Ricki Yasha TarrDudes will get with a 5 ft tall women to feel like a big dominant boi, and then be mad his sons aren't 6'11".
My Grandma was 4'8", and my Grandpa was upset his boys weren't built like football players.
Kierkethumbs up convincingly@RickiTarr they should have gone for daughters and put the sons out in the woods
Sir Osis of Liver 🇨🇦 🇲🇽Mum is 173 (5'8"), Dad is 170 (5'7"), I'm 178 (5'10") and my younger brother is 188 (6'2"). Oh, and my sister is 160 (5'3").
There seems to be an outlier in each generation on Dad's side of the family.
@Sir_Osis_of_Liver Yep, genetics is fascinating
GrumpyDad 🇺🇦🇵🇸@RickiTarr Reminds me that my grandpa was 148 cm (4'8") while my grandma was 175cm (5'7")
@RickiTarr so much for being a tradwife
Nature Punk@RickiTarr My partner is a full foot shorter than me but her inside leg is longer than mine.
Our sons inherited my long body and her long legs. They were not comfortable pregnancies and cost us a fortune in clothes :)
I think it's her that has a thing for tall men though. I didn't get much choice in the matter ;)
David Penfold 
Haha! I'm similar,I think it's a Celtic thing.
I'm very imposing in meetings. But at the end people say "we can get up and go now".
The ol' tealeg 🐡@naturepunk @RickiTarr this is identical to my wife and I (and it two daughters). Also: Never has a drivers seat been adjusted so often!
Kim Possible 
@RickiTarr My mom used to get so mad when she saw couples like that. She grew up as a 5' 10" girl looking to wear heels and not be taller than her high school dates. She did eventually marry a man who was 6' 7" but he was not an improvement on my 5' 11" dad, just taller.
glasspshr@kimlockhartga @RickiTarr how tall are you?
Height isn’t a consideration when I’m dating someone
Edit: I have my mother’s hips. I have to accept that!
@glasspusher @RickiTarr I am 5' 5½". My brother is 6 ft. So, I'm the shortest in my family.
@kimlockhartga @RickiTarr my parents were both 5’ 4”. My sister is 5 foot even. My brothers and I are all over 5 foot 5
@glasspusher @RickiTarr That is interesting. Genetics and environment also play a role.
@kimlockhartga @RickiTarr yeah my family falls into the "boys are never shorter than their mothers, girls are never taller than their fathers" rule
FurballsNHairballs@RickiTarr 👍🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@RickiTarr pointing out aesthetic demands on men is laughable, i say as I gaslight my son that he has diabetes and must inject himself with insulin that is actually human growth hormone
Paul Drye@RickiTarr As a 9'4" dude I have no idea what you're talking about.
Milcom MiasmaA dude who picks a women solely on the basis of her height probably didn't do well on the genetics chapter of high school biology.
My nephew's daughter is 6'6 - it's fun imagining what the high school boys must be thinking when she walks into a room.
@mmiasma @RickiTarr wow!
I am so glad that girls and young women are tall, now, for a reason you might not expect. In the 70s and 80s, it was so hard to find shoes big enough for me. Once we started to see much taller girls than when I grew up, the shoe departments had to add larger sizes, even ones that were too big for me. I finally got choices, due to market demand. I still buy small men's shoes for the width, but the change for me has been hugely significant.
Now, if we could just get wide-width swim fins.
Good for you! I have a story about women's shoes. We took one of the last tags off of our local giving tree last Christmas. It was for an eleven year-old girl who wanted Uggs slippers, size 11 (womens).
The shoe salesman said "No way she's 11 with a size 11 foot. That's gotta be wrong."
"I have a 15 year-old niece who's 6'5" (at the time). "I'm going to assume the people who made the request know what they're asking for" I said and we bought her size 11 shoes.
Mary Holstege@mmiasma @kimlockhartga @RickiTarr
Well I remember the day I tried to buy shoes at <redacted> and the sales assistant said "There are no feet that size!"
Happy I am to have a husband secure enough to marry a woman much taller than him (and with freakishly large feet).
@mathling @kimlockhartga @RickiTarr
I salute your husband for not worrying about the things that don't matter.
Speaking of freakish... I was an EEEE width foot with high arches. My mom used to joke they bought me shoes and made me wear the boxes the shoes came in instead.
epicdemiologist@epicdemiologist @mmiasma @RickiTarr Totally understand that problem, too. My wife wears a women's size 6, wide. It's easier just to go to the boy's shoes.
RRB@mmiasma @RickiTarr Most strategies people have for finding a mate are tragically flawed. (As are most people seeking mates.)
True. That said, the $50 I paid my future-wife's optometrist to dial down her eyeglass prescription and give everything a very soft focus was worth _EVERY_ penny.
@mmiasma @RickiTarr I really loved the end of Yukio Mishima's "Decay of the Angel."
(Spoiler Alert)
The "hero" had a female acquaintance who was very ugly and deranged. She thought she was the most beautiful woman on Earth.
In the end, the protagonist failed in his suicide attempt and went blind. He then married the female acquaintance.
They lived happily ever after with him having the most beautiful wife imaginable. It might be the only Mishima novel with a happy ending.
Right after he finished the novel, Mishima held the Japanese parliament hostage and killed himself in front of them.
He had issues.
David Cantrell 🏏@RickiTarr only a man who hates his son would want his son to be 6'11".
matas
Annelies Kamran, Ph.D.@RickiTarr regression to the mean is not a well-known concept :-)
@akamran @RickiTarr In other words "Over time everyone degenerates into a nasty disposition."
Petra@RickiTarr my 5'1" Mother in law and my 5'7" father in law made my 6'6" husband.
In his family there are people well under 5' tall.
As I am 5'9" and our son is 6'7" we spend our time trying not to accidentally loom at family gatherings
Aaron O@RickiTarr at 5'7, with a 5'3 spouse, my kids topped out at 5'6, and 4'11. I feel bad for my youngest. She's so sweet, but will be forever short. :(
Sadie
MFennVT@RickiTarr My husband's dad was 6'4", his mom was 5'3". They got their 6' tall son. You never know how genes are going to roll.😀
@MFennVT YEP, they are wild!
Paul Turnbull 🇨🇦@RickiTarr They haven't met my family. There's a line of short dominant women. The best story was my 4'10" great granny who once dragged one of her large sons down the street by his ear (literally) to the police station to turn him in for illegally boxing.
Dekks Hertonwhat brought this on
@dekkzz78 My grandpa always gave my dad shit for being average height even though he married a 4'8" woman.
@RickiTarr
bad gramps ;)
bad gramps ;)
Martin Seeger@RickiTarr They should be glad. Clothing costs for 6'11" is more than twice that for 5'8".