Height Inclusive Dating

Tall guys are a pain in the neck.

Many times it is really obvious why a guy can’t find a girlfriend. Maybe they dress super sloppy, haven’t bothered to build muscle in their chest and shoulders, or the effects of their garbage diet are already starting to show. The sad thing about these causes is they could be overcome with a little effort. However, there is one group of men unfairly excluded from the dating pool by something they have zero control over: men who are not tall.

My fellow women in general seem to have a strange obsession with tall men. To a degree it is understandable. Being taller is one of the traits of sexual dimorphism in humans, but let’s stop getting carried away with it! We are conscious beings and don’t have allow these old instincts to get the best of us.

Photo resized from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclectus#/media/File:Eclectus_Parrot_(Eclectus_roratus)_-pair.jpg Eclectus parrots are a classic example of sexual dimorphism. The female is the red bird on the left and the male is the green bird. Eclectus girls must really love green!

At five foot, I’m a bit on the short end of women and started my dating life in a region where people tended to be very tall, so I’ve ended up in relationships with men who are a good eight inches taller (which was short for that part of the country!). All I have to say about that is it is really hard on the neck! Between having to crane my neck to see tall people and my excessive cell phone usage, I was already having a lot of neck pain in my thirties. It reached the point where, if they weren’t sitting down, I couldn’t actually see the faces of tall men…