Attractive young women will reject any man below 5’8” tall no matter what other qualities they may possess. Older women will compromise.
Hard data from online dating apps and anecdotal social media, minimum acceptable height is now 6’.
In my experience, that isn't true. Some will but many won't. Women do, however, get turned off by guys who try to overcompensate or who try too hard.
“Attractive young women will reject any man below 5’8” tall no matter what other qualities they may possess. Older women will compromise.”
That is generally correct.
As a short young man I learned that the hard way.
They would always ignore me—at first.
But—I had the kind of personality that loved difficult challenges.
I learned many “tricks”. One was that I didn’t need to persuade “most women” to pay attention to me.
I only needed to persuade one.
I married a very attractive woman—and then women started paying attention to me—wondering how I did it.
;-)