Why do women care so much about a mans height?

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Almost all men and lots of women are taller than me.I'm a hair over 5ft2.

Im 6 ft 2 and I usually end up going out with short women and every time I ask why they like tall men they answer because tall men make them feel safe.

Speaking as a hetero male, it makes a difference to me I like girls who're shorter than me, but not so much that it's ridiculous.

I used to work in retail and no line manger -- or 2nd in command even --, was a small fellow. They were all tall. It's like people associate responsibility, intelligence and social skills with tall men, even if it's not true and shorter men are better qualified. Hell I've been called short many times - mostly by dickheads - and I'm 5'10 falling to 5'9.5 by bedtime. Even medium men can suffer heightism.


Nobody knows for certain why men's height should be important to us but it certainly is important to most of us.
Perhaps it evolved for climate; in warmer, non-forested regions such as Africa people have longer bodies. In colder polar regions and jungles, a compact height is favoured. Since the word is warming, and we live in warmed houses in cold countries, perhaps we will all evolve to be tall?

Maybe a small pack of tall hunters (say 4 guys all averaging 6'0) had a better chance of scaring of f.e. a dangerous Lion than a pack of 4 hunters who averaged 5'4. Perhaps it evolved for battle and to win mates. Taller men, pound for pound have a harder strike when hitting downwards and better leverage.

A recent survey conducted by university psychologists found that most people of average height range for their gender would prefer to be taller.

It also found that most men preferred a female partner to be 4 inches shorter than themselves, while most women preferred a male partner to be 8 inches taller than themselves. 8 inches is roughly the size of a human face. So I think most women ideally want to snuggle their head under a mans chin! Clearly, different people have different preferences when it comes to the ideal difference in height between themselves and that of a partner but those were the most popular differences selected by the people who took part in the survey.

I know for a fact from my own experiments with different male 'sock puppet' profiles on online dating sites, men between 5'11 and 6'6 received by far the most female attention. I created a profile of a good looking man of 5'3 and slim build and he didn't get any messages in the 4 month period. The 6'3 guy got the most: 241 unsolicited messages in the same 4 month period.

There is no logical or practical reason why, in a heterosexual relationship, a man should be taller than a woman. It's just the way things usually are and it's the way that most people appear to prefer things to be.

I used to work in retail and no line manger -- or 2nd in command even --, was a small fellow. They were all tall. It's like people associate responsibility, intelligence and social skills with tall men, even if it's not true and shorter men are better qualified. Hell I've been called short many times - mostly by dickheads - and I'm 5'10 falling to 5'9.5 by bedtime. Even medium men can suffer heightism.


Nobody knows for certain why men's height should be important to us but it certainly is important to most of us.
Perhaps it evolved for climate; in warmer, non-forested regions such as Africa people have longer bodies. In colder polar regions and jungles, a compact height is favoured. Since the word is warming, and we live in warmed houses in cold countries, perhaps we will all evolve to be tall?

Maybe a small pack of tall hunters (say 4 guys all averaging 6'0) had a better chance of scaring of f.e. a dangerous Lion than a pack of 4 hunters who averaged 5'4. Perhaps it evolved for battle and to win mates. Taller men, pound for pound have a harder strike when hitting downwards and better leverage.

A recent survey conducted by university psychologists found that most people of average height range for their gender would prefer to be taller.

It also found that most men preferred a female partner to be 4 inches shorter than themselves, while most women preferred a male partner to be 8 inches taller than themselves. 8 inches is roughly the size of a human face. So I think most women ideally want to snuggle their head under a mans chin! Clearly, different people have different preferences when it comes to the ideal difference in height between themselves and that of a partner but those were the most popular differences selected by the people who took part in the survey.

I know for a fact from my own experiments with different male 'sock puppet' profiles on online dating sites, men between 5'11 and 6'6 received by far the most female attention. I created a profile of a good looking man of 5'3 and slim build and he didn't get any messages in the 4 month period. The 6'3 guy got the most: 241 unsolicited messages in the same 4 month period.

There is no logical or practical reason why, in a heterosexual relationship, a man should be taller than a woman. It's just the way things usually are and it's the way that most people appear to prefer things to be.

I haven't really noticed this. I've never heard any woman complain about my height.

They think that height and dick size are correlated.

I'm 6'3-4"
Apparently only 15% of the us population is over 6'

Never helped me

Women do find taller guys attractive and men tend to find smaller girls attractive. It's biological. I don't know how many would refuse to date a non tall guy though. They exist though I've seen bunch of profiles say must be 6' or taller.

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I'm a woman and I don't care about a man's height.

I'm 5'11 and live in the Bay Area. If I only dated men who were taller than me, id be ruling out 60-70% of the men in my area.

I can get having a preference for it, one cannot always help which things they find to be attractive...but yeah I think women taking it so far they have a height requirement is certainly a good way to limit options. I've never really thought about height when dating except worries about a guy being too tall and thus making it a little awkward to walk around together.

Yeah, I know a lot of the women who posted in this thread said "I don't care about height" and yada yada, but it does seem to be so widespread now.

I understand the pain and rejection a little bit myself, because my heart was broken by a girl who was just "decent" looking for my tastes (but really, she was very cute in my tastes) and she decided to date a guy couple inches taller than me instead.

I mean, if even a "decent" girl will date somebody else other than me, what are my real chances then?

I think there may be some sort of inequality issue between types of men and women (and men and women themselves) in finding somebody to date today. It's sad, if it happened as an issue in only ~20% of society, that would still be something that should be fixed or minimized.

I like girls how they are, I don't have their physical limitations and blessings as something I care too much about, how they use their form to express the energy within is more important than what their form is, I'd be delighted if I decide to romance again and find a curious lady who is seven feet or four point seven tall