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They want a man to be taller than themselves, like most women on this planet, this is a cross-cultural instinct.

It would be rather awkward if the general human tendency was the other way around - that females tended to prefer males to be short than themselves. So much disadvantage! It kinda just has to be the way it is.

^^ If this sexual preference was the other way, then male humans would probably have evolved to have a shorter average than females - because the short trait of men would be an evolutionary advantage, so the disadvantage you are talking about wouldn't be there.

What I meant is, women in your country tend to be shorter than women in places such as U.S. or Australia, so are they also okay with men who are shorter, but still taller than them?

So, in Australia, for instance, the average male height is about 5'9'', and female height 5'5''. Women generally desire taller males.

But, say, in Lebanon, the average woman was 5'3'', would she be fine with a 5'6'' or 5'7'' man, or would she too desire 5'8'' or above?

I don't know lol...you are being too particular.

But "Tall" in men is a trait that women usually praise positively.

What I know that the same general tendency exists: most women want men who are taller than themselves - shorter and same height is usually a no-no.

Exactly, that's what I mean.

Six feet is just about my height. Depending on who's around me, I can feel both quite tall and disgracefully short.

One thing I can tell, though, is that, when a woman compliments me for my height, she most likely has nothing else nice to say about me, and this is really worrying.

Surely height is not enough.

There are, actually, a decent amount of people on this Site who are six foot or above.

I would say younger women usually desire a man to be at least a couple of inches taller than them.

This is less true for older women, though the height desire still exists.

5 foot 9 is about the average height for a man in the US.

Been officialy measured at 6feet or are you guessing that's your height? At 5'7 I definitely feel disgracefuly short at times but that shouldn't happen if your 6ft unless you hang with basketball players.

I dated a guy shorter than me, and yes I thought he was attractive...however only got to go on a couple dates and we didn't really connect so just sort of went our separate ways. For practical reasons I always envisioned a relationship with a shorter guy close to my height...it hasn't exactly played out that way as boyfriend is close to 6 ft, but yeah its not like I had a stack of other potentials and made my decision by picking the tallest one.

I suppose I cannot understand if a woman found a mans facial features, hair color, body type and all that stuff attractive...but he's shorter than their typical height preference why that would be enough to reject him. I just don't get it.

Would women change there attitude if they knew tall guys did not live as long as the shorter ones?

Doubt it. The days of "Til death do us part" seem not only distant but obsolete. Marriage and LTRs were easier to maintain due to cultural differences and embarrassingly short lifespans.

Now we humans live many decades and have a very different perspective on...well, everything.

I'll give you credit on that, that's pretty impressive since there aren't much guys shorter than yourself period. It does puts things in a different perspective, like I'm about 5'7" give or take like OP which in my mind and his apparently is pretty short but compared to someone that is 5' I tower over them so things can be worse in that sense. I'm taller than most the male relatives on my mother's side, I'm taller than probably a great deal of the planet, it would be silly to blame my height for anything when its the social deficit more than anything. Now would I like to be 6'7"? Hell yes!

As for why some people have that preference, I dunno, I imagine the same reasons why somebody would have any preference.

Woman speaking, I don't care at all about the height. Well, maybe under 5'3 I would have to make a little effort against my mind and the social stereotypes and beauty standards. But hey, I am not perfect either. I don't really care.
Once I talked with a very nice guy and he was shorter than me, maybe 5 feet max. I would've dated him.
Most people have "flaws" as well (understanding flaw as whatever you don't like about yourself) and they hide them well, or they pretend that they don't exist!

Being 6'7 you will get a lot of problems.