Do Women Prefer Taller Guys Over Better Looking Guys?

[cragwolf]

not going to give your height? mine is 5'2", and considered short for a woman i would love to know yours, or would it prove my conclusion of short men?

One data point would prove your conclusion? I think I see your problem. Your physics teacher needs to sit you down for a heart-to-heart talk.

 

[Kerrie]

One data point would prove your conclusion? I think I see your problem. Your physics teacher needs to sit you down for a heart-to-heart talk.

teacher?? i am about 13 years out of high school sweetie! and during those 13 years i was able to apply my theory of "little man syndrome" and had ample conclusions to my hypothesis

 

[Gale]

i only just recently realized I'm short. I'm barely 5'4 kinda on the short side of average for women i guess. before i moved, i lived in sort of a skater town, or at least i hung with mostly skater-ish people. and even the guys were really short. i think i knew a kid who was like 5'9 and we thought he was a freak. i was taller than most girls i knew. then i moved away from those friends and suddenely everyone in my town was huge. then for like a year i had this weird complex, and i never even realized how short i was. i'd look at someone who was like 5'7 and i thought we were the same size. and then i'd stand right next to them and i'd freak cause i was so small. funny thing is, most other people were surprised too. in my hack circles i was always easily the shortest person, but no one noticed till i stood right next to them and looked up, and then we realized i was a good 3 inches probably shorter than everyone.

i think that because i was comparitively taller before i stood like a taller person, then when i met real tall people i never seemed small because i didn't act like it... or something like that? either way my boyfriends 6'2ish and neither of ever realize the difference until we try and kiss or something. which is usually hilarious if we shut our eyes because we miscalculate our heights soooo badly.

 

[The Bob]

I think that because i was comparitively taller before i stood like a taller person, then when i met real tall people i never seemed small because i didn't act like it... or something like that? either way my boyfriends 6'2ish and neither of ever realize the difference until we try and kiss or something. which is usually hilarious if we shut our eyes because we miscalculate our heights soooo badly.

The feeling is mutal. I am 6' 6" (saying it if you haven't read the rest of the thread) and my girlfriend is 5' 8" ish. The jokes about yellow pages keep coming. Fortunately she used to take ballet lessons and so can stand on the tips of her toes for ages, still makes kissing hard though. So I empathsis Gale, I really do.

The Bob (2004 ©)

 

[Gza]

One data point would prove your conclusion? I think I see your problem. Your physics teacher needs to sit you down for a heart-to-heart talk.

I think asking what your height is seems like a rather straightforward question. I doubt Kerrie means it in a demeaning manner. Dodging it seems to make your previous statements nothing more than complaining about your physical limitations through your preaching on equality.

 

[cragwolf]

teacher?? i am about 13 years out of high school sweetie!

Sweetie? There's nothing sweet about this old curmudgeon. Look, this is you:

:blush:

And this is me:



Do I look like a sweetie?

and during those 13 years i was able to apply my theory of "little man syndrome" and had ample conclusions to my hypothesis

The only thing ample about your conclusions is how deluded they are.

 

[cragwolf]

I think asking what your height is seems like a rather straightforward question.

Of course it's a straightforward question. And it's none of her business. Also, if or when I choose to answer her is none of your business.

I doubt Kerrie means it in a demeaning manner.

What makes you think I think it's being done in a demeaning manner? Do you fail to notice the smilies in my responses to her? Do you have difficulty understanding light-hearted, back-and-forth banter? What's that's phrase you Americans love? Oh yeah, lighten up, dude!

Dodging it seems to make your previous statements nothing more than complaining about your physical limitations through your preaching on equality.

More conjecturing and divining from you. You would not make a fool of yourself so much if you stopped this cryptography and simply read what I wrote.

 

[Gza]

What makes you think I think it's being done in a demeaning manner? Do you fail to notice the smilies in my responses to her? Do you have difficulty understanding light-hearted, back-and-forth banter? What's that's phrase you Americans love? Oh yeah, lighten up, dude!

Yeah, being the dumb American I am, I can't differentiate witty banter from personal attacks . I'm assuming you come from a country where answering simple direct questions is some sort of taboo, so i'll refrain from asking them.

 

[cragwolf]

Yeah, being the dumb American I am, I can't differentiate witty banter from personal attacks .

Have I called you a dumb American? No. Have I said that Americans can't differentiate witty banter from personal attacks? No. Are you going to persist in extracting anything but true (or even close to true) meaning from my sentences? Well, your record in this thread seems to suggest so, but I hope not.

I'm assuming you come from a country where answering simple direct questions is some sort of taboo, so i'll refrain from asking them.

I don't know if it's simply a lack of comprehension skills or pigheadedness. To repeat: my physical characteristics are none of anyone's business. How you extrapolate from my unwillingness to reveal my height, to a belief that I have trouble answering simple questions, is beyond me.

 

[Artman]

I am 6'-2" tall, I've always been tall for my age and have been over 6' tall since about 14 years old.

I started school a year early. I was about 10 months younger than all of my classmates. Even though I was tall, none of my female classmates would date me.

It's not because I was some kind of troll because a couple years later in art school I was chosen to model for some photograghs for an advertising campain project as the guy in an attractive couple. I was considered a nice guy, I have a good sense of humor, was fairly popular, but that little age difference was something they would not overlook. Most of the girls had a sort of motherly way of dealing with me.

Then again, I guess it could have something to do with the fact that I scored a big +43% on the geek test.

Are you a Geek?

Height isn't everything. Although I do like being tall. It certainly has not hurt me any.

 

[Kerrie]

I don't know if it's simply a lack of comprehension skills or pigheadedness. To repeat: my physical characteristics are none of anyone's business. How you extrapolate from my unwillingness to reveal my height, to a belief that I have trouble answering simple questions, is beyond me.

well, at this point, your height is irrelavant in helping me form an opinion of you

 

[cragwolf]

well, at this point, your height is irrelavant in helping me form an opinion of you

Well, of course! You haven't seen me, so you haven't had a chance to be unfair yet.

 

[Kerrie]

Well, of course! You haven't seen me, so you haven't had a chance to be unfair yet.

since you won't reveal your height, and you seem to fly off the handle to my theory, the only thing i am left to do is assume you are short thus proving again to me my theory is correct in general. so am i really being unfair? :surprise:

 

[Monique]

Maybe it is just the tall people who are arrogant

 

[Jeebus]

Maybe it is just the tall people who are arrogant

I want to see the data that backs up such a claim.

 

[Kerrie]

Maybe it is just the tall people who are arrogant

could be i always describe myself as vertically challenged (only 62" tall )

 

[cragwolf]

Even for my mediocre mind, this is too easy:

since you won't reveal your height, and you seem to fly off the handle to my theory...

Strike one: concluding that I am "fly[ing] off the handle" just because I won't reveal my height, and I disagree with your "theory" and find it insulting to short men. If you can't refute my response then that's no reason to mischaracterise it. :zzz:

...the only thing i am left to do is assume you are short...

Strike two: just because I won't reveal my height and even if I am "fly[ing] off the handle", how can you use that as your sole basis for assuming I am short? You might as well just pluck your assumptions out of thin air. Is this how you concocted your "theory" about short men?

...thus proving again to me my theory is correct in general.

Strike three: even if I am short and I satisfy the predictions of your silly "theory", how does this prove "your theory is correct in general"? That's either highly arrogant or very naive. I would guess it's the latter, but I'm not sure. It's certainly unscientific.

so am i really being unfair?

You're out! You are being very unfair, but you won't admit it or accept it. One of the earliest lessons one should learn in life is to doubt oneself. The more often the better. No one who learns this lesson would concoct a theory as ludicrous as yours and believe in it!

 

[jimmy p]

Do you get tall midgets?? I mean, like tall for their size or whatever?

 

[Prometheus]

Strike one:
Strike two:
Strike three:
You're out!

Cute analogy.

I think that Kerrie is just trying to play with you. I doubt that she is serious about her "theory".

 

[Kerrie]

Cute analogy.

I think that Kerrie is just trying to play with you. I doubt that she is serious about her "theory".

aww, why did you have to give away my secret? yes, isn't he taking this a little too serious?

 

[Gza]

aww, why did you have to give away my secret? yes, isn't he taking this a little too serious?

Strike 3! You're out Kerrie!

 

[Prometheus]

aww, why did you have to give away my secret?

I am sorry about that. I am having a problem in that once I write a post, I cannot cancel it, because somehow it always seems to be sent anyway. I do not know how to stop it.

yes, isn't he taking this a little too serious?

I thought that he was trying hard, and was making good arguments. However, I think that he is more serious than you were, and that perhaps he should save his otherwise interesting arguments for a more serious thread.

Sorry again.

 

[cragwolf]

Frankly, I couldn't care less how seriously Kerrie or others treat the very important topic of discrimination based on physical attributes. I've made my points, and had a little fun as well, so I'm quite pleased with the progress of this thread.

 

[The_Professional]

You guys can ignore the responses here except cragwolf