It’s like this is the major thing american women look in a man.

My sister did the Tindr circuit back in the '10s, and she regularly passed on anyone who was shorter than 6'. Some of this might have simply been that all the men and quite a few of the women in her family were at least that tall, but she capped out at 5'3".

She struggled with dating for years, because a lot of the guys she went out with were either fuckbois or work-a-holics or otherwise unfun people to be around. Eventually, she got two requests in one day - one dude who was 6'1 and another who was 5'2". At this point, she was getting burnt out and felt a bit bad about not even giving the 5'2" a chance.

The date with the 6'1" guy was predictably awful. She didn't even bother suggesting another.

The date with the 5'2" guy was incredibly. The immediately clicked. She totally fell for him. He fell for her. A couple years later they got married. Now they've got an adorable little girl and we're all joking about how it would be funny of my sister's tall-family genes take over and she's towering over her parents in twenty years.

If you're not tall enough, you might not be able to see if there's a gazelle or lion behind a large rock, thus you will neither be able to feed your family nor save it from being eaten.

I've never actually heard anyone say they cared about height. I've only heard second hand stories.

Mostly saying, I think it's a fairly small amount of people that care.

Brazil here. My ex wouldn't date anyone shorter than 175cm and my current gf wouldn't even look at me if i was under that height.

Meh, I'm 5'8" and have often found myself punching well above my weight class when it comes to women. LOL, and I'm always surprised.

I've also noticed a great many tall women dating/marrying shorter men these days. Used to be a rare sight, now it's commonplace. Hell, I've dated a few women that were 5'10".

The memes are coming from women on dating sites specifying a height of 6'. And yes, that's commonplace. I think it's a reaction to men lying about their height (women lie about their weight), and people I've dated have backed up that idea.

Is it women tho? Or is it men telling other men they aren't good enough again?

For a beautiful strange moment, I thought you were going the other direction with this:

What a weird question. They do have eyes, do they not? If you cannot visually establish if someone is a roller coaster, then it's probably negligible.

Of love?

Excuse the garbage AI slop, but I'm actually shocked this nearly worked...

Are you handicap accessible?

Is there any way this is a good question in a conversation?

It's a pretty dumb question in a face-to-face encounter since you can see for yourself how tall somebody is.

Maybe if your first date is to go on a rollercoaster

Usually it's not part of the date conversation for me because it doesn't matter if you date an average heigth guy. if a guy is really fucking tall and I'm genuinely interested about how tall he is I have asked, nobody ever minded. I think this whole height fetish is a little bit out if control because of dating apps maybe. Because I've met all of my boyfriend live and then you can see about what height they have. And I've never minded if somebody is small or tall.

I think that's a good response.

"How tall are you?".
"Why, are you a rollercoaster? Haha"

Laugh it off and see how she reacts. If she's awkward and remorseful or she's pushy you can either go on with the date or ask her how much she weighs or her bra size. Then transition into how men can be offended by such a question.

Statistically taller people are seen as more attractive and therefore more successful. So good genes. So "you want to have kids with me? That's a little fast..." Could be a quip.

This is hopefully a more avoidable issue because the more toxic people put in rollercoaster requirements right in their bio.

Speaking of Dutch height requirements.... my wife is Dutch. We met at a dance. We chatted a bit, and she did a literal translation at one point of "hoe lang ben je?".

Her: You're pretty tall. How long are you?

Me: Long enough, I promise you!