• Lemminary@lemmy.world
    4·
    14 hours ago

    I’m open to different body types, so people who set height requirements for dating sound needlessly picky. My eyes gloss over whenever I hear them say an arbitrary height or weight in specific numbers, and I’m done with that person forever. I’m not even interested in their friendship when it seems like they’ll just set some other impossible standard rather than being open to the world.

  • binarytobis@lemmy.world
    17·
    1 day ago

    Internet memes really gave me a false sense of how much of an advantage my height was going to be in online dating.

    • FatVegan@leminal.space
      6·
      24 hours ago

      I think it’s pretty funny when i read something like: must be 1.9m minimum. I’m 1.85, and i don’t know that many people that are taller than me. I rarely see that many guys taller than me. How many of them are single? How many are tall AND good-looking? How many are straight and in the right age group? How many of them are interested back? Why would a 1.6m tall woman put such restraints on a potential partner just because it’s fashionable?

      • squaresinger@lemmy.world
        6·
        14 hours ago

        Likely because she’s a fake profile employed by the dating app provider to make it look like there are tons of available women on the platform.

        This way the (male) customers think they can’t find anyone on the platform because they are not attractive (too short) and not because the platform is filled with bots.

        And since height is a metric that’s close to impossible to change, there’s no way for the customer to improve and then figure out that the profiles are fake.

  • SeductiveTortoise@piefed.socialEnglish
    3·
    22 hours ago

    My ex is 11 cm taller than me and height never was an issue for us. And why should it be? Except if your self worth depends on it, then you might want to consider therapy.

  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
    101·
    1 day ago

    I think out of hundreds of matches I’ve had like one person ask about my height. I’m pretty average, height-wise (under 6’)

    • metallic_substance@lemmy.world
      6·
      1 day ago

      I did quite a bit of app dating at one point and I’m basically average (5’11) or slightly above for a guy in the US. I was honest about my height in profiles and listed exactly how tall I am when measured at a physical exam with my shoes off. Mostly, women didn’t care. However, there were several times when I went on a date and the girl said some variation of “it’s nice you didn’t exaggerate your height, a lot of guys do.”

  • Miles O'Brien@startrek.websiteEnglish
    44·
    1 day ago

    “How much do you weigh?”

    If they get defensive, that tells you all you need to know.

    If it’s simple curiosity, and actually about finding “the right one” then surely a simple question of weight wouldn’t result in anything but a polite, if terse, response.

    I mean, it is about finding “the right one” isn’t it? Surely both questions have merit and never result in hostility from either party.