• MissJinx@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Every time I see memes about hight I ask myself why are americans so fixated on that. It’s like this is the major thing american women look in a man. Never seen that anywhere else.

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      I’ve never actually heard anyone say they cared about height. I’ve only heard second hand stories.

      Mostly saying, I think it’s a fairly small amount of people that care.

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        Many of my American friends will not date someone shorter than themselves, I guess in part it’s social inertia because it’s just embarrassing more than unattractive

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    I would see myself do this just to make fun of the situation XD. Honestly if height is a requirement your better of looking somewhere else 😅

    And that’s coming from a dutchie.

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      I think that’s a good response.

      “How tall are you?”.
      “Why, are you a rollercoaster? Haha”

      Laugh it off and see how she reacts. If she’s awkward and remorseful or she’s pushy you can either go on with the date or ask her how much she weighs or her bra size. Then transition into how men can be offended by such a question.

      Statistically taller people are seen as more attractive and therefore more successful. So good genes. So “you want to have kids with me? That’s a little fast…” Could be a quip.

      This is hopefully a more avoidable issue because the more toxic people put in rollercoaster requirements right in their bio.

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        Were these comics always like this or have the staff all turned into manosphere dick heads over the years? Saw another one the other day where the whole punchline was basically “haha rape”. Used to enjoy occasionally seeing these in my Facebook feed another lifetime ago but a lot of what I’ve seen here on Lemmy so far has been pretty questionable.

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          C&H comics have been about lewdness and shock humour for decades now, since they started, no?

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    I’ve never had to be in the dating game, so I gotta ask: Is there any way this is a good question in a conversation? Is it possible that it’s just an awkward opening, or is it always the equivalent of asking a woman what’s her bra size or whatever?

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      Is there any way this is a good question in a conversation?

      It’s a pretty dumb question in a face-to-face encounter since you can see for yourself how tall somebody is.

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      Usually it’s not part of the date conversation for me because it doesn’t matter if you date an average heigth guy. if a guy is really fucking tall and I’m genuinely interested about how tall he is I have asked, nobody ever minded. I think this whole height fetish is a little bit out if control because of dating apps maybe. Because I’ve met all of my boyfriend live and then you can see about what height they have. And I’ve never minded if somebody is small or tall.