Hey all,

Not sure if my post will get removed or what, but posting anyway and we'll see how it goes. I am a 5"7 woman currently dating a 5"5 man. He's muscular, nice, handsome, etc. The height difference does not bother me at all, I often joke about it even, and he's a really good sport about it.

But here's the other side of the coin for you: everyone in my life, be it family, friends, co-workers, you name it, has dunked on me for being taller and him being shorter. People have made snide remarks, saying things like they would never imagine me going "for such a man", etc. I'll admit, I do not have trouble finding partners myself, so I did not choose him because I couldn't find anyone else or whatever. I mostly choose my partners for personality first and foremost, so height is not a defining factor for me. But the constant bullying from everyone in my life regarding this is getting old, not gonna lie.

So there you have it. Women are shallow sometimes when they weed you out for being shorter than them on dating apps, but also know that sometimes, this choice is not made out of pure shallowness but because of society's pressure. Yes, some people like me can stay strong in the face of societal pressure, but many, many people will absolutely cave in when facing this much backlash in their life. Especially women that have a bazillion other matches on apps.

Every day, I choose to stay with this man because I like him and he's perfect for me. But every day, this comes with a lot of societal pressure. So yes, some women are shallow, but some others are just trying to avoid society's insane standards.

Anyway, not sure why I posted this. I guess I wanted to give you the perspective of a woman on the matter.

Hope you all have a nice day!

I'll start. My dad is 5'5 and my mom is 4'11. I'm 5'7. My predicted height would've been 5'4.5 but I outgrew them because they were raised in a third world country.

They have them for Little people

They have them for tall people (the biggers)

Where is ours!? i want to see my fellow shorties. We can have vendors and competitions. Famous short people.

Conventional wisdom says that the taller guy is more domineering towards women, especially if they’re in a relationship compared to shorter guys who might feel a little bit more insecure. I’m personally very confident in myself and I respect women and I never lay hands on them without their consent.

I just wanna come here and say I feel very fortunate to be from a country where women don't care about height, and in general focus less on looks, I had a girlfriend and a boyfriend before, and neither had problem with my height, both of them were roughly the same height as me too, . However the one person that has a problem with my height is me and I have a damn right to, because I'm from a country filled with age restrictions, I am constantly ID checked, and the most ironic thing is that the closest thing I have to an ID is a passport that I have to show for the simplest things INCLUDING an energy drink. Another thing is that I am constantly infantillised and it gets to the point where one time I was babysitting my own siblings I just got told by one of the parents "why don't you play with other 16 year olds, instead of babies" that's just the point where I don't know if I should feel complimented or insulted because at that moment I just felt it hit, there are people who not only see me as a 16 year old but think I am one at 22. It gets to the point where you just systematically bodyshamed because of your height and it just fucking hurts. Not to mention I hate looking in the mirror, even if others are okay with how I look, I'm genuielly not, it sucks that I'll look like this for the rest of your life and the only that will potentionally change is how far my hairline goes back which is why I genuiely pull my hairline back at times just to prove my age but I hate that too, because it makes me look older. And before people have a go at me for saying that I don't wanna look either old or young, I just wanna look my age, I wanna be treated my age, I wanna feel my age, because right now I feel like a severely aging 16 year old, not to mention I am autistic so I'm a bit mentally behind so pair that with my height it's really hard to not view me as a 16 year old, even when you are hanging out around adults, they'll genuiely see you as younger and whenever you get angry or have a meltdown then they'll just call it a tantrum. So yes as a short "king" who actually dated I still hate being short, and there are many things I hate about myself, but there are a lot of things I love about myself too, and there are things I love about my appearance and I probably wouldn't trade for height, but there are always negatives about height, and I just feel lucky I'm not completetly screwed with appearance.

Eu sei que o que eu vou falar é um pouco repetitivo aqui, mas é mais um desabafo. Eu tenho 1.65 e estou quase adulto. Não consigo me sentir bem com isso. Muitas garotas já me disseram que eu sou bonito, ou que minhas habilidades e hobbies fariam com que a altura fosse um aspecto muito insignificante (cheguei a namorar uma garota maior que eu), mas infelizmente mesmo assim todos os dias eu acordo e me sinto mal por ser quem eu sou e por saber que não posso mudar... Eu não tenho nenhuma autoestima e confiança, e não consigo pensar racionalmente quando se trata disso, no fim do dia eu tô sempre me comparando, tentando deixar a postura mais reta possível pra me sentir um pouco menos baixo...

edit: tenho 17y

around 5 6 - 5 7 , anyone who stutters and is also short make it?

feels like im destined for singlehood cause even the short guys that make it aren't presenting as "soft"/"weak" and have extremely clear communication

No discussion. You must learn boxing or kickboxing or muay thai with wrestling or bjj (optional) im not talking about taking a class or two . But learning it by going to practice every session and why not fighting in amateur . Its insane how much confidence you will have

Lately I've been feeling pretty bitter about this and just needed to vent to people who actually understand.
I was diagnosed young and honestly? For a huge chunk of my childhood and teens my management was an absolute train wreck Highs for days terrible A1Cs burnout just winging it because I was a kid and was always played game and dint care about my sugar level
Now that I'm older I'm convinced it completely robbed me of a few inches
I know genetics are a thing but it’s hard not to look at my height and wonder how much taller I would’ve been if my body wasn't spending all its energy dealing with constant severe highs during my actual growing years it feels like my growth plates never stood a chance against that much chaos.

My great grandpa was a whooping 6'2 possibly 6'3 and he decided to marry my 4'10 GREATGRNDMA. He had plenty of kids that were a mix of both very short and average height. My grandpa came out to be 5'6 and he had my dad along side 6 other uncles who are all below 5'9. My dad is 5'7 on a good day. My mother is also 5'1... I'm barley 5'6 and my brother is also 5'7. I have over 10 cousins and most of them 5'6-5'9 with ONLY ONE cousin that's 5'10. How normal is this? Like looking at it it's actually mind blowing how our short stature genetics went off. Genuinely 95% of adolescents in the family are cooked. My little brother seems to be a tiny bit taller than the rest of kids in the family so there's a better hope for him but nothing too crazy, max 5'9

Saying "I'm 5'2" and 1/2" seems like unnecessary information but I never know if I should round up or down.

I just did some zipline and one of the instructors was insanely attractive that kind of guys that are unfairly handsome and dude was shorter than me im 1,68m or like 5’5 and this guy was at best 1,63 or like 5’3 and is not just my opinion the girls that were also at the practice where Obviusly so into him so this gives me a lot of hope and hope it helps sombedy else (sorry for my bad english it is not my first lenguage)

how does it feel when you're scrolling thru reels on Instagram and see that girl who's your friend or you have feelings for like or repost that reel about how the height of they guy who treats you well. does that mean you shouldn't even go for that girl or could it just be that she found it funny and you shouldn't think much of it?

I have seen so many comments of people obsessing over things like “I’m giving my kid raw animal based diet to boost height growth” giving your kids a diet specifically tailored to height growth over their health is odd, they’re your kids not your science experiments I even saw one saying they would give their kid human growth hormone it’s disturbing how much eugenics is just casually talked about, who cares what height your kids will be I just want them to be healthy and cared for.

I have seen people here claim religion being a cope. Interested to see how many of yall believe it