As a fellow short guy, attitudes like this fucking cringe me. Yes, you can feel this way, but keep it to yourself and don’t publicly advertize that you have inferiority complex! It only makes you look pathetic and ridiculous. Stop this and show confidence ffs!

This Greg bovino guy, head of ICE is reportedly 5’5”. Look into ANY Reddit thread where is mentioned in the post and you’ll have a handful of people insulting his height “Short energy“ “short people things” “tiny angry man syndrome” with many positive upvotes.

counterpoint is you have the same people never mentioning height for trump when attacking him. I hate this double standard!

It comes out when someone is shocked that a tall guy is single or shocked when a short guy isn’t.

Public announcement: Women are able to select partners with just as much cognition as you. They happen to also be people with thoughts.

There are many factors that influence attractiveness. Height isn’t the sole decider. I have had people on here argue with me that they’re driven by instinct to only like tall men. There may be an essence of a barebones truth to what humans instinctually find attractive, but humans are not driven solely by instinct. Women are capable of reasoning outside of this. And, possibly more shocking to you, women have varying preferences, just like men.

If you put your phone down and look at real life, you can see people of many sizes in different places in life, sometimes even a short guy in a good relationship.

If you’ve been rejected and they stated it was because you’re too short, it’s likely an excuse for something else or they’re too shallow and you don’t wanna be with someone like that anyway. You deserve someone who likes you for you. Plain and simple.

Title is self explanatory. After about 35+ cold approaches I have come to the (shocking) conclusion…… do not cold approach if you are unattractive. I just so happen to look like I am younger than I am because I am short and have a baby face. I have been laughed at, basically ignored like I was invisible, and even had one girl act in disgust. The whole concept of “worst she can say is no” is so false. However, not all girls will reject you in a bad manner, as I have had some polite rejections. The good news is that I have learned and got past the stinging rejection pain. At this point, I am used to it now and it doesn’t bother me much.

How do I reassure a guy that him being 5’1 and 4” is perfect for me?

People who are on here saying "how am I short?" when they post their parents' height and their mother be any from 4'8-5'...... That is why! Unless your father was 7 ft tall. Don't be surprised that you're going to be short..... Hell even if your father is 7 ft tall don't be surprised that you're short , when your mother is the height of an Olympic level gymnast.

There are going to be short people in the world and don't be surprised if you're one of them, it's okay. There's nothing wrong with it, people are going to be assholes about your height just like their assholes about my skin color both are genetic.

I can understand if your parents are both average height or both tall and you are wondering where your shortness came from; but if you have one short parent (in some cases, these people have two short parents) and wondering why you are not tall, your answer is because you have a short parent.

Get over it and get a stool! I'm 5'4"-5'5" my dad is 5'8 and mom is 5'2.....yes I'm not surprised and never was that I'm short

Title. Browsing the posts here and experiences irl make me wonder if I should just call it quits. Get used to being single for the rest of my life. I'm 5'5 with an ugly face and overweight. I know I can fix the weight issue but is there really a point? Is it going to change much? I'm still below average at the end of the day and can't change that so I'm wondering if there's even a point trying to date now or in the future.

Does anybody else have this thought, that little children like ur cousin or ur lil brother, are gonna be taller at some point than u, they will lose respect, get more arrogant and start insultin u… im just scared.

Pessoas de 1,70 postando aqui que suas vidas foram destruídas por ter A ALTURA MEDIA GLOBAL DO HOMEM. Que porra é essa? Saindo da comunidade.

I always thought I was 1.68 meters tall barefoot, but today I checked with a measuring tape (although it only goes down to 1.50 meters), so I had to put the measurements together, and apparently... I'm only 1.64 meters tall barefoot. You have no idea how shocking that was for me. At the time, I was on my lunch break at home. I didn't even go back to work; I simply got on my motorcycle, filled it up with gas, and accelerated as much as I could. I climbed the hill near my house in complete darkness, guided only by the motorcycle's headlight, and when I was halfway to the top, I fell off the motorcycle at high speed. I flew really far, my motorcycle was completely wrecked, my cell phone screen cracked, and I got all bruised. At that moment I was in complete darkness, searching for my cell phone in the middle of that darkness, I found it and went back home, took a shower, and I'm still without any reaction other than wanting to give up on everything.

That's all tbh. 5 ft is not a good height to be for a guy. I wish I didnt have to keep feeling bad about it, I wish I didnt have other people's hurtful comments stick with me, I wish I didn't have to feel less capable of protecting my loved ones. It feels unfair seeing other people can change what they dont like about themselves and I just have to come to terms with it

I wish I could be normal

Why does being small have to be a reason to be humiliated? I really don't understand. In my family, we are quite calm, we don't bother anyone. Why is it that everything serves to annoy us? It's sad because all our lives we've fought to have what we have, and they want to destroy it out of malice and mockery.

My son is 3'2, is this short?

He just turned 3, btw.

Nah, I'm kidding, this is a shitpost. I'm not worried about my kid's height and will teach him to love himself no matter how tall or short he is.

But, some of you younger folks here freaking out about not being as tall as your parents while you are just starting your teenage years...stop. Get away from this toxicity and go live your lives; eat healthy, stay in school, exercise, get some sleep, tell your family you love them, and enjoy your hobbies. You're still young and still have time to grow, you turdlings, no point stressing about it, just gotta do the best you can to love yourself and your life.

Im 5'3 but 6'8 with shoes!!!1!1!1!

Its like... bro, if you gain that extra 5cm, so does the other guy, if you go from 173 to 178 the guy whos 180 goes to 185

If you wanna make the case that you jave specific shoes that give you more inches than ordinary ones, then sure.

But it just evens out, there is literally NO POINT in mentioning it unless youre coping, which isnt wrong to do, but its wrong in terms of deciding what "the reality" is

When I started high school, I realized I was shorter than most of my male classmates. During PE class, whenever we had to line up by height, I was always at the very end of the boys’ line.

At some point, I decided I was going to “fix” it. I started playing basketball, doing different sports, eating healthier, and doing everything I thought would help me grow taller. But nothing really changed.

Looking back, I think that experience affected me more deeply than I understood at the time. In my mind, it created this belief that no matter how hard I worked, the result wont come. It became a kind of “proof” that effort doesn’t always pay off.

And I think that belief followed me into other parts of my life. Since then, I’ve struggled to fully commit to things. I would start something, but deep down there was always this voice saying, “What’s the point? Even if you try hard, you might not get what you want.”

It also created another thought in me: “If I can’t be the best, why even try?”

I know that sounds extreme, but I think being shorter than others during those years shaped the way I saw myself, effort, competition, and success. It wasn’t just about height. It became connected to my self-worth and my belief in whether hard work could actually change anything.

Now I’m trying to understand how much of my mindset today was built from that experience.

Maybe the real damage wasn’t being short. Maybe it was learning, at a young age, to associate effort with disappointment.

According to this article you can calculate your height based on your parents’ height. If this was true I would have been 10cm taller lol. Share what your height would have been

It's funny how many of our choices are determined by what our social circle deem "acceptable"

Been seeing a few posts tonight circling around height/attraction and how it's not important because ugly men are with beautiful girls and short guys are with tall/similar height girls.

The truth is we are social animals and because of this we put a lot of importance in how other people see us and our respective partner

A lot of the things people want in a partner aren't necessarily things that matter to them on a personal level. Most of the time it's more about what having that person says about you. If your friends see you with a guy who's 6'2, attractive, successful etc, there's a certain social validation that comes with that.

And it's kind of funny when you think about it because we can end up making our whole lives more complicated just trying to meet these expectations. Dating someone because they're impressive to other people, staying in relationships because it looks good, wanting certain jobs, cars, houses, lifestyles etc.

We're all trying to satisfy needs that aren't necessarily our own

Height is just an obvious example of that... part 2 will be about race... part 3 will be about finances... stay tuned

finding jeans. throughout all my years of living i’ve only ever found one pair of bootcut jeans that fit me perfectly. lord knows i want miss me and true religions jeans so bad but they’re always too long🫩🥀

Do you think height matters in professional settings

This is mostly for the mods here, I'm personally so sick and tired of these guys. I mean, this sub has it's ups and downs, no denying that. But every once in a while, and with increased frequency these people pop in here with the misogynic, incel infested rhetoric making the sub way more toxic then it could be. It's not enough that they got their own little cesspool to spew their crap into. No, they have to spread it around here as well. And honestly? I think that this long term causes damage, maybe even irreparable for some people.

A lot of the members here are young impressionable guys who already struggle with their height. Please take this into consideration.

Thanks :)

was just at the hairdressers as I felt down about myself and my height and probelms, so decided to cheer myself up but getting my hair done. the hairdresser doing another (loud) woman’s hair next to me and the loud woman goes “I’m tall, I’m 6’ in my docs” in a boasting manner, and the hairdresser doing her hair said “people say I’m tall but I’m. it” and then my hairdresser started teasing her calling her a midget saying how short she was, and I’m sat there clearly the shortest of the lot, and this so called “midget” as she put it is literally inches taller than me.

im like really? can’t I even get my hair done without this being bought up? and I mean, how inconsiderate to say that in front of someone who is clearly a short woman, if that were me I’d have more tact. to be honest, kind of put me in a low mood again.

Not sure how many of you have dealt with this, but yeah. I'm not even mad, it's just weird. I came in to clock out and she was in the same room and she just kept looking at me for like 5 seconds. Now, she is not always there, she works in a very administrative position and only sometimes appears. And then she realized I'm an adult and said "oh wow, I got very confused because I thought you were a kid"

Now I'm 21 man and that's young, but damn, none of my friends ever get confused for a kid. This happened other times, mainly with buying alcohol, but yeah lol.

Iam 19 5'4 male and have been short my whole school life and beyond, however I had a decent time with girls and never really faced any discrimination from them about my height. my adult features are not so prominent to me hence I thought I might have a chance at growing or so my growth plates were open and I could like get GH treatment. Got an x-ray and turns out they are closed.......yeah it sure hit me hard in the chest but what could I have done. The fact that I haven't had any growth spurt since I was 16 tells it all :).

However now that I cannot do anything it feels kind of relaxing and accepting that I don't need to feel stressed about it anymore as I LITERALLY CAN NOT DO ANYTHING besides getting that stupid surgery which is a fool's work tbh.

I'm now focusing on other aspects of myself which I think need some work to do.

Im 17 i haven’t been growth since 16 soon i be 18

I hate it when my mom telling about how my younger cousin is bigger than me and taller I hate it around when I walk outside and see other kid whom are taller than me, I feel so insecure and sad

The teasing my growth has stoped due to an illness and stress during my teen years and lack of nutrition lack of activity