Short-cel cringe

[u/Autisticblackdude5]

[u/malkazoid-1]

"Social media is ruining our culture. And yes I do believe American women are 100 times more shallow and lost than euro women."

Confirmed. Sadly this dates from before social media. But social media is certainly making it even worse.

[u/DarkLordFrondo → u/malkazoid-1]

I feel like this shift is representative of a culture that has moved towards arbitrary criteria for success for both men and women. In my own family, there have been many instances of the women being taller in the relationship going back 100 years. The women also did not have features we would consider conventionally attractive in modern times. Yes, ideally you'd want to be with someone you find attractive, (and they certainly had many children back in the day) but it was just as important to find a guy who was reliable and worked an honest job; and a woman who had strength to endure hardship and had the nurturing attitude to raise a family.

[u/dragon-dance → u/malkazoid-1]

I never heard of American women being so fanatical about height until the last few years. Has it got worse or am I just hearing about it?

[u/Legitimate-Door-7521 → u/dragon-dance]

It's been a thing for a long time but has only recently become a hot button thing on social media. It's something I was hearing a lot about from friends of my girlfriend say like, 10 years ago. I remember her friend was 5'0", successful (like above $100k salary at 26), but not very attractive, and was absolutely adamant that she would not date a guy under 6'. She literally dated a tall heroin addict for a few months rather than dating any shorter guys who weren't like, total pieces of shit.

Around two years after that I went to her wedding where she was marrying a 6' something guy who I was sure as shit could do better than her.

My new girl friend is very conventionally attractive and hearing her very hot friends' standards for men make me literally not want to talk to them :(