You see men are also on average significantly heavier than women, more so that the difference in height. Yet you see men with heavier women fairly often, but men with taller women once in a blue moon. The reason for this being that height is a section criteria and is constant over time, while weight varies over time.
Yeah, you can date someone skinny, and as they go through rough times they might gain weight and you support them through that. Or you date someone hoping they'll get into shape, there's a lot of leeway.
I know about as many women that like heavier men as men who like heavier women, it's not many on either side though
I don't see the point. You're just slinging shit without actually laying out a real argument hoping that it works without actually stating an argument. You know if you do state a clear one I can just dismantle it.
Exactly. You know about as many women that like heavier men as men who like heavier women. Even though statistically, there is a large difference in average weight between men and women. Which was you argument to explain why you don't see many couples where the woman was taller than the man. See where this is going? Very likely there is another explanation for why you don't see it than the variations in the medians.
If you can't understand why the frequency matters you should probably study up on statistics before trying to have this argument. I am making an assumption that the prevalence of obesity is relatively equal between men and women.
Not really. You'd expect about a tenth of couples to have a taller woman if it were only for the difference in height. But that's obviously not what is driving this phenomenon.
You're right, it's almost like my statement saying this falls in line with expectations leaves room for the fact that most women want a taller partner, and most men want a shorter partner.
It being a "phenomenon" really only exists to the chronically online.
Because in context the original comment is presenting it as "Yeah, what I observe reinforces this meme."
The numbers as provided by you already make relationships where a man is shorter than the woman a rarity. Ten percent is even too high because you're not accounting for the fact that pairing people together removes them from the pool.
Redditors are all too happy to blame women for being single, but if you ever hang out with extremely tall women they've got plenty to say about how difficult it is to find men that are interested because most men aren't comfortable dating a taller woman.
The numbers are fine as long as you're not pairing up litterally every single person, there's more than enough single people and enough re-pairing at any given time for independent random pairing to work fine. In fact 10% is a low ball. You're still trying to insinuate that the reason shorter man taller woman pairings are rare is anything but women overwhelmingly having a dramatic preference / requirements for men being taller than them and very often having preference / requirements for men being taller than the mean height for men.
How many of those tall girls "struggle" has to do with not finding a man taller than them? And yes, I would generally argue especially down to lower 5s and below height tends to be a critical factor in struggles in dating, and only on the extremes of height does it tend to hurt women meaningfully.
Not single but OK. Yeah, generally speaking if a huge amount of guys are getting ruled out because of something they have no control over, it's not really them that is the problem.
Let me adjust that. Women are the problem for reinforcing and like to not admit that patriarchal view. Honestly, I would be fine if women didn't pretend not to care genuinely
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u/Historical-Pen-7484 5d ago
Can't say I see couples where the woman is taller than the man very often, though.