Do Ladies Give Short Men a Chance?
My Sunday Musing from Saturday Night Live
I haven’t really watched television in 20 years, so you might be surprised that I am sharing a Saturday Night Live clip from last night. We do have a TV in the living room of the Las Vegas house, which I hadn’t turned on once since I have been here. Last night the sextuple Covid jabbed roommate Paul, ever the television watcher, turned on the boob tube in the living room. Apparently he had Scotty hook up a satellite dish and he wanted to show me how much better the reception is now. This isn’t something I had noticed before.
SNL is not terribly funny, though I oddly agreed with their skit poking fun at President Trump and his own adventures with underage girls. I don’t think any of these guys are pure and clean heroes. We’re in the late stages of a declining empire and supposed to be fighting over voting for a Douchebag versus a Turd Sandwich.
I thought this SNL skit was extremely funny, however. Jackson reminds me a bit of an American version of my brother in law Tee, which leads me to bring up something regarding that: my husband Ka is significantly shorter than me, being just a little over 5 foot 3 inches tall. My first husband Oh was also shorter than me at 5 foot 5 or so, while Tee, meanwhile is a bit taller than me. How much of an advantage has that given him with women relative to his shorter brothers?
Am I weirdly bending my knees here?
Some years ago when I was studying Marriage and the Family in Sociology I noticed a study of heterosexual marriage licenses in the USA. They ranked the rarity or the likelihood of a pairing leading to a registered marriage based on a variety of variables: at the time the most common cross race marriage pairing was a white man with an Asian woman, while the least common pairing was a white woman with an Asian man.
The least common marriage pairing, however, involved height: less than one in 1000 marriages had a woman who was significantly (more than two inches) taller than her husband. This probably also partially explains why women who tend to be taller from a racial perspective are less likely to marry men who are shorter.
Is height really an everything dealbreaker to most women? To go with Rachel Maldono’s question, is it better to be a man who’s short or a man who’s poorly endowed? Sometimes those packages can be surprisingly larger than medium…
On the plus side I don’t think too many women will be in a rush to steal my husband…
Back in the day, when I was fit, good looking and at 5'7", I couldn't get a date if my life depended on it. Fast forward today...I'm 64, a little overweight, balding, and living in the Philippines. I'm a king with the filipinas. I can get laid at a moments notice with an attractive girl. White American women suck ass.
I'm 6'2" tall and my wife is 5'1". I've just always liked short women, and my wife has always liked tall men.
There is a thing though with short men sometimes they try too hard, and are assholes. We call it "short man syndrome." If they're in a position of power, they'll abuse that power -- because they're jealous of taller men. I've seen it many times. Very annoying.