It’s like this is the major thing american women look in a man.

My sister did the Tindr circuit back in the ‘10s, and she regularly passed on anyone who was shorter than 6’. Some of this might have simply been that all the men and quite a few of the women in her family were at least that tall, but she capped out at 5’3".

She struggled with dating for years, because a lot of the guys she went out with were either fuckbois or work-a-holics or otherwise unfun people to be around. Eventually, she got two requests in one day - one dude who was 6’1 and another who was 5’2". At this point, she was getting burnt out and felt a bit bad about not even giving the 5’2" a chance.

The date with the 6’1" guy was predictably awful. She didn’t even bother suggesting another.

The date with the 5’2" guy was incredibly. The immediately clicked. She totally fell for him. He fell for her. A couple years later they got married. Now they’ve got an adorable little girl and we’re all joking about how it would be funny of my sister’s tall-family genes take over and she’s towering over her parents in twenty years.

Love my documentary “Don’t Build The Torment Engine: The Real True Story of the Building of the Torment Engine” because I get to live it and then watch it as a funny show.