I do like a well-built tall man if they are great in every way. I wouldn't prioritize height though over intellect, humour and good-looks and I have dated shorter but very handsome men in my time.
I do think the height thing is odd though, I had a female friend who was desperate, literally desperate to settle down and get married, and when I asked her about her online dating preferences, she always put tall and dark, thus filtering out lots of perfectly nice men who might have been great for her in other ways. She also put down 'no children or previous marriage' and then complained that all the late twenties/early thirties guys coming her way were too immature and didn't want to settle down!
I couldn't get her to see that these restrictive criteria were stopping her meeting the full gamut of men (especially as she was very clever, so needed someone similar)- and that relaxing some of these criteria didn't mean settling for someone who wasn't attractive to you, but rather opening you up to a wider range of what is attractive than a very conventional Prince Charming type who always (unsurprisingly given how women fawn over tall dark and handsome men) turned out to be absolute pigs in their behaviour.
In the end, she met a shorter than her, fair-haired slightly balding guy in a pub and married him!
I think sometimes these 'I only go for tall guys' people are cutting off their noses to spite their faces if they then go on to complain there aren't many guys out there. It's like the men online who only date size 8 to 10, fine if you are happy to wait it out for your slender mate, go right ahead, but you are cutting yourself off from vast swathes of people who may be rather attractive and perfect for you in so many other ways.