I have observed and you might have as well, girls especially in this 21st century love to date guys taller than them. I am as confused as you when it comes to this matter because personally, I do not really mind the heights of someone I like.
Apparently, there are a lot of explanations to that. Let’s check some of them.
“In an intriguing 2013 study, Dutch psychologists Gert Stulp, Abraham Buunk, and Thomas Pollet followed up on some of their earlier work on male height to find out more about what leads women to prefer those lanky guys. They were also curious to learn how and why people are satisfied with their own height.
Evolutionarily speaking, one might argue that a tall man would be preferred by women because, if you follow the argument, he’ll be stronger and better able to ward off physical threats to his family. However, unless taller equals stronger, faster, and smarter, height wouldn’t seem to offer any particularly unique advantage.”
Source: Psychology Today
So from the study above, it seems that women are more attracted to taller guys because of the norm that if a guy is tall, he is stronger and better than guys shorter than them which is something that I don’t agree upon. This height stereotyping doesn’t really make sense to me. In the good side, I was able to find something to back up this idea: “the taller, the stronger”.
“Taller men may only seem stronger because we conflate height with weight and strength. And being “looked up to,” quite literally, may at some subconscious level lead taller men to feel that they have superior qualities.
The tall man = power equation may simply be part of the male-female power differential. Men are taller because of hormonal influences, to be sure. This then becomes translated into social attitudes. We’re all conditioned by media images to prefer men and women with a certain kind of appearance. As proponents of a biosocial gender approach argue, the two sets of influences are completely and utterly intertwined.”
Source: Psychology Today
It’s actually pretty clear that it’s all in the head and what you believe in. Some girls feel safer if their partners are towering them. Giving them the girlfriend feel which is being short and just being cute.
Regardless, I think that we should not consider height as a standard whenever we are looking for a partner. I believe that what inside of the person is much more important than what you see on the surface.
