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I have mentioned this before, but I used to work at a dating service pre-Web popularity. People could state their preferences and also how important that preference is. I handled almost all aspects of the business, including the data entry of preferences. And I found out that women as a trend really really care about height. They cared about it when they wrote it down and the ones who said they didn't care? Ended up accepting dates from or asking out the taller guys. It was a painful eye-opener for me.

Several years ago, there was a guy on Twitter, "heightism" or something, who just re-tweeted crappy things women tweeted about "short guys," much of it in a vein like "ugh, why do they even exist?" I think he got banned but probably resurfaced.

It doesn't matter what people profess under duress, but with whom they go home.



Any man with experience interacting with women has seen evidence of this time and time again.

I really don't understand people who deny that women have a very strong bias for height.

I also don't understand people who object to this surgery. There is nothing wrong with women who have an innate attraction for tall men, and there is nothing wrong with men who want to be attractive to those women.

That is just the reality of the world. Don't hate the players - hate the game.




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