>>20900864See the text right next to it.
- Women generally prefer their partner to be much taller than themselves.
- Women generally don't mind their partners to be much taller than what they state to be their preferred height.
- Women strongly dislike men shorter than themselves.
- Even short women usually end up with men of average height.
- Even when accounting for a general mismatch of male/female height (men being taller than women on average) couples are still usually at a greater height differential than would be statistically expected.
- Since men, based on preference, would like their partner to be just slightly shorter than themselves, this mismatch is driven by a female preference for much taller partners.
- The article copes by stating that shorter men 'might' still get laid due to the fact that at some point all the preferred (tall) guys get married and leave the dating pool, but clearly this is out of touch with the current reality, where men leave the dating pool much later than in the past where men would get married much earlier, where pre- and extra-marital sex was socially shunned and where the local dating pool was much smaller (i.e. less competitive) since online dating was not yet the most common form of meeting partners.
tl;dr - if you're in denial about short men (and short means anything below 6ft here) being fucked in the free dating market, then you're just a coping manlet, in denial of science and you might as well join the people on /pol/ who deny covid and eat horse deworming paste.
