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There's a dating apps phenomena I've fairly recently heard about.
When inputting stats men often claim to be significantly taller than they truly are. This is frustrating for women who go to the effort of turning up for a date with a claimed 5'11"er only to be met by a five-fiver.
Since learning of this I've heard it a lot. It definitely seems to be a thing. Women are tired of this most ridiculous, utterly futile attempt to hoodwink.
We were discussing height at work a while back. My best friend Bella made a comment that she was taller than me, indirectly as a sideline in an anecdote.
Confused, I pointed out that we were the same height. This, I learned, was not possible. Bella was significantly taller than me, as was evidenced by the fact that when we talked, she looked down on me.
I asserted that we were the same height. "Duuude" she said, "why are men so weird about this. They can't deal with taller women".
Politely, I disagreed with the part about her being significantly taller.
She said "I'm, like, 5'11" and you're maybe 5'7. I'm a clear 4" taller".
So we got optically measured. Shoes off, independent assessor. No cheating. Marks on the wall:
Same height.
"So, Bella, if you're 5'11" then I'm 5'11" too"
"No way, you're much smaller".
Grudgingly though, she eventually agreed with the indisputable evidence.
Then we went to lunch with Megan, and we discussed height again.
"You're not 5'11" " Megan told me, "That's almost 6ft. You're about 5'7"."
But she did agree I was the same height as Bella, much to Bella's chagrin. Yet Bella was definitely 5'11".
Then later still, I was asked by a very vague acquaintance how tall I was, because she'd heard I had claimed to be 5'11" and looking at me, she felt very strongly I was nowhere near that. That lead to a bit of a dressing down and a lecture on the pointlessness of me lying about it, because I would always be found out. I was lectured quite extensively on the self-inflicted damage this common male lie causes, and told I would never find love until I was honest with myself and others.
Somewhat bruised and weary, I slunk home, not at all sure how tall I was. I called Bella once more who now informed me very confidently that she was currently 5'7", the same as me.
I felt ashamed that I had done the exact same thing as many other men. I had primped and pumped my altitudinal status despite falling obviously short. I was not 5'11", I was 5'7" and a liar.
But I still didn't know. So I went and found out, properly, what my actual height is.
It transpires I'm only 5'10-and-a -half-inches. An obvious and awful half an inch shorter than I have claimed.
Any women looking for a 5'11" man may need to adjust their height expectations down to somewhere around the 5'11" mark. Either that or seek men that are 6'4" instead.
Bella and I remain best friends. She still looks down on me. She is currently 5'10-and-a-half.
- maybe she has a smaller forehead? higher eyes position? lol hey! my eyes are up here!pango
- I think we intuitively judge height based on eye level, yes. Also stature and presence plays a part: I'm stoopy. But I also think we think...Horp
- that 6ft is a lot taller than 6ft actually is. I think when women meet a 5'11er they are actually expecting a 6'3er.Horp
- Use the metric system. I've never heard of these problems with people that use the metric system.palimpsest
- Haha
I'll recommend itHorp - "My government-issued ID and passport both say I'm 184 cm tall. Fuck you, Bella."Continuity
- But, yes. As pali says, use a real system of measurements. More precision than that other thing that apparently relies on body parts, rocks, and visual guesses.Continuity
- i don't get it. So much discrepancy in size. So if you were both optically measured in size but she was adamant she was 1.8m?Ianbolton
- I know quite a few men who get so butt-hurt about women wanting taller men. But then I know women who are surprised they're happy with dating a shorter guyIanbolton
- It feels like playground dating where some 8 year old would say 'nah, he's ugly' without know what the fuck they're on aboutIanbolton
- my dick is 5ft11"Ianbolton
- Likewise, there's probably a lot of frustrated men turning up to dates to find a girl who looks nothing like her filter-enhanced PFP.microkorg
- well i'm well over 6' so i don't have that problem.hans_glib
- I got a few 'jokes' from my partner about not being tall when we first started going out. I guess an ex was taller? She still makes them on occasion...Nairn
- ... When I first visited her home it turns out I'm taller than everyone in her family and most of her friends too, and I'm not at all tall.
It's so weird.Nairn - i'm actually 5'11, which is 1 - 2 inches taller than all my friends that are 6ftkingsteven
- LOL, kingstevenpalimpsest
- Oh hi, Horp. How's your sex life?NBQ00
- You can fix the height issue with women by just being funny and having a beard.********
- But what do I know, I'm like 6'2"********
- LOL kingsteven
LOL Grafician
: DHorp - Another classic short story in the annals (or anals) of QBN. bravo._niko
- Hi NBQ, it's pretty good. Pretty pretty pretty pretty good. You? Yours?Horp
- I struggle understanding how can you be this old and not know your actual height - by such a huge marginGnash
- Get some liftsstoplying
- lol @ graf, "I'm the smartest, I run multiple agencies and I'm like 6'2 but what do I know"NBQ00
- thats called girl mathArchitectofFate
- lol beardmonospaced
- I suppose if you're no good with the ladies and lie about your height, when they don't call back you can tell yourself it was the height thing.Fax_Benson
- ffs, man, can you just..?Nairn
- Oh. Wait. I read a joke in there that wasn't. I thought you'd made another blinding Dad joke. As you were!Nairn
- Jim, Sr. Web Designer, Detroit, 190k/yearutopian
- Fax, yeah maybe that's part of why men lie about it. It's a weird thing to do given you're gonna be sussed out in second 1 of date 1.Horp
- first impressions? - disappointingly small liar. It's a long way back from there.Fax_Benson
- 4 inch heels?i_monk