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The Picard Maneuver lemmy.world The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world
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restingOface quokk.au restingOface@quokk.au
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6th year community college student

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rumba lemmy.zip rumba@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2024-09-24
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Simon and Theodore can both be the same person here.

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mrlemmyhimself lemmy.world mrlemmyhimself@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-07-08
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6th year community college student

This gif is from year (season) 2 :)

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Jyrdano lemmy.world Jyrdano@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-30
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The US obsession with being 6ft tall would be completely solved by switching to the metric system. 182,88cm doesnt have the same impact.

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lagg_mine lemmy.world lagg_mine@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-07-28
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6th year community college student

I once knew a kid that did their study in 11 years... crippling debt got them in the end

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Remember_the_tooth lemmy.world Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-01-23
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I once knew a kid that did their study in 11 years... crippling debt got them in the end

Heh, amateur. I had already achieved crippling debt by the end of my first year.

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Remember_the_tooth lemmy.world Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-01-23
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This gif is from year (season) 2 :)

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meat lemmy.blahaj.zone meat@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2026-08-07
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The US obsession with being 6ft tall would be completely solved by switching to the metric system. 182,88cm doesnt have the same impact.

We're fixing it the other way. 2 million children lost government food assistance under Trump. If we make the average short enough 6' will no longer be the standard.

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meat lemmy.blahaj.zone meat@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2026-08-07
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Simon and Theodore can both be the same person here.

A surprising number of my CC instructors had an inferiority complex and made their classes significantly harder than most university classes. That 4th year class load plus a full time job would be miserable.

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SatansMaggotyCumFart piefed.social SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-06-16
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The US obsession with being 6ft tall would be completely solved by switching to the metric system. 182,88cm doesnt have the same impact.

My 37mm dick sounds way better than the real measurement.

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python lemmy.world python@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-01
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My 37mm dick sounds way better than the real measurement.

wdym that's a great girth!

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SatansMaggotyCumFart piefed.social SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.social
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wdym that's a great girth!

d=c/𝝅

d=37/3.14

d=11.8mm

Bro...

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BaraCoded literature.cafe BaraCoded@literature.cafe
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I don't understand the 6 feet tall american fetish. Is it a nazi thing, where if you're shorter, you end up in a camp? Because it sounds like it. That must be the only country I know which is so fixated on height.

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rumba lemmy.zip rumba@lemmy.zip
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A surprising number of my CC instructors had an inferiority complex and made their classes significantly harder than most university classes. That 4th year class load plus a full time job would be miserable.

that's kind of my point, min wage workers usual work their asses off too

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Malica lemmy.zip Malica@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-08-27
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Your insecurity is showing op. Nobody should be sad about their height.

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Malica lemmy.zip Malica@lemmy.zip
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I don't understand the 6 feet tall american fetish. Is it a nazi thing, where if you're shorter, you end up in a camp? Because it sounds like it. That must be the only country I know which is so fixated on height.

It's a manosphere thing. Those guys play on the insecurity of the morons and height is one of the major paths they can take. It's something that the person can't change, therefore has the highest chance of keeping them watching until they're radicalized.

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CapuccinoCoretto lemmy.world CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-03-24
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It's a manosphere thing. Those guys play on the insecurity of the morons and height is one of the major paths they can take. It's something that the person can't change, therefore has the highest chance of keeping them watching until they're radicalized.

I don't think so. Dating apps are loaded with women asking for tall. Workplaces are filled with senior positions favouring not just talent, skill and merit, but height.

Researchers have validated the predisposition to favouring height many times. A quick search can find them. This is way older than manosphere.

As a tall white man of moderate merit, I've been more successful in career and love than merit justifies. Just like white privilege is a thing, so is tall.

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sangeteria lemmy.ml sangeteria@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2025-06-28
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Prob Theodore

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lokalhorst feddit.org lokalhorst@feddit.org
Joined: 2026-04-25
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I don't understand the 6 feet tall american fetish. Is it a nazi thing, where if you're shorter, you end up in a camp? Because it sounds like it. That must be the only country I know which is so fixated on height.

Before we can find an answer to this question, we need to understand how US Americans measure size. I did a little research on it and want to share my new knowledge with you.

Please correct me if I am wrong:
People from the US seem to mix 2 different "units" together - foot/feet and inches. They are notated in short with single (') or double ticks ('').

If I understand correctly, you need to build the sum of the two units, so if somebody is 5'6'' this means I am 5 feet plus 6 inches tall. So similar to how we would say I am 1 meter and 70 centimeters tall.

Now this leads to funny things - what is the next size bigger than 5'9''? It is 5'10''! But 5'10'' is not 6'. There is also 5'11''. This is because one foot is 12 inches! Consequently, 5'12'' is 6'.

6', or I think you actually write it 6'0'', is about 182 - 183 cm, I am too lazy to find the exact value right now. This means if you are smaller in size than 6'0'', for example 5'11'' (180 cm, ridiculous), you have zero chances to ever find a dating mate (if I understood correctly).

Thank you for staying with me so far! Now here comes an interesting fact - in Germany where I live, we have something similar, it is 180 cm. I heard this the last time on the playground when I was 14, but 180 seems to be a magical number over here, even if I don't think we take it nearly as serious as our brothers in the USA.

Now, think about it for a second, 6', 180... they are all more or less clean and pretty numbers. Six - nothing more, nice. 180, just like in Darts!

It gets funnier though, if we look at the average size in these countries. In Germany it is 182 cm, in the US about 176 cm. That means the "acceptable" size in Germany is 2 cm below average and in the US it is 6-7 cm above average. This is crazy!

Now let's get back to the question. Why is this such a fetish in the USA? Is it the same with your penis size?

Let me tell you my friend, your size (of whatever body part) is totally fine! I mean your ancestors who "cursed" you obviously also weren't very big and they still managed life and had children. Please stop focusing on dating apps. Go out and get to know real people that share the same interests you do, collecting rocks or history or whatever. If height is so important that probably tells you something - you wouldn't even want to get to know these women. Who would want to date a person that superficial?

You really stayed until the end. I hope it was worth it!

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Sundray lemmus.org sundray@lemmus.org
Joined: 2023-12-19
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A surprising number of my CC instructors had an inferiority complex and made their classes significantly harder than most university classes. That 4th year class load plus a full time job would be miserable.

Heh, my English 1 instructor used to teach his 7 AM class wearing sunglasses the whole time. First session he said, "This is a required course. Let's just try to get through this as best we can, okay?"

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JoShmoe ani.social JoShmoe@ani.social
Joined: 2023-09-12
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Im sorry but I fuck constantly. Win.

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lagg_mine lemmy.world lagg_mine@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-07-28
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Heh, amateur. I had already achieved crippling debt by the end of my first year.

You truly are master of the craft!

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SwingingTheLamp piefed.zip SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip
Joined: 2025-12-27
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Your insecurity is showing op. Nobody should be sad about their height.

This right here is how toxic masculinity is done. One of its main rules is: "Men don't complain." Height privilege is real, as described by another Lemming in this thread. But a shorter man lamenting that he's on the wrong end of it is breaking the rule, so instead of sympathy, he gets told that he's defective for having a natural, human reaction.

(Yes, I know I'm breaking the rule, too.)

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Remember_the_tooth lemmy.world Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-01-23
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You truly are master of the craft!

Hell yeah! I won the loser's contest...wait a minute

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cloudshouter lemmy.zip cloudshouter@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-08-01
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I don't understand the 6 feet tall american fetish. Is it a nazi thing, where if you're shorter, you end up in a camp? Because it sounds like it. That must be the only country I know which is so fixated on height.

Short answer yes. Long answer, yeeeeeees. Manosphere self cucks who would rather hate women than wash their own asses have made a story that men who aren’t 6ft tall with correctly angled cheekbones can’t get girlfriends because women are picky and mean. They point to the few women who have stated that they like tall men (in the same way men like different tits or ass) as if this is a stone wall consensus and validation for their hate. Now people joke and meme on it.

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Tollana1234567 lemmy.today Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
Joined: 2025-06-04
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the community college student , some are more than 6+years there, 10-20years for the outliers. those are usually not interested in "transferring to any 4-year, or dont really have any direction in thier academic track. the cheapness makes them complacent and not trying(AN academic trap basically)

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Tollana1234567 lemmy.today Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
Joined: 2025-06-04
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I don't understand the 6 feet tall american fetish. Is it a nazi thing, where if you're shorter, you end up in a camp? Because it sounds like it. That must be the only country I know which is so fixated on height.

yes, pretty much 6ft , whit mostly, musclely, also includes pp size, porn heavily plays a part in it.

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Hoimo ani.social Hoimo@ani.social
Joined: 2023-09-11
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Before we can find an answer to this question, we need to understand how US Americans measure size. I did a little research on it and want to share my new knowledge with you. Please correct me if I am wrong: People from the US seem to mix 2 different "units" together - foot/feet and inches. They are notated in short with single (') or double ticks (''). If I understand correctly, you need to bu...

This was a good post, very informative. So I have a couple questions: how many Germans fit their "ideal" of 180 if it is a bit below average? Normal distribution, so median German will be average German I suppose, but is 2cm one standard deviation? And the same for Americans, is 6 foot eliminating 70% of the male population if it's this far above average? Should the Germans pick 190 or 200 as their round numbers to have comparable proportions of "inadequate men"? Does picking a below-average number increase the impact on the smaller number of men who don't pass the bar?

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