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No Short Men Need Apply

laidnyc
January 9, 2014

So apparently New York chicks don’t date short men:

http://www.thedatereport.com/dating/love/new-york-ladies-wont-date-short-men-says-a-new-study/

An analysis of 50,000 user interactions revealed that ladies in Manhattan and the Bronx respond to a mere 1.2 percent of men under five-feet, nine inches.

Interesting.

One of the more ridiculous myths about pickup is that certain things don’t matter.

Let’s get this out there on the record:

Height matters.
Looks matter.
Race matters.
Money matters.
Age matters.
Jobs matter.
Status matters.

Everything matters.

Of course, game matters as well, hence the focus:  For most guys, it is the most controllable thing in the short term.

Fix your game for good results, and have a long term plan for things like weight loss/style/money.

But height… certainly a particular sore spot, isn’t it?

Because it can’t be changed.

Sure, your dad could have forced you to eat meat and drink whole milk so you’d gain a few inches during puberty.  But that time has passed.  The die has cast and you’re stuck with what you are.

So, fuck it.

Control your controllables and target shorter girls.

Side note: For a long time I didn’t even know girls liked height.

In high school, the most popular guys were the athletes, and since high school sports favor speed more than length, and tall guys were kind of awkward and ungraceful at that age, the best athletes were usually pretty average height, and they tore it up with girls.

It wasn’t until college when I had an ugly and sort of goofy friend who was KILLING it with chicks.

One day, I asked a girl what she saw in him and she said “he’s so tall”.

Another girl later explained to me that “Sometimes a guy who otherwise wouldn’t be cute is only attractive because he’s tall”.

Overall, the general consensus is that women live by the “a few inches taller than me” rule.

I can’t disagree with that too much but I will say that really tall girls seem to be more lenient on this rule because they have to be.  I dated one girl who was taller than me, and she seemed very insecure about her height, always scrunching up to look shorter that resulted in bad posture, never wearing heels (and not just because of me, she only owned one pair).  Anyways how things ended with her is a great story that will be told another day.

Anyways, as someone who is neither tall nor short, I’m not sure I can contribute much more on the topic, but I do find it interesting that the pickup community seems to be overrepresented with shorter guys.

The reason being that shorter guys need to seek out an edge, whereas a taller guy is more likely to get a girlfriend just based on height alone. The silver lining is the short guy may end maxing out his other areas by necessity and may be more likely to reach his true potential.

P.S. Mangan and friends explored theories on increasing height, including the possibility that it may be sexually selected for, i.e. hypergamy may be increasing.  Take a read here.

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Title No Short Men Need Apply
Author laidnyc
Date January 9, 2014 9:00 AM UTC (10 years ago)
Blog LaidNYC
Archive Link https://theredarchive.com/blog/LaidNYC/no-short-men-needapply.56647
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Original Link http://laidnyc.wordpress.com/2014/01/09/get-lost-short-man
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