Women always want someone taller than them. I'm surprised this is news, tbh. I'm over 6ft and can easily think of occasions when it's been commented on as being a good thing, it's so common. Though I welcome the compliments, I do think it's interesting to consider how it feels, as has been pointed out here, to be judged on something you have no control over.
There's intense and well documented pressure on women's appearance and though those pressures are definitely increasing for men, I think it's still far worse for women, but I wonder if there's a bit of a double standard going on here. I also wonder if women realise that height is a sensitive area for some men, arguably most men could be sensitive about it if only 15% of men are 6ft or over (according to Google).
Do men get to list the attributes they think are deal breakers on these sites? I suspect that a man who has a similar rule about women's bodies would find it more easy to discern from a photograph what they're looking for. It's probably harder for a woman trying to judge a man's height from a picture that might be him seated at a table, for example. So maybe that's why the option is there?
I wonder if there'd be more talk of what's important being on the inside, etc. If it was the case that 85% of women were to be screened out by a preference set by men. It's probably also interesting to think about how some men feel completely at ease making their judgement of women's bodies known but feel upset when the same is done to them.
Anyway, that's what I think about this. I'm off to hang out in the 15% lounge with hordes of keen women, all wanting to talk about elite controllers and Starfield with nerds like me. To those that aren't allowed in, my condolences.
