SHORT MEN
Debbie Enright
I though that article on short men was hysterical.
I'm 5' 11" too and have always found that "SHORTER" men
(than I) were attracted to me almost like a fetish!
I like men taller than me (same reason, I don't want to be
taller than him, especially in heels).
Maybe some of you guys could clarify WHY YOU LIKE WOMEN THAT
ARE TALLER THAN YOU.
I would be interested............
stan shebs
>
> Maybe some of you guys could clarify WHY YOU LIKE WOMEN THAT
> ARE TALLER THAN YOU.
>
It's because if they're tall enough, we get a nice soft place to
rest our heads while standing up... :-) :-) :-)
At least for me, it would be a nice change. Sadly, all of my SOs
have been shorter (some dramatically so!), and I'm getting a permanent
crick in my neck from looking down. Subconsciously, it feels like
a position of dominance (an atavism no doubt), and that's uncomfortable
sometimes...
stan shebs
Marguerite Czajka
Maybe the guys like taller dates for the same reasons you do! A lot
of people feel this way - that the man *should* be taller. I would be
interested in knowing why you feel that's important!
Mitchell Marks
level, we view height as a positive personal characteristic, and shortness
as negative. If so, then this works within men's mindsets as much as
within women's. You listen more respectfully, more ready to defer, to a
taller person; and perhaps find height more attractive in a MOTAS.
I sure wish I had the details here, to get it right. Corrections
are welcome. There was a study which did a longitudinal follow-up of an
entire graduating class (or just the men?) at some college. (Sigh, I
suppose it was Harvard, and we will see comments like Whaddya mean ``some
college''?) One thing they investigated was which factors, available at
the time of graduation, would have been the best predictors of income ten
years later. The best correlation of all -- more than grades, major field,
or even family socio-economic background -- was height.
As you see, my recollection of many of the details is quite sloppy,
but the one point I remember most definitely was that height came out as
the single best correlation. (If the study was just men, of course it
doesn't say very much about how it works for women.)
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-- Mitch Marks @ UChicago
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Snoopy
> I'm 5' 11" too and have always found that "SHORTER" men
> (than I) were attracted to me almost like a fetish!
>
> I like men taller than me (same reason, I don't want to be
> taller than him, especially in heels).
>
> Maybe some of you guys could clarify WHY YOU LIKE WOMEN THAT
> ARE TALLER THAN YOU.
Well, first of all, the average height for adult males in North
America is somewhere around 5'10" or 5'11" (anyone have exact
figures for mean and standard deviation?), so about one-half
of the men are going to be equal or shorter than you in height.
Why do men like women that are taller than they are? Why shouldn't
they? Why do you like men to be taller than you are? WHO CARES?
I don't worry about whether my date is shorter or taller than I
am. Most of them happen to have been shorter, but I barely notice,
much less care if she happens to be taller. If the difference
were three or four feet it might be a consideration, but as long
as it's less than a foot or so, who cares?
(and what's with the heels fetish? They're hard on the back/legs,
more difficult to stand/walk/run in, and unattractive (at least
to this beagle's eyes))
Snoopy
tektronix!hammer!seifert
Adam was a man who thought he was a loner,
'till he met a friend named Eve.
Don't ya know they had a good thing goin',
till they picked an apple off that tree.
Put it back!
Put it back!
Put it back where it once belonged.
A prize (yet to be determined, but not to worry, I'll think of something)
to the first person to correctly identify the composer of these alternate
lyrics. And of course, apologies to the Beatles.
Eric Hestenes
> taller than him, especially in heels).
>
> Maybe some of you guys could clarify WHY YOU LIKE WOMEN THAT
> ARE TALLER THAN YOU.
Well, I get a sore neck from shorter companions.. If someone is more than
6 inches shorter than you some serious bending over is required.
After a long time with someone a foot shorter than I, a taller companion
might just give me back my posture. ( And give me someone I can look up to ).
What annoys me is when a ( gorgeous ) female who is my height or 1-2
inches shorter craves someone 'noticeably taller'. Maybe girls get used to
going out with taller males, especially since males are usually taller.
The 'average female' is going to be shorter than the 'average male'.
How this relates to height preference, I don't know.
What does anyone think about going out w/MOTOS who are the SAME height,
not taller or shorter?
It is perhaps the case that our culture prefers the tall, for no sane reason.
Tall often seems equated with beauty ( i.e. most models are tall ).
The real question is, when you add height, do you add beauty?
eric
David Ross
> Maybe some of you guys could clarify WHY YOU LIKE WOMEN THAT
> ARE TALLER THAN YOU.
>
>
> I would be interested............
Well, actually, I think I'd be a little uncomfortable going
out with a woman who was a lot taller than me (I'm 5'6"), although
the majority of my SO's have been a little bit taller than me (just
lucky, I guess :-)). At any rate, I've found a lot of women to prefer
men who are much taller than them; I remember seeing a personal ad once,
placed by a woman 5' tall who was looking for a man 6'+. This sort of
thing can make life frustrating after a while.
There's a good book on this whole subject, called "The Height
of Your Life", by Ralph Keyes, in which he talks about the role that
height plays in American society. One chapter goes over how height and
romance mix (or don't mix, as the case may be). Interesting reading.
David Ross
NYU Medical Center
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s. dugan
> Snoopy
> tektronix!hammer!seifert
>
> Adam was a man who thought he was a loner,
> 'till he met a friend named Eve.
> Don't ya know they had a good thing goin',
> till they picked an apple off that tree.
> Put it back!
> Put it back!
> Put it back where it once belonged.
>
> A prize (yet to be determined, but not to worry, I'll think of something)
> to the first person to correctly identify the composer of these alternate
> lyrics. And of course, apologies to the Beatles.
MAD magazine?
--
Sarah E. Dugan
"You have to kiss a lot of frogs
before you find a prince."
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Frank Silbermann
> I sure wish I had the details here, to get it right. Corrections
>are welcome. There was a study which did a longitudinal follow-up of an
>they investigated was which factors, available at the time of graduation,
>would have been the best predictors of income ten years later. The best
>correlation of all -- more than grades, major field, or even family socio-
>economic background -- was height.
I've heard recently that on the average, women earn only $0.59
for every $1 men earn. This would explain much of the difference.
After all, women do tend to be shorter than men.
Frank Silbermann
l...@rochester.uucp
going out with) a taller woman. Actually, in the period since the
LA Olympics, I have had this strong desire to meet Flo Himan (sp?),
the ace volleyball player who is the same height as I am.
lee