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I had a miraculous growth spurt around 18 and went from 5'6 to about 5'10, putting me happily within the average range. What barnacled is saying is absolutely

I had a miraculous growth spurt around 18 and went from 5'6 to about 5'10, putting me happily within the average range. What barnacled is saying is absolutely true, and unless you've spent time as a single man of below average height, you really just won't understand. The difference in attention and respect that a few inches make is pretty astounding. I'd imagine it's pretty similar to the stories I hear of people shedding hundreds of pounds and being treated as a completely different person. Once again, unless you've been on both sides of the equation, it's unlikely you'll be able to grasp how much physical traits like height and weight affect how people treat you.

barnacled 6y ago
I got majorly downvoted for saying it, it's one of those things people don't like to accept, it's amazing the excuses I've heard and how angry people have got with me for saying it. As you say, unless you've experienced it for yourself it's hard (but not impossible) to get quite how extreme it is. I've heard plenty enough from women talking directly about it, from basically all fiction ('tall, dark, handsome' in that order, no romance novel has a short guy, etc.), the fact that height rockets up when nutrition improves - sexual selection likely to be a big factor on that too. It's nuanced and it's all relative to the average height of the dating population you're in but a few inches can be the difference between some attention and absolutely none.
- barnacled 6y ago
  And more downvoting :) people really do not like to be told the truth on this issue. So strange to me.