Quote: (10-27-2011 01:51 PM)Bad Hussar Wrote:
Quote: (10-27-2011 01:07 PM)Urban Renaissance Man Wrote:
Lol. Very true. However, I'm not paying attention to statistics. I'm going off of what I've seen in everyday life. I know guys, even unattractive guys, who have gotten women, primarily because they are tall. I've seen thiss with my own eyes. Also, I have overheard women with my own ears, who didn't know I was listening, say things like, "he's cute, too bad he's so short!" Again, I know there's nothing I can do about it, so it shouldn't even be brought up, but I can't help but to recognize that it does matter. And sadly, even going after shorter girls isn't always the answer, since many times they have a bigger complex about dating a short guy than a taller girl does!
Yeah, I've heard the same things. Just like working stiffs have heard a girl say that she wants a rich guy, or a X race guy has overheard that some girl will only fuck Y race guys. As you know the lists and requirements are endless.
At least being short means that since you have no hope of meeting the requirement you also will not waste your time trying to meet the requirement only to have the girl still reject you because you "try too hard".
Yes, some short chicks do have issues with dating short guys. You can always aim for chicks taller than you. Although it's counterintuitive tall chicks often have less of a hang up with the guys height. Another upside of that is considering what goes through a short chicks mind when she sees a guy with a girl noticeably taller than him. It'll probably take a week for her mind to stop spinning from wondering what the deal is. "He must be rich...Oh wait I know him and he's just as broke as I am. What can it be...What can it be...."
I know it's immature, but messing with chicks can be fun sometimes. In her mind a guy with a girl taller than him = massive social proof for him.
Good points. Though I will say that the height thing is a little more universal than the other criteria you mentioned. It's a given that most people aren't going to be rich. As far as women preferring a certain race, well, that is a hang up that plagues a lot of guys. However, even that can be overcome by simply finding women who like men of that race. However, a shorter guy is universally considered not a good thing. That's just the truth. Not that its an impossible roadblock.
Someone on here posted and article speaking about San Francisco women who are 6's thinking they're 10's. In this article it actually compares attractive short men to these Frisco women who think they're 10's. It's kinda sad actually. lol.
"The underlying trouble is that an inordinate number of SF women aren't off the mark by much. They're in shape (Crunch Fitness!). They're higher educated (Go Bears!). They're technically stylish (layers!) and socially savvy (He's Just Not That Into You!) and mostly symmetrically featured (sample sale at Sephora!). A decade after getting laughed off the high school cheer-leading squad, they've overachieved their way into the vicinity of the Golden Circle.****** But they're still outside. They live in the halo. They Just Miss.
Just Missing******* is not right or wrong in any moral sense but it is impossibly awkward. The paradigmatic example is the guy who is handsome, clever, and well-built but, at the same time, 5 foot 7. Every grad school class or large corporate office has one of these dudes. He is secretly obsessed with his looks and all the cute girls platonically flirt with (but never date) him and even though he is vaguely cool and caddish he somehow doesn't seem to have any close friends and deep down you suspect he is miserable.
His curse is this: he's fractionally too short to be a Mark Whalberg man-on-campus and fractionally too tall to be a Dudley Moore diminutive wiseacre. He misses by one and a half inches in either direction. And worse, he lives out his days experiencing these brief, throw-away moments when, because everyone around happens to be seated or Asian or he's rollerblading, the world actually perceives and treats him as the unchallenged alpha. He'll spend three months getting used to being above-average ordinary, and then boom! this completely different, totally superior existence is thrown in his face for a moment or two before being ripped away. He'll never grow that one and half inches, and for this he's almost certainly doomed to the comparative obscurity of being pretty cool/athletic/handsome for a short guy, but he never feels 100% sure. There's no one in Palm Beach County to retally the votes and make an official pronouncement. So he can't let go and he can't get comfortable. He's consumed by vain ambitions and counterfactual thinking."
