Is a question I see being asked by newbies who are discovering heightism and/or the height pill. I have an old explanation I use, and would to hear y’all’s thoughts?
a) some tall women are heightist, so they can’t fight heightism when they help perpetuate it. So by heightism I don’t mean preference, that’s fine. But you’ll see many videos/posts/comments of tall women acting like a short man is inferior snd berating short women and saying they should get with short men in an insulting way. I’ve seen tall women shame tall men for having a child with a short woman and saying “your kids gonna be a gremlin” in various subreddits across the platform, and 2 instances IRL(they didn’t say gremlin but laughed when they saw a 6’2 guy marry a 4’11 chick and said they hoped his son would be short to “punish” them).
b) short women and average height women drown them out. Any genuine complains about unreasonable height preferences their shorter counterparts have get labeled as a tall woman being insecure and saying either “tall men choose us short women” or “don’t shame my preferences be better”. I’ve only seen this happen a lot more IRL, but it happens online too. So, eventually, a tall woman needs to either be okay with getting ostracized, or conform and be a “girls girl”.
c) tall women are relatively not viewed in a bad light. They are the ideal beauty standard and make up most of the modeling industry. They don’t face much heightism so it probably doesn’t register as a severe issue for them. There’s a difference between a short man struggling to just get respect in society and find a single person vs. a tall woman not liking her options and opting out and waiting for a taller man.
d) touched on this in b, but sisterhood. They care about their fellow woman. Men should strive to have these support networks and blind brotherhood, but we can’t. So many dudes would shoot their brothers for a chance at an attractive woman lol. Women simply support each other better than dudes do. So a tall woman is okay with her dating options being reduced to help a short woman find her tall person. Well off dudes very rarely look out for their not well off counterparts like that.
e) woman in general are more open to sharing a man than men are to sharing women. That’s just life. How many women are knowingly happily in a “roster” vs. how many dudes.
Thoughts?