A tiny (no pun intended) rant about women and short guys.

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I don't get why they don't like them. I mean, we short guys are cute!

Here's where it begins...I am watching "Blind Date," and this woman didn't like the guy she was dating because he was a few inches shorter than she was. I mean, this guy was everything this woman ever wanted-personality wise-but she didn't care for him because of his lack of height!

I'm a 5'5", 21 year old male who has this same problem too. Women often turn me down because I'm too short for them. :eyes:

I shake my fists towards you tall guys!

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I'm 5'3" and 52. I had the same complaint when I was younger. Frankly, I couldn't buy a date in high school.

Time went on. I had my first girlfriend in college. I've been married twice and fathered two fine sons by my second wife. Since the divorce, I've had a couple of serious relationships.

Whatever the problem was, over the years I outgrew it.

and weighs 180. She said she'd like to go out with you. Interested? If not, you're just as bad as the women who won't date you because you're short.

I am 6'2" and have women say that I was to tall for them. So, it works both ways. Find someone of a comparable height. Sex is less awkward.

I'm 5'6" and 27. I've actually dated a couple knockout girls who were both 5'9" (at different times of my life, I'm not Hugh Hefner).

Of course, both went for tall guys right after me. Back into the dating scene, it's hard to get some women to look past the height. Maybe I need to find some 4"11" gymnast or something that I can tower over.

I think things are better than they were when I was a teenager, and hopefully they continue improving, but I'll continue shaking my fist at the tall guys.

("Things will get better" attitude added on edit)

there's this tiny little blonde on my campus who is 4'11". She's hotter than hell too. I should hit it up with her.......but my twin bro is into her, so forget that.

My bro-in-law is 6'1"

It takes all kinds

I am of average height - 5 feet 6 -- and I've always liked guys who were near my own height, more or less. Too tall and it is hard to walk together hand in hand. Of course, I probably wouldn't be attracted to someone who was 4 feet 6; but anything around 5 feet or more is OK, up to 5 feet 10.

My husband is 5 feet 7.

and yes I have dated several. I liked 'em because I never had to adjust the car seat. :D

it's just the women I ask out who have the problem with me being short.

you have good insight into their personality already. :D

...is much easier and more fun when the man is shorter than the woman.

(just my two cents :smoke:)

as llong as there are no napoleon syndrome there. except that i am sorter, well, have a long distance thingy with a 6'11' guy. oh my.

When the right woman for you comes along, she isn't gonna give two hoots about your height, because she is gonna see you for you.

Trust me on that!

(And for the record, I am a female, but nevertheless I am rather short, at just under 5'1".)

...who's dated guys up to 6'4" and girls up to 6'2", my philosophy's always been: Lying down, everybody's the same height.

But, seriously...

If I'm guilty of anything, it's preferring women at least as short as I am, if not shorter. (I just like seeing eye-to-eye, literally.)

Of course, I haven't dated a guy since half-a-lifetime ago, but the most fun guy-date I ever had was barely 5'4". Small men can be waayyyyyy hot, if they're full of confidence (not arrogance, and not if they have a "little man's syndrome," i.e., a chip on their shoulder). It's personality that fills a room -- who cares what fills a doorway?

Listen, guys, your mother was right: If such a trivial thing like height is a hang-up for a woman, then you don't want to go out with her anyway.

P.S. My father was just 5'6", and women of all shapes and sizes adored him. He didn't look Cary Grant, but apparently he was just very sexy. (Don't ask me how -- that's my father we're talking about!)

"Lying down, everybody's the same height."

I once thought I had a helluva lot of confidence, but I found out it was just a case of "little man's syndrome." You know, we little guys have to prove ourselves to the bigger men. We can't let ourselves be pushed around by them. At least that's what I lived by in high school.

I'm still cute as hell, though. :evilgrin:

If such a trivial thing like height is a hang-up for a woman, then you don't want to go out with her anyway.

I got dumped once because I was the same height as the woman. Not shorter; the same height. Something I had absolutely no control over, of course. After about a year of dating, it suddenly dawned on her that she didn't like that.

I was grief-stricken at the time, but in retrospect it was the best thing that could have happened to me.

But I dated someone 5'5" once and my husband is just under 5'9". The man is what matters more.

a note: in my limited experience tall, does not necessarily mean "tall" in all places (though it doesn't mean it isn't), and short doesn't necessarily mean "small" either.

And he's always complaining about how short he is and I'm always complaing about how fat I am. However, he's hilarious, very organized and has money as well as being hot, so he always has women fawning over him. I, however, grew up overweight and poor, still am overweight and poor, and I married the first female I'd ever been in a serious relationship with.

Yet he still complains about being too short. *sigh* He just doesn't know what side of the bread his butter is, I guess....

Together, we kinda look like Don Quixote and Sancho Panza.

:hug:

I was very tiny growing up (I'm female and 4 ft 11) It was hard to get dates as a young teen because who wanted to go out with a "shortie" :(

I think what we perceive of our "shortcomings" gets less and less important as we get older. Height doesn't matter to more people than you may realize.
I'm cuter than all heck myself by the way. ;) snort.

You say you are 21? Maybe some of the gals you run into are just a tad immature. :shrug: nothing against young people, just I remember being 21 and I thought I knew what I wanted from relationships(boy was I wrong)

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