I can't believe how well you were set up for this one, haha.

FWIW, as someone 5'8", I also filter out women who are taller than me. So I don't hold any grudges against women who filter out men who are shorter than them. And I think "giraffe ladies" actually have it equally as bad as short kings. Most men don't want to date someone taller than them. I think what some men find annoying is when short women filter out men under some arbitrary height. But personally I don't really care, that's their right to do (newsflash: people have preferences), and the better looking they are, the more of a reason they have to do it anyway.

Also, not all dating apps require you to list your height, so you can omit it from your bio at the risk of a disappointed look upon first meet, but that's up to you to make up for with confidence.

>>> FWIW, as someone 5'8", I also filter out women who are taller than me.

As a man, would you filter out taller women if you are casually dating? I think the preferences also depends on what you are looking for.

Many taller women have a dismissive attitude toward anyone shorter than them. I once had a 6'1" woman become infatuated with me. She let it be known that someone taller than me was "too short". It isn't worth the bother fighting against instinct.

Of course woe to the man who expresses equivalent arbitrary requirements on fixed physical attributes in their selection criteria.

I’d caution against universalizing these preferences. I’m dating someone an inch taller than me and height so far isn’t a problem. I’d be sad if I didn’t meet her because of worrying about what she’d think about my height

It's more of an outlier than a norm IMO. It is wrong to say everyone has particular preference about height, but for majority there is IMO, even though it's not what we want to see/hear. I was significantly more successful in dating, when I had height filter set to women 2 inch shorter than me (right from getting matches).

That may be true but the last three of four women I went on dates with were about my height (5’10) and it’s not something I ever consciously sought out. I do think that’s an outlier considering last time I was single all my dates were shorter than me, but I’d have had much fewer options lately if I had imposed that restriction on myself.

If you are doing it for dating app “elo” purposes that’s more understandable though.

Yes, but just because that's my preference and I'm not *that* short. Most girls are shorter than me. If I were 5'3" or something, then it would obviously be more difficult to have such a preference. I do feel a lot of empathy for those guys.