you know what brand you like, you can usually get them online pretty easily. That’s what I do most of the time nowadays

      • Sixty
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        53 days ago

        At a mere 6’5" over here, how do these examples make you feel?

        Bus seat, airplane seat, powered car seat, Toyota RAV4.

  • @Flickerby@lemm.ee
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    I lucked out into being born 5’10, not tall enough to need special clothes, but short enough so the shallow “6ft or nothing” women self filter themselves and I don’t have to deal with them myself. I had a buddy who was 5’4ish who was an absolute disgusting human being but always blamed being alone on his height, also have a buddy who 5’2ish and married to an absolutely wonderful woman

  • @slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org
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    73 days ago

    I’m too tall for that. But on a lot of dates i go, the woman tells me that she’s glad i’m tall and then tell me a story how they went on a date with a short guy and how awkward that was.

  • @thevoidzero@lemmy.world
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    My ex did tell me I’m shorter than she wants her bf to be. I was still talker than her by 2-3 inch but she wanted me taller than her in heels. And suggested I do exercises to get taller.

    I ended it with her soon after that. I think if someone has thought like that, there are other common patterns that makes the relationship too much to worth it. My wife now is same height as me and we’re happy about that, height difference of several inches seems weird/difficult to imagine now.