Soul mate?

Should be a nonissue. I understand there's no point denying a superficial preference though. If it's there why not be accepting of it (unless it is ruining your life perhaps ). We all have them.

 

I am a tall girl myself. And about the height issue.... I do prefer men to be taller than me HOWEVER.... I have dated people taller than me, shorter than me and the same height as me. I just have never considered height to be that important as to be a deciding factor. Sure I'd prefer a guy who's 6'2'' (3.5 inches taller than me), but my husband is actually about two inches shorter than me. Lol. It's just something that... I don't know... Everything else clicked so wasn't going to be an issue for me.

 

I’m sure she’s heard a few ‘How’s the weather up there” remarks



Hotwater

 

lol yep, she gets a bunch of stuff but she's talented with the comebacks. People are always pushing her to be a pro-basketball player and / or a model. She's fit for both. The one thing about them giants .. oops, I mean tall people .. a whole hell of a lot is placed upon them, in the way of expectation. I can just imagine how difficult that is.

 

I'm almost 5'11'' and the only comments I've ever gotten was people assuming I am super, super good at basketball and then utter shock when I inform them that although playing bball is fun just w friends n stuff, I'm not the best ever at it, nor have ever played on a team.

In any case, I'm not even the tallest girl from my current and past friends... not by far... a good friend of mine (girl) is 6'1'' and I went to high school w a girl that was 6'4'' (seriously).

Anyways everyone has their preferences and that's fine but in real life, my height has never been an issue w me. (Ex: being that my husband is only 5'8'').... in any case, w hubby n me we have it figured out that our son should end up eventually being 6'2''. And the males on my side of the family are even taller than me (obviously).... my brother is 6'3'' or 6'4'' maybe-not sure which.

 

We posted at the same time and I'm so glad you wrote that. It just goes to show that YES, the basketball thing.... it's like certain people just cannot get their brain around a girl that is 5'10'' or 5'11'' or 6 foot that does not play basketball on a team.

Their minds just.....blown.

 

I heard that constantly growing up from perfect strangers; people asking if I play basketball; which of course I did but that was beside the point


Hotwater

 

If a girl is tall and confident they can own it! My sister is really tall and everyone was in love with her. I am quite tall myself and haven't been rejected because of it. I think if one is going to be self conscious of their height they'd be self conscious even if they were short.

Tall people want to be short short people want to be tall.

 

I'm short, and I have no desire to be tall.

 

Im 6' but wish i was like 6'3

 

7'3 or GTFO.

 

Why not an even 10'? And with a horn one eye and goat feet

 

I'm 6'2" and I've found it to be just perfect - Not too tall like some ostrich, and not too short to go unnoticed :2thumbsup:


Hotwater

 

She actually does play on a team, or she used to. But she's also played softball for many years and it just seemed like professional sports was definitely her calling in life. She loves sports but just wants to be her own person and do her own thing, and I can't blame her for that.

 

6'5 here. I remember being embarrassed when I was younger because I was always in the way of the other kids and always being asked to move to the back so others could see. These days I relish it and use it to my advantage any chance I can and I guess I used to be quite skinny and lanky. I rowed for just over year and that built me right up, I have really broad shoulders now and if I wear an NFL jersey it's not uncommon for people to assume I'm also wearing the pads. I remember one jerk at a New Year's Eve party was trying to give me shit about it "as if you'd wear pads" he said. My missus says to him "you wanna check that?" So he taps my shoulders and realises I wasn't wearing pads and he shat himself all apologetic and shit. Lousy scumbag.

 

^^not sure that that makes him a "lousy scumbag"....


people ask me if i play basketball too.

 

I call him a scumbag because he was trying to belittle me in front of his friends.
I cop the basketball question all the time too. One of the more uninteresting sports IMO.

 

Haha. Yea. Seriously it was like every old man that would see me in a store when I was in high school would be like "do you play basketball?!"..... Sometimes I would play dumb and be like "why?" (haha).... but in any case, when I'd tell them "nope, my thing is the swim team", the old man would be like "well, you should." (of course wasn't always just old men, but yea)

I am tall and I don't want to be short. If I was short, I doubt I'd want to be tall either. Heights just not that big a deal for me, lol.

But yes, I agree that no guy has ever told me I was too tall.. and seriously, although I've dated some TALL MEN (one was about 6'5''....wow, to actually feel short... lol!), I also had a thing for a couple really cute short boys in high school. The one boy...this little skater boy that actually taught me most of my skating tricks in high school was so, so short and so, so cute. Dated him for a little while and though I teased him (good naturedly) about his height now and then, it was never an issue to either of us.

It's kinda funny to me actually some of the things you learn apparently bother people by coming on hipforums.... you know, stuff that you've never gleamed your whole life and then you come to hipforums and realize... "wow, so many men in the world blame women for their problems", and "don't like tall women:, and "think women look terrible and old as they age but men are the shit in their looks and own the world" etc., etc., etc.

 

If it is (well, I should say, was actually because this was something I was asked over and over and over when I was younger... fun to sometimes act all clueless "basketball, gee, why would you ask that?" and then when they tell you be like "Oh well I play horse sometimes w my friends, does that count?"

 

Lol yeah. I think hipforums has given me a really warped view of modern gender relations.