'Having an extreme physical characteristic is useful — the way people react to it tells you a lot about them in an instant.'
Height is quite often the first thing you notice about a person, so it plays a big role in the dynamics of ~attraction~
So I guess opposites attract, or I just enjoy the awkward interactions/comical antics of doing activities with someone much taller than I?Lauren Zaser / Jenny Chang / Via BuzzFeedI love my height. Standing out my whole life has led me to be much more confident and fearless of being different. But dating is interesting. There are definitely a lot of great guys who only see six feet as one small part of who I am. However,probably to bury their own insecurity or intimidation.
So when people inevitably criticize me for taking men's comments about my height too personally, I'm the first to agree. My heightI haven't worked this hard to love my body for some guy to nonchalantly tell me how to feel about it over a gin and tonic.Meredith is 5'5", dates mostly men, and finds her height is more of an advantage since transitioning.
Back when I identified as a gay man, my short stature was a liability, since the mainstream gay world is into tall, muscular guys. based on something so superficial. Though in fairness, when I see someone write something like that, I immediately lose attraction to their personality anyway. It's sort of been a firsthand exercise in how a lot of guys associate traits they see as childlike with femininity
, so I don't blame the ladies for passing on that opportunity back then. Even the girl in the arcade at the bowling alley, who, when 15-year-old me worked up the nerve to ask her out on date, answered,"You're too tall." I'm totally not upset about that anymore, but I think a simple no would've done the trick.
Now, I'm engaged to a smart and beautiful woman who tells me that she likes my height. And since you're probably wondering, she's 5'6".Lauren Zaser / Jenny Chang / Via BuzzFeedI will say that I used to be super intimidated by tall women. I'm not sure if it was a psychological or physical thing, but I got over it pretty quickly once I dated, like, one tall girl.
Yes, dating, to a degree, is inherently superficial — but it's still like,"Really, would you talk to me if I were wearing tiny hidden stilts?" Though it is a nice way to weed out assholes.I've dated people both shorter and taller than me, and it's really all the same. Sure, sometimes standing on your tiptoes for a goodnight kiss feels silly, but c'mon, if you're horizontal, the physics are all the same.
In an ideal world, I would date men who are taller than me, but I am definitely not opposed to dating someone my height or a little bit shorter. In fact, for whatever reason, I seem to end up with men like that; the last guy I was seriously with was 5'10". If anything, I know the perception of others does influence who I date, or even decide to hang out with, when in an ideal world it would just be about the connection I have with that person.
I don't like wearing heels, but one time, I wore these heeled booties on a first date with a guy who said he was 5'5". The booties had about a two-inch heel on them, and I was taller than him when we met up. Why would you lie about your height when the point is to meet up with someone? Don't you know they'll find out?
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