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 Siberiandreamer wrote:
Agree on the tall thing. It's quite sad the amount of short women who MUST HAVE TALL MEN. Come on, you look like a little girl holding hands with her father... let's even things up a little.

Its a biological imperative to allow them to breed as close to the average as possible.

Hence fit women are often seen with less than stellar looking blokes, tall with short, fat with skinny etc..

It may sound like I'm joking, but it is a legitimate theory, although I don't think anyone could definitively prove it.

EDIT

Its why I only ever seem to attract short, fat ugly women.

I'm pretty sure people usually date with those of similar social status, attractiveness, interests, etc.

 Cheesecat wrote:
I'm pretty sure people usually date with those of similar social status, attractiveness, interests, etc.

Yeah, the whole "opposites attract" idea only works in small doses.

 Cheesecat wrote:
I'm pretty sure people usually date with those of similar social status, attractiveness, interests, etc.

Or, to put it another way, they date the people they meet - not necessarily those they are a better match for.

If Match.com is any indication, the average female prefers men about 3-4 inches taller than them.

Makes perfect sense, since that would make the man about an inch taller than the woman while she's in heels.

Subjectively, I would say there is a positive correlation between looks and height desired by females. The "more attractive" the woman, the larger the difference in height desired for their height.

Of course, there's also a similar correlation between duck faces and selfies and height difference desired. Who knows which one is causal.

Match.com!? Who still uses that?

It's all about Tinder now. It's fething mega. I met a girl on there the other day who phoned me at 3am, coked off her nut, and demanded that I sing to her.

I've already picked out a ring.

 Albatross wrote:
Match.com!? Who still uses that?

It's all about Tinder now. It's fething mega. I met a girl on there the other day who phoned me at 3am, coked off her nut, and demanded that I sing to her.

I've already picked out a ring.

Now I want to call you at 3am and demand you sing.

Have you given a thought to take her toa monster truck rally or a nice NASCAR event. You can bring your own cooler of beer to NASCAR. Whats more romantic then heat, noise, smoke, and a cooler of budweiser?

 Albatross wrote:
Match.com!? Who still uses that?
It's all about Tinder now. It's fething mega. I met a girl on there the other day who phoned me at 3am, coked off her nut, and demanded that I sing to her.
I've already picked out a ring.

I can't use tinder, I'm an android, not an apple.

But Match is useful for finding statistics on this height stuff, since they actually ask people what height they prefer, and people don't have much incentive to lie about it.

I'd be interested to see what the correlation between self-identified body type (thin, skinny, athletic, big and beautiful, overweight, curvy, etc.) and height desired.

Tinder?

Grindr is what gets the real results.

 Kilkrazy wrote:
Tinder?

Grindr is what gets the real results.

Perhaps not the right results though. Obviously YMMW.

 Corpsesarefun wrote:

 Albatross wrote:
Match.com!? Who still uses that?

It's all about Tinder now. It's fething mega. I met a girl on there the other day who phoned me at 3am, coked off her nut, and demanded that I sing to her.

I've already picked out a ring.

Now I want to call you at 3am and demand you sing.

Unless you can pay me in tits and minge, you're pretty much out of luck...