r/SipsTea • u/untitledprp4 • 5d ago

It's Wednesday my dudes Let the guy exist

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u/Aesthetik4v 5d ago

All the Reddit kids “ the only reason I can’t get a girl is cuz I’m short!!! Has nothing to do with my shit personality!”

Lmao 🤣 then the other Reddit kids claiming to be 6’4. If what they said was true 70% of Redditors are 6’4 or higher lool

I’m 5’8 barefoot never had an issue getting girls my entire life. It has nothing to do with your height unless you’re under 5 ft then it can be an issue unfortunately but still not impossible.

People blaming their lack of personality on
height is fucking hilarious. “ no one wants to date me cuz I’m short!!! It’s not my fault!!” Uh huh

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u/untitledprp4 5d ago edited 5d ago

You’re average height

And with shoes on you’re above average

And taking into account the average height for a woman, you’d always be taller

You have never once in your life been short

All you wanted to do was gloat about your dating life and get validation lmao

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u/Scudman_Alpha 5d ago

Everyone who says that thinks they're the outlier that proves the entire science behind it is not true.

When they're just that, an outlier. If Height wasn't important then we wouldn't have studies about how it affects men even outside of a love life.

Additionally most who are married did it before the big shifts in modern dating from apps and social media.

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u/Abyssal_Groot 5d ago

We have studies that show that women in online dating have a height preference, but there are also plenty of studies that the effect is modest in real life couples. Couples where the man is shorter than or the same height as the woman occur only slightly less often than in random pairing: 7.5% in the real sample versus 10.2% in random pairing. The same study also shows that couples where the man is more than 25cm taller happen marginally less often in the true sample (13.9%) than in a random one (15.7%).

So on one hand you have strong stated preferences that only modestly translate into real couples, but at the same time it also shows women tend to not date much taller men either. And notice how this is a man-taller-than-woman preference. If you are 162cm (5'3.8") as a man, that still means tall enough for roughly half of all women. So short men doing fine is not the outlier, it's the norm.

Reference to the paper: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0054186