I'm only 6'4", male. My experience is that I need to slouch in the presence of normies so as not to be to intimidating. I am weirded out by people who tower over me because that is unexpected and anyone that tall doesn't try to fit in - they just tower over all.

I am 6'6'' and there has not been a time when I go grocery shopping that another customer or even an employee hasn't asked me to grab something off a high shelf for them.

Yet I have not once ever asked a short person to reach down and get something off a bottom shelf for me.

I remember talking to a woman who was like 6'5". She said when she went to visit other couples, she'd often hear the woman yelp when they realized she could see the tops of the fridge and stuff, where lots of people don't dust.

Smaller people see lots of taller peoples nose hairs. I remember because before I was a taller people I was a smaller people.

It's true, it's also very disorienting for me when I encounter someone taller than me. It's not often that I have to look up at someone, so it feels VERY strange when I do.

My mother's husband was 6'9". Sadly he's shrinking in his old age. It annoys him.

Indeed. I stopped going to general admission live music shows years and years ago, because no matter where I'd stand in the crowd, that's the spot that people would choose to force their way through to the bathroom, or bar, or to smoke, or wherever drunk people at a show go. (And go they do, the shifting around never lets up.) There's really only so much being elbowed in the side or shoved in the back constantly that one can take before it starts to feel personal.

Then I realized that when other people would scan the crowd for an opening, it'd seem like the spot where I stood was a good choice, because there was visually a gap. Above my head. Because I was usually the shortest man there. (Which is somewhat unusual for me, but the fact that it was always the case at shows should've been a hint.)

I did try to stand my ground a few times, but then just risked getting into fights with drunk people, and/or getting slapped with the bullshit Angry Short Man label. Best just not to go. Especially since I couldn't see the band anyway, what with the 6'6" guys who'd decide to stand up front.

So yeah, really tall people do see things differently, and if you see others as figuratively beneath you, or as invisible, well, I hope you have to sit in a coach seat for a flight to New Zealand.

I can see the bald spot you're trying to hide.

Inspired by https://lemmy.ml/post/43326881

Scientifically, tall people were proven to attract more....

Mosquitoes.

My wife is 12in shorter than me, and it makes me sad that I basically have to be 5ft behind her to have a good view of her butt when standing.

Do you think all the conversations we're having are standing up within a foot of the other person? I'm usually sitting down and not looking at the top of your head. But it is time homie 🪒