Short men
This is the most talked about newsmagazine segment in our house: Are Short Men at a Disadvantage when it comes to Romance?
Unfortunately the two versions I can find cut off early. The segment goes on, to the best of our memory, to ascribe terrible characteristics to the taller men, including jail time and unemployment. While the short men get more millions, work for Doctors without Borders, volunteer at Sunday School, and help little old ladies cross the street.
DH Vortigern is continually amazed when my dateless, single, (and now aging) friends continue to dismiss guys out of hand because they are too short or too ‘insubstantial’ in build. He thinks my acquaintences too superficial and suggests this is why then end up with jerks or end up alone. I think he’s too harsh. I keep trying to explain to him that taller bigger men can make you feel more feminine.
Now that I’m reading more romance novels across a wider section of the genre, I notice that the heroes are almost universally tall, well-built, and have big penises. They’re even this tall in historical romances, and I can only imagine that they run around constantly banging their heads on the lintels. (Talk about pulling you from the story – but I just can’t shake those colonial village visits of my childhood.) I don’t know if this is what women really want or whether they say they want this because they are told this is the ideal.
I keep telling him the segment is not realistic. I think most women I know would certainly date the bestselling doctor millionaire – though I think that’s just as superficial as height.
