I came across this site while on Twitter. There are a ton of PUA and dating forums, but I came here because its for short guys like myself. First thanks for having a site like this! 

Whenever I go to clubs or lounges I freak out and stammer when talking to women. Sometimes I may score a phone number but my friends say I don't have confidence. How do I start conversations with women and be smooth at the same time?  I love being short honestly so I have no problem with that but know that it could be a double whammy that I try to talk to a woman stammer and be short.

Do you have any tips that could help me out?

I'm pretty short and did the old bump up your height trick and sure enough received more responses. If I put my actual height I get nothing. I have heard of short guys who had luck with OLD and since I don't know any personally I figured I'd ask you what you did to score dates.

I know I am short but I was on break today for lunch and this woman called my best friend short and he is about 5'10 which I think is above average. The girl a friend of ours is 5'3ish give or take a few cm and insisted that anything under 6'1 is short! Clearly she's not playing with a full deck but it got my friend and I to thinking what constitutes as tall, average or short. We came up with this chart and based it on how people treated friends of ours and how girls respond to them. Tell me what you think

5'-5'2: extremely short. women will not go near you unless they are morbidly obese and unattractive

5'3-5'4: very short - unless you have a lot of money most women wouldn't touch you and if they do they wouldn't admit it

5'5-5'6: where you start being tormented for your height. women will only date you if you are supererior in every other to anyone taller or have a special skill

5'7'-5'8: women will tolerate you but you will not get any points for height. you need to be a fighter or have a chiseled physique to get respect from other men

5'9-5'11 - you are average and on a level playing field

6'-6'2: ideal. women want you, go after you and you get points for being tall. you are societies embodiment of masculinity

6'3-6'4: better than ideal. women who are taller than 5'7 will fight over you

6'5+: extremely tall. this is where your height can start working against you

I heard this all of my life growing up from my parents and nothing happened. In school I would bother the lunch lady for more milk cartons, ate lots of dairy products and played soccer. Well, nothing happened. No growth spurt. When will they stop telling this lie to kids?

TL;DR Santa, the toothfairy and this are the 3 biggest lies parents tell their children. 

I was hanging out with a bunch of friends that I hadn't seen in a long time some male some female at a house warming party.

One of the girls there came to the party late and said that she just broke up with her boyfriend of two years.

She said she normally cries or feels like she can't live without the man she just broke up with but is happy she broke up with this guy because now she can wear heels again and that she never wants to date another short guy again.

My face turned red and I said "Hello I am short!"

She looked at me and said "I'm not talking to you hush up".

She explained that she took a big risk by dating a man so short and that it was a big strike against him from the beginning.

Have you heard girls say this? How do you feel about it or handle such a thing?

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So this woman kept viewing my profile on POF. She was pure hot and seemed to have great qualities, but her profile said to not message her if you were under 5'10. From what I gather, you cannot tell how many times someone views your profile on POF but if they visit ever so often they will turn up in Viewed Me. 
  
After the third time, I ignored her height requirement and messaged her. She told me she thought I was handsome. A few back and forths lead to a first date. She is two inches taller than me and did not seem to mind it when we went out to dinner and for a few drinks.  
  
After the third date, she came back to my place and we watched a few movies on Netflix and laughed for hours. We did not kiss, but after the next date, we went to her apartment and made out. It was like an instant bond and she told me how she felt butterflies in her stomach. The connection was felt by both of us. Ater a few weeks she told me she hadn't felt the way she did about me about anyone else in a very long time.  
  
I have a feeling this will be one of those relationships that will last a long time and I have never been happier. The lesson here is to sometimes take chances, because if I let what her profile said stop me from messanging her, we wouldn't be as happy as we are today. 

I am one of the guys who could care less about what shoes a woman wears, but why do so many women makes their shoes a non-negotiating factor when choosing a partner?