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bbtopp
It's Time To Become a Protected Class
As much as we'd rather not play the victim because most of us probably have no issue with our height, other than the consequences of the fact that everyone else seems to care about it. In the hiring process and workplace, dating life, etc. we are not receiving the respect and rewards that someone else would who is an exact replica of us in every way, except a taller version. Today, I was walking through the department store quickly after I picked up what I needed, since I needed to get somewhere as shortly as possible. Just as I passed by a lady pushing her young son in the shopping cart, sitting in the cart seat, she raised her voice and said to him "When you grow up, remember you want to be TALL!" I kept walking even though I felt like turning around, punching her in the face, and telling the kid, "When you grow up, remember, all that matters are the actions you take, because YOU HAVE NO CONTROL over your height". A frustrating thing I don't understand and seems to be a running thought in the mind of women as if it is a possible thing. Women think men whose heads don't measure up to a certain level turn out that way because they lack the ABILITY or WILL... like wtf is this? Other than environmental factors/diet/exercise contributing possibly an inch or so height difference, your ultimate height is determined by your genes. Why would you ever focus on HEIGHT as a QUALITY TO STRIVE FOR? Anyone? We really deserve all the extra help we can get, because although we are more than capable of doing everything ourselves and know that height doesn't matter, the world has socially, and therefore politically, stigmatized the plight of short men. This hurts our chances of equality without an added legal basis as a protection class so that we can better defend ourselves SOCIALLY from being, excuse me, "looked over". |
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bbtopp
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6'10 tennis player loses to a 5'9 guy in Wimbledon
Height in sports is overrated |
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shortteacher
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We are NOT going to miss out on great women
Was reading a thread on reddit where a short guy assumes that because he is short, he (and other short guys) are going to miss out on great women. I have to counter this. I know I can be pessimistic at times (judging by my posts), but this idea is ludicrous at best. I am 5'3, shorter than just about everyone I meet, but I've met GREAT women and had GREAT relationships. YES, I have had high number of rejections, probably more than most men, but it's easy (and convenient) to blame this on height. Last week I was out with my best friends all who were 5'10ish, and I watched them get rejected by woman, after woman, after woman. Some were beautiful, some were hideous. After watching them get rejected and the women wonder off into their circle of friends, I saw many of them laughing and partying it up. I bet many of them had great personalities, but you know what? There are BILLIONS of women on the planet. We're all not going to be Casanovas, but we still can meet great women, we just have to put ourselves out there.
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9 confessions of a girl who used to date a short guy
Typical article from THOUGHT CATALOG of an insecure women "explaining" why she needs to feel protected, but rejected each time her (short man) tried to protect her ("he was trying to act "manly" or "tough"). More cognitive dissonance from a woman's head. Article is here: http://thoughtcatalog.com/sophie-martin/2014/07/9-confessions-of-a-girl-who-used-to-date-a-short-guy13-reasons-every-girl-deserves-a-tall-guy/ |
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Started by
FatBanger
How to talk to short people
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Heightist girl gets a dose of her own medicine
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Uber driver and passenger slams manlets
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OverTheEdge
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Women want taller men more than men want shorter women
Abstract from the Study "Personality And Individual Differences" - June 2013. PDF available here Physical characteristics, such as height, play an important role in human mate preferences. Satisfaction with one's own height and one's partner height seem likely to be related to these preferences. Using a student sample (N = 650), we show that women are not only more selective, but also more consistent, than men, in their partner height preferences. Women prefer, on average, a larger height difference between themselves and their partner (i.e. males being much taller than themselves) than men do. This effect is even more pronounced when examining satisfaction with actual partner height: women are most satisfied when their partner was 21 cm taller, whereas men are most satisfied when they were 8 cm taller than their partner. Next, using data from our sample and that of a previously published study (N = 52,677), we show that for men, height is more important to the expression of satisfaction with one's own height than it is for women. Furthermore, slightly above average height women and tall men are most satisfied with their heights. We conclude that satisfaction with one's own height is at least partly a consequence of the height preference of the opposite sex and satisfaction with one's partner height. |
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newtonsghost
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FefePapa
When they suggest "move to Asia" [VIDEO]
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Ghel2136
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70% of Japanese Women said they'd date Tall/Ugly over Short/Handsome
The interesting thing is that 24% said they'd rather go for short and handsome. The odds are better than I thought. Article is here: http://en.rocketnews24.com/2017/03/22/japanese-college-women-pick-between-men-whore-short-and-handsome-or-tall-and-plain-in-survey/ |
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Ghel2136
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Women lies a out age on dating site to manipulate her dating results
We are not the only ones who do it. |
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FefePapa
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Why do so many women believe short men can't have big hoo-has?
I remember it like it was yesterday. I was banging out some thick chick who was about the same height as me (5'6) and she kept on moaning and screaming intensely loud. She made this big deal about how huge I was down there. I never thought I was huge, maybe average. As a teen I was always confident. My height never bothered me until I graduated high school and came to realize that height matters so much to other people. I couldn't get through a night out at a bar or club without some woman insulting me or joking about my height. Even some guys would clown me from time to time. I will admit it really messed with my self esteem. Once you realize how big of a deal it is to so many, you start questioning a lot of things about yourself. But then there was this one encounter I had. I really thought she was gassing me up until I took it upon myself to look up some forums about dick size. There were all of these tall guys on these forums crying about how their members were 4 inches and 5 inches. I knew I was larger than that but wanted to confirm for an exact measurement. 8 inches I am, 8 inches! The woman I banged, her best friend would flirt with me in ways she never did prior to me banging her friend out. You know what this meant right? Yes, she told her friend. I didn't bring this up, but it made me realize that where god didn't bless me in one area, he abundantly blessed me in another. I've been with about 30 women since that encounter. I gotta say, not every woman will take kind to my approach, but the ones I get, they are always surprised! I asked this question on the thread, but the truth is I don't care about the answer. Short guys who feel like they got a raw deal in life, kiss the ground every day if you're a part of the big meat elite. The women I've banged want to stay attached and end up wanting me to commit. It reminds me of an Eddie Murphy stand up where he says "I've figured women out, if you make them go woo-woo, you have them"!
TL:DR - We may have gotten the short end of the stick height wise, but having a big hoo-ha is a rare and beautiful thing! A lot of tall men aren't well endowed!!! |
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ant675
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Would you have married him if he was your height?
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stumpyBump
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Who is the shortest celebrity you've met?
For me it would be MMA champion Demetrious Johnson who stood at 5'3. Really swell guy and down to earth. |
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CopperTop
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TinyWizard
Even 5'10 is too short for Tinder
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TinyWizard
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Black woman devistated by "Colorism" in online dating. Sound familiar?
Saw this on reddit and had to lol at this one. Most of the short man bashing I see on Twitter coincidentally comes from young black women. Read this article. A lot of whining about seeing "no weaves", "only into White, Asian, Hispanics" on men's dating profiles. She says she was devastated how one she noticed it online she noticed it anywhere. Anyone reading this reminded how many "don't message me if you're under 6'", "i need to wear heels", "short men are bitter" you come across on profiles? They don't feel sympathy for us lol, why should anyone for them? A preference is a preference right? The article is here: https://www.bustle.com/articles/37427-5-truths-about-colorism-that-ive-learned-as-a-black-woman-in-nyc |
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