A quick little article by a pseudonymous guy who says that heightening has changed his life (link).
By adding 4 inch heels, he went from 5’5’ to 5’9†and suddenly scored a bunch of ladies. [Though he does recognize that the confidence boost has done a lot of the work that the heels may not be capable of.]
He realized that he was “being discriminated against.†He realized that he was facing a “prejudice.â€
What caught my eye is that, sandwiched between those two phrases of the unfairness of life, he shows his own sense superiority over another class of people:
Isn’t it terrible, he cries, that just because of his height, women put him in the same “friends-only†category as a fat guy?
I don’t know what it’s like to be a fat guy, but I know what it’s like to be a short guy. I didn’t have any trouble “scoring”, despite my height. Sure, I’d been turned down many times, but isn’t everyone? I think it’s a lot more about attitude than height. In high school, I used to tease a friend, who was 5’6″ or thereabouts, about his being so short. It was only at our grad party that, in response to some such gibe, that he suddenly said “Hey, I’m taller than you!”, to which I replied “Sure, but you never noticed until now, did you?” I’m sure many people realized that I was a bit short, but few seemed to care.
BruceS—halfway through #10, and staying home from work
They did some research on “speed-dating” recently, which I won’t bother going to find. The taller you were (compared to the other guys in the room), the better you did. I don’t know how they defined “better.”
I’m positive that you’re right about attitude having a lot to do with it. But I also know that straight off the bat, the shorter guy has a disadvantage. It may be easy to overcome if you’ve got the goods, but it’s there.
Incidentally, they found that college-educated women did better than women without degrees, partially exploding the myth that guys like dumb girls.
I guess I must have the goods!
Even my wife refuses to say that I’m “handsome”, so it must not be looks. I’m a short, goofy-looking guy who doesn’t feel discriminated against. Even by people I call “freakishly tall” (friends only).
My car is made for short to normal people, and anyone over about 6′ finds it unconfortable. This isn’t too uncommon, and it sounds like entrenched discrimination against the tall. Maybe we should start a movement to stop this terrible bigotry, and to get tall people restitution.
I must admit, I’ve never tried speed dating, and have never tried to pick up a stranger at a bar, so maybe my intendeds aren’t the norm.