It's as simple as this: there might be a lot of women out there who will reject a short guy, and there are certainly plenty who will at least reject him at first impulse. But I'd bet money there are a LOT more women who will reject a short guy who is insecure about it.
Moving on, OP, it seems you're making life tougher on yourself with your "preference" for tall blondes. You know what that really is? A manifestation of your insecurity for being short.
You feel they're unobtainable to you. You feel like there's some need to "prove yourself" by being with women who are supposedly out of your field of options.
On the surface level, it'd be easy to say that it's great to challenge yourself and push for higher limits. In this case, however, I'd say it's just a self-defeating desire. There's no reason to find taller women more attractive and focus on exclusively obtaining them like some kind of achievement other than the fact that pop culture deems taller women more attractive.
I mean, you want to go to Europe and compete on height at 5'5? Come on, man. A tall guy could go to Europe and feel short.
Go to Europe. Bang your heart out while you're there.
But don't aim for some magical game level where taller women will "forget your height." I definitely know short guys who pull more tail than most other guys I know, but it isn't as if the women they date suddenly forget they're with an alpha ass short guy. They accept him and fuck him anyways, but they're cognizant of his height - perhaps just semantics there, but it bears noting the language you're using because to me it signifies an unrealistic hang-up.
Anyways, I'm about six foot, and I have to tell you, I fucking love short broads.
I honestly feel this is a more natural masculine preference.
Yeah, taller women can be sexy and gorgeous if they're well put together. Of course. But their size just says "masculine" to me on a subconscious level.
I automatically perceive short and petite as more feminine. That isn't to say I won't fuck or date a woman nearly as tall as me, but I'd much rather have a broad I can easily pick up and throw around and who I instantly dominate based on size alone.
As for dating a woman a good deal taller than me, well, I really just don't get the appeal at all. I've done it, but it certainly wouldn't be a first choice.
And given that women are naturally smaller than men, it makes sense to me that men would be naturally drawn to women smaller than them; therefore, your desire strikes me as artificial and misguided to begin with.
There are plenty of hot little broads out there your size or shorter. So in my mind, any idea you might have that you're settling somehow by not enjoying the hell out of them is very likely just due to feelings of inadequacy related to your own height.
I used to be roomates with this guy who was born with one normal arm and one tiny deformed and twisted little arm with three fingers on it. Guy was driven to be better and better at sports - not just as good as everyone else but better.
He did it, against all odds. He murdered it on the baseball field. He played football for a while and excelled at catching the ball and running for the touchdown. I couldn't hold a candle to him on the pool tables. He set the 3-point record at his high school for basketball, a record I believe still stands to this day; played basketball in college; and now makes a living as a hugely inspirational basketball coach for an organization that runs camps all over the world. When he's not fucking it up with his drinking, anyways...
The guy was a beast. Athletically gifted and charismatic and more talented at just about anything than most people you will come across. But since his desire came from a place of insecurity, none of it made him feel better. He became an alcoholic and would go into these really negative states when drunk.
I remember one night he picked up a knife and started cutting his little arm, crying and whining about how he could be a pro basketball player if he had two arms.
I had to slap him upside the head and yank the knife out of his hand and remind him that he probably wouldn't be half the athlete as he is if he had two arms because it was the arm that drove him in the first place.
He had the same issues with game - success with women ws not good enough because only perfection would make him feel better about himself, and perfection is impossible. He pulled a lot of hot tail - the most beautiful women around - but he always ended up fucking it up with some insecure fit.
To this day, he can't really hold down a relationship because in the end he just doesn't feel good enough due to his arm - never mind the fact that these women are dating him, fucking him, and falling in love with him. He can't let the insecurity go.
Me and this guy were like brothers in my late teens and early twenties. Inseparable. Constantly out chasing pussy and partying together and pushing ourselves to better. But he was so competitive about girls that he was always cock-blocking and hating on me behind my back - due to this and other selfish behavior on his part I eventually left him behind. He couldn't just be my running partner or be as good as me with women; he had to somehow find an edge and be "better" than everyone else, something his insecurities would never allow him to accomplish.
He ended up getting wasted one day and got in a car accident with his daughter in the car. They were both injured, and he almost killed the person in the other car - he did five years in jail, and now he's out slipping back into the party life again.
My point? When your desires are born out of insecurity, you create a mental block for yourself that success will not solve.
Heed the practical advice in this thread to increase your range of options or just make yourself feel better. But I'd also read up on some cognitive behavioral therapy and let this shit go.
It's one thing to have a certain taste in what kind of woman you want to date; however, you should examine your real reasons for getting all hung up on an unnecessary endeavor that may be dragging you down for no reason and consider whether defeating this challenge is really worth the effort and mental energy. Meanwhile, if those sexy and short little units aren't doing it for you, feel free to send them my way, and I'll forward any sasquatch bitches I come across over to you.
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