Why do women want a man to be taller if......?

Question

equality is about NOT looking up to people or being looked down upon...?

Come on Priscilla! I've had more than glass of wine. I never claimed this was sociology.

Tracy: I'm spitting my wine out from laughing.

I'm getting the feeling that a lot of ladies want to be looked after.

Answer 1

I'm 6'0", and my height makes me really insecure sometimes. I feel like a giant! I want my man to be at least my height, but preferably taller than I am, so that it balances out my height and keeps me from looking freakishly tall.

Answer 2

I don't, I think the main thing is society - people tend to laugh at couples (think tom cruise!) when ther man is short.

However!!! A lot of short men in the UK, because they are short they feel they are lacking something so they are over confident, aggressive and have big dogs to try and look hard so that is not attractive.

I am tall so I would have preferred a slightly shorter guy just for the novelty but I fell in love with a 6'3 guy. I can tell you one thing, I get a hell of a neck ache kissing!!
But it's not to do with size or strenght, just because I'm pysically shorter, my husband still 'looks up to me' and worships me.THAT's what true equality is. No matter if you are a housewife and your husband is the boss of a company, if he still looks up to you and admires you THAT's really equality :-)

Answer 3

"Looking up to" and "looking down on" people usually doesn't refer to the physical. It's about the way we perceive and relate to them.

Women often prefer taller men because nature encourages them to look for a mate who can physically defend them and their young, and physically larger implies stronger and more physically capable. It's can still be an equal relationship. He's stronger and larger; she can bear children. Maybe he's better at working with his hands, and she's good with finances. Their strengths and weaknesses aren't the same, but it balances out in the end and even compliments each other, thus keeping the relationship equitable. Always remember that "equality" is not exactly the same thing as "identical."

Answer 4

Males are, in general, taller then females. With just random pairings you'll get a tall/short couple.

Culturally, tall woman, short male pairing are discouraged. It's only for a brief time, at a young age when females may be taller. That's at the awkward adolescence stage and is often portrayed in entertainment as humorous.

The idealized couple always has the male be taller. The covers of romance novels often have the female swooning into the males arms (ie being smaller)

Answer 5

I am 5'0". 4'10" is the legal midget. I don't find midgets attractive. Like tall men to maybe even out the height issue if I reproduce (assuming my fertility doesn't remain an issue). Then again, my sister had a baby with a man that is 6'4" (she is 4'11") and that turned out somewhat crazy. The baby (now 5) is a giant. 9.5 pound baby out of that tiny girl. Thank God for medical science or she would have died in child birth. The mom is now less than a foot taller than the kid.

I don't have specifics on height. Just above 5'4" because my tallest daily shoe is 4".

*Poors more wine*

Answer 6

Equality has nothing to do with the fact that I like a taller man. That is all about the physical attraction. Equality in my view is nothing more than being treated with the same respect due most humans, male or female. A shorter man that is more respectful to my humanity will get a lot farther than a taller male which discounts me as human because of my female anatomy will get nowhere.

Answer 7

Woman want men to be taller has nothing to do with wanting equally, the two does not go together. Woman want a man to be taller because they don't want the man to be the same height or shorter. I like guys that are taller than me.

Answer 8

While growing up my folks had a lot of friends. One couple in particular was my favorite. They had a daughter around my age, who's still my friend even though she now lives in Sweden, so I spend a lot of time at their house. The husband was tall and the wife petite. They got along so well, unlike my own parents who are a couple of fireballs. I think that's when I decided that when I grow up I'd like to marry someone like Mr. Barbarosa. He was a kind giant to me.

(I now come to find out he's an Aquarius and she's a Libra, both signs I get along with famously. My parents are fire signs. If you believe in this stuff, it totally makes sense.)

Btw - nice penis ;-)

Answer 9

I actually find men who are around six feet tall to be more attractive than those who are taller. That's because I prefer having them around the same height as I am which is about six feet tall.

Answer 10

You ask a very good question. I am tall, and yet prefer a taller man. I have tried to "reason" myself out of this preference, but have been unable to do so. It just seems that "we fit together better," if the guy is about 4 inches taller than me.
I have one logical thought. Women's legs are percentage wise, a longer part of their bodies than men. That means that, for a man to have legs of equal length to mine, he must be 3-4 inches taller, due to men's longer torsos. So if a man is the same height as me, he seems shorter, because my waist is higher than his. So, for our hips to be even when we stand, he must be taller.