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I'm 6'3" and my wife is 5'4", she's told me many times that my height is super important to her and that she wouldn't have dated me if I were shorter than at least 6'.
Why do most (in my experience) women insist on tall men?
I don't know, maybe like someone farther down commented, they want tall kids? So I don't care because I am taller so my kids were all reasonably tall though my ex wasn't? But if I was short I'd be pulled toward wanting tall guys to make taller kids?
I'm about 5'9" and honestly the only guys who have been into me (and I'm older now so this is a reasonable sample, lol) are guys 5'8" to 5'11", and what is funny is most didn't like me to wear heels because that made me taller than them when standing. Tall good, taller bad.
So I was seeing this as a man-driven phenomenon/choice, my universe of potential partners hasn't ever seemed to include the really tall guys but it's possible I have been screening them out - I don't think so, though.
I think it's just statistics. I'm a 6'4" dude, which is 99th percentile. A 5'9" woman is also pretty close to the top few percentile (I'm too lazy to look it up). There just aren't that many of us, so it's much more likely that they'll end up with average size partners. I'm just guessing, I can't see what's actually going on down there.
According to my mum's short friend it is because we reach the high shelves and other stuff high up.
Most short women? I see most women of my height with average height guys. Which makes some sense, there are more guys between 5'8" and 5'11" than any other height here. Went to a concert just last night and noticed it again. Yes almost all women were with guys as tall or taller than themselves, but most often as the men got taller the women they were with got shorter.
I wholeheartedly agree that most women of any height look for guys at least the same height not shorter than they are.
And this whole conversation has made me think about my own preference. Maybe since I am used to looking men in the eye, I was subconsciously uneasy feeling short? That is not something I'd considered before. Only had thought I didn't care as long as not perceptibly shorter than me.
Two things: first, there's probably a few biases at play between conformation bias and the fact that the taller a guy gets a similar sized woman would look shorter and shorter and vice -versa.
Also you say (apparently) the taller a guy gets the shorter the women are; so why do taller men prefer shorter and shorter women and not: why do shorter women like taller and taller guys?