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On Wed, 18 Dec 1996 20:30:11 -0500, Dan Scheraga
<scheraga@webspan.net> wrote:

>Tommy the Tourist wrote:
>> 
>> In article <57od8p$8k4$1@info1.fnal.gov>,
>> Robert Kutschke <kutschke@fnpspa.fnal.gov> wrote:
>> >          33 specified a minimum height of 5'7'' or more
>> >           3 specified a minimum height of 5'5'' or 5'6''
>> >           4 specified no minimum height
>> 
>> These figures sound right-on.  _Esquire_ just did a story about men, and
>> they mentioned that in a study of personals ads, almost all women required
>> men to be tall.
>> 
>> This is a bummer for short men.  We are all born into this world with
>> various gifts and various difficulties.
>> 
>
>Bummer is an understatement.
>But I...and most every other guy I know tall or short, require women to be slim, or at least not 
>obese...when us short guys who know damn well what it's like to be ignored for such a 
>superficial reason keep physical requirements for our mates, it's hypocrisy.  Obesity doesn't 
>stop women from wanting taller guys, and that's hypocrisy, too.  But with the thrust of several 
>eons of natural selection behind it, who can stop it?
>Humans are animals and we've got no one to blame but ourselves.

We're only animals to the extent that we can't/don't THINK.

Sure, most men (myself included) find slender women more attractive
than the overweight variety.  I suppose most women find tall men more
attractive than the short variety.  None of this is carved in stone,
however, like you sound as though it is.

Where you're condemning yourself is in the use of the word "require".
I guess a number of people *do* REQUIRE a certain physical type.  I
say such people are fixated, and not truly open to endless other
possibilities.

There's any number of things that make people attractive to one
another.  Physical appearance is just the most immediate, superficial
thing.  It's also the thing that ultimately means the LEAST, precisely
BECAUSE of its superficiality.

If people aren't willing to look beneath skin-deep appearances, they
aren't IMO worth getting to know.


Stranger aka Stephen C. Smith