Thinking that women would benefit if they were more open minded about height in a potential partner…

Charm , wit, repertoire of good jokes, cooking skills, ability to coax birds from trees, lovely handwriting…………

or the boring ones, eye wateringly huge bank balance, the ability to kill with their bare hands, always able to get good tables in restaurants, fleets of cars at their disposal?

Are you the same poster who was on here last year with this curious obsession concern, @Moonfishstar ?

I don't know any women in real-life who have ever stated they wouldn't date a bloke under 6 feet on principle.

what an odd thread......

Mmm - perhaps they may have had other 'qualities'....

I don't think there'd an epidemic of single short men or an epidemic of lonely women holding out for someone who's 6'2. The main issue with short men is if they have a complex about being short

Objectively some people are very attractive, and will have lots of people attracted to them. Others will have less. That's a fact of life. Short men probably have less people attracted to them than some tall men, but there are still plenty of women that are attracted to short men.

The majority of people who want a relationship find someone who is attracted to them. I don't know a single women who is single purely because they refuse to dat short men

I don’t like overly tall men. I know other women who also don’t really go for tall guys.

I had a brief foray into online dating a while back. The only profile I recall was a man who simply said 'I'm tall, very tall. That seems to be the only thing anyone is ever interested in about me, so I am skipping the rest'.

Sorry, but for me the taller the better! I grew up where the men (father, grandfather, and cousins in the family were all 6' 2" or more). At 5'8" myself I didn't feel 'right' with men of my height or less - can't explain why though. It just felt awkward.
Incidentally my DH is 6'3", so I was clearly drawn to taller men. We've been married 52 years so something was right!

Please dont make me deal with short man syndrome on top of every other dating pitfall please!!

I'm 5 ft 2, I dated a lad who was 6 ft 4 when I was in sixth form. It did not work! I hurt my neck everytime we snogged and he almost broke his back!

Being short doesn’t seem to have stopped Bernie Ecclestone, Putin, Macron or Sunak from finding women, sometimes multiple women.

This is only a thing on social media. In real life, women don't care! My DH is 5 ft 6, my dad is 5 ft 7, my BIL (married to my sister) is 5 ft 4 and my stepdad is 5 ft 8.

I liked to date men who were taller than me , but I'm 5 foot 1 , so I was hardly cutting off a large portion of the male population 😅 my dh is 5 foot 11 , so hardly a giant but he's tall enough to reach the top shelf 🙈

I don't find men who are shorter than me sexually attractive (I'm 5'9"). Can't help it.

I agree.
Men have historically and biologically had less at stake than women so can have a different attitude.
Men are taking less of a gamble, and care about looks at a push. Women are perfectly allow to want a certain height or wealth.

Yes but maybe the 15% is because they think people will fabricate their height slightly if male so 5ft 8 is actually 5 ft 6 and average height for women is around 5 ft 4/5.

I certainly never had a 6ft requirement, my DH is 5ft 11.
I did have a has to make me laugh, is easy going and not a knob requirement however!

Well DH is 6ft but I'd have gone down to 5ft 10. Not smaller. I find short men unattractive. I like tall men, not skinny.

I prefer tall men
my other half is 6ft 3 and pretty much any one I’ve dated seriously has been over 6ft

5ft 10 -11 would be the lowest height for me 😂
I’m 5ft 6 myself so with heels I can easily be 5ft 9

I just wouldn’t physically fancy a short guy no matter what

I might like them but I couldn’t see myself with them long term

but then again I wouldn’t date someone who smokes or was a big drinker either

Yes, same. I'm 5'9". I only need him to be 1" taller. I have accepted that I might pass up a really good man because he is shorter than me, but I can't get past my insecurity.

I think women can be attracted to whoever they're attracted to. I'm sure similar could be said about men dating older women or larger women or women with a certain hair colour or whatever.

Fwiw, I've dated men ranging from 5'3" to 6'5". None of my friends who have dated were bothered by a man's height.

This! I'm 5ft 9 barefoot and don't want to feel like the butch one in the relationship. Nothing to do with societal norms 🙄

Yeah, but @Moonfishstar wasn’t suggesting women should consider shorter men because it was ‘kind’ or ‘fair’. They were suggesting women will miss out on fantastic partners who just happen to be short if they set height as an absolute red line.

I did not set out to find a tall one, and I did not realise (until this post) that having bagged one was a win.

Now that I know this, a sense of smug superiority is setting in and it’s pretty good.

I'm going to be honest, I have had 3 boyfriends, including DH and they have all been 6'2 or 6'3. I wouldnt date someone shorter than 6ft and I am just shy of 5'2.

I did have a taller friend have a go at me once saying the tall men should be reserved for tall women!

But the heart wants what it wants...

I have a friend who seems to only consider relationships with men who are very tall. In some cases it was the only 'positive' trait they had! Some of her boyfriends in their 30's didn't have a steady job/trade or any qualifications and lived with their parents or brother - but they would be 6'4😬
She has been single for a while and although I am hopeful she will meet someone nice, I really think her obsession with height will make this difficult.
Having said all this, she is the only friend I've had who is that obsessed with height. Another old friend of mine seems to prefer men closer or only slightly taller than her own height, which is around 5'6".