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Post by astrange »

brabel wrote: post #38
uncomputation wrote: post #20

I find these subtle, yet extremely intense neuroses we see so often in Western cultures fascinating. The patient remarks on one TikTok video in particular that seemingly tormented him. I had never once thought a few inches height difference in a couple was odd or even worth remarking upon and yet there seems to be this vast, largely untapped sensitivity in men being short. Similar things for sexual activity (incels)…

It's apparently common for Koreans to make operations to widen their eyes to look more like anime characters. In Japan, it used to be a necessity for women to use extremely tight shoes in order to contain feet growth, as women with large feet were less desired or something. In Brazil, the most common surgery for women is probably bum enlargement rather than breast. In some parts of Myanmar, women need to have very lo…

> It's apparently common for Koreans to make operations to widen their eyes to look more like anime characters.

I don’t think that’s the exact reason, and they’d probably get mad at you if you said they wanted to look like something Japanese.

Korea and China are developing an independent “anime-like aesthetic” based on MMOs and anime-like American PC games these days; eg Blue Archive and Genshin are a lot more technically advanced than what Japan’s famously poorly paid source of actual anime can produce.

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Post by Gigachad »

Crabber wrote: post #255
thangalin wrote: post #158

For folks in this thread making statements such as, "I don't see how one can dictate to others what they should find attractive," the negative social stigmas towards men of short stature go far beyond physical attraction. (There's absolutely nothing wrong with women finding taller men attractive.) https://twitter.com/heightismxposed Swap "short guy" for "Jew" in the quotations from those twits that have nothing to do…

Stop basing your entire worldview on what 20 women said on twitter.com in 2014

This kind of stuff is pretty widespread. One of the major dating sites published a stat showing woman ranked 80% of men as below average attractiveness while men ranked 50% of woman as bellow average. They had to pull the post because it was explosive. I assume no tech company will ever post stats on the data they have showing some kind of meaningful social observation again.

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Post by chrisseaton »

stickfigure wrote: post #305
brandall10 wrote: post #296

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which is kind of a fascinating thing if you note that Zelensky is clearly shorter than him by about an inch (~5'5"), and I have yet to see anyone make a comment about his height.

Courage makes you taller.

But that's still a fucked-up thing to say - as if being taller is some kind of better thing and his courage makes him taller?

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Post by drpgq »

djohnston wrote: post #6

Do you think remote first companies will be at an advantage because physical biases like height, age, and weight have less signal to form against?

I started a new job during Covid I got through my boss. I've never met anyone else at the company in person. We are both shorter than average. Makes you kind of wonder.

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Post by spacehome »

jeffbee wrote: post #237
ravenstine wrote: post #213

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> There's absolutely nothing wrong with women finding taller men attractive. It's another thing if it becomes more a cultural expectation than an actual attraction, and I think the reaction would be rather different if enough men decided not to date women who don't have at least D cups.

Well that's an interesting response. Surveyed women of median height prefer men of above-median height. But a D cup bra size is below the median for American adult females (which is a 34DD). I have no idea why popular imagination believes the bra size scale goes from A to D. Edited with context: The point is that men don't just prefer larger and larger breasts; there is a peak in preference for medium breast sizes[1]…

What’s the median among non-obese women?

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Post by qayxc »

AussieWog93 wrote: post #231

All these guys in here talking about the extreme discrimination against short men, where is this occurring? I say this as someone who is 5"7. I thought it was a meme on Tinder that incels blew out of proportion, but apparently it's bigger?

Seems to be a particular American thing, especially in conjunction with online dating and US customary units.

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Post by reverend_gonzo »

aortega wrote: post #159
reverend_gonzo wrote: post #155

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Sounds like a forever aloner. I know multiple tall, classically good looking men who, while they can can get dates, can not maintain them because they have zero relationship skills, and I know just as many short men who have a relationship whenever they want. While height might be an early filter, it is by no means the only source of attraction. Men would do well to build the rest of their personalities to stand them…

>Sounds like a forever aloner. This social disqualification is the reason the truth remains hidden. I'm only 5'9 and have a family, but this was way before social networks and online dating. The world is different now. >I know Yes I know many data points that fall outside the curve too. But I'm talking about the curve.

I’m 5’8”, Asian, married to an American, and have a family, and I got all this after social networks and tinder, et al came along.

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Post by recuter »

rsynnott wrote: post #318
recuter wrote: post #307

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He was Alexander. That is why no one cared.

Caesar was Caesar, but he was supposedly pretty sensitive about his (lack of) hair, and contemporary historians (ancient Roman historians were a bit closer to gossip columnists than modern historians) went on about it a lot. You don't really seem to get the same thing for Alexander.

I very much doubt Caesar was sensitive about his hair or worried what low rent individuals think of him.

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Post by Maursault »

thangalin wrote: post #158

For folks in this thread making statements such as, "I don't see how one can dictate to others what they should find attractive," the negative social stigmas towards men of short stature go far beyond physical attraction. (There's absolutely nothing wrong with women finding taller men attractive.) https://twitter.com/heightismxposed Swap "short guy" for "Jew" in the quotations from those twits that have nothing to do…

I never really believe what women tell me.

-Steven Wright

Though I believe what is said is (most usually) more important than who said what, I think even they will tell you, regarding statements like these, to consider the source. Also, rock stars, actors and fighter pilots always had insane game, and the tall ones are an anomaly (though, last 20 years or so, there has been a notable increase in average height due to a handful of extremely tall actors getting roles).

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Post by Darmody »

lupire wrote: post #218
Darmody wrote: post #207

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Plenty of women don't care about that. Just stop using apps like Tinder, they attract the worst of the worst, by what I see, especially in the US. Even if you were above 6', you wouldn't want to date a woman obsessed with height. In my group of friends, the shorter ones (around 1,73m) are the most successful ones.

1,73m is oddly specific.

Specific because I know the height of my friends.

He's the shorter one and he had the most success of all of us.

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