It’s a self reinforcing problem, women have to discriminate against short men if they want to have tall children to avoid discrimination against short men.
If it wasn’t height it would be something else just as capricious. If genetic engineering got to a point where we could pick the height of the kids after a while it would no longer be a rare coveted feature. The drawbacks of height would become more apparent and maybe there would be a reversal of trend. My back hurts and all the sports I can’t do anymore are best suited to men of 5’9” so that to me would probably be the ideal height for health and fitness.
If it wasn’t height it would be something else just as capricious. If genetic engineering got to a point where we could pick the height of the kids after a while it would no longer be a rare coveted feature. The drawbacks of height would become more apparent and maybe there would be a reversal of trend. My back hurts and all the sports I can’t do anymore are best suited to men of 5’9” so that to me would probably be the ideal height for health and fitness.