The Student Room Group

Any other girls get offended?

Hey there, I’m 5”1. I honestly don’t mind my height and it doesn’t really have any major disadvantages other than being able to see in concerts etc. I’m aware online there are loads of reels etc where most guy say they prefer shorter/average girls (<5”5) however in the comments there will be people saying “so you want a child?” which really irks me as I don’t think it’s fair to compare shorter girls to children just because you got offended by the reel. I don’t think people are aware that 50% of women are 5”4 and below so you are essentially calling half the female population a child. I understand tall girl get a load of crap online from guys and I don’t support it but there’s no need to make short girls feel insecure by comparing them to children.

Reply 1

You're talking about a small amount of insecure people who shouldn't be taken seriously or representative of the norm.

Reply 2

Original post
by Anonymous
Hey there, I’m 5”1. I honestly don’t mind my height and it doesn’t really have any major disadvantages other than being able to see in concerts etc. I’m aware online there are loads of reels etc where most guy say they prefer shorter/average girls (<5”5) however in the comments there will be people saying “so you want a child?” which really irks me as I don’t think it’s fair to compare shorter girls to children just because you got offended by the reel. I don’t think people are aware that 50% of women are 5”4 and below so you are essentially calling half the female population a child. I understand tall girl get a load of crap online from guys and I don’t support it but there’s no need to make short girls feel insecure by comparing them to children.


Honestly never listen to insta reel comments most rude commenters like those lack a braincell or two

Reply 3

Original post
by mayarpapayar
Honestly never listen to insta reel comments most rude commenters like those lack a braincell or two

Yeah I try not to, but every single reel I see about guys just simply hyping up short girls there’s always some person saying that we are like children. I never see any hate comments on reels hyping tall girls (though I am aware being too tall isn’t the “beauty” standard for women so I suppose that’s why) but yeah I guess we just ignore and move on.

Reply 4

Original post
by Anonymous
Hey there, I’m 5”1. I honestly don’t mind my height and it doesn’t really have any major disadvantages other than being able to see in concerts etc. I’m aware online there are loads of reels etc where most guy say they prefer shorter/average girls (<5”5) however in the comments there will be people saying “so you want a child?” which really irks me as I don’t think it’s fair to compare shorter girls to children just because you got offended by the reel. I don’t think people are aware that 50% of women are 5”4 and below so you are essentially calling half the female population a child. I understand tall girl get a load of crap online from guys and I don’t support it but there’s no need to make short girls feel insecure by comparing them to children.

I think those comments probably aren't comparing short women to children but are instead calling out weird beauty standards which equate beauty/femininity with youth - things like short height, smooth skin, no body hair, etc. So basically not saying it's bad to be short but it's bad that a lot of men only want short women because of these beauty standards, pointing out the correlation between these standards and children.

Reply 5

Original post
by Anonymous
Hey there, I’m 5”1. I honestly don’t mind my height and it doesn’t really have any major disadvantages other than being able to see in concerts etc. I’m aware online there are loads of reels etc where most guy say they prefer shorter/average girls (<5”5) however in the comments there will be people saying “so you want a child?” which really irks me as I don’t think it’s fair to compare shorter girls to children just because you got offended by the reel. I don’t think people are aware that 50% of women are 5”4 and below so you are essentially calling half the female population a child. I understand tall girl get a load of crap online from guys and I don’t support it but there’s no need to make short girls feel insecure by comparing them to children.

Idk if i’m able to talk since im 5’4, so I haven’t had this happen to me, but it’s definitely weird. I feel like if they start narrowing it down to saying “I need a girl who’s short, younger than me, has no body hair, does childish things, etc.”, then the response “so you want a child?” makes sense. otherwise, it makes no sense, I agree with you.

Reply 6

Original post
by Kwendigo
Idk if i’m able to talk since im 5’4, so I haven’t had this happen to me, but it’s definitely weird. I feel like if they start narrowing it down to saying “I need a girl who’s short, younger than me, has no body hair, does childish things, etc.”, then the response “so you want a child?” makes sense. otherwise, it makes no sense, I agree with you.

Yeah I suppose it’s weird when they say stuff like that. It also kind of irks me when people say in the comments that girls under 5”6 aren’t “allowed to date” tall guys. Like excuse me who made you the height police 😭.

Reply 7

Original post
by Anonymous
Yeah I suppose it’s weird when they say stuff like that. It also kind of irks me when people say in the comments that girls under 5”6 aren’t “allowed to date” tall guys. Like excuse me who made you the height police 😭.


Why did you ignore the post above the one you replied to…

Reply 8

Original post
by Anonymous
Why did you ignore the post above the one you replied to…

Ummm because it’s saying the exact same thing as the one I replied to

Reply 9

normally when guys say that it’s normally followed by features children tend to have so i see where they r coming from

Reply 10

Original post
by Anonymous
Hey there, I’m 5”1. I honestly don’t mind my height and it doesn’t really have any major disadvantages other than being able to see in concerts etc. I’m aware online there are loads of reels etc where most guy say they prefer shorter/average girls (<5”5) however in the comments there will be people saying “so you want a child?” which really irks me as I don’t think it’s fair to compare shorter girls to children just because you got offended by the reel. I don’t think people are aware that 50% of women are 5”4 and below so you are essentially calling half the female population a child. I understand tall girl get a load of crap online from guys and I don’t support it but there’s no need to make short girls feel insecure by comparing them to children.

I'll be completely fr - there's no point listening to reels... The amount of offensive crap on there has exceeded anywhere else and that's the place that everyone goes to let out their anger and crash out 😂

Quick Reply

How The Student Room is moderated

To keep The Student Room safe for everyone, we moderate posts that are added to the site.