I believe Justin Beiber is pretty short, so he'll probably get crap when he starts dating tall, willowy supermodels, although I doubt he will care

I find it hard to believe that he (or anyone for that matter) can cop any more crap than he already is getting

I'm female and have the opposite problem. I'm very short (4' 11") but nonetheless I'm at least initially attracted largely to tall men. That is, 5' 11" or more. The only guy I dated that was shorter than 5' 11" was in highschool. My husband is a bit over 6' 1".

It's not that I don't/can't find average/shorter males attractive or that I wouldn't date them because of height alone but it does make me feel a bit odd if I don't have to look upwards a certain distance to their face. My perception of what = "tall" for a male seems to be badly skewed, especially considering I'm so short myself. It's strange.

So here's my thoughts on the "why" issues of height can make some feel a bit weird - it's a combo of both social conditioning/expectation from various media/marketing/social stuff we see & encounter from a very early age, but also likely a certain family influence/psychological factors (in my case, my father was over six feet and my brother is 6' 4.5" and since, as a young kid, I considered this normal + I never got tall myself to alter perspective, which for me = feeling odd around shorter men, maybe).

So... you're a generally confused person?

No. He says he feels weird about it, so I wanna know why he feels weird about it. But then, if he feels weird about it and is doing it, what's making him think its not weird and that he should do it. Get what I'm sayin?

I think alot, that's all.

Convoluted much

I'm sorry, but that's the biggest load of horse[censored] to say that women are unnaceptable if they are taller than the guy.
I'd love to be tall. I could reach cabinets, pregnancy would have been easier, I could see over people's heads in the theatre....I envy tall women.
Any one so insecure as to have their self worth challenged by the height of their SO isn't worth dating.

As for many of my paramours, they completely dwarfed me. My hands were three or four sizes smaller than theirs. Every single person I dated has been taller than me. Even my gimped crippled husband is taller than me, his hands are much bigger than mine.

I don't believe he ever said girls taller than him are unacceptable. Just that his friends made fun of him for dating a girl the same height. And then those are strange friends. Who knows. I've never known anyone to ridicule someone for the height of the person they're in a relationship with. I've actually seen my fair share of guys who only date petite little girls and who only date women who dwarf them. That's a bit extreme. No one should really be automatically excluded because of a fetish.

Anyway, I'm 5'6", placing me at normal height. And I must say, I really enjoy the 7" height difference between g-ranger and myself. Something I value in a relationship is security, and I feel that in a small, dumb way, I get that through him being larger and older than me. But he doesn't have it all; our hands are exactly the same size 'cause I have big hands. If he were the same height as or shorter than me, I would find it a bit weird, but I would love him nonetheless. That's what works for me. People have their own little dumb turn-ons and turn-offs. I can't stand long or dirty nails, or overly thin guys, for example. So long as you don't play Jason Alexander in Shallow Hall, all should be well.

Lol true - by the time he gets into his twenties, he'll have skin thicker than a rhino I imagine.

So I'm watching a nature special, and I see this female Australian redbacked spider, who simply dwarfs her mate, a minscule male.
In order for the male to mate with her, he must offer himself up as a snack. Literally gets eaten alive while procreating. The longer it takes for teh female to consume him, the better his chances of fathering little baby redbacked spiders. I never quite got it why some men are bothered by women taller than them. Now, I kinda get it. I know mammals don't generally engage in ritual cannibalism, but it's quite common in the insect world.

And I really envy tall, graceful women. Reaching the topmost shelf and seeing over crowds must be so awesome.

If that means normal much, then yes. :teehee:

so, I guess you get what I am saying, or trying to say.

:rofl:
I've written long blog entries on the perils of climbing/jumping grocery store shelves trying to reach something, when someone else already grabbed the one that was in the very front. Often I give up and pretend I didn't need that item anyway....

And yeah, the one gigantic, stadium-size music concert I attended where I followed friends to be very close to the stage, all the tall people around me created a serious lack of air (I could look upwards towards a tiny piece of sky but couldn't see anything else) - that combined with the crush of the crowd and I fainted. Had to be lifted up over people's heads to a medical area under the stage. Never tried that again, heh.

On the bright side, I almost never have to duck to avoid anything, like branches or lights. I can count the times I've banged my head on anything on both hands.

I usually resort to using a nearby box, utensil, or long object to draw the desired unreachable item towards me.
I have also resorted to jumping. Being 5'2 and quite busty, this works quite well.
I learned early on a shopping cart/trolley does not make a stable base.

Do supermarkets in your part of the world have http://cache1.asset-cache.net/xc/85196690.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=EDF6F2F4F969CEBD79CFA8392B53673225DFA0FE7E9524E965088583EA2997E2 for people to use? If so, are they solid enough to carry your weight?

Uhh...5'2" really isn't that short. If you're Hispanic or Asian, most of the women in your family will be around there or shorter. My little sister and I are the tallest women in my family (extended included) at 5'8" and 5'6". I outgrew my mom at age ten (she's 5'2") and I still see them all as normal height. Anything under 5' is short. My mom has no problems or angst about it. She's just cute.

I usually resort to using a nearby box, utensil, or long object to draw the desired unreachable item towards me.

Uhh...5'2" really isn't that short. ...

They don't have boxes or stools in the giant mega grocery stores that exist as the main places around here. I suppose I could carry an umbrella but that might look odd in summer. :rofl: There's rarely anyone to ask for help either. But I have done that sometimes if there's someone around - or I drag my husband along. Carts/baskets are definitely not stable enough.

I'm Asian but my family is white (adopted). My mother is 5' 4" but sister/brother got dad's tall gene (sis is 5' 10"). I pretty much stopped gaining height at age 11. I'm officially 4' 10" but several years ago hubby measured me again and claims I'm really close to 4' 11". So I dunno...doesn't make much difference I guess, but I insist on saying I'm 4' 11" now. I don't mind being short, but there are definitely some annoyances being such in an environment generally designed for "tall" people.

They don't have boxes or stools in the giant mega grocery stores that exist as the main places around here. I suppose I could carry an umbrella but that might look odd in summer. :rofl: There's rarely anyone to ask for help either. But I have done that sometimes if there's someone around - or I drag my husband along. Carts/baskets are definitely not stable enough.

I'm Asian but my family is white (adopted). My mother is 5' 4" but sister/brother got dad's tall gene (sis is 5' 10"). I pretty much stopped gaining height at age 11. I'm officially 4' 10" but several years ago hubby measured me again and claims I'm really close to 4' 11". So I dunno...doesn't make much difference I guess, but I insist on saying I'm 4' 11" now. I don't mind being short, but there are definitely some annoyances being such in an environment generally designed for "tall" people.