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I dated a guy who was 5'7" (I'm 5'10", and I admire KJS's sister's guts). The only thing that bothered me about him was that he was a bit of a jerk and that had nothing to do with his height. Though I like height, it's not the end of the world if I like a guy who's shorter than me and since I don't wear heels this often, it doesn't matter much anyways.

Alex C:
I'm pretty sure it's just the natural result of short guys being selected against, basically-- it's awfully hard to get big, tall and strong while you're starving to death (heights increased drastically all over the place after the agricultural revolution), so if nothing else height used to be a prime indicator that you could take care of yourself and were well fed. Height's been considered a virtue since at least the classical period and modern researchers have looked at the "What I'm looking for" preferences found on dating websites and noted that women are way more likely to put in a minimum height preference than explicitly mention that men be in good shape or work at a job that pays more than McDonald's. Of course, people tend to be more flexible than that in reality (especially men), since attraction rarely matches up completely with what people think they want, but the general sentiment seems pretty ingrained at this point.

Patrick:
One of the sexiest women I've ever known was like 6'1 when I knew her. Haven't talked to her since sophomore year, so that would've put me at like 5'8.

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--- Quote from: Whipstitch on 14 Feb 2008, 10:09 ---it's awfully hard to get big, tall and strong while you're starving to death (heights increased drastically all over the place after the agricultural revolution), so if nothing else height used to be a prime indicator that you could take care of yourself and were well fed.

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That's true. My medieval history professor told us that the reason people were so short in the dark ages was because their diet was so crappy. Not enough protein, I think, was what caused it. And since people have been getting what they needed in their diets for the past few hundred years, people got taller. Yay history!

Alex C:
It is somewhat unfortunate for those of us who are healthy and still rather short though. I'm only 5'8", but as I once jokingly told my 6'8" Russian friend, for being an Irish-Mexican mutt I am huge.  :roll:

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