r/short

Hey everyone,

Im a lurker in this sub and my feelings are mixed. Im a 25 yr old 5ft6 german guy and dont know what i should think anymore... There are days where im completely fine with me and then there are days where im struggling to "death". I had a gf in my teen years and 2 hook ups at 21 but now i dont know where to go anymore... Every guy with a gf i see on the streets is minimum 5ft9 and i never see guys my height with a gf ( besides foreigners with their wife or seniors) I tried to "touch grass" but thats all im seeing man... i know some guys my height and they have hookups and all that but never smth serious and fulfilling... even when i see a short woman they are ALWAYS with tall men...

So to my fellow whites how do you handle with this? Dear Dangerous Bee i really like your posts and would like to hear your perspective :)

Sorry for my english

I’m acc to sad to say much but my previous post from yesterday where I basically talked about how like 3 days ago my family (15 people) publicly embarrassed me in a restaurant. If you want to know more just check my previous post.

I was on Facebook which I use to sell things (I don’t use it as a regular socials at all) and I basically saw the photo that my aunt took of me side by side to my brother when they forcefully made me compare heights. It was in my recommended which I guess why it popped up.

It had so many likes and comments and reading them genuinely hurt. They said shi like ‘my brother will GROW more successful then me’ (they highlighted grow)’ and I was obviously was a bit sad in the photo and people even managed to comment on that.

The worst part was there all people I probably know or will know since there just people friends or related to my aunt. When my mum found out she immediately Mande my aunt delete it and did realise how serious it was since it started like 4 days ago.

I’ve genuinely reached my limit and there’s no way I can recover from this

Last night me, my family and my dad side family and mums side (all cousins) like 15 of us had a massive dinner in this restaurant cause my sister and cousin both graduated law and medicine degrees.

We were all chatting and for most of us it was our first time meeting in person. My brother who is 13 kind of is an attention seeker and since most of the people were all older ignored anything he said cause it was like childish talk if u know what I mean. Randomly he points out to everyone how short I’ve gotten and everyone just stops and stairs.

He is 13 and 5,7.5 and I am 16 5,6. The fact he wasn’t even trying to show how much he grew but instead how short I was really said something to me. I’m starting sixthform to in 2 weeks and this just completely battered any confidence I had.

The worst part was after 2 of my cousins who are twins wanted us to stand side by side to compare and they basically forced me into it and I couldn’t say no cause it was just like in the moment. If it couldn’t get worse my mums sister took a photo too of me and my brother side by side which genuinely broke me.

I had to sit the rest of the dinner in silence while watching my brother get the attention he desperately craved. I always knew I was short from a young age and learnt to deal with it but this was something else.

I’m just starting into a screen rn venting while soemthing inside me just hurts. I knew people could be cruel but not the ones that close to you.

I genuinely don’t know how I’m gonna live the rest of my life like this.

My mom is 5'5 and my dad is 5'8, my maternal grandfather was 5'11, and so were his brother and dad, and my paternal uncle and grandfather are 5'8. According to the mid-parental target height, I should be 5'9, but I ended up 5'2, and my sister is 5'1.

How did I end up shorter than almost everyone in my family?

So how tall am i

What will happen if the average height of all men across the globe became 6ft and no one was short anymore ? Now what ?

Money quote:

>And there is his height. Pascaretta, who said he is 5-foot-6 (“5-7 on a good day”), knows it can be a deal breaker for some women — certainly on the dating apps. “That’s a big deal for some of these girls,” he said.

>A match he recently went on a few dates with mentioned, while they were at dinner, that she wanted to be with a tall guy — even though the team screens for women who are open to shorter men.

>“I’m like, You’re 5-foot-1! I’m tall compared to you,” he said. “It made me sensitive to it.”

>Pascaretta has dabbled in the apps casually, thanks to a few colleagues who set him up with profiles on Hinge, Bumble and The League, but he thinks they’re superficial. Strictly a numbers game. Matchmaking may sound like “voodoo” or “witchcraft” to some of his friends and family, he said, but he feels there is nothing like having a team of people who understand you out there searching for Mrs. Right for you, hyping you up.

>Pascaretta has lofty standards. When he signed his third renewal, he sent the Agape team a six-page Word document with details about his past girlfriends and a one-page self-profile. “I’m a rare blend of executive discipline and genuine warmth,” he wrote, mentioning his M.B.A. and pilot’s license. He also “cooks and cleans like Mrs. Doubtfire,” Pascaretta noted, “by choice, not necessity.”

>“Grounded in my Italian roots, I lead with heart, drive and zero ego,” he wrote. “I’m looking for my queen — someone to grow with, not just go with.”

>Pascaretta also sent the team an Excel spreadsheet cataloging his must-haves: an accomplished professional, ideally a doctor, lawyer or executive, “someone like me who has been ‘heads down’ career focus, but now is ready for a serious relationship.” Someone who has never been married or is at least amicably divorced. Someone shorter than him. And someone between the ages of 25 and 43. It also detailed his strong preference for a woman who is, among other things, “naturally pretty” and “stylish,” “loyal, classy, ambitious, elegant, feminine, emotionally stable,” from a “well-respected family” and who went to a top-tier school.

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I’m 5’5.5 and most men and women typically have this image of 5’5 as the typical short guy or is it lower

plzzz tell me how much should i guy is to be to be attractive (wish phele pata hota to height pe work krta ) but plzzz guyss tell me

im 5'7 and played soccer for lots of my childhood without height really being much of an issue, but i started playing basketball in college and genuinely found myself getting cooked by goons several inches than taller than me. besides soccer, what sports do you think height is less important in or even an advantage? i wanna expand my horizons.

So what can i claim

i just don't understand what people mean when they say "good proportions" can make you look taller, aside from the obvious of just not being fat. is it like something achievable or is it just genetic?

Please PLEASE stop with this. Use the TALLEST height you are on a given day. That's all you have to do. You're not lying. And let's face it, no one's using their shortest height. This should not be a question, or an issue.

How tall are the people in your extended family?

Maternal grandfather, great-uncle and great-grandfather: 5'11

Paternal grandfather, uncle and great-uncle: 5'8

Maternal great-uncles on grandmother's side: 5'10

Maternal cousins: 5'10-6'0 (One is a woman)

Paternal girl cousin: 5'6

Biologically male paternal cousin: 5'8

Paternal great-uncle on grandmother's side: 6'2-6'3

I’m a 5’8” barefoot according to official doctor measurement, with shoes/boots essentially appear 5’9”-10. In public.

I don’t really feel short but I feel I am plenty of times as well. I feel it’s a weird height because I’m still just barely taller than most women in heels and there’s still a healthy number of guys taller than me.

Thoughts?