Why do most females prefer to be with a taller male?

It is hard wired for most women. Plays into that subconscious provider/protector thing. I know feminists who admit this -even though, according to them, they shouldn't "need" protecting. I honestly think ugly guys have a better shot. It must be our payback for judging women by the size of their racks.

Nearly 100% of women like to be smaller in frame and less physically powerful than their male mate. It's a biological imperative, despite occasional counter-examples and women's lib arguments. Even female bodybuilders like even more enormous guys.

why is it ok for women to prefer taller men, but when men show preferences for women with large breasts and a tight ass, we are ridiculed?

women, have whatever preferences you like, but don't be hypocrites and accuse men of being shallow for having our own preferences.

Tall-ish girl wrote:

I'm 5'8" and dated a guy who was 1/2 Caucasian 1/2 Chinese who was also 5'8". He was fairly slender (135 lbs) as most Asian guys are, and we could basically wear each others clothes (I'm ~125 lbs). He was a great guy and I was really attracted to his personality, but I have to admit that I did have a negative visceral response to being the same size as him. It also didn't help that he was kind of a momma's boy, and I ended up feeling like the dude in the relationship. But from that I discovered that I want to be with someone taller than me, even if it's by 1". It feels like it's just hard-wired in me.

Wait, what? Feminists and women studies professors have lied to me? Women actually do want more masculine men? Impossible! Preferences might actually be hard-wired in people with different means and standard deviations in gender populations? Heresy!

No, obviously she has just been socialized that way.

sickman wrote:

It is hard wired for most women. Plays into that subconscious provider/protector thing. I know feminists who admit this -even though, according to them, they shouldn't "need" protecting. I honestly think ugly guys have a better shot. It must be our payback for judging women by the size of their racks.

We also aren't in danger of starving, but sugar and fat still taste good. Evolved preferences are emotional, not rational. Nobody consciously reasons out their feelings.

I have a hypothesis wrote:

A long time ago there were cavewomen who liked short cavemen, but they had short cavekids who got clobbered by the big cavekids. As a result the cavewomen with a genetic preference for short cavemen never passed on their genes, and today we are left with women who like tall men.

This is more than likely true. What we call "bullying" today is nothing more than an attempt by natural selection that has the stronger kids trying to thin out the weaker kids. Of course today we're all a bunch of poosies about it so it never succeeds. That's why we have horribly over populated the Earth. But rest assured...one day soon all the damage we are doing to our planet will render it barely habitable, and all of these people who natural selection should have never allowed to last this long will not survive. Once again only the right mix of strong and intelligent will persist, bringing everything back into balance.

becuase short men are unattractive, lazy and immoral.

You show an impressive level of ignorance on the subject of natural selection.

michael furey wrote:

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This is more than likely true. What we call "bullying" today is nothing more than an attempt by natural selection that has the stronger kids trying to thin out the weaker kids. Of course today we're all a bunch of poosies about it so it never succeeds. That's why we have horribly over populated the Earth. But rest assured...one day soon all the damage we are doing to our planet will render it barely habitable, and all of these people who natural selection should have never allowed to last this long will not survive. Once again only the right mix of strong and intelligent will persist, bringing everything back into balance.

You show an impressive level of ignorance on the subject of natural selection.

I just hope he's not a teacher or doesn't do anything involving kids, unless of course he's kidding, but even then, it strikes me as a poor attempt at humor.

let us hear from the ladies wrote:

Thanks for all the honest responses. The Tom Cruse thing does bring up an interesting sub-question. If a guy is on the short side, is it safe to say that he has to "make up for it" in other ways (e.g., wealth, fame, status, etc.) if he is to have any shot at a woman taller than him? That is to say, all hope is not lost?

I don't think anyone needs to 'try' to make up for what they are lacking and too often you see this with shorter men. I think a guy has a better chance of being short, not disproportion in size, decent looking/confident and has a good job in getting a woman versus a tall guy, slender and not very attractive and still living at home at age 30.

Again, I think it's just preference/hard wired, call it what you want in what women or men like in each other. Example; I'm about average height for female and yet married someone who is almost 6ft, then on the other hand, I have a sister who is little taller than me and is married to a guy who is short or right below her height and are happy.

I like short men. It makes it easier for me when I go to stomp on his head for being an fvckwad

agree wrote:

michael furey wrote:

You show an impressive level of ignorance on the subject of natural selection.

I just hope he's not a teacher or doesn't do anything involving kids, unless of course he's kidding, but even then, it strikes me as a poor attempt at humor.

No attempt at humor whatsoever. I do not apologize for frightening you with the truth.

What part of "only the strong survive" conflicts with natural selection? I'm afraid you are the ignorant one, my weak and foolish friend. I understand that as intelligent beings we must accept others' weaknesses in the name of human compassion, however my point is this: when the shiit comes down, and eventually it most certainly will, those who have escaped natural selection's grasp will come to realize they could not slip by forever. Their weaknesses will have grown tenfold and they will not survive. No matter how many parents sue, how many liberals' hearts bleed, or how many of you sit around singing Kumbya. It's going to be beyond us, and only the strong will survive.

Never been with a woman taller than me but I sure wouldn't mind .

My short-assed uncle has a saying... "layin down, we're all the same height".

How short are you anyways? You sound kind of bitter. Its just a fact of life, do the best with what you have. Its just how we are wired, whether its biological, social or whatever pressures, men want shorter women and women want taller men.

let us hear from the ladies wrote:

What gives, here? It\'s not like someone two inches taller than you will be able to protect you better than someone two inches shorter. Yet, you almost never see any female \"with\" a shorter male. Short guys date even shorter girls. Yes, there are exceptions, such as your Aunt Edna being taller than ol\' Uncle Clem, but by and large the taller guy holds true. Why? And yes, I know that men are taller in general. The question still stands.

5'9" male here

6 major relationship in 20 or so years 3 taller, 2 in the 5'7" range and one shorter but at 5'4 1/2' she is really average height for an American woman.

My 6'6' friend swears he can pick up any girl 5'8" or taller by using some variation of this pickup line- You can wear your high(est) heels when we go out.

I think the American averages during my HS years were 5'3 1/2 & 5'7 3/4.

Men under 5'9 should self castrate.

Men 5'10-6' are barely acceptable and only exceptional individuals in this range should be allowed to have offspring.

Men over 6' should be allowed to be free men and take as many wives or have as many offpsring as they please or can care for.

All heights taken barefoot at noon.

I am 6'1.5" and I can't stand short people, men or women although short men are completely unbearable.

I'm not sure how much of your comment is directed at me, but if you are suggesting that we should let bigger kids kill smaller kids, then I stand by what I said 100%. Those kind of views have no place in modern society.

If I'm interpreting you incorrectly, I do apologize. I personally think that intelligence is a more desirable trait to pass on than physical size or strength, but that's just my opinion. I don't think that society will regress to a point where people who are more intelligent will be killed by people who are bigger and stronger.

I have rarely met a man who is shorter than I am, at least not among men whom I would consider to be in my optimal dating pool. Several of my boyfriends have been fairly short for men, only a few inches taller than I am.

Although I'm sure it's coincidental (at least anecdotal), the shorter men I've dated have been in better shape and more athletic (both through working out and natural ability) than the men over 6', who tended to let themselves go more. I prefer a short to average man to one above 6' in general.

But I think I'd have a hard time dating someone shorter than I am because they'd be so short that they'd stand out. A guy who's 5'6"-5'7" is shorter than average (at least if they're white) but unremarkable. A guy who is 5'2" or shorter is - hey look, that guy's almost a midget, hey look at that girl with that tiny guy. I'd love to be so unself-conscious that it wouldn't bother me, but it would.