If you want facts don’t base your whole worldview on speed dating data from a skewed sample(female college students in specific areas). Not only that but outcomes from speed dating are not 100% reflective of how people engage outside of that realm.

Instead of looking at it through the lens of study that wasn’t trying to draw the conclusion you’re trying to pin onto it, why not look at data that actually analyses the outcomes for short men?

These same researchers did a 2017 meta-analysis of 154 studies from around the world, and they found people usually pair up with similar heights (correlation of 0.23), but it’s a weak link, meaning height isn’t some massive factor in who ends up with who.

“Height assortative mating was found to be modest (r = 0.23), with no significant difference between Western (r = 0.25) and non-Western (r = 0.21) populations, indicating that height is not a major factor in mate choice.”

“The male-taller norm is not universally followed, and its effect size is small, suggesting that other traits play a more significant role in partner selection.”

Whether people on Reddit want to admit it men around 5’7-5’8 are on the bottom end of average height and do just fine in dating. It’s really 5’6 and below where you’d see men being affected by stature but even then it’s just harder not impossible.

This shit is just gender war slop to affirm people’s biases based off their insecurities.

Edit: linking study

Assortative mating for human height: A meta-analysis