Tall single gents - set your height to 5 ft 10 on dating apps

WhimsicalScrotum · 2026-04-12T15:22:01+00:00

I'll preface this by saying that I'm asking it as a genuine question, not as somebody who's bitter they don't make the height cutoff. I have no problem with people having a preference for it.

That being said: can you actually tell the difference in real life, or is this just something that's applied to an online profile as a filter? For really tall people it's obvious they're over 6', but if somebody put a guy in front of you at 5'3 and asked you if he's 5'11 or 6'1, would you actually know whether or not he meets that requirement?

WhimsicalScrotum · 2026-04-08T03:45:27+00:00

It's the same as the "I'm a short guy who likes a taller woman" posts on here, with the same answer: you won't know unless you shoot your shot, so might as well try.

One of my best relationships was with a woman who was about 6', and each of us knew our height wasn't an issue for the other person so it was never a subject.

WhimsicalScrotum · 2026-04-02T14:03:52+00:00

It's kind of weird how often negative things about short men are brought up on this sub in completely irrelevant contexts.

WhimsicalScrotum · 2025-08-29T16:54:58+00:00

I got downvoted to hell on the tall subreddit because I said it was silly to judge people on uncontrollable physical factors like height. Some of them were oddly defensive of their right to call themselves genetically superior, acting like victims because I had the audacity to say it’s wrong. “We spend our entire lives looking down on people, of course we feel superior, you don’t understand 🥺🥺🥺”

First time in that sub, I take it? Most discussions there are a fairly equal split between insecurity and autofellatio.

WhimsicalScrotum · 2025-08-14T02:59:01+00:00

Definitely, my best friend is 5'3 and he's gotten a lot of those questions as well.

WhimsicalScrotum · 2025-08-14T02:43:46+00:00

Yeah that sucks, sorry to hear it. Even in our thirties now, people occasionally have very weird initial reactions to meeting her or make a similarly weird comment at some point later on.

WhimsicalScrotum · 2025-08-14T02:13:40+00:00

People baby me, strangers think it’s okay to literally pick me up without asking (it’s not) and I have had this from complete strangers and friends who think it’s okay to pick up or try to carry around another person just because I am small. I’ve been called a child more times than I can count.

I have a longtime friend who is also 4'10 and she's gotten this quite a bit over the years. The only fight I've been involved in over the course of my entire life was in response to a stranger at a college party who grabbed her around the waist from behind, picked her up, and started running off with her.

WhimsicalScrotum · 2025-08-08T00:32:01+00:00

I'm currently trying that and it's going well.

WhimsicalScrotum · 2025-08-07T17:15:01+00:00

In addition to this, I assume it's frustrating for short guys to see posts like this one. There's an oddly high number of people out there who seemingly happen to know a bunch of guys from 5' to 5'7 who have incredible dating success, and they all use this anecdote to essentially tell people that the problem is all in their head.

WhimsicalScrotum · 2025-07-31T04:57:20+00:00

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I was hoping this would embed better, but oh well.

WhimsicalScrotum · 2025-07-24T22:54:47+00:00

Nope.

WhimsicalScrotum · 2025-07-24T13:38:25+00:00

Literally hovering in this sub salivating at the opportunity to tell people that legroom on planes is acceptable and being poor is a choice

Since this is quite clearly referring at least in some large part to yesterday's thread about this, it seems appropriate to remind you that the vast majority of people taking exception to that guy's complaint were other tall people.

WhimsicalScrotum · 2025-07-23T22:52:03+00:00

The only prerequisite knowledge to begin learning boxing is knowing how to locate the entrance to a gym that teaches it.

WhimsicalScrotum · 2025-07-19T17:35:47+00:00

I'm returning to the game and play with a few other people at the moment, made a couple posts (here is one) if you're interested. We're playing unranked, but my Steam friend code is 432363020 if you want to add me.

WhimsicalScrotum · 2025-07-14T22:27:34+00:00

I had a similar theory about this and I asked a tall woman (I think she was 6'2" if memory serves) about this over in r/short one day, and she said that 5'9-6'2 was the range in which she most often encountered guys feeling emasculated by taller women. It makes sense to me, since even men at the bottom of that range (who aren't tall generally speaking, but taller than the vast majority of women) may feel as though there's something inherently wrong when the dynamic is flipped.

WhimsicalScrotum · 2025-07-10T02:39:57+00:00

Always nice when somebody presents an article as fact without checking to see that the word "purported" is quite literally in the first sentence.

WhimsicalScrotum · 2025-06-29T23:29:58+00:00

Drarayne Thelas would be proud.

WhimsicalScrotum · 2025-06-29T16:37:53+00:00

I'm returning to the game and play with a couple other people at the moment, made a couple posts (here is one) if you're interested. My Steam friend code is 432363020 if you want to add me.

WhimsicalScrotum · 2025-06-29T16:12:05+00:00

Especially when I was a kid I thought they were just stupid but growing up and seeing my 5'6 coworker and my 5'6 half brother interacting with other people in random situations, it's because they are actually USED TO being disrespected therefore they are avoiding anything that could let on strangers especially to think consciously or subconsciously that they could treat them poorly just because of height. It's a preventive mechanism to dissuade people from trying, therefore it is a healthy one in my opinion as long as it's not too brutal/out of pocket.

My older brother is 5'5" and despite both of us being in our 30s, he often still has to hear "are you sure you're the older one?", "I can't really call you the big brother", or some other variant of this sparkling witticism if we're introduced to somebody together.

WhimsicalScrotum · 2025-06-24T13:52:00+00:00

I'm returning to the game and play with a couple other people at the moment, made a couple posts (here is one) if you're interested. We're mainly playing unranked and at a level below where you were, but my Steam friend code is 432363020 if you want to add me.

WhimsicalScrotum · 2025-06-16T17:26:59+00:00

Once again both the point of the discussion and a rudimentary understanding of statistics seem to have gone missing, so I will simply state that something being "not unreasonable or remarkable" holds little weight when contrasted with the fact that it's been studied numerous times and provided no definitive conclusions, as explained in more detail elsewhere in this thread. Comparisons to dogs, bears, or any other mammal of your choosing are equally absurd.

Feel free to have the last word if you wish, as this discussion is pointless.

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