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&quot;a 2006 study on online dating found that a man who is 5&#x27;6&#x27;&#x27; needs an additional $175,000 to be as desirable as a man who is approximately 6&#x27; tall and only makes $62,500 a year.&quot;<p>I guess I appreciate the brutal honesty. Wealth and height. And not to forget social status, as one woman in the linked article explained how she broke up with a short guy because of what others (might) think of it.<p>Not a word is wasted on actual love. The stereotype that women barely ever date &quot;below&quot; them, in wealth, height, status, remains true. Your character still matters, but only after checking the above boxes. Men are selected by utility, with disastrous consequences for those that get left behind, as there&#x27;s no mercy for them.<p>You can&#x27;t explain the harsh &quot;be 6&#x27; or keep moving&quot; requirement or the open ridiculing of short men on evolutionary selection alone. It&#x27;s a US-dominant cultural trend. In many other countries no woman would have such exact and absolute demands. It might be a soft unspoken preference at best. Making it a &quot;do or die&quot; requirement is cultural.<p>Similarly, wealth is not an evolutionary selector for the simple reason that wealth didn&#x27;t exist until 10K years ago. You could make the point though that wealth is a representation of security, in an indirect way.<p>In any case, I just find it disturbing how superficial the matchmaking is. When you use a criteria, it&#x27;s supposed to increase your chance of success, meaning a &quot;happily ever after&quot; story. None of these criteria do that. Beauty fades and none of us are beautiful in the morning. Wealth doesn&#x27;t buy love. Height does absolutely nothing for a relationship. And yet women insist on it.<p>The female version is equally disturbing but different. I&#x27;ve never met or talked to a man that finds fake boobs, duck lips, botox, fake bums, fake tans, an inch of makeup in any remote way attractive, or a &quot;selector&quot;. So the depressing reality is that women largely do this in a competition towards other women, and this perverted rat race knows many victims.<p>For the cynics that may think that I&#x27;m coping, I&#x27;m not. I&#x27;m 6&quot;4 and in a loving long term relationship. That doesn&#x27;t stop me from caring about the perverted mate selection dynamics of today that are downright cruel and throws good people aside as if trash.