Tall Men vs. Short Men: Which Do Tall Women Prefer?

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[00:00:59] in a park or just overall spend time with family and friends. As you can probably tell by today's

[00:01:04] title we are going to be talking about the dating world for tall women and I don't really

[00:01:11] talk too much about this topic on this podcast. I don't really try to bring it up that much.

[00:01:15] I don't know. I just feel like well number one I don't really want to. Like I don't have

[00:01:21] too much experience in the dating world so it's not really like a topic that I can really talk about

[00:01:29] because um I mean yes there are like little indices or experiences like here and there but I'm not

[00:01:35] someone who avidly like goes out and meets new people. That sounds really bad but I'm just

[00:01:40] not someone who like the most social interaction that I've had like in my first 20-something

[00:01:46] years of life is really just going to school outside of that. I'm like doing extracurriculars and working

[00:01:53] and stuff so being put in certain situations that other tall women tend to talk about like I've never

[00:02:00] been there like that um so I just don't have too many experience that's what I should say.

[00:02:07] I don't really have too many experiences to share in that realm just a few here and there

[00:02:11] but then also on the other hand it's like I find it a little bit annoying to talk about. I don't know

[00:02:19] because it could be a touchy topic not just for tall women but also other people who may or may

[00:02:26] not be interested in tall women and then when I talk about it there comes the messages and the

[00:02:32] comments that are very shallow very shallow messages very shallow comments. Can we all just get

[00:02:38] along here? However, here we are talking about this topic right now and it all started with a comment

[00:02:44] that I got under one of my podcast episodes. I'm not going to say a word for word I'm just going

[00:02:50] to summarize it and to be honest I don't remember the context of the video so I don't really know

[00:02:55] why they commented that um but I honestly don't even think the video related to what they were

[00:03:01] talking about but anyways the comment just said that deep down I want a tall man and that

[00:03:07] anytime a shorter man tries to hit on me I categorize that as like a weird fetish or something

[00:03:14] and then I use that I guess as an excuse to cover up the fact that I'm not attracted to

[00:03:23] shorter men. That person did say that they hated to generalize so I'll give them that but

[00:03:29] apparently that whole situation can cause like frustration and the whole relationship and

[00:03:36] dating world and such. So the point of this episode is not really to address this comment I also kind

[00:03:42] of wanted to use this as a voice or a way to speak on behalf of the tall girl community

[00:03:49] about this topic. I feel like this is just an ongoing thing like we even see on social media

[00:03:57] there's like a bunch of these public interviews where people are stopping tall women people

[00:04:01] are stopping women people are even stopping like shorter men and asking them oh like would you go

[00:04:06] well I'll speak on behalf of the tall women because you know that's like me that's my thing

[00:04:11] like I can speak on those experiences but they're more so stopping in these public

[00:04:16] interviews they're stopping these taller women and asking them oh yeah like would you date a

[00:04:20] short guy um what's the shortest height you'll date and da da da da like we see this is an

[00:04:26] ongoing thing is what I'm trying to say like very often so many times for so long people are constantly

[00:04:33] asking tall women would they go for a shorter guy. So I think that I'm just gonna try to use this

[00:04:41] episode as a way to I don't want to say squash the whole question thing squash the whole situation

[00:04:47] because I can't like everybody has their different preferences and stuff but just as a way to

[00:04:52] speak for the tall girl community as a whole I'm pretty sure that this person is also saying

[00:04:57] what a lot of people are thinking so I'm just addressing this as a whole but a very common

[00:05:02] misconception is that tall women inherently prefer tall men or see shorter men as less attractive

[00:05:09] or less capable where in reality preferences do vary and quite frankly it's so much more complex

[00:05:17] than just a thing of height or even physical traits for that matter there are so many other

[00:05:23] factors to consider including personality which is a big one I'm a firm believer if your personality

[00:05:29] is ugly you're ugly no matter how physically attractive other people think you are if you

[00:05:35] got a crap personality if you got a bad personality like don't eat no leave but there's

[00:05:42] personality there's shared interests and commonalities shared beliefs shared values okay a lot

[00:05:49] of people do take religion and their beliefs and morals into account when considering a partner

[00:05:54] there's also the idea of emotional connection or what people consider a spark and so much more

[00:06:01] and you know I'm not gonna knock the idea that society and the media does put certain standards

[00:06:07] for everything but also for dating into our heads it's interesting that societal expectations can

[00:06:13] often dictate relationship norms including height preferences the media for example does portray

[00:06:19] taller men as more dominant and more desirable than shorter men causing women as a whole

[00:06:26] including tall women to internalize these expectations to go after taller men and

[00:06:32] they act that out in their everyday lives but now I feel like the idea of taller women and

[00:06:39] shorter men dating is becoming talked about a little bit more it's slowly becoming more

[00:06:45] normalized in the media and I think that this creator explains this idea really really well

[00:06:50] Sinde and Tom Holland's relationship is getting pressed for a lot of reasons but the most

[00:06:54] surprising one is their heights their high-profile relationship pushes back against ideas held by

[00:06:59] men and women about what height is acceptable for a romantic partner men may look for women who are

[00:07:05] shorter than them in order to fulfill a traditional masculine role which dictates that men should be

[00:07:10] bigger and stronger but as Anne Friedman writes for Esquire women have also internalized the

[00:07:15] message that it's better for us to be smaller because this is associated with femininity but

[00:07:20] there's still a long way to go it's way past time to stop making the possibility of

[00:07:24] romance dependent on something as superficial as height and you know Tom Holland and Zendaya are

[00:07:30] great examples of you know celebrities that are just you know showing their relationships out to

[00:07:37] the public yes but also normalizing the fact that a woman can be taller than the guy that she's dating

[00:07:42] and there are other celebrity couples and ex-couples who portray that as well the woman is taller

[00:07:48] than the guy that she's dating at least in heels and you have Bella Hadid and the weekend

[00:07:55] Sophia Turner and Joe Jonas Benji Madden and Cameron Diaz and because we're seeing more and

[00:08:01] more celebrity couples in the mainstream media who don't really care about the height difference

[00:08:05] we're seeing more and more tall women you know coming forward and saying how they would consider

[00:08:11] someone who's shorter than them or you know even encouraging other women to be

[00:08:16] with someone who is shorter than them or even other couples who are not celebrities are showcasing

[00:08:23] their relationship where the woman is taller and the man is shorter and this creator is honestly

[00:08:27] just an example of a tall woman encouraging other tall women to you know go for men who are shorter

[00:08:32] to my fellow tall b**** out there trust me it is okay to be with a guy who is shorter than you

[00:08:39] most of time it's better because they appreciate the fact that you're taller than them

[00:08:45] and also if need be you could probably kick their end in my opinion I honestly don't think that one

[00:08:52] is better than the other however there are people who actually think that tall women think that one

[00:08:58] is better than the other and it's usually the insecure ones it's usually the insecure men

[00:09:03] and they kind of project that insecurity onto us and that's kind of a fear of us tall women

[00:09:08] that you know if we were to get with a man who is shorter than us that they will project

[00:09:12] their potential I'm not saying that all shorter men have these insecurities but the ones that do

[00:09:18] may project those insecurities onto us in the dating world just like in an experience similar to this

[00:09:25] one how tall are you five eleven would you ever date someone shorter than you I did one time

[00:09:31] how tall were they five seven damn yeah but he like kind of had a god complex the five seven

[00:09:39] dude had a god god complex yeah he wouldn't let you wear heels like ever like what about

[00:09:46] like a formal attire do you still talk to him either way it's slightly understandable why people would

[00:09:55] think that way but that doesn't necessarily mean that it's true that you know we prefer one over

[00:10:00] the other and honestly tall women let's clear the air right now what is your height limit for

[00:10:06] a guy or a partner you'd go for like what is the shortest you would date and I could tell you right

[00:10:11] now that there are going to be so many different answers in the comments why because there's no

[00:10:16] one standard answer to this question okay like I said before dating is so complex and it's just

[00:10:24] so different for everybody is more than just height like I said before it's personality

[00:10:30] it's common interests shared interest commonalities shared beliefs values religion also sometimes

[00:10:37] comes into play emotional connection that spark is not just like one set thing and especially at a

[00:10:46] certain age you know like I feel like especially in our teenage years we're just like oh I only

[00:10:51] want this type of person wants that type of person da da da da but as we get older is not

[00:10:56] like we're oh settling for a specific type of person or settling for a specific type of thing

[00:11:02] or whatever it's more so a thing of there's just more to a person than just a superficial

[00:11:08] things that we consider in our teenage years there are people who have certain preferences and

[00:11:14] everybody's preferences is going to look different like me yes I would consider someone who is slightly

[00:11:19] shorter but I'm not going to go for someone who is like a whole foot shorter than me but

[00:11:23] it's not to say that that person is like a bad person or anything it's just that you know I have

[00:11:28] a preference yes I will go for someone who is slightly shorter like maybe one two even three

[00:11:34] four pushing an inches but I'm not going to go for someone who's a foot shorter and that's just

[00:11:39] my personal preference some tall women will go for a guy or a partner who is a whole foot

[00:11:46] shorter than them and not care that's their preferences everybody has different preferences

[00:11:51] so can we stop forcing tall women to explain themselves when choosing a tall man or a short

[00:11:57] man like some prefer one over the other some prefer both and some prefer neither it's just a reality

[00:12:03] so when given the choice between a tall guy and a short guy a tall woman will choose the one who

[00:12:07] respects her is kind to her and provides physical security as well as emotional security

[00:12:14] and you can't really put a hide on that hopefully this is one of the last times or maybe even

[00:12:19] the last time that I have to settle this whole well not settle this whole debate but talk about

[00:12:23] this whole debate because I did this what like a year or year and a half two years ago and I'm just

[00:12:29] like oh this is this is getting to be a bit much you know what I mean like we don't we don't need

[00:12:35] like let's just all get along let's be friends we don't need to be getting mad at anyone for

[00:12:41] their specific preferences or generalizing because oh a couple tall women or a couple people said

[00:12:48] that they had this one preference so you think oh there's one group of person all of them all of

[00:12:53] them in that group have that one particular preference because that is just not the case and

[00:12:57] I sometimes feel like those people are the ones who get mad because the people that they want

[00:13:01] don't want them back and it's like you know if you're telling them to change their preference

[00:13:07] why don't you change your preference how about that then maybe you can find someone who adores

[00:13:13] you and cherishes you and wants to be with you just my opinion though anyways I'm going to end

[00:13:17] the episode here thank you so so much for tuning in I really appreciate it and I appreciate you

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[00:13:25] linked below and you can let me know what you thought about this episode what do you think

[00:13:29] about this debate of oh tall women do they want tall men or short men and da da da

[00:13:34] we could talk about this have a conversation about this I honestly I don't really need your

[00:13:40] opinions because I kind of already know what it is I literally just spoke on it so

[00:13:46] is there any more to discuss about this topic maybe there is and you can let me know on my

[00:13:51] socials and until then I'll catch you in the next one good night and goodbye