There are people liking dead bods and bald heads. There is hope 🤞

The is a good example of gender affirming surgery too.

Apparently yeah, I was only aware of the delusional variant (where the obsessed on flaw is not present).

I'm seeing dysmorphia run fucking rampant in men over the past several years. It was initially mostly noticeable with incels, but it's gotten much more noticably widespread.

And friends and teachers and office workers and plumbers and construction workers and

This is the answer.

Also, the difference here is that while still an invasive operation, breast augmentation is way less destructive and still somewhat reversible compared to leg lengthening surgery. Not to mention the long and painful recovery process. And it’s not even guaranteed you’ll recover normally.

As a fellow fairly tall person, even beyond how it looks to be tall, you don't need to be much over 6' before it starts getting downright inconvenient. I'm just shy of 1.9m / 6'3", so by no means exceptionally tall (for my country and gender, at least) and like... there are a lot of times when it's just troublesome. I don't fit in places or things. A lot of clothes don't fit me well. I hit my head on things. A lack of legroom is often uncomfortable. I feel like I'm ruining the view for other people at concerts. The idea of people close to my height actively going out of their way to make themselves even taller - even if it was a trivial process, which it clearly is not - is madness to me

Of course I do understand that it's a self-image thing and such things do not care about practicalities. Everyone's got to find a way to be happy with themselves. I get that. It's just... god I hate hitting my head on stuff, that shit hurts

Hear hear. I am average-slim and gay. Being easy to handle by a larger man is basically non-existent-God’s way of making up for all the other difficulties of being queer in a straight world.

Incels love to blame all their problems on height because it's the one thing that can't be their fault.

East Asia is just not meant for us. I have had to literally squat and turn sideways to get through some doors. And riding public transport there, my head is above the hand holds

In Canada there is one store that carries big and tall. I didn't mind it because they sold quality clothing. Now though they're switching to cheaper materials. 5 years ago all my clothes were 100% cotton now it's blends of cheap crap. But I'm 6' 7" so I'm stuck.

Don't forget increased back pain.

Came here to look for this comment

And in the film .... at least he was able to accomplish his dream in the end ... broken legs and all.

online dating is a nightmare in general. If you are attractive and rich its probably very nice experience, but for the rest its just awful and makes you feel even more lonely and unwanted. Imo it should be regulated heavily.

Men called me too tall so it’s not all women setting this standard. Men are not being their own best friend more often than you think and are mean to both men and women over it.

I'm 5'7". Slightly below the published average height for a man, I'm taller than something like 70% of women.

In this thread, you've got a bunch of tall guys talking about hitting heads on doors, not fitting in airplane seats...I have no such issues, the world seems more or less perfectly scaled for me. If someone says "Okay, the average man is 5'10", the average woman is 5'4", so we'll build this to be reasonably used by both" it works out to be pretty much my size. Things like shopping carts I find perfectly ergonomic to use.

Back when I was teaching flight school, I had a student who was a fairly tall man. I went with him to check out a Piper Cub he was thinking of buying. Plane was in great shape, duffel bag full of logbooks dating to the 1940s were in order, he could not climb into the aircraft, he physically did not fit inside. I fit perfectly, like it was made for me.

My experience with women: In high school and college I got pretty much all the chicks I wanted. Prior to 2010, not a single woman mentioned my height to me. In movies and TV, you'd hear the phrase "tall, dark and handsome" but In 2010, I broke up with a long term girlfriend and I disappeared into work for a couple years. I was either home sleeping or at the airport.

By 2012, asking women out in person had been repealed. You were REQUIRED to use a dating app, and those DO NOT work for men under 6 feet tall. 0.000 matches guaranteed.

Places I've gotten more pussy than all dating platforms combined:

My therapist's office. The receptionist gave me her number.

ERAU, a university with an 8-1 male-female ratio.

An aircraft mechanic school I won't identify, with a male-female ratio of 47-1.

My uncle's house. I've got 3 female cousins who tend to have friends over.

How is it I can walk into a sausage fest like A&P school, one of 94 guys on campus, many of them taller than me, driving nicer newer cars than me, wearing trendier clothes than me, and still be the one that gets one of the girls in her end? Well, in her own words, "You're the one that actually talked to me."

Actually talking to women does not work online, and has been made illegal in person. So. We're done here apparently.

There are plenty of women who would date a 5'3 man, and plenty of the women are shorter than 5'3

proportions vary pretty wildly on their own, I'm not sure you can get the kind of length added that would actually make you look strange or unusual.

Exactly, dodged a bullet really.

Yeah but the guys doing this are to young to understand this. All they see is online world reaffirming their fears that this is a huge deal to women. In my experience a lot of women who i thought wouldnt actually do care about it which surprised me.

It’s the equivalent of Peter Griffin wearing a shirt that says “no fat chicks”

You're hearing wrong. Being tall is advantageous regardless of gender.

The world is not child sized. I believe you when you say being tall suck. I am 1,5m, something like 4"11. So, the size of a child. I fit in cars, but I need a cushion. Lot of counters are so high that only my head sticks out. Finding clothes sucks too. My feet often don't touch the ground when I'm seating on an adult chair. I have to climb so much things. I can't reach all my shelves, even with a stool. Sometimes, sinks are a little too high.

I'm absolutely ok with my size, and I really think being small is easier than being really tall, but the world is not made for people my size. Really not.

Reading the article, the guy didn't care to be tall, he just didn't want to be short. He had several bad experiences because of it, but also just wanted that for himself

Heey 6"6 here too, with slight back pain.

Nothing is made for us, socks, dispensers, ceilings, you name it.

Fun fact: in Sweden where I grew up, I was considered 'too tall', men shouldn't be over 1m86-ish.

And don’t be so quick to judge, perhaps they are running an elaborate fraud in order to get on the next mission to Titan?

(It’s a Gattaca joke, folks)