Women talking about height in public.

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06-30-2024 at 09:40 am

It's summer and I'm working in retail while on vacation from college. Yesterday while my colleagues and I were working at the register, two of my female colleagues to the right were discussing how many men they know who are 6 feet and the height of the boyfriends they had, with me in obvious earshot. They were pretty callous about it and did the "tee-hee" thing that people talk about online a lot. It almost seemed like a competition as to who knew the tallest people.

I know they weren't trying to make me feel some kind of way specifically, but it didn't compute that someone who isn't their preference was nearby when having the conversation. This is not the only conversation I've heard like this. Last week, these women, college seniors in front of my dorm building were arguing about some 5'8 guy one of them met with one woman exclaiming that "5'8 is way too short".

Is this really that common? Is that what women fuss about the most when discussing men? I have a lot of guy friends and we don't casually in public talk about how big a woman's chest is, or her weight. Even when chatting among one another, we rarely if ever do that. We just say, "she's hot" or "gorgeous" .

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