I am a woman. I married &quot;down&quot;. I also married a man shorter than me, something I don&#x27;t advertise much because men who are shorter than average tend to have enormous amounts of baggage and I don&#x27;t want every short man on the planet thinking I am the solution to their problem. In many cases, I do not want to get involved with them because they are assholes, not because of their height.<p>As a woman who defies two really common stereotypes here, I will suggest that most women are as bad about wanting men who are tall and moneyed as men are typically bad about wanting someone younger and hot looking. And, hey, those two types go well together. They don&#x27;t make for the kind of relationship I want, but women aren&#x27;t all saints who marry for &quot;love&quot; with zero conditions or whatever the hell. Most women are just as biased about who they date as men are, they just have different biases than men have.