Curviness in women is kinda analogous to muscle mass in men, it’s a trait that signals sexual dimorphism and is nice to have, but it’s not really make or break for anyone’s dating chances. Most guys won’t reject a girl for being to flat nor will most girls reject a guy for not being muscular
most women prefer men taller than them not specifically really tall. a 5’6 man will still appeal to ~60% of women (around 75% women will be shorter than him but i’ll subtract some for women who have more specific height preferences) while a woman with small tits will only appeal to 50% of men.
maybe but i don’t think that prevents this from being a reasonable comparison. and is that really such a widespread issue? the % of men who are 5’2 and under is so small that it’s negligible in the u.s. percentile distribution. among them the % that look like a model is even smaller. you’re honing in on an uber specific demographic to support your claim that short men have it difficult, but most short men still have plenty of options because a lot of women will still be shorter than them.
I was just using an extreme hypothetical to draw a contrast. My point was that most men don’t have a thickness requirement, but most women expect a man to be taller than them so it might be harder for a short guy than a flat woman. Even still I’m def not as cynical as some other men about height, just bc women care about looks less and as u said u can just find shorter women
i could also say the number of women with small boobs far exceeds the number of men who are that short. so although the individual woman may have a lower likelihood of being rejected than the individual short man, overall it’s likely that the # of women that get rejected for their boobs is still greater than the # of men rejected for their height (bc barely any men are that short anyway). so if we’re speaking on men and women as a whole i still think these things are reasonable to compare
Yeah no, I grew up in an area which was damn near a 60:40 female to male ratio. You’re underestimating the amount of superficial women that exist. I’ve talked to many women irl and it doesn’t matter how tall or short they are, a guy who’s tall even among other guys is better than a guy who’s just taller than the girl
you’re saying they would pick a taller man with a worse personality over a guy that’s still taller than them but better personality? maybe if all else is equal they’ll go for the taller man but all else is never equal. and i would also guess most boob guys would choose a woman with bigger boobs if personality and everything else were equal in the two women.
Yes. That’s exactly what I’m saying. Obviously it’s also a case by case scenario but you’re definitely able to get away with having a mid (at best) personality as a tall guy than other guys It’s common sense that the more attractive you are, the more bullshit you can pull off (to a degree)
I think ppl always underrate how superficial their own gender is. It’s nice to believe that all men (or all women) are generous people and value people’s true character, but we really all are just smart apes 🦧 . It might be thrue that women are slightly less superficial than men because of cultural and evolutionary reasons
yeah but i’m not saying women are less superficial, i am saying that it’s about equal. my whole point in this discussion was not to deny that women have preferences when it comes to height but to add that men most certainly have preferences on uncontrollable physical attributes as well. if you think fewer men have physical preferences or that their physical preferences are not as strong then as i said we can agree to disagree.
Well, they are. If you can make them smaller by working out, they’re controllable. Is that a good or a bad thing? Can’t say, since that goes back to my point of the consensus on boob size being 50/50. Height isn’t controllable at all. If you jump 50 times each day, you’ll jump higher eventually but you won’t get shorter or taller
The fact is that in primate biology we have a thing called reproductive skew. It’s pretty much guaranteed that a woman is always going to find a partner (in MOST cases) whereas men are objectively less likely to have the opportunity. Whether they die young, or get bullied by more dominant men, the fact is that the top men are going to have multiple female mating opportunities while the lower men are going to have zero. It’s not 1:1. Pretty much women are guaranteed sexual encounters
It’s very clearly evident through dating apps. If you’re a woman and you want to have sex on-demand, just go into dating apps and you can typically get dick that same night or the next, with a dozen options to choose from. Whereas a man, far less likely, far more competition, and frankly the bottom 20% of men are just never going to have any sort of play on dating apps. No matter how much they pay or use the app.
Evolutionary it’s a good thing because it rewards the strongest male genetics to be passed onward while the least viable are dropped (sadly) and this also naturally encourages male competition to become stronger and smarter than eachother which accelerates human capabilities in general. Women also compete with eachother for males, but a woman’s primary resource necessity is food. A man’s primary resource necessity is reproductive access to women.
Last example, in modern society any woman can essentially snap her fingers and go get fertilized at a sperm bank whenever she wants. Relatively speaking, modern women have pretty no concern about reproductive success. A man still has to find someone to be with, and have a successful long term relationship. A woman can just get impregnated by a random dude in tinder whenever she wants or go to the sperm bank.
And yes it a man has a lot of money 10k+ in theory he could hire a surrogate mother to provide offspring but realistically he can’t just swipe on tinder for a couple months and convince random women to let him knock them up. It’s not that easy for a man to fulfill reproductive success.