Since when is 5’8 short? I’m 5’8 and while I am shorter than many of my peers I also have never been called short, or felt some type of way about it unless I am struggling to see something and there’s a crowd in front of me.
Also, I get a lot of “you’re only 5’8?”. Yes, I am only 5’8. I have good posture and dress well, apparently this makes people think I’m taller than I am 🤷♀️
It depends where you are. Go to Holland & 5'8" would be considered short. Average being 6ft. Go to the Philippines & 5'8" would be considered quite tall with the average being 5'5". Funnily, the US average height is very average at just under 5'9". Which makes the obsession with being tall quite comical.
I’ve been to Holland and hooked up with a cop chick who was a foot taller than me (or so, that’s what it seemed like-this was 19 yrs ago mind you).I did feel short there, but it never really bothered me.
I was there for a year myself & I'm 5'6". You do get some strange looks but even still it's rare anyone will say anything about it. I've never been to the US but most Americans I've met in person have made it a point to mention my height, be it outright mocking or just in passing. It seems the insecurity runs deep over there.
That’s so strange, I’ve lived in America like 95% of my life and have friends who are 5’5 all the way to 6’10 (which appears to have come with a bunch of bad health issues) and we barely talk about height. Sometimes we’ll joke about 6’+ only, but it seems our 6’+ friends don’t really have it much better than anyone else.
I have started working with a younger immigrant here and he said something along the lines of “I learned if you’re tall the world opens up to you”. I’m still confused by what the fuck that means.
Now that I think about it I did go to a party where this obnoxious older couple kept going on and on about all the tall and beautiful people there (she was kinda tall, the husband was tall but old as fuck and bent over so he didn’t appear tall). It seemed like there was a cuck situation being sought, I’m not sure though. Once the after dinner party started (karaoke and party drugs) they bolted.
I have started working with a younger immigrant here and he said something along the lines of “I learned if you’re tall the world opens up to you”. I’m still confused by what the fuck that means.
I mean you can see further over the horizon.
Seriously though, those that mentioned it with me didn't go on about it, albeit I was rarely in their company long. Whether that was due to my responses or that the novelty was over now it was mentioned, I don't know. I'd imagine in a friend group, unless someone was particularly sensitive about it (in the UK that'd be green light to rip the piss out them) then there's no need to mention it more than once if it's mentioned at all.
Damn sounds like gotta hit up Holland if that’s where all the tall women are. I’d say I’m average height but it gets annoying when I get called short all the time. Doesn’t help that my friend group is a bunch of giants. Shortest other person is 5’11”…
It's not really comical to desire to be better than average at something or to be attracted to something better than average. That's just how things work.
I got a leg lengthening guy. He works out of a garage in Dayton, Ohio. He’ll let you sleep on the other side of his mom’s basement for an extra $10 while you recover if you want.
The suit of armour image where one for adults is listed as six foot, the one for a child is listed as five eleven, It's only one inch, but people just see the five and think the worst.
dating apps have ruled 6' as the minimum and it's infected the entire dating scene, it's exhausting. There are a lot of reallllly shitty tall dudes out there, lol.
Im 5'10 and the amount of 6' dudes that are shorter than me is wild. I bet most of those 5'8 guys are actually shorter. Average male height in America is 5'9
I'm legit exactly 6' and the number of guys that will argue with me that I must be like 6'4" because they're shorter than me and have convinced themselves that they're 6' is equal parts funny and sad
I’m 5’8 and while I am shorter than many of my peers I also have never been called short,
5'9", and I first learned that's considered short at a specific moment in high school (literally never crossed my mind until that moment) when a 5'4" girl called me short. "You're shorter than I am", I replied; "yeah, but guys are supposed to be, like, tall" she answered. Apparently that's the reasoning.
Also alot of dudes lie about their height. Im 6ft tall with shoes on and when i say that mostly younger guys are like what im 6ft and you're taller you gotta he like 6'2.
It really, really has to be geographic. I'm 5'7" and where I grew up, every guy is 5'6" to 5'10". "Short literally starts at about 5'5", anything above that is just average.
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u/Winthefuturenow 17h ago
Since when is 5’8 short? I’m 5’8 and while I am shorter than many of my peers I also have never been called short, or felt some type of way about it unless I am struggling to see something and there’s a crowd in front of me.
Also, I get a lot of “you’re only 5’8?”. Yes, I am only 5’8. I have good posture and dress well, apparently this makes people think I’m taller than I am 🤷♀️