Is being 6 feet tall really that important?

I'm 178 cm which is 5-10 and this is definitely not the perfect height for a human. You meet people who make you look like a midget all the time, yet you're too large for the seats of lowcost airlines, trains, really for lots of places. Getting jeans that fit is also hard if you're a runner and hence have low fat %: waist < 30 always comes with length 30 and you need 32, which at best is only available online if at all. I guess that's not your case if you have shorter legs.

As for the height requirements for non-America, I guess it is 6 ft more or less universally. At least as far as I know, elite 'display' troops, or how do you properly call the guys who guard all kind of royal palaces and do ceremonies in front of tourists, well, in Germany, Russia and Sweden they have to be 183 cm which is 6 ft almost precisely.

I'm a 5'9" guy who is actually shorter than that as I shrink with age, which is a thing for those younger among us.

The world is built for, and has been for a long time, average-sized people, which means that being 5'8"-5'10" (for men) means that proportions of doorways, car seats, commercial aircraft, theater seats, bed mattresses, clothing, ALL THINGS built for people to actually use, are made for them.

Not only that, but average height people tend to experience fewer lower back problems, something that not-infrequently means chronic suffering as we age.

Ease and comfort for traveling, ease of use with vehicles, never needing to worry about feet hanging off of the mattress, ease of finding clothes that fit well, ceilings and doorway proportions all good, few worries about breaking down physically due to lower back issues with age, the perfect size for the average size woman, not having to worry about nasty shallow/vain women for whom height is the important thing, I could go on and on.

In the end, in a world proportioned from a practical sense for the average human form, it's pretty great being average-size.

People who grow up in countries with universal healthcare tend to be tall. Look at the Dutch or Scandivanians. Americans are losing out.

Using that idiotic logic the secret to having larger penises is abysmal living conditions and no health care. #Congo

My wife once wrote on sketchpad everything that she was looking for in a partner before we actually met.

One of those things was to be with a guy who is at least 6ft tall. I’m 6-2 1/2 so I fit the description. It was the most superficial thing on that sketchpad, to be fair.

Conversely, my ideal height for a woman is between 5-2 and 5-7. I suppose I’m superficial too.

Depends on what you want. If you feel a need to feel good about yourself due to your height that you had nothing to do with, then ok. You want a vapid woman to want to be with you because she thinks you can better protect her (you can't) then ok. You want to be able to get things out of the cupboard above the stove without a step stool, then ok.

However...

Shorter people live longer and have fewer health problems while alive.

You ever feel cramped on an airplane? Guess what? Shorter people don't.

You ever wish your bed or couch were longer? Guess what? Shorter people don't.

Shorter people on average are better distance runners too...I mean, this is a distance running forum after all.

So, it just depends on what you want.

Either way though, we are as tall as we are, and there's nothing to do about that, so who gives a sh!t really?

Yes it is important.

I’m 6ft and I literally look down on you and those like you.

I'm not saying Arnold is bad looking, he's just not in the same league as other action heros such as Christopher Reeve, Sean Connery, Keanu Reeves, Russell Crow, Mel Gibson & Sly Stallone (though Gibson & Stallone are 5-10 - probably 6 ft with lifts when filming).

And you definitely don't need good looks for a political career (being tall & a good con man is all it takes. Lol). Seriously though, the three most homely Presidents were all tall: Lincoln (6-4), LBJ (6-4) & Nixon (6-1).

Anyone here think Lincoln would have been elected if he was 5-4?

Yea...sure, go ahead & rub it in. Lol.

You remind me of a friend of mine at gym. He's 6-3 & jacked to the max. We all call him Hercules. Though only average looking & not a lot of dough to his name, he gets women chasing after him all the time. Being short & stocky, I get all the overweight/obese ones after me & he gets all the Stacies. 😆 He's always teasing how he looks down on me all the time.

I am 5'4" - D1 athlete, have no problem meeting and having relations with women, 6 figure salary and work in corporate. It's all about confidence and mentality in my opinion.

Anything other people lie about having -- That thing is what you want. Height, money, strength, intelligence, etc.

I am over 6 feet tall so yes, it's important.

I don't think that it is that important but a lot of people place some imagined importance on being 6'0"/183cm tall. I would prefer to be somewhere around 185-190cm and with smaller feet. Being over 200cm is difficult enough for a lot of things in life and shoe sizes over US14/48 become problematic.

The last US President to be under 6'0" was Jimmy Carter at 5'10". Before that it was Dwight D. Eisenhower who was also 5'10". Maybe there is some truth to height matters.

I'm 6-2 1/2. $200K Salary at a Fortune 150. Voted best looking and best dressed my senior of high school. Starter in all three major high school sports. All-State, D-1 athlete (not running). 3.6 GPA, Academic All-Conference. Married with one kid.

Sub-5 Mile, Sub-17 5K if anyone cares here.

Guess what?! People still treat me like sh**t weekly at my job. We have one of the smallest houses on our street in our stupid affluent town. Still wasn't hooking up with all the hottest women when I was single. Just here to say the height has probably very little in any of my "perceived" success in life or average accomplishments.

I think confidence and money matter most. And there are people out there who make so much more money than I do.

I think being 6 feet tall is only important to people who are really short. Most people of average or above average height don't obsess over a height number and fetishize it. There's even people who might be considered short that don't care about it.

It is females who demand and select for height. If females sexually selected the smallest males, then you'd be here telling tall men just to be confident.

A collective sigh of relief out of LRC guys was heard around the world, because you just described about 97% of the posters on here.

I didn't tell anyone to be confident.