The notion of dating a guy demonstrably shorter than me is a possibility bordering on highly improbable.
The likelihood of said dating height difference eventuating is about as plausible as a committed vegetarian fighting a carnivore at an all you can eat beef buffet.
Vertically blessed sometimes feels like it should be re-labelled vertically challenged. It’s not easy trying to blend into the social idealism of the female norm. At 6′2, add to that overweight, I blend in about as successfully as a stripper at a mormon convention.
It’s a well known fact, well it’s well known to me at least, that a tall guy, will make a bee-line for the shortest woman in the room. Sometimes so short a simple kiss between said short girl / tall guy would necessitate a step ladder extended by her or some serious chiropractic bills accumulated by him.
A couple of times i’ve momentarily considered dating a shorter guy, not Grant Denyer short, but short enough that you could see a difference. But the more I thought about it, the more I realised I just couldn’t. I mean really couldn’t.
I don’t think im being dominated by appearances or superficial or heightist. I just think it’s a preference. A very real preference. One that doesn’t conjure up images of an amazon & a pygmy.
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June 12, 2008 at 9:53 pm
Claire
Ok, totally agree it’s a preference. I’m 6′1 and my fiance is 5′8 and it works for us. My perception changed after him – always dated tall men and then an amazing, short guy came along….
July 31, 2008 at 9:36 pm
Richard
Melissa,
Tall woman are a product of a machist world, plus are also a product of been given the power to lead by people and on top of all of this most of them have a contradiction. So they are given the power to lead from a very young age, because people literally look up to them. So people tend to follow them and expect them to know more through out there lives– just like a guy in most cases and that is not just a coincidence—But at the same time they are also a product of a machist world. Because they are thought form a very young age that a girl has to be smaller or tastily said inferior than the guy they are with. So they do as society tells them and they look for a guy taller than them. The thing is that when they do find a guy taller than them. They do as they always have done in their lives and try to take the lead of relationship. After all tall girl are formatted that way by society also. The contradiction within them comes here. Sense we live in a machist society guys in general are given the power to lead even more rightly so than tall girl, especially the tall guys. So you could say that tall guys are the most machist of all guys because they are used to having things done there way even between the guys. So having said that; you cannot have 2” decider” in a relationship, like that Bushisms says. Tall girl are too similar to tall guys to get along, they both want to be the” decider” at the same time. That is the contradiction. That is the reason why tall girl generally end up marring shorter guys. Because of this, shorter guys tend to be easier going than tall guys and more willing to give tall girl the lead if they wanted to have it. So Is not that tall girl did not find taller guys because they were too tall– because there are always more tall guys than tall girl– is more that they did but most of the taller guys were not compatible with them. I am willing to bet that if girls would have been the taller of the sexes we would be living in a feministic- society. So in that seems is not cool to call a guys a machist because the hole society is the machist (including the girls in some cases specially them, Melissa).
You know; Because of this is that I find so ridicules the typical stereotype of the guy been always the taller one in a relationship. It like saying that a girl can never be more than guy–Because supposedly this looks ridicules– What looks ridicules upon further analysis is a girl wanting to be less than the guy she is with because she does not know any better.