As a gentleman of advancing years I have SO much love to offer.
Unfortunately as I'm only 5'01, none of us will ever find out.
It's a self-perpetuating cycle:
Nobody will give us a chance because we're short.
Then, from other threads on here, a man with little or no dating history on their CV is a big no no and raises red flags.
So we have nothing left but to either try and assert ourselves more and make us stand out among a sea of giants or sit at home (lockdown aside!) & fester. Either of which earns us the label of Small Man Syndrome!
To those who have said that it makes you look and feel like you're out with a child...
By that logic, do you not then feel like you are dating your Dad or your older Brother when your man is taller than you??
Do you shave or wax - so it looks like a child's?
See how batshit it sounds when worded that way around?!
As for lying about our height with OLD - I've done this. But always told any potential matches after only a few messages.
It's not about thinking you wouldn't notice - it's about just getting a few matches so that hopefully a few conversations can be started and then maybe you'll see beyond the height (or lack of!!) and see the person inside.
Indeed, when I put my real height - 0 replies.
Make myself 5'8+ - Ample replies, a good rapport, etc. etc....
Admit my real height - Get told either "Sorry, I want someone taller" or "ha ha ha - that's tiny!" (Yes - that really happened!)
Lying about our height to get some matches (as long as we confess before meeting) is no different to you doing your hair and makeup before a date. Or saying your "Curvy" for overweight.
If anything - that's worse. You now know how tall I am... But I have no idea what you truly look like without a full face of makeup and 2 hours in the hair dressers!
The only way I'm going to lose my virginity will be to pay someone to take it off me - but even that's frowned upon in here!! (not that I would!)
I completely get the way nature works and you're pre-conditioned to go for the big, strong alpha male, etc. I'm not looking to change that, nor am I hoping this post will make you all swoon and form an orderly queue.
I'm just telling it from how it is down here. Y'know - amongst everybody's knees as they joke about resting their drinks on my head!
And yes - as a bloke, I like boobs! We're genetically wired to like a mate with a nice pair who can feed our offspring in the same way you're genetically wired to the tall protector.... But that doesn't mean we instantly reject a woman just because of the letters printed on the back of her bra.
Seeing the daily posts by ladies who have been hurt by their selfish, lazy, feckless, cheating arsehole of a "D"H or "D"P - I assume most of these arseholes are taller!
And because they're taller, they don't have to make the effort - the ladies will swoon for their protective 6' frame even though he's a wrong'n!
Anyway, I've probably rambled enough now. (Too much time on my hands - no wife or children, even the circus doesn't want little people for their side-shows anymore!). Just thought I'd add the perspective from down here.
Give us shorties a chance - nobody wants us, so the chances of us cheating on you is zero!! :)
Think of us like those puppies at the rescue centre - Begging for someone to take us home so we can love them forever! :p
(I'm house trained and don't have a wet nose!)