Sorry, Short Men, But I Will Not Date You

Sorry, Short Men, But I Will Not Date You

The net happens to be abuzz since a brand new research revealed that ny ladies on online dating sites respond to just 1.2 % of males smaller than five legs, nine ins high. This astonishing statistic has numerous up in hands – especially thinking about the typical US girl can be an appreciably more petite 5’4″ – including Glamour , which nobly lay out yesterday to “debunk the thinking” behind our apparent collective bias against dating short males.

Right Here, dear audience, is when you may stop liking me personally. Whenever I joined up with OKCupid, my top (and, actually, just) concern had been filtering my matches that are potential height. We don’t date males who will be reduced than me personally.

To be clear: It’s my loss. I’m shallow. It’s perhaps maybe not them, it is me. I’m 5’9″, which is not outrageously tall, but i have already been 5’9″ considering that the sixth grade, whenever it had been outrageously tall. My self-consciousness about my size as being a gawky preteen may have insidiously embedded it self into my neurobiology. Today, I observe that love is really a figures game. I would personally like to date men that are short just because it’d vastly expand my dating pool. Continue reading “Sorry, Short Men, But I Will Not Date You”