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Would YOU date a shorter man? 5ft 8in woman asks if she's 'incredibly shallow' to reject a Tinder match based on height - as others warn they could look like mother and son!
UK Daily Mail ^ | February 2, 2021 | Latoya Gayle

Posted on 02/02/2021 7:58:39 AM PST by C19fan

A woman who is preparing to meet h a man she matched with on Tinder has provoked a lively debate about whether height really matters when dating, ater admitting she's nervous about him potentially being shorter than her.

Posting anonymously on Mumsnet, the UK-based woman explained she's 5ft 8in and has always dated taller men, and asked if she's 'incredibly shallow' to worry that a man she's planning a socially-distanced date with might be shorter.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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To: wardaddy

“They ask openly for the third party to have a large penis....or be black”

What the heck, havent they heard of that nation in Africa where European women go to have that fulfilled lol.


81 posted on 02/02/2021 10:04:31 AM PST by the_individual2014
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To: SgtHooper

I’m 6’3” and ironically, I prefer either taller women (over 5’10”) or shorter women (under 5’2”). 6’1” or 4’11” is not a problem for me. It’s a preference not a requirement and I ended up with someone who is 5’7”.


82 posted on 02/02/2021 10:06:08 AM PST by Mr Fuji
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To: C19fan

My brother’s wife is an inch taller than he is. He was a really buff construction worker when they met, with a very manly personality. He is 5’7”. She thought he was hot, and loved his sense of humor.


83 posted on 02/02/2021 10:06:24 AM PST by married21 (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: T.B. Yoits

Thank goodness I am in a nation where I can date Central or Eastern European women, now only if this lockdown can end and i can travel again.


84 posted on 02/02/2021 10:08:27 AM PST by the_individual2014
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To: Boogieman

There ain’t no romance without finance....


85 posted on 02/02/2021 10:11:50 AM PST by LFOD (Formerly - Iraq, Afghanistan - back home in Dixie.)
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To: C19fan

My wife is 5’2”. I’m 6 foot. For some reason, when she stands on the stairs and kisses me eye-to-eye, I find that a turn-on...


86 posted on 02/02/2021 10:16:38 AM PST by Magnatron
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To: Jewbacca
You remind of a fellow I sat next to once on a six-hour flight. Very nice person, good-looking young man, but quite tall.

The flight was full, but our middle seat did not show up and he was so happy that he could put his legs into the empty space. It was not a matter of mere comfort -- his femurs were so long that they were jammed into the seat in front of him, even though he was sitting as far back in his own seat as he could. Each movement of the seat ahead was translated directly into his kneecaps.

Poor guy -- he told me he always tried to get special seats with a little extra leg room, avoided stowing anything beneath the seat in front, etc etc but sometimes it just did not work out. He was genuinely apologetic about asking if he could stick his legs into the empty space. Little ol' 5'6" me told him, "no problem" haha...
87 posted on 02/02/2021 10:22:55 AM PST by daltec
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To: C19fan
I'm a guy who's just shy of 6 feet. I'm not enthralled by women who are taller than,say,5' 7"...or shorter than about 5' 3".

I guess I'm shallow...times two.

88 posted on 02/02/2021 10:31:39 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Trump: "They're After You. I'm Just In The Way")
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To: the_individual2014; Pelham

I worked Jamaica a lot in the 80s

Fat White women mostly from Canada or Germany ....this was before American White women got all jungle fever....they would come to Montego Bay or Ocho

To get skinny black guys to rail em

They would pay the guy or buy him stuff....it was too funny and a bit sad

A skinny unwashed dread walking around arm in arm with a fat sunburned white woman....him carrying bags of stuff she’d bought him

I stayed next some and you’d hear em caterwauling and moaning all night...these guys would use china brush....camphor in a rock....to deaden their Johnson do they could go on and on

Oral sex on a woman was forbidden same as battyman stuff.....Jamaican men unless upper class no way they would go down on a woman (an untapped market there btw)....even Jamaican white like Kamala Harris daddy folks would have eschewed it

On occasion some comely thin hapless girl who had come down by herself would approach me to hang out as cover so the local men would leave them alone

The men figured any single White woman wanted it

Negril was for skinny hippie chicks....some who were dreadlock girls and some not so much

But fat Canadian women looking to get worn out..

Had come to the right place no question of that..

No matter how fat or unattractive....you can always buy enough dragon stout for that....and this was pre viagra

I used to wonder what their peers back home would think....

It’s like men goin to Manila or Bangkok for young girls...maybe not quite as bad


89 posted on 02/02/2021 10:33:25 AM PST by wardaddy ( IN 1999 JIM THOMPSON WAS RIGHT ABOUT THE BUSHES ...WE WERE WRONG)
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To: C19fan

There is a fine looking blonde woman in our housing tract who I would guess is 6’ tall. Well proportioned with big boobs. I have stood next to her and I am at 6’ 1” and she is damn near as tall as I am. She has been devorced and has two teenage children. Her current boyfriend is maybe 6’ 2”.

I do not think she has any problem getting boyfriends. I have seen her former husband and he is about the same height as me. I doubt if she would be looking for a shorter boyfriend.


90 posted on 02/02/2021 10:34:36 AM PST by Parley Baer
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To: LFOD

True, that is one of the things that will make a lot of women overlook every other shortcoming that would normally be a “deal breaker” for them.


91 posted on 02/02/2021 10:38:56 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: C19fan

I’m 5’8” and I dated someone that was about 5’7”. I was OK with it. Its a bit awkward with high heels. My husband is only 5’10”.


92 posted on 02/02/2021 10:39:26 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: dfwgator

😆 I knew you would do that.


93 posted on 02/02/2021 10:40:33 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: central_va

“I am 5’ 8” and invisible also.”

I’m 5’8”. Most people who see me WISH I was invisible.


94 posted on 02/02/2021 10:44:22 AM PST by Mr Rogers
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To: T.B. Yoits

And motorcycle oil. This I know from years of experience.


95 posted on 02/02/2021 10:45:51 AM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL)
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To: C19fan
Yes, she is shallow.

I understand partly because I tended not to date tall guys because I am 5 foot (and a fraction) and I always felt we looked weird. But then I married a six foot guy who used to only date tall girls.

As you grow up you learn not to care what other people think. Then you are ready to get married.

Maybe she will grow up but for right now he may have had a lucky escape.

96 posted on 02/02/2021 10:50:01 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (May their path be strewn with Legos, may they step on them with bare feet until they repent. )
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To: nonliberal

“How much does she weigh?”
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Full disclosure: I am a healthy, though bit overweight woman.

Now that I have THAT out of the way....

Excellent question, you posed!

If a taller woman doesn’t want to date a shorter man it implies she is not totally comfortable in her OWN body.

And if she’s not going to date someone simply because he’s shorter, then it’s likely if another shortcoming arises (no, not sexually: medically!), she’s also likely to cut and run instead of staying in the relationship.

In my high school days (younger, prettier, great figure, etc...) I dated a guy who was shorter than I was and had no qualms.

He was great. A very nice young man. Too bad his mother hated my guts because my dad was Enlisted and his date was an Officer. Sigh.

That woman did everything except put a hit out on me.


97 posted on 02/02/2021 10:51:08 AM PST by Notthereyet (We're so angry we can spit pea pellets at a tree and drill the dang tree. )
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To: C19fan

But don’t dare say you won’t date fat chicks...


98 posted on 02/02/2021 10:53:45 AM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes. )
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To: All

I dated taller girls, love the long legs. There was this brunette, she had legs for days but did not score high enough on the Mendoza line to last.


99 posted on 02/02/2021 10:58:28 AM PST by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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To: C19fan

Who cares?

I’m 5’10”. Bigger than she. She’s just a normal tall.


100 posted on 02/02/2021 11:01:06 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs. I )
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