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Anon plants a seed of doubt

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That weird American obsession over men's height.
- Exists in Australia too lol
  
  In Europe too. Pretty sure it exists everywhere, just like other beauty standards.
  
  And you know, the rest of the western world.
  
  We only use metric to seem taller. 186cm (and counting)
  
  Thanks to America
- Unfortunately not just America. Heightism is also prevalent in a big part of Asia.
  
  This is most likely one of the quirks brought to you by Survival of the Fittest rule. Thanks, evolution.
  
  Don't blame evolution for some peoples' short sightedness
- What?
Next time someone comes up to me and says "Wow! You're tall! How tall are you?" Imma say I'm 5'9'' instead of the actual 6'6'' I am.
- And if they ask you if you play basketball, ask them if they play minifgolf.
  
  or horse racing
- Ya I'm only four feet tall and shrinking fast
Chaotic evil
- This should have been the Joker sequel.
I can tell if somebody is 2 meter tall or not, and if they are 170 or 180.

Where are all these people that roamed the earth a bunch and still can't tell heights?
- Unless you're the same height as me, I'll never remember how tall you are. I was mentoring some girl for half year and when she asked me to guess her height while she was sitting, I guessed ~170, turns out she was 180+.
  
  Height just isn't something I register about a person, and I don't see why anyone would bother trying to remember stuff like that.
  
  I don't mean remembering, I mean estimating, in person.
  
  If a person tells me they are 190 and they are actually 185 I can tell. Can't you?
- Me too, if they are the same height as me or a bit taller then they are 2m if they are normal height then they are 170-180 and other than that they are sub 160
- the imperial system and its consequences
- Right? I've built enough walls and pitched enough tarps to know how tall six feet is.
  
  I do admittedly do both more often than most people, but still
Always fun to say I'm my legal height and have guys get defensive about their height because it would mean they're shorter than they say they are. Maybe I round down a bit?
- What is a legal height?
  
  The listed height on my driver's license (and probably passport?).
I'm 5'3 and I've had other dudes that are around the same height as me get pissed off and argumentative when I say that because they're trying to pass themselves off as taller than they are (or maybe they've convinced themselves of that). It's always funny to me because I'd have to be like 8" taller for it to improve anything with the people that give a shit about height. There's no amount of lying that will cover that.
- I have the opposite problem. People always insist that I'm taller than I really am because I have a long torso. I guess it lends to a better outcome in some social interactions? Maybe?
  
  You would look higher when sitting, I guess. Not sure if it counts as a social interaction
I really don't get the internet fixation on height. I don't think I've ever heard it come up other than "wow you're tall" or "wow you're short" and "haha yup I am but at least I can reach the top shelf / don't hit my head on things" like no one really cares?
- A lot of women care
  
  And women are a wide spectrum of people with different tastes. The most common thing I've heard is that they don't care as long as they're shorter than their partner. But then of course some are into tall guys, others actually don't care at all, and some prefer the reverse.
  
  I would go as far as saying that women care more about shorter men not having a toxic height complex than they care about actual height.
  
  never heard of it. all the short guys I know are swimming in it
trans girls be like

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