What is the height criteria for manlethood? - or, how short do you have to be to be considered a manlet?

[Iwasamwillbe]

I've seen lots of posts calling certain lolcows manlets, even though the listed heights are well within the range of average, just slightly below it. I want to know the exact or approximate height that someone can start to be considered a manlet.

 

[RetardedCat]

anything less than 6 feet is manlet territory

 

[Arcturus]

5'5" and under. Short guys are cute though.

 

[Replicant Sasquatch]

If you're under 6'3" you're better off just killing yourself

 

[RetardedCat]

Short guys are cute though.

they may be cute but they can't reach the top shelf so they're as useless as women

 

[UQ 770]

Essentially if you admit to what your height is online, you're a manlet.

 

[Arcturus]

they may be cute but they can't reach the top shelf so they're as useless as women

That's why you pick the little guy up and help him.

 

[Richardo Retardo]

Anyone who is shorter than me is a manlet. Anyone taller than me is a deformed freakozoid monster. I am the optimal male body!
But, in all seriousness, 5'5" is the number I think of when it comes to manlet status, though, unironically judging someone for something they can't control is dumb and childish.

 

[Fascist Frederick]

But, in all seriousness, 5'5" is the number I think of when it comes to manlet status, though, unironically judging someone for something they can't control is dumb and childish.

I can't control my judgment of short men.

 

[Clop]

The approximate height is at the point where a bunch of harpies on social media start whining about where all da good man gon. Even above average height is seen as too short.

You don't see it in official media too often because even those people know how hypocritical they look whinging about someone's looks while defending a bunch of elephants blubbering about their thyroids, but the mask falls off on social media all too often.

 

[Immortal Technique]

Manlet is all about who you are photographed or seen with--it's fluid. It's the hot girl and ugly friends taking a photograph standard.

My evidence: The Rock? Manlet.

Then the dynamic changes. Markie Mark? Manlet.

 

[Foxxo]

Manlet is all about who you are photographed or seen with--it's fluid. It's the hot girl and ugly friends taking a photograph standard.

My evidence: The Rock? Manlet.
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Then the dynamic changes. Markie Mark? Manlet.
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Indeed, the cutoff for manlethood is always two inches above your own height.

 

[Vorhtbame]

A manlet is a short man who has not learned how to walk tall.

 

[assblood]

5'6"

 

[RealtreeByGod]

Anything under 5'9 is manlet status, anything over 6'1 is tall, anything over 6'4 is holy fuck you're tall

 

[SofondaCox]

5'8 is probably the limit. Beneath that, it's time to join a monastery.

 

[Irrelevant]

For real though why is the internet now more concerned about height than a fat chick on Tinder, especially on Twitch? Did incels meme their insecurities into reality?

You can't take anyones' height online seriously anyway and it's not just men. Go to somewhere like /r/progresspics and see how many women claim to be 5'7"+ and imagine if that many men claimed to be 6'1"+ (both are about 90th percentile).

 

[TiggerNits]

If you're insecure about your anything, be it height, dick size or fucking asshole color, then you are a manlet

 

[Fek]

I've only ever really thought someone achieved manlet status (at least in terms of height) by being with a woman decisively taller than themselves (whether you're 5'5" or 6'3"). My old lady is taller than average (5'7"ish) and apparently made a couple of her old boyfriends feel like manlets if she ever wore heels (some getting mad and trying to forbid her from doing so, amusingly enough). I doubt a 5'10"ish dude would typically think of himself a manlet outside of situations like the previous.

In short: bullshit term is bullshit?

Edit: I think @TiggerNits hit at the heart of the issue, really.

 

[JM 590]

For real though why is the internet now more concerned about height than a fat chick on Tinder

You just answered your own question

It's an extrapolation on Tinder girls who go "if you're under 6' don't waste my time" and how discriminating based on height is perplexingly acceptable to do, in an era where discriminating against ANYTHING ELSE WHATSOEVER is a social death sentence