Marrying UP
Frank Silbermann
>Re: marrying "up"
>
>There seems to be an unspoken agreement as to which way's up.
>Would someone care to enumerate "the" list in some order? Is
>the key income, occupation, or ????
>The proverbial mother's list I know is based on occupation
>ordered by median income.
Don't forget height.
Not many women are willing to consider a man who is SHORTER.
This may be less problematical than marrying up economically, however.
Men are likely to remain taller on the average (even with the ERA),
despite feminist attempts at consciousness raising. :-)
Frank Silbermann
AMBAR
> >Would someone care to enumerate "the" list in some order?
> >The proverbial mother's list I know is based on occupation
> >ordered by median income.
>
> Don't forget height.
> Not many women are willing to consider a man who is SHORTER.
I like the difference to run 6-8" in either direction. I would hate
to get the impulse to kiss my SO, but have to climb on a kitchen chair
first. It works the other way too.
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Dana S. Nau
>Don't forget height.
>Not many women are willing to consider a man who is SHORTER.
Perhaps this is unusual, but I've had THREE serious relationships in which
the woman was 1/2 inch to 1 inch taller than me. No, I don't have a
penchant for taller women--it just worked out that way.
By the way, I'm 5'6".
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Greg Woods
> to get the impulse to kiss my SO, but have to climb on a kitchen chair
> first. It works the other way too.
But just think of the fun you are missing! I am 6'5" and my fiancee is
4'10", and we do just fine. We find that curbs and stairways work better
than chairs, though... :-)
--Greg
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Frank Silbermann
>> to get the impulse to kiss my SO, but have to climb on a kitchen chair
>> first. It works the other way too.
In article <hao.1633> wo...@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods) writes:
> But just think of the fun you are missing! I am 6'5" and my fiancee is
>4'10", and we do just fine. We find that curbs and stairways work better
>than chairs, though... :-)
I bet the very tall women and the very short men that see you together
hate you guys. :-) ;-) :-)
Frank Silbermann
Gregg Mackenzie
> to get the impulse to kiss my SO, but have to climb on a kitchen chair
> first. It works the other way too.
6-8", Ambar? C'mon, now. Don't you think we can see through this
clever little double entendre? You sly fox, you! :-)
(Sorry, given my warped sense of humor, I just couldn't pass it up.)
Gregg Mackenzie
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I am not short. I am 6' 7".
Though I am comfortable with my height (clothes fit, I dont bump into too
many door frames, and I dont think about my tallness very often), I wonder
how this extreme enters into the equation.
My first few relationships were with rather short women (under 5' 4") and
most women friends are at least a head shorter. My grandmother (5' 2") once
advised me that things even out horizontally. Snuggling does work rather
well. But I am as (slightly) embarrassed by publically hugging a head as my
hugee is about sticking her nose in my chest or, alternatively, my armpit.
Tall woman (> 6') are rare, or seem to be. Perhaps they hide. (One of
my sisters says she is 5' 12".) But due to their scarcity, compatibility
is less likely. Ah sigh, such is life...
Dan LaLiberte
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> I am not short. I am 6' 7".
>
>
> most women friends are at least a head shorter. My grandmother (5' 2") once
> advised me that things even out horizontally. Snuggling does work rather
> well. But I am as (slightly) embarrassed by publically hugging a head as my
> hugee is about sticking her nose in my chest or, alternatively, my armpit.
>
> lib...@uiucdcs.Uiuc.ARPA
> ihnp4!uiucdcs!liberte
To the best of my knowledge, I have only dated one
person under 6' -- and I am 5'1". ("To the
best of my knowledge" means that I may have forgotten
about someone else who was shorter than 6', someone
I did date was a bit shorter and never told me, or
someone under 6' may consider what we were doing
as "dating," and I didn't know it! :-)
In men I tend to find attractive all the things that I don't have:
a deep voice, height, blue eyes, facial hair. . .
Vive la difference,
Pooh
P.S. Say, Dan, want to be agressive together? :-)
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the air clears,
Little by little
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Rea Simpson
> But just think of the fun you are missing! I am 6'5" and my fiancee is
>4'10", and we do just fine. We find that curbs and stairways work better
>than chairs, though... :-)
Another 4'10" person exist in this would? That's how tall I am. I dated
a guy in high school that was 6'7.5" tall. Yes, stairways work best, but
I find the height difference to be a pain. Slow dancing it totally out.
I did slow dance with him at his wedding though. A lot of people laughed.
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Greg Woods
> a guy in high school that was 6'7.5" tall. Yes, stairways work best, but
> I find the height difference to be a pain. Slow dancing it totally out.
> I did slow dance with him at his wedding though. A lot of people laughed.
Why is slow dancing totally out? Who says your feet have to touch the
floor? :-) It's more *fun* that way! Yes, I know we look a bit ridiculous,
but what difference does that make? If I had allowed some totally arbitrary
criteria, like height, to cloud my perceptions then I would not have met
the most wonderful woman I've ever had a relationship with. This is really
a trivial issue. I can't believe people would really let this get in their
way. Let 'em laugh, who cares? Besides, when she's that small it's a *hell*
of a lot easier to carry her over the threshold... :-)
--Greg
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Paul Czarnecki
>>
>>The proverbial mother's list I know is based on occupation
>>ordered by median income.
>
:-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
My pet theory is that women want to move up alphabetically. The closer
to the head of the alphabet your are, the "better" you catch is. I
think that when my wife moved from a "Welch" to a "Czarnecki" she did
pretty good.
Oh no! But what will our (future) daughters do?
(For those of you who want to flame that a woman doesn't HAVE to change her
name when she marries and that I am a horrible cretin for forcing my
wife to accept such a concise melodious name like "Czarnecki", consider
the fact that she wanted my name voluntarily. It was a decision that
she made. (and I don't necessarily approve of))
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Rea Simpson
>> Another 4'10" person exist in this would? That's how tall I am. I dated
>> a guy in high school that was 6'7.5" tall. Yes, stairways work best, but
>> I find the height difference to be a pain. Slow dancing it totally out.
>> I did slow dance with him at his wedding though. A lot of people laughed.
>
> Why is slow dancing totally out? Who says your feet have to touch the
>floor? :-) It's more *fun* that way! Yes, I know we look a bit ridiculous,
>but what difference does that make? If I had allowed some totally arbitrary
>criteria, like height, to cloud my perceptions then I would not have met
>the most wonderful woman I've ever had a relationship with. This is really
>a trivial issue. I can't believe people would really let this get in their
>way. Let 'em laugh, who cares? Besides, when she's that small it's a *hell*
>of a lot easier to carry her over the threshold... :-)
>
>--Greg
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been involved with have been over 6' tall and I've never gone out with
a "short" guy (take that anyway you want). I just find the extreme height
difference to be a pain in the neck (literally) sometimes. It would be nice
to just be able to lean over and give him a kiss while were standing up
with out having to ask him to bend down or go stand by the stairs.
I guess everything in life can't be perfect!