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Their parents were worried they'd grow to be five feet ten? Is that that shockingly tall? I've long noticed a lack of tall women, but I didn't think it was because their parents had intentionally stunted their growth. Wierdness.

My ex-wife is 5-10. She talks about comments directed at her as a teen and it infuriates me. One does not (one presumes) choose their height. As a testimony to how beautiful a tall woman can be, I submit that the proprietor of this blog is indicative of how a woman can be tall and beautiful.

Trust me, it's no easier finding cloths if you're 5'2". The difference is you get to sepnd large sums of money on taylors.

Wow, this is...barbaric. OK, I can understand people in certain (sniff) countries doing this, but Australia? And thinking that you would never get married if you were oh, the horror! 5' 10"? Yeesh.

I'm 5' 10", and built like a linebacker. I had to endure crap from my classmates. I thought enduring crap from dolts was a part of life.

I had a wife that was 5'2", a wife that was 5'9" and my "3rd times the charm" wife is 5'7". While I prefer a taller woman, I'm glad they all said yes, regardless of their height.
Mover Mike

I'm 6'3" and spent my whole life looking for a girlfriend who was 5'10"+.

Never found one. Is this why? Sheesh.

OK, I have you all beat. My wife is 6'4", and beautiful. Believe it or not, mine was not the first offer of marriage she received (though it was the first she accepted :-).

This treatment wouldn't have "helped", either.

People really need to understand that the whole world is not as shallow as its shallowest occupants. I hope this incident helps to get that across.

I'm 5' 10", and built like a linebacker. I had to endure crap from my classmates. I thought enduring crap from dolts was a part of life.

If you're 5'10" and built like a linebacker, I thought the best part of life was throwing the mocking dolts into a dumpster? Preferably the one behind an auto repair store or a fish market?

My wife is 1) built like a linebacker, and 2) taller and broader than I am. She's been ribbed about it a few times, but only once in my company.

Yes, I let him live, but it was close, and I'm sure he'll never say anything like that again, to anyone.

There are many different styles of beauty. Megan, from your photos, we know that you have nothing to complain about. As for the other tall or large or short or slight ladies here, make the best of what you have -- inside and out -- and the men in your lives will never have cause to regret you.

Hey, guys, that's what it is to grow up a girl.

Short, tall, chubby, skinny, flat-chested, big-busted, big butt, no butt, wide hips, short waist, long-legged, short-legged, glasses, button nose, buck teeth, curly hair, straight hair, redhead, blonde (not so much brunette) -- People will make fun of those characteristics and more. And they won't give a second thought to doing it to a teenager, who is at the most insecure and emotionally vulnerable time of her whole life. And sometimes they even mean it as a compliment, but if a girl is self-conscious (and they all are), it's not comforting.

It's like Elaine said once on Seinfeld when the guys were talking about boys giving each other "wedgies": "Girls just tease each other until they develop an eating disorder."

Yes, and someday we will talk about those parents who remove a large fraction of their little boy's genital nerves so they can "look like dad".

How awful for these women. I don't think I'd ever be able to forgive my parents and the doctor if it were me.

I dunno: I remember all too well going to a school play with a young woman from the other high school in town who was 6', had an IQ of approximately 150, and was drop-dead gorgeous on top of all that. The poor girl couldn't get a date to save her life: the combination of height and brains were the kiss of death. Not a problem for me; I was then, as I am now, 6'4".

As for our charming hostess, I had the distinct, albeit far too brief, pleasure of meeting her at her stopover in Los Angeles, and she really is that tall, really is that slender, and really is that intelligent. It's very far from a bad thing.

This baffles me. Unless it is so extreme as to make sharing the same household difficult I cannot image judging the attractiveness of a woan based on her height. If anything, I'd be inclined to favor a woman close to my size or greater just because I worry about accidentally clobbering a small person. I had one friend who I struck with an elbow when she quietly came up behind me and I turned suddenly. Anybody close to my size would have taken the hit in the torso and likely just shaken it off. But this 5'0" woman caught it right in the forehead and was nearly unconscious. OTOH, it was nearly effortless to pick her and put her on the couch where I could stand by and desperately hope I hadn't administered a kinetic lobotomy.

Why is TALL good when you love someone?

There's more THERE there. (And in the most desirable proportions.)

5'10" is fairly tall for a woman, but I don't see why people would actually be concerned about that unless we're talking freakishly tall here, and even then that's a good ticket to a basketball career, not an impediment. Why would any guy care greatly about how tall his wife was?

Meh, I guess this is just more proof that there's always a percentage of the population that is stupider than you could ever expect.

Wasn't it in Brave New World that everyone got to choose their offspring's height, hair color, eye color, etc? Huxley didn't elaborate on the consequences, but I always thought it would lead to boring uniformity. Genetic randomness is much more interesting.

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