Just a few weeks ago, an interesting and lengthy paper by a pair of sociologists from New York University made a lot of noise in what I suppose would these days be called the community of short men - a community to which, as it happens, I rather inarguably, one might say entirely, belong.
Its subject was what is called assortative mating - the way people divide themselves up, two by two in that ark-like fashion, for life. It was one of those wonderfully solemn sociological papers in which the utterly self-evident is systematically recast as the cautiously empirical.
The authors point out early on in their report that "social psychological research suggests that attractive people are favoured in numerous situations" (a thing you would not have guessed without social science) and soon after we learn that attractive and physically fit men report going on more dates and having sex more frequently than others.
But the conclusion of the paper, once one has weeded through, is striking and well documented. It is simply that short men make stable marriages. They do this in circumstances of difficulty and against the odds and consistently over ages and income groups, and they do it with the shorter women they often marry, but also with the taller women they sometimes land. Short men marry late but, once they do get married, tend to stay married longer and, by social science measures, at least - I assume this means they ask the short men's wives (I hope so anyway) - they stay happily married, too.
Many assertions about the assortative can be put forward to explain why this is so, but trust me, it is not hard to figure it out. There is a simple reason short men make stable marriages. It is because short men are desperate. Short men live in a world of taller men and know that any advantage seized is better kept. Desperation makes short men good husbands. We know the odds instinctively, and knowing that we have lucked out, intend to continue playing a good thing.
It is not, I should rush to add, that short men are desperate to please. One of the most interesting findings of the study is that short men actually do less housework in a typical marriage than tall men do - though the study points out delicately, this may be because with tall men, "the nature of their housework is different".
In other words, they are too short to reach the tops of closets where the heavy house cleaning equipment is kept. No, short men do not make stable marriages because they are desperate to please. It is because they are desperate to prevail.

Ok

ok where dah short niggaz at coz i nid a gud hubby

sinaj:
ok where dah short niggaz at coz i nid a gud hubby

Loool. .chill, they would reflexly come

ronald4lif:
What role does a man's height play in the affairs of a husband to determine the good or the bad side of him .

Boss, read the last part of the thread

forandy:

Boss, read the last part of the thread

Lol! How did I not see that. They want to be predominant at all cost ehh. My bad to have missed the humour.

op is a short man #come see baba chidima for my area the man can nag eehnnnn :Dhis wife is cool tho.

Tall guys rock!!

ok

tohpahz:
Tall guys rock!!

Dwayne Johnson, you mean

Garriman:

Dwayne Johnson, you mean

Like kiss daniel i mean

prettythicksme:
op is a short man #come see baba chidima for my area the man can nag eehnnnn :Dhis wife is cool tho.

Lool. .view my pic then ask yourself how many of suitors are that taller than a toyota highlander

5.6 where am i ?

tohpahz:
Tall guys rock!!

Sure, they do or perhaps 'we do'

tohpahz:


Like kiss daniel i mean

understand, you do not!

forandy:

Lool. .view my pic then ask yourself how many of suitors are that taller than a toyota highlander

u look short to me

Because they are always afraid to lose their wife to tall men. OP, don.t make such mistake again

pussygotlips:
5.6 where am i ?

My guy, you try short sha

Garriman:

understand, you do not!

So do u

pussygotlips:
5.6 where am i ?

I tall pass u

prettythicksme:
u look short to me

You're obviously high...

Short kwa? I like short men, but i love tall men...

tohpahz:


So do u

heard! i have

forandy:

Sure, they do or perhaps 'we do'

How tall do u think u are

Garriman:

heard! i have

For u.. good!!

forandy:

You're obviously high...

yes high on weed,u see what i am saying u taking issues so serious u.op are damm short

prettythicksme:
yes high on weed,u see what i am saying u taking issues so serious u.op are damm short

Dis gehl....lool. .lemme shutup sha

forandy:

Dis gehl....lool. .lemme shutup sha

now i believe u are tall and cute cos u keep shut!! :Dreal men dont nag tho.

tohpahz:


How tall do u think u are

I think i'm supposedto b 6'3 but surprisingly, i'm still 6'1

prettythicksme:
now i believe u are tall and cute cos u keep shut!! :Dreal men dont nag tho.

You finally said the truth. .Oya, delete that pic from your fone b4 ur short bf wud die of jealousy

forandy:

You finally said the truth. .Oya, delete that pic from your fone b4 ur short bf wud die of jealousy

lmao,my guy is cuter and taller dan u.so y am i gonna save ur pics?#God forbid