Date: August 27th, 2026 10:15 AM
Author: Ivan Bourne Tall III
They’re both Division I athletes in non-MAIN sports. One is wrestling and the other is track.
The one who does track is 6’1 and the one who does wrestling is 5’9.
I was talking to the 5’9 one at the 6’1’s wrestling one’s graduation party. I was like oh shit man you must be killing it at the mixers with women etc.
He looked at me bizarrely. He said “I’m 5’9 no woman even talks to me unless it’s to openly mock me about my height.” He said when the freshman FOIDs moved in they basically lived my flame about running in and screaming about TALL MEN. Not flame. He said every chick on his Instagram openly posts about only dating tall men.
He said there’s a guy who plays baseball who is 6’4 and is basically dating 7 different chicks all who know about each other and just wanna be seen with tall men.
He just goes to the gym all day to be a good wrestler and said he is completely out of the dating market. Never approached a woman in his life bc he’s branded.
Then I turned to my 6’1 nephew and I’m like ok what about you? How’s Melissa who you have been dating for 3 years? He said they broke up bc some 6’4 guy at her college DM’d her and she said it’s not gonna work long distance (which she’s right) but SPECIFICALLY mentioned the Tall men in her school. Like specifically said there are really tall guys here.
The internet has truly DESTROYED and I mean DESTROYED men’s chance to date and find happiness purely due to height. I know I contributed to this over the years within the XO community at least but when I did it I was always trying to be silly about something that had some truth to it.
After all this can’t be THAT true right? I’m 5’9 and happily married with 5 kids. Even the guy in the TRUE Dutchess story where she was hooking up with a guy when I met her, we were both the exact same height. Even before that when I played baseball in college chicks didn’t ridicule me and I lived a pretty good life growing up.
But that was 2008 and this is 2026 and this has been completely DRILLED into guys brains to this point that they have just left the dating market. It’s just ACCEPTED amongst women to the point that they will openly mock a man for his height unsolicited. Like they will walk up to a guy on campus and just start berating him for his height.
Even in the comments on Instagram it’s pure cope. Guys will say “well I do well with women and I’m 5’10”-no you don’t
“Maybe I should start caring about women’s weight!”-cope more bro no one cares
Even my 5’9 nephew will sometimes make comments like a clown saying “yeah I’m only 5’9 haha” good job bringing attention to it.
Short men have now been forced to think the only way they’ll be socially accepted is to be a clown about it and make fun of themselves as the only way for anyone to even acknowledge their existence.
This all makes me happy in a way bc it shows the theories on XO are not only true but they’re a decade from being SHOVED DOWN YOUR THROAT MAINSTREAM. We can make money off our ideas.
Also if you’re insecure about something like if someone opens this thread, Instagram will read your algorithm and just DRILL videos down your throat to make you feel worse about it.
From 2008-2026 it’s gone from a 5’9 guy can still navigate the dating market and find someone even if it’s not ideal to you are openly mocked and it’s culturally accepted that you shouldn’t exist. 18000000
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897818&forum_id=2),#50096415)