What is with women and height?

[Yamaha]

That is not the case with ANY women I know ... we all know how tall we are without heels, and we aren't into tall guys because they make us feel taller.

 

Personally, I have always ONLY been attracted to tall guys. I didn't choose it consciously, that's just the way it was.

 

So, my point is ... there's hope!

 

I remember asking advice on LS as to whether or not wear heels... I came to the conclusion that I was just going to be myself and wear my heels.

 

It does not feel comfortable when a man shorter than a girl.

If you are 5'8, no girl can wear heels unless she taller than you.

 

Sorry, but but I think it proves my point that women include heels into their height. Not saying, "I told you so", just stating the facts.

[USMCHokie]

Go ahead and look at profiles for women 4'11 and under. Every single one of them will say something like Height: 5'10-6'6 or Height: 6'2-7'

 

 

Or you could actually get out of the house, stop looking at profiles, and meet real women...

[D-Lish]

Sorry, but but I think it proves my point that women include heels into their height. Not saying, "I told you so", just stating the facts.

 

Sometimes we do, yes. I have to say it's much easier to date a guy that has no issue with that. My ex-husband never let me wear heels because he was 5'9" and when I wore heels I was taller. He actually used to get upset if I wore anything other than flats.

[Ann_Igma]

It's kind of funny.. In all my life before coming to LS, I never realised that height was a factor for most women at all. Granted, I have a few quite tall friends who've said they would prefer a guy who wasn't shorter than them in heels, but even most of them I'm sure would make or have made exceptions for the right guy.

 

And me? I don't think I have ever once considered height in the equation when I'm deciding whether I find a guy attractive.

 

Yet some of the posters here seem to state with such conviction that almost all women find height to be a major factor. Perhaps I have just known abnormal women all my life, or it's one of those big secrets that height-obsessed women just don't talk about?

 

*shrug*

[Pyro]

It's kind of funny.. In all my life before coming to LS, I never realised that height was a factor for most women at all. Granted, I have a few quite tall friends who've said they would prefer a guy who wasn't shorter than them in heels, but even most of them I'm sure would make or have made exceptions for the right guy.

 

And me? I don't think I have ever once considered height in the equation when I'm deciding whether I find a guy attractive.

 

Yet some of the posters here seem to state with such conviction that almost all women find height to be a major factor. Perhaps I have just known abnormal women all my life, or it's one of those big secrets that height-obsessed women just don't talk about?

 

*shrug*

 

I think that some guys are just making excuses for why they are having hard luck with the women.

 

Its not at all possible its their character, so it must be something else.

[Peter Attis]

Ah, thats right. It's ok for a woman to be insecure, but men? Never.

 

Well, duh.

 

.You can't even post a tame response here anymore without getting jumped on for something.

 

Well, double duh.

[Bangle]

I'm the shortest male in my family, both on mother and father side all the men are tall and I am by far the shortest, the next shortest to me is my uncle at 5'10, most of them are 5'11 to 6'4. I grew up with being laughed at by my family and friends I used to be called cabbage at school, but it never got to me I always saw my height as being a nice height. I don't have to worry about buying shoes or finding clothes. I am the last to know when its raining. I have accepted that my dating zone will be smaller than taller men and I have accepted that a lot of women wont find me attractive, but I also know that there are women who will and they're the ones who matter. We all have preferences, no matter who we are.

 

I suppose women want taller men to make them feel secure, protected which is nice, but realistically a 5'6 man who is in a service like the S.A.S will protect someone better than a 6'3 man who has a job in retail marketing.

[Eeyore79]

My ex was 5ft10 and 110 pounds, and although he was taller I still found him unattractive because he was skinny. I dated him because he was a nice person, but I couldn't get over him being smaller than me - and he was smaller than me because of being skinny, even though he was taller.

 

Him being smaller made me feel fat and unfeminine, and in photos I always looked huge because he was so small. So I guess I want a guy who is all-round bigger than me in both height and weight - if a guy is short, he had better be heavy and muscular to make up for it, otherwise he'll make me feel fat.

[kiss_andmakeup]

I always find the numerous posts on this topic surprising. At 5'9" I really have no qualms about height. My current boyfriend is 5'10 so I'm usually taller than him in heels. The guy I dated before him was 5'8 - an inch shorter than me. I was/am very attracted to both of these men.

 

I especially don't get the 5' tall women having preferences on men over 6 feet, but hey, to each her own...

 

I agree with the posters that have said that even if a woman has a supposed preference, if she meets a smart, funny, attractive guy who falls below her height requirement, it's likely not to matter.

 

Girls who have an unbending "checklist" of relatively unimportant qualifications for a mate are likely to be the next generation of chronically single 30 and 40 somethings who post here about how they can't find a guy. ;]

[CaliGuy]

Welcome to life, Amigo. Women have felt this way for eons and it's never going to change. They want tall men (even when they don't say it). It comes down to them feeling "protected". So they assume that taller men = safe (not true, but they think that way).

 

Besides, women will always compare your height, not to theirs but to OTHER MEN. So if she is 5'2" and she wants a 6' or taller guy (some of them want 6'4" men, lol) then if you are 5'8", to her, you'll be short.

 

It's nothing you can control. If I were you, I wouldn't worry about the women who ARE interested in height and find the ones who don't. That's the best avenue for you.

[PJKino]

Everyone has a right to their preferences i just find it funny when women swear Men are the superfical ones and women just want to find love and a good provider..

 

Women are just as shallow as Men..If you are worried abot being the same height or a ltitle taller then your man in 4 or 5 inch heels maybe allot of you arent looking for love in a Man but loking at Men as accesories that you want to look good size wise in contrast to..

[PJKino]

Welcome to life, Amigo. Women have felt this way for eons and it's never going to change. They want tall men (even when they don't say it). It comes down to them feeling "protected". So they assume that taller men = safe (not true, but they think that way).

 

Besides, women will always compare your height, not to theirs but to OTHER MEN. So if she is 5'2" and she wants a 6' or taller guy (some of them want 6'4" men, lol) then if you are 5'8", to her, you'll be short.

 

It's nothing you can control. If I were you, I wouldn't worry about the women who ARE interested in height and find the ones who don't. That's the best avenue for you.

 

The protection thing makes no sense to me,even if yuor guys small and soembodies bothering you and he sticks up for you lets say the womens boyfriend gets beat up is the guy then gonna carry her away on his shoulder like king kong?

[OpenGL]

What I find funny is the general rule of women who need their guy to be 6 inches taller than them in 6 inch heels, meaning that the average woman (5'4) needs their man to be at least 6'4.

 

5'7 need to take women that are 4'7, but oh wait, the 4'7 women want the 6'4 guys too.

[CaliGuy]

The protection thing makes no sense to me,even if yuor guys small and soembodies bothering you and he sticks up for you lets say the womens boyfriend gets beat up is the guy then gonna carry her away on his shoulder like king kong?

 

No, this is more or less about women's opinion over millenia (thousands of years). Women have always preferred taller men for both protection and genetics (let's not get into the debate that taller men do not live as long as shorter men!).

 

My question is why, especially at this intellectual level of society, do women need protection at all? Other than being assaulted by a physoctic man, I don't see the need for that.

 

I might also add, I don’t care how tall the guy is. He'll never stop a bullet (If that's necessary!)

 

What I find funny is the general rule of women who need their guy to be 6 inches taller than them in 6 inch heels, meaning that the average woman (5'4) needs their man to be at least 6'4.

 

5'7 need to take women that are 4'7, but oh wait, the 4'7 women want the 6'4 guys too.

 

Like I said, this is just how women are "wired". I stopped worrying about that a long time ago. I am who I am (All 5'10" of me) and lots of women excluded me. It's not my loss in my opinion, that's theirs

[OpenGL]

Like I said, this is just how women are "wired". I stopped worrying about that a long time ago. I am who I am (All 5'10" of me) and lots of women excluded me. It's not my loss in my opinion, that's theirs

 

Fine, if they are going to use that excuse (we can't help it, it's instinct), then it's my biological instinct to beat and rape every woman I come across to spread my seed. Don't complain, I can't help it.

[Sivok]

Fine, if they are going to use that excuse (we can't help it, it's instinct), then it's my biological instinct to beat and rape every woman I come across to spread my seed. Don't complain, I can't help it.

Jeeze you love taking things to extremes, don't you?

 

We're all biologically wired to be attracted to the healthiest and the winners of the gene pool jackpot... The best to reproduce with, basically. It's primal that men have always been the hunters and protectors, so naturally women prefer taller in shape men. However, there is a large difference between logic and emotion. I know I once dated a woman who I felt wasn't attractive in figure or face at all, but I still fell in love due to personality. With women it's the same thing.

 

Life isn't fair, and honestly, that's the beauty of it. Why? Because you can always learn to turn the tables in your favor. I'm 6'3 and in decent shape/fairly attractive, yet my friend justin is 5'4 and has been with more attractive women than I could dream of dating. People put way too much focus on aesthetics. It's not what you have, it's what you do with it. Justin's living proof of that

[OpenGL]

We're all biologically wired to be attracted to the healthiest and the winners of the gene pool jackpot... The best to reproduce with, basically. It's primal that men have always been the hunters and protectors, so naturally women prefer taller in shape men.

 

Well here is the thing, it's hypocritical for women to be allow to act on primal instincts but men are not allowed to. If my genes were truly unfit to be passed, then let nature weed me out. Go ahead and have the 6'4 bean pole protector and see how a 5'7 ripped guy beats the living **** out of him and rapes his woman.

 

If women want to go back to the days of primal instinct. I'd be happy with that. Just let me compete on a primal level also.

[Sivok]

Well, that's how we're wired. You can't change anything about that. All girls and guys want to date/sleep with 10s. You just have to work with what you've got and realize looks really aren't as large a factor as you'd think. They help in hooking a girl, but they rarely help in reeling them in/keeping them. Your confidence and personality go much farther than height/looks.

[Carsonkicker]

5'7 need to take women that are 4'7, but oh wait, the 4'7 women want the 6'4 guys too.

 

 

I'm 5'7 & I have no trouble attracting women of any height.

[Jersey Shortie]

Women can lose weight, men can't grow taller.

 

Yes you can. It would just require surgery. Women undergo surgery all the time to try and fit the extreme ideals men pander to in popular male media.

[OpenGL]

Yes you can. It would just require surgery. Women undergo surgery all the time to try and fit the extreme ideals men pander to in popular male media.

 

Breaking bones and not being able to walk for 6 months is the same as having a breast implant?

[Jersey Shortie]

It's surgery isn't it? I didn't say I would recommend it but women have surgery everyday to fit into a male ideal.

 

Some women have gotten implants only to ahve them leek and have major health issues due to it. There are risks in anything like that.

[OpenGL]

It's surgery isn't it? I didn't say I would recommend it but women have surgery everyday to fit into a male ideal.

 

Some women have gotten implants only to ahve them leek and have major health issues due to it. There are risks in anything like that.

 

Fine, we'll agree to disagree on their equivalency.

 

With that said, height is 10x the dealbreaker than breast size.

[somedude81]

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Height Increase Surgery - Surgical Leg-lengthening Procedure

 

How long does it take?

 

The whole process of leg-lengthening procedure can take 6 up to 12 months (sometimes longer). You'll need to use a wheelchair for at least 6 months.

 

The Complication

 

There might be complication from minor to more severe. The complication might limit the function of the legs temporary or even permanently. Complication usually will need further treatment to fix or diminish the problem which also means more cost and time.

The Cost

 

Height increase surgery costs around $US 10,000 to $US 80,000, depends on the clinic, location, surgeon, etc. It will also cost more when complication occurs.

The Result

 

The result of grow taller surgery is varies from three to six inches of height increase. It is depended on how much time and money you can give to endure this procedure? And how well you overcome the pain, movement limitation, and other uncomfortable situation associated to it?

Conclusion

 

Grow taller surgery or leg-lengthening is only recommended for short people with limb deformities. You should endure the surgery merely because you really need it. Leg-lengthening is an extremely long and painful procedure. The height increase you gain often not worth the time, the cost, and the pain.

 

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There is no comparison between height increase surgery and breast implants, plastic surgery, etc.

[Els]

You have evidently never heard of women dying from plastic surgery (including breast implants) gone wrong, mm?