From: R9S@ECL.PSU.EDU (Roberto G Sung)
Subject: Re: Tall women and shorter men
Organization: Penn State Engineering Computer Lab
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 18:01:29 GMT
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In <1992Dec15.043339.15968@selway.umt.edu> redman@selway.umt.edu writes:

> In article <1992Dec9.055334.21919@penet.fi> an978@anon.penet.fi writes:
> >
> >Oh, talking "shorter": a lot shorter than 4" shorter just looks funny I 
> >think..  4" is okay, that even works when I wear heels. But half a foot....
> >
> >But then again, dating tall men has definite advantages: it's easier to put
> >my head on their shoulder when dancing, it's easier to walk arm in arm,
> >I can borrow their sweaters and feel "petite" when it comes down to my knees.
> >I also don't have to feel bad when I park my shoes next to theirs --a size
> >11 women's shoe looks tiny next to a size 13 men's :)
> >
> >I don't mind short men at all --some of my best lovers were shorter than me 
 
geez, thanks, after kindly showing us short guys how we come short of
advantages as compared to the tall ones, you managed to balance the ranting
by saying that you don't mind short men. do you really think that i'm
so naive as not to notice the contradiction? discrimination is in the
way one thinks rather than the way he/she acts.

> I was going to post something to the effect that,  "You sound like the 
> anon.women of my dreams.  Finally someone who can really look into my
> eyes.  Finally a feminine being that I can work out with without
> worrying about breaking.  I even have size 15's to really dwarf your
> size elevens."  But this doesn't seem to be correct with the current
> thread. So i decided not to post that.  As to the question about going
> out with someone taller.  What _fucking_ difference should it make.
> Besides most of the girls that are taller than me come off as snobbish
> Basketball or volleyball players.  I happen to have a disposition of
> being attracted to shorter girls, but because I know that attraction
> on my part does not always lead to great relationships I have been
> able to throw open my perceptions to include all heights.  Height is
> something that we have no control over.  Why would anyone prejudge
> because of it.

my situation is somewhat similar, except that instead of being attract to
petite girls, i found myself prone to being attracted to taller ones.
at first, i was really confused. i've always fought back the social
stigma attached to the physical appearance, be it of racial, gender or any
nature. and i thought that to be coherent i should not prefer one physical
type over the other. maybe i'm a hypocrite myself?! Well, maybe i wanted
to rid myself of this stigma so bad, but was unable to, that i opted for
a better life for my children, and by subconsciously choosing the taller
girls i could be playing the genetic games in the hope that their stature
gene got to help redeem my "sin". cynic? not! calculist? perhaps. one
thing is for sure though, that is it's futile to try to change the societal
unjustice since changes won't happen overnight, or even over the next century,
the best subterfuge i've found is to make a good fortune and then you can be
damn sure you'll get all the hot babes you want no matter how short bald and
beer-bellied you become. but, then you'll be conforming to the society
while perpetrating the unjustice yourself. but, such is life.
now, seriously, how many of you believe that the Beauty would still
fall for the Beast if he were shorter than she is? or if his magically
luxurious ppalace were reduced to shambles? how many of you believe that
the script and arrangement were done without conformity to societal
stereotypes?
 
> 	If you guys and gals wanted to look for a biological
> explanation, genetically speaking, the average height of kids today is
> increasing phenomonally as compared to their parents.  This is partly
> due to environment and diet, but mostly do to genetics.  So on some
> biological level maybe we want to have kids that fit in with the norm.
> With a short female-tall male paring the kids would be closer to the
> norm.  Conversely a tall female-short male paring would give the same
> genetic results, but on a inbred social level males are trained to be
> macho and this creates the bias against being the shorter one in any
> relationship for males.  All us guys have to do is be confident enough
> not to have to worry about height.  This would work a lot better if we
> didn't have friends that tried to cut us down.
> 
> Wow!, man what the hell are you talking about?!?!?
> 
> Yours,
> 	Fatally 6'2",
> 		Punya!
> 			redman@selway.umt.edu
> 
wanna exchange body with me?
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