• johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    People treat dating apps as a filter, and think that they’ll only get people that match what they entered. So it becomes a wishlist for them. If they met a really great guy who happened to be short, sure they’d date him. But all other things being equal, would they prefer a tall guy to a short guy? Yes. All things aren’t equal of course, but other stuff is harder to quantify. There’s no “not an asshole” filter, for example.

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      3 months ago

      So what “If you’re not 6 feet tall, don’t bother” really means is “Hit me up anyway, we might click.”

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          3 months ago

          Seriously, those people are a godsend. Thank you for telling me to stay far away lol I’d never want to be dating someone like that.

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          3 months ago

          The “dodged a bullet” idiom is well-meaning, but after a while, you feel like a soldier who survived storming the beach at Normandy, what with all of the bullets you dodged.