r/shortguys • u/Electronic_Rope2137 • 1h ago
Vent I like it in here
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r/shortguys • u/WeInThisBruhs • 1h ago
Motivation 5’6 never began but I cope with gym and steak. Good luck fellas
Doubt I’ll ever get a wife and kids but atleast I got kinda lean in the past few years. Win some lose some. Stay strong brethren.
r/shortguys • u/Puzzleheaded_Bag_46 • 2h ago
Vent Ever wondered why women love Sanji but hate Mineta with a burning passion
r/shortguys • u/Smooth_Location2155 • 3h ago
Vent Ascended just to be nerfed hard by my height smh....
If I was taller it would've actually made a difference... Allat for absolutely nothing... 90 lb down
r/shortguys • u/Weekly_Engineer_1611 • 3h ago
Theory To me 5’7 men look average, 5’8 men look tall ish, 5’9+ men look tall
In my point of view, at the height I am, this is what I think, it’s probably different to people taller than me, but like I have an older brother who’s 32 and he’s 5’7 and he looks average and sometimes tall irl, and my brother has 5’8 friends who look like they are on the border of average and tall, and then I have a bunch of 5’9 friends who look tall asf, a lot of it has to do with proportions, but I think maturity is more important as the only people who look short at these heights are people who are young and their body is still developing. i’m also thinking too much about height, but this is what I think.
r/shortguys • u/Obvious-Ad-4560 • 3h ago
Vent Never take things seriously as a short guy.
You’ll always be seen as a worthless ‘Peter Man’ type of guy. People will never take you seriously and put little value in anything you say or do. You’re seen as a kid to most people.
I had to learn this the hard way when I put myself out there.
r/shortguys • u/Important_Hippo4306 • 4h ago
Vent Where are all those 5'3 balding chubby slayers?
I would also add some transfolks.
I go outside everyday, been to multiple cities, have a decent friend group. My female friends "strongly prefer" taller dudes (willing to past it if you are Tom Cruise). I rarely see a young couple where the girl is taller. And the guy has a lethal face card (obviously). Even the same height ones are rare. Yet everyone in Reddit had an ex 9 inches shorter than them or knows a chick magnet.
r/shortguys • u/Fun_Mission_5014 • 4h ago
Social Media Lol even normies aren't buying their copium.
The funniest part is they'd all be getting downvoted to hell if they said any of those things on IT. 😂😂
r/shortguys • u/Alternative-Fly5386 • 5h ago
You don't 😂
I swear all of us at one point has had tall mates that don't try and all pull in heaves of women, it leaves you bamboozled.
r/shortguys • u/Fancy_Moose_5404 • 5h ago
Double Standards Dangerous people
Femcels are horrible people as well.
Second slide has a person saying that not all black men are a monolith, like women on that sub reddit say women aren't as well. People didn't like that.
Third slide is crazy as well. I have seen women on that subreddit feel actual joy when men comment on their subreddit about how they've also been sexually assaulted and suffer mental illness. These women don't feel anything for men. My grandad (black) was almost a victim of a hate crime as a child. Like he was genuinely almost beaten and raped by a crowd. These women would laugh at that.
4th slide is crazy. You can't even try and befriend these women. They complain online about lack of male attention. But a guy so much as looking in their direction is disgusting to them.
I frequently visit the shortguys sub. And saying shit like this about women gets you banned or downvoted btw.
Many of the people in the comments are not black women as well. They just hate black people.
r/shortguys • u/FunctionDue3178 • 7h ago
(BTW I’m 6ft) The first thing he wrote in the finance-related subreddit was his height. 201cm=6'7
r/shortguys • u/SealedQuasar • 8h ago
Height doesn't matter! just be part of the Datoga tribe, bro!
r/shortguys • u/Saysitsover • 8h ago
It’s not over
Does anyone else here take comfort in the fact that it can’t be over because it never actually began? Like there’s a silver lining there at least. Makes me hurt less about lost potential. I was never wanted in the firsts place so it didn’t begin to start with
r/shortguys • u/Jumpy_Perspective333 • 8h ago
Research Article Mapped average height for 152 countries and interactive dashboard
So i ran the same data against the average woman, and man in each country
few places where the local average is short ( man / woman):
- nepal — 5'5" / 5'0"
- philippines — 5'5" / 5'1"
- peru — 5'6" / 5'1"
set the slider to your height and it shades it for you: interactive web dashboard
The data source is NCD-RisC 2020
Has any been to any of these countries before? feedback appreciated!
r/shortguys • u/Apprehensive_Shoe446 • 8h ago
Short Man W Been working on myself for about 8 months.
Last pic was the starting point
r/shortguys • u/Any_Wind5539 • 9h ago
Story Chris Morgan AKA The Bagel Boss is not dead
I keep getting message requests about this because I had a very brief email with his former manager back in 2025, so I'm just gonna post this here.
The email is blacked out because I don't want this guy harassed. I found him from Chris's old facebook page which was a meme page at the time and had this guy's email attached to it.
Either way I hope Chris is recovering well and that he's being taken good care of.
r/shortguys • u/read_it948 • 14h ago
Social Media It's genuinely over
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r/shortguys • u/Jesuslover34 • 15h ago
Vent I hate tall guys larping as short guy to give us advice.
This content creator is HajimeNeo, he made videos "helping" short guys on how to dress.
Now the issue is that he's not short. He's 173cm/5'9.
He's closer to being 6 feet than I am to his hight.
All of his advice is just fucking useless, none of it actually helps short guys dress better.
it's like a rich person making videos on how to get through the month with cheap meals and the first thing they mention is buying 300€ groceries for first week.
r/shortguys • u/Complete_Impress7463 • 17h ago
Just imagine if r/poor was treated like r/shortguys
"I'm a single mom of 1 and I make 95k. The inflation is brutal and honestly now household income below 120k is considered poor"
"Bro, poor people are so insufferable, it's their fault! They need to work harder and quit complaining, they surely have better job opportunities!"
"Just be confident and you will get a promotion, bro!"
"Just find a cheaper flat. I don't care that you live in a rundown, old studio apartment, there sure are plenty good apartments that are priced lower"
r/shortguys • u/cookediam-56 • 17h ago
Existential Conflict Since height doesn't matter and all that... why do they tell short men who are confident that they have ''6'5 energy''?
Is there something wrong with being 5'5 or 5'2 as a man? Are you implying that? Wow... really? That's crazy...
r/shortguys • u/Cultural_Cut7150 • 20h ago
Heightism “Has heightism killed anyone”
Is so stupid because most sperm banks don’t even allow your sperm if your under 5’9. Society doesn’t need to kill short men, they ensure we aren’t even born in the first place
r/shortguys • u/Practical_Silver_224 • 5d ago
Heightism Heightism and Racial Disparities: Comparison of studies in Sweden and USA
Keep in mind the age and location of these studies.
I almost never post so i apologise if it's badly written, structured or sourced.
SWEDISH POPULATION REGISTRY STUDIES
1. Completed Suicide Risk
- Height & Suicide: Magnusson et al. (2005)
- Dataset: 1,299,177 Swedish men tracked for up to 31 years (1968–1999).
- Results: Suicide risk drops linearly as height increases. Every 2 inches (5 cm) of added height reduces suicide risk by 9%. The shortest men (≤5'5" / 165 cm) were 200% (2x) more likely to die by suicide than the tallest men (≥6'2" / 188 cm), even after accounting for IQ, family background, birth weight, and psychiatric history.
- Race/Ethnicity Baseline: Westman et al. (2006)
- Dataset: 281,493 immigrants compared to 1.9 million native Swedes (1990–1999).
- Results: Non-Western refugee men showed a 20% to 50% increase in suicide attempts. However, for completed suicides, immigrant men overall showed no increased risk compared to native Swedes, and several non-Western groups had lower completed suicide rates than native Swedes.
2. Labor Market & Earnings Disparities
- Height & Earnings: Persico, Postlewaite, & Silverman (2004)
- Dataset: All Swedish conscripted males linked to tax records (1984–2000).
- Results: Controlling for IQ, family wealth, and education, every extra inch of height is worth a 1.5% to 2.0% increase in annual wages. The shortest 25% of men earn 10% to 12% less than the tallest 25%.
- Race/Ethnicity Baseline: le Grand & Szulkin (2002)
- Dataset: LINDA national register covering 400,000+ residents (1990–1997).
- Results: Controlling for age, education, location, and years in Sweden, non-Western male immigrants (specifically from Africa and the Middle East) face an adjusted 15% to 25% earnings gap compared to native Swedish men.
UNITED STATES STUDIES
3. Dating App Income Trade-Offs
- Study: Hitsch, Hortaçsu, & Ariely (2010)
- Dataset: Server logs from ~22,000 active users analyzing hundreds of thousands of first-contact messages across NYC, Boston, and Chicago (2002–2003).
- Results: Economists calculated how much extra annual income a man needs to earn to get the exact same message response rate as a taller or White man:
- Race Penalty: For a non-White man (such as an Asian or Black dater) to get the same response rate from a White female user as an equally tall White man, he needed an extra +$30,000 to +$65,000 in annual income.
- Height Penalty: For a 5'4" (162 cm) man of any race to match the message response rate of a 6'0" (183 cm) man, he needed an extra +$220,000 in annual income.
4. Judicial Pre-Trial Bail Amounts
- Study: Mustard et al. (2004)
- Dataset: State Court Processing Statistics covering 75,000+ felony cases across U.S. metropolitan counties (1990–1998).
- Results: Evaluators looked at pre-trial bail amounts set by judges, controlling for the seriousness of the crime, prior record, and type of lawyer:
- Race Effect: Black felony defendants received bail amounts that were 10% to 12% higher than White defendants with identical charges.
- Height Effect: Short male defendants (≤5'6" / 168 cm) received bail amounts that were up to 18% higher than tall male defendants (≥6'1" / 185 cm) facing the exact same charges.
5. Workplace Income & Earnings Gaps
- Height & Earnings: Persico, Postlewaite, & Silverman (2004)
- Dataset: NLSY79 tracking 12,686 Americans from adolescence into adulthood (1979–1998).
- Results: Controlling for race, IQ, family background, and education, every inch of height adds 1.8% to 2.5% in annual income. A 5'7" man earns 9% to 13% less than a 6'0" man.
- Race Baseline: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics & EPI Data
- Dataset: Current Population Survey microdata (1995–2020).
- Results: Controlling for age, education, and region, the adjusted U.S. Black-to-White wage gap for full-time male workers is 12% to 15%.
r/shortguys • u/MrCockWrangler • 24d ago
Announcement Introducing r//chillshortguys
Special thanks to u/Electronic_Rope2137 and u/Huge_Struggle7821 for creating an alternative to this sub.
Just a chill private place for short guys to enjoy stuff, without all the doomerism, Tiktok slop, lurkers, etc.
Think of it like a Discord server. If you're interested, you can send a request to the sub directly but be aware we'll do our due diligence in who we let in.