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lizard47 is offline lizard47 Post #131  November 17,2008, 1:20pm
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Hey tbesq if 5'4" than I wonder why I have always been told I am really short when I am 5'3"??





Ok, back to the topic: I do not know if it is always that I want a tall guy but with the exception of one guy all my ltr relationships have been with guys that are at least 11 in taller than me. I do not put a criteria on height, but have realized that I like tall guys. I do not mind that I have to go on tip toes to kiss him or hug him. It just is what it is.


I have however experienced having tall girls put me down because of the guy I am dating. I was out shopping with my ex and had gone into the changing room. I heard the 2 ladies talking about the good looking guy waiting by the door and the one lady said yeah but did you see the short thing that was with him. They then went on to say other mean things regarding my height, length of legs and how can I possibly satisfy his needs and such. I just never understood what their problem was.


I also have a friend who is very tall and her husband is just slightly taller than me. When my ex and I would go out to dinner with them the hostesses would always assume that my 6'3" ex was with my 5'11" friend and her husband was with me.


My personal opinion is that the height does not matter but the person inside, I do not disregard someone just because of their height. In fact the one that I will always hold as the one that got away, was my same exact height(well technically I was taller according to the heights listed for him on the soccer program and mine listed in the volleyball program). But as I said I just seem to wind up with tall guys.


What I do not get is guys who inflate their height on their profiles; do they really think that women will not figure out when we meet? For me that makes a red flag because if a guy feels the need to lie about their height, what else are they going to lie about.


In my book, anything shorter than 5'5 or 5'6 is short, be it a guy or a girl. But since the average woman is 5'4, it wouldn't be fair to discriminate against a woman for only being an inch or two below that. But if a guy is 5'9 (the average height for a man), a lot of women consider that to be short (even if those women aren't even close to that height).


As for your question of why do men lie about stats, they do it for the same reason women lie about their age or their weight. Yes, it is pathetic; the woman will find out eventually. But it's almost like athletes who take steriods. Men don't feel so bad about doing it if women are doing it, they probably figure that if you aren't cheating then you aren't trying. If you like about your appearance, things can only get worse.


Tall women get on you about dating tall men because they figure that tall should date tall, and short should date short. It's like black women who get upset when white women, who can have anybody they want, date their black men. It's the same garbage. It's all garbage.
You are right it is all garbage Though I have to say when I asked my tall friend about it today she said that short women were lucky because our dating pool is so much larger than tall women. There is another thread going someone where about dating someone just for their looks, I guess this falls under that too dating someone just on their height. Outside will change so look at the inner too.
 
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I've always been curious as to why short women seem to want tall guys...I'm 6'7" and have noticed a lot of women under 5'4" or so who make advances to me. I never really understood it, though I've been involved with some.


BUT I definitely prefer tall women, 5'10" and up is my preference, and heels too. I feel much more comfortable looking more eye-to-eye and we fit together better.


I look at all my matches but I close out most matches who are short. Just don't want to do that anymore :-)





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Gr8Guyn2008,348268 wrote :

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I'm a 6'5'' male. I'd like to meet that 6'0 tall, blonde, long-legged athletic beauty some day, but it hasn't happened yet.


I know a 6'0" (so she claims though she seems a lot taller than that to me) slim sort of blond long legged girl for you.
Have her come on board and send me a message ;-)
 
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cinco,348603 wrote :

I've always been curious as to why short women seem to want tall guys...I'm 6'7" and have noticed a lot of women under 5'4" or so who make advances to me. I never really understood it, though I've been involved with some.


BUT I definitely prefer tall women, 5'10" and up is my preference, and heels too. I feel much more comfortable looking more eye-to-eye and we fit together better.


I look at all my matches but I close out most matches who are short. Just don't want to do that anymore :-)





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I actually dated a guy back in college who was 6'7" and I am 5'3". The funny part was when we first met I was doing a presentation and he was the volunteer, I pulled out a chair to stand on so that I could talk to him face to face.


I cannot say why short gals like tall guys, for me I just seem to date all tall guys. It is not a concious thing it just happens that way.
 
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I think it is called living vicariously through the other person.....if we're fat, we want somebody thin...if we're poor we want somebody rich...if we're butt ugly, we want somebody handsome/pretty, etc..etc...not saying this is always the case...and I've heard some people do this so that they kids will have a more 'balanced' characteristics....(one mate is short, and the other person is tall, hopefully the kids will at least be average height).


Don't kill the messenger..this is what I heard on the street.


But enough of that...I'm 5'8"...any of you cute girls wanna date me?
 
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As a tall woman (5'11") , I get really peeved with short girls who go after tall men. Listen up shorties, stick with someone your own size and leave the tall men for us !
 
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tallchick,399815 wrote :

As a tall woman (5'11") , I get really peeved with short girls who go after tall men. Listen up shorties, stick with someone your own size and leave the tall men for us !
I've never dated shorter girl than myself (5'5''). I had the greatest success with girls of height 5'6'' - 5'7''. It is really strange. And in the meantime I figured out that taller girls are more stable, lot more fun and I share lots of common things with them (we all blame short girls), so I have a few rather tall female friends, actually my housemate is a 6ft tall girl she is the loveliest girl I've ever seen. In the end I might end up with a really tall girl, just like Bernie Ecclestone (5'4'') with a 6' tall model. You know, marriage, family and companionship is that we are really after and that has no height restriction only personality criteria. I know a 40 year old friend who would settle for a marriage with no sex if a man with reasonable personality would accept that. She only feels chemistry for the wrong men. And it happened to another female friend that chemistry has developed along the way.


I think I am prepared to be alone, but this doesn't stop me from making friends, those are the most important in life anyway. However, I also wonder why these short girls complain to me that their boyfriend is a jerk. After all they choose those agressive alpha males instead of me. The best comment I had from a suffering female friend: 'why all men aren't like you'. Well if all men were like me the human race had no future.
 
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I'm 6'2" and notice that women 5'6" and under don't want to give me the time of day. Women 5'8" seem to give muchmore attention. In between it's hit or miss. I think it's just simple compatability. Nothing to complain about. I like women short or tall. Doesn't mean they have to like me. I've gotten to the point that I don't even bother with women under 5'6" unless they show some real interest.
 
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The answer to this is easy: Women are genetically programmed to want the men that look like the best provider, someone who looks like they can protect them, and a tall man tends to elicit that type of feeling, at least for me. But, what do I know, as I married a man who is 5' 7". We are now divorced, but not because of his height.

Another reason, at least for me, is that one associates a tall man with a bigger you know what. The man I married didn't really have a big you know what and I found myself not as satisfied in bed as I had been with past boyfriends who were taller. Yikes! I know I am going to get a lot of backlash from this, but I am only talking from my experience.
 
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cinco wrote :
I feel much more comfortable looking more eye-to-eye and we fit together better.

I want this too. I'm 5' 3" so I don't go for tall men.

It's also a good way to make sure everyone is shared out nice and evenly. Tall women for tall men; short women for short men. It's good to have a system.
 
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