Dear Amy: Height isn't this dating misfit's only challenge

[cereta]

Dear Amy: While I could write a novel on how I feel, I will keep this short and sweet.

I am a 39-year-old man, and a dietitian. Health is very important to me.

My problem is that women in my dating range have been married and had multiple kids and have let their bodies go to waste.

Before you say "go younger," let me say that the "new age" or "modern woman" does nothing for me.

I have zero attraction to tattoos, drugs, and women who want to hit the clubs.

So now I have zero options, and the loss of hope has taken a major toll on my health.

I am VERY attractive and one of the silliest and most thoughtful guys you could ever meet, but at 5 feet 6 inches tall I am thinking my height is causing me to come up short in their eyes (on first impressions). Pun intended.

-- Born in the Wrong Century

Dear Wrong: Dude, I don't think height is really your problem.

But it might be.

Because you are so specific with your desires, trigger happy with first impressions, and shallow in your own judgments, the only surefire way for you to determine if your height is causing you to be a dating misfit would be for you to grow a few inches taller.

Get on that, and get back to me.

Comments

[cereta]

I debated the "male privilege" tag, but seriously: textbook case. So textbook that it almost makes me wonder if the letter is some kind of set-up.

Bets on this guy joining an "incel" or "red pill" community at some point? or already being from one?

Also, I do not always appreciate Amy's sharpness, but I think it found a worthy mark, here.

[jadelennox]

Yeah. He's a shallow asshole who accuses others of shallowness. Deserved. And he writes likes he's already red pilled.

[vass]

Bet he's a shit dietician.

What century do you think he wishes he was born in? I personally would rather he didn't occupy this one, but I can't think offhand of another that deserves him or would be made better by his presence.

I can't get over "go to waste". Let their bodies go to waste. These women are alive and living their lives, experiencing the world, parenting, working, dating, reading books and writing fanfic and painting pictures and digging gardens, have entire existences of their own, a whole universe in each one's head, and their bodies are a waste if they are not attractive to this fucker.

[xenacryst]

Yeah, he lost me at the "go to waste" comment. Name three comments that immediately indicate that you're a shallow self absorbed privileged judgmental male chauvinist asshole ... and that's gotta be right about up there.

[kaberett]

THE RADICAL NOTION THAT WOMEN ARE PEOPLE, VASS? REALLY?

[jadelennox]

"go to waste", v. Not keeping their bodies in prime fuckable form as defined by me, LW, and then fucking me with them.

[grammarwoman]

I am curious as to his definition of "thoughtful" - like, full of judgy thoughts upon meeting women? Full of (mistaken) thoughts as to his own appeal?

I wish that these sentiments could be banished to the clumsy idfic of "Dear Penthouse" letters, but I have a sinking feeling that this is all too real. *sigh*

[kutsuwamushi]

Wow.

I wanted so hard for Amy to tell him he'd done the women of the world a favor by removing himself from the dating pool in this way.

[longmagpieroads]

Wow. Damn.

Just damn.

[azurelunatic]

Dear Wrong,

You're entirely entitled to have your own opinions about the bodies of the women your age who are open to dating you.

In return, don't be surprised when the women your age with bodies you approve of, have their own opinion about yours.

[minoanmiss]

I have some sympathy for shorter men but none for this judgy sexist twit. "Go to waste", really?!

[jadelennox]

I feel so sorry for his dietitian clients. I want to rescue them.

[kaberett]

I am so glad he did not rewrite this particular novel. There are so many iterations of it already.