A Point of View: Why short men make better husbands - Polidicks

[img]http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/77984000/jpg/_77984283_sophie-and-jamie.jpg[/img] [quote]Short men make better husbands, and make up in wisdom what they lack in stature, says self-confessed small man, Adam Gopnik. Just a few weeks ago, an interesting and lengthy paper by a pair of sociologists from New York University made a lot of noise in what I suppose would these days be called the community of short men - a community to which, as it happens, I rather inarguably, one might say entirely, belong. Its subject was what is called assortative mating - the way people divide themselves up, two by two in that ark-like fashion, for life. It was one of those wonderfully solemn sociological papers in which the utterly self-evident is systematically recast as the cautiously empirical. The authors point out early on in their report that "social psychological research suggests that attractive people are favoured in numerous situations" (a thing you would not have guessed without social science) and soon after we learn that attractive and physically fit men report going on more dates and having sex more frequently than others. But the conclusion of the paper, once one has weeded through, is striking and well documented. It is simply that short men make stable marriages. They do this in circumstances of difficulty and against the odds and consistently over ages and income groups, and they do it with the shorter women they often marry, but also with the taller women they sometimes land. Short men marry late but, once they do get married, tend to stay married longer and, by social science measures, at least - I assume this means they ask the short men's wives (I hope so anyway) - they stay happily married, too.[/quote] Source: [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29464446[/url] He's 5'4 - She's 6'0

What a poorly written article. It barely has hard facts and is comprised mostly of opinion and filler.

[QUOTE=Ajacks;46160020]What a poorly written article.[/QUOTE] britain's finest news corporation, proudly paid by every British citizen.

tl;dr article writer pretends personality is in any way linked to a person's height.

Article written by the manlet defense force.

I find people's obsession with height absolutely bizarre, quite frankly

[QUOTE=NiandraLades;46160062]I find people's obsession with height absolutely bizarre, quite frankly[/QUOTE] Same here but this is coming from a giant at 6'6". People think they'll offend me if they ask me how tall I am or say "do you play basketball?" but its been asked [I]so[/I] many times it's just an automatic response, doesn't bother me. Better than being 5'6" that's for damn sure.

[QUOTE=NiandraLades;46160062]I find people's obsession with height absolutely bizarre, quite frankly[/QUOTE] short manlet spotted [sp]judging people based on height is retarded[/sp]

From a biological standpoint shorter men would make better husbands, but not genetic mates. As a female you're looking for someone who will stick around and take care of your offspring, rather than go out after other mates. In nature you have a tendency to see females mating with males with strong genetic traits and then pairing with males that will devote more time to the care of the offspring, even though the offspring are not that of the paired male. You see this a lot when studying mating and pair bonds in birds.

I don't know why but Hammond is so damn cute

[QUOTE=Magman77;46160054]tl;dr article writer pretends personality is in any way linked to a person's height.[/QUOTE] And yet height is correlated to many things, like success and intelligence. I wouldn't be too surprised if there was a connection, either biological or sociological. EDIT: Could someone elaborate on their disagreement? For instance, if I was Jyoti Amge, the shortest woman alive, my life would be much different just because of my height. I'm sure my personality would be different because of that (as opposed to be some average person of average height).

[QUOTE=Aman;46160071]Same here but this is coming from a giant at 6'6". People think they'll offend me if they ask me how tall I am or say "do you play basketball?" but its been asked [I]so[/I] many times it's just an automatic response, doesn't bother me. Better than being 5'6" that's for damn sure.[/QUOTE] Hey :suicide:

nah, tall husbands are better - they can reach the really high shelves in supermarkets

*4chan height chart*

[QUOTE=Aman;46160071]Same here but this is coming from a giant at 6'6". People think they'll offend me if they ask me how tall I am or say "do you play basketball?" but its been asked [I]so[/I] many times it's just an automatic response, doesn't bother me. Better than being 5'6" that's for damn sure.[/QUOTE] I'm 5'7 so I'm in the clear. :v:

Slightly above average height master race

[QUOTE=Aman;46160071]Same here but this is coming from a giant at 6'6".[/QUOTE] Same here. Seems people get a lot less competitive and aggressive about height when they're really tall. Once you hit 6'3", you're all in the same boat. Like when you're walking in a crowd and casually nod to the nearest face you see poking above everyone else, it's an unspoken brotherhood. Like an exclusive club.

[QUOTE=BigJoeyLemons;46160178]Same here. Seems people get a lot less competitive and aggressive about height when they're really tall. Once you hit 6'3", you're all in the same boat. Like when you're walking in a crowd and casually nod to the nearest face you see poking above everyone else, it's an unspoken brotherhood. Like an exclusive club.[/QUOTE] This is what I was about to mention. I'm pretty sure the opposite of what the article says is actually the case because of [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_complex"]this[/URL]

6'0 is the perfect male height if you are even 1cm above or below this height you may as well kill yourself. I am 6'0, feels good

[QUOTE=BigJoeyLemons;46160178]Same here. Seems people get a lot less competitive and aggressive about height when they're really tall. Once you hit 6'3", you're all in the same boat. Like when you're walking in a crowd and casually nod to the nearest face you see poking above everyone else, it's an unspoken brotherhood. Like an exclusive club.[/QUOTE] I look at people taller than me and think "You poor bastard, It's hard enough finding shirts long enough at my height" and I nod with commiseration and they solemnly receive it with a nod in return.

[QUOTE=Perfumly;46160194]6'0 is the perfect male height if you are even 1cm above or below this height you may as well kill yourself. I am 6'0, feels good[/QUOTE] This post confuses me. You say 6'0, but then use the metric system right after.

[QUOTE=Perfumly;46160194]6'0 is the perfect male height if you are even 1cm above or below this height you may as well kill yourself. I am 6'0, feels good[/QUOTE] high five my optimum height brother [editline]5th October 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=matt000024;46160225]This post confuses me. You say 6'0, but then use the metric system right after.[/QUOTE] as a canadian who uses the metric system all the time, I almost never hear anyone refer to their height in metric. it's just a rarity outside of government forms.

From experience I know that short and skinny people are extremely aggressive, its like those small dogs that think they're tough and bark at everything that moves.

[QUOTE=BigJoeyLemons;46160178]Same here. Seems people get a lot less competitive and aggressive about height when they're really tall. Once you hit 6'3", you're all in the same boat. Like when you're walking in a crowd and casually nod to the nearest face you see poking above everyone else, it's an unspoken brotherhood. Like an exclusive club.[/QUOTE] I never thought about the brotherhood of the traveling giants, I should begin nodding to people immediately. [editline]5th October 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=HumanAbyss;46160238]high five my optimum height brother [editline]5th October 2014[/editline] as a canadian who uses the metric system all the time, I almost never hear anyone refer to their height in metric. it's just a rarity outside of government forms.[/QUOTE] Yea kinda weird how we do that. Same with lbs and kg although sometimes I will see kg used it's mostly lbs.

I'm only 5'6" :( But I found a girl an inch shorter than me, so I'm happy.

[quote]Short men make better husbands, and make up in wisdom what they lack in stature, says self-confessed small man, Adam Gopnik[/quote] No bias what so ever.

I'm like Gandolf amongst my short hobbit fairytale friends. They take it in turns to call random people cunts then hide behind me so i receive the response cause I'm the only face they can see. I can safely say anything to do with height and the conversations usually says iv'e taken the idea of tall and run with it. I'm 'only' 6'6.

[QUOTE=Aman;46160071]Same here but this is coming from a giant at 6'6". People think they'll offend me if they ask me how tall I am or say "do you play basketball?" but its been asked [I]so[/I] many times it's just an automatic response, doesn't bother me. Better than being 5'6" that's for damn sure.[/QUOTE] I can relate to this except instead of people asking whether or not I ball its people asking whether or not Im Jewish. No its not my nose

5'3", bring me the ladies.

I bet this loser hasn't even sniffed a girl's hair, on account of being three inches tall. He is like the fucking Indian in the Cupboard.