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Community Conversation => Transsexual talk => Female to male transsexual talk (FTM) => Topic started by: dalebert on November 02, 2012, 04:55:15 PM

Title: Guys who are short & popular (and often hot)
Post by: dalebert on November 02, 2012, 04:55:15 PM
http://www.smosh.com/smosh-pit/articles/10-shockingly-short-celebrity-dudes (http://www.smosh.com/smosh-pit/articles/10-shockingly-short-celebrity-dudes)

QuoteCelebrities always seem so larger than life...perhaps it's because we always see them on the big screen, or the jumbotron. Or maybe it's the fact that they always wear lifts in their shoes.  Yeah, it's probably that last one. Because some of these dudes are short, yo!

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Title: Re: Guys who are short & popular (and often hot)
Post by: RagingShadow on November 02, 2012, 07:03:38 PM
I'm short and popular! why am I not on this list?!?!?

lol
Title: Re: Guys who are short & popular (and often hot)
Post by: insideontheoutside on November 03, 2012, 10:20:32 PM
I take it you haven't stumbled upon http://->-bleeped-<-yeahshortguys.tumblr.com/ (//http:///) ;)
Title: Re: Guys who are short & popular (and often hot)
Post by: dalebert on November 04, 2012, 01:06:06 PM
I saw it in another thread. I was actually hoping to post this in the related thread but this place is so active that it seemed too tedious to dig it up.
Title: Re: Guys who are short & popular (and often hot)
Post by: Darrin Scott on November 04, 2012, 02:31:41 PM
Quote from: insideontheoutside on November 03, 2012, 10:20:32 PM
I take it you haven't stumbled upon http://->-bleeped-<-yeahshortguys.tumblr.com/ (//http:///) ;)

I follow this blog. Great to see short guys. Very few are as short as I am at 5'1.
Title: Re: Guys who are short & popular (and often hot)
Post by: AdamMLP on November 04, 2012, 05:24:09 PM
Quote from: Darrin Scott on November 04, 2012, 02:31:41 PM
Very few are as short as I am at 5'1.

I find that as well, I'm 5'1 1/2 (got to count the half!) and it actually makes me feel worse because these are what society thinks are 'short guys', so what does that make me?!  I have to say though some of the manliest men that I know have been about 5'5.
Title: Re: Guys who are short & popular (and often hot)
Post by: Christopher_Marius on November 05, 2012, 02:09:30 AM
I'm totally like 5'5"-5'6"
Title: Re: Guys who are short & popular (and often hot)
Post by: FTMDiaries on November 05, 2012, 03:57:08 AM
Quote from: Alex000000 on November 04, 2012, 05:24:09 PM
I find that as well, I'm 5'1 1/2 (got to count the half!)

Ha! I always count the half as well - and I'm exactly your height.

My height (or lack thereof) was one of the main reasons why I didn't transition when I should've done 21 years ago. I was living in South Africa where the average man is around the 6ft mark and they mercilessly pick on short guys, so any man around my height would face constant, daily ridicule. I had a friend who was 5'2 and it affected him so badly that he had to drive a monster truck to compensate for being belittled in his everyday life. I'd already been through so much pain due to having been born female that there was no way I could handle being picked on for being a short guy.

But here in the UK I see men almost every day - who I presume to be cisguys - who are my height or shorter, so I'm much happier to transition in this environment.
Title: Re: Guys who are short & popular (and often hot)
Post by: dalebert on November 05, 2012, 08:47:18 AM
It lists Prince at 5'2.
Title: Re: Guys who are short & popular (and often hot)
Post by: Darrin Scott on November 05, 2012, 11:40:04 AM
Quote from: dalebert on November 05, 2012, 08:47:18 AM
It lists Prince at 5'2.

Wow. Didn't realize he was that short.
Title: Re: Guys who are short & popular (and often hot)
Post by: Noah G. on November 05, 2012, 08:29:49 PM
Here's a few more cis guys on the shorter side:

Sully Erna: 5'5"

Al Pacino: 5'6"

Danny DeVito: tallest I'm seeing is 5', but I'm seeing as short as 4'9"

Emilio Estevez: 5'5" (rounding up it seems)

Joe Pesci: 5'4"

Robert Downey, Jr.: 5'7" (the most reliable I've seen)

David Spade: 5'5" (apparently also rounding up)

Rob Schneider: I'm seeing as low as 5'3"-5'4" and as tall as 5'7" (consensus seems to be somewhere in the middle maybe)
Title: Re: Guys who are short & popular (and often hot)
Post by: aleon515 on November 06, 2012, 05:11:16 PM
I think Michael J Fox is about 5'2".


--Jay J
Title: Re: Guys who are short & popular (and often hot)
Post by: 1234 on November 06, 2012, 06:03:01 PM
Michael J. Fox is 5'4
QuoteCanadian Actor from Back to the Future star is quoted in 1993 Virginian Pilot "I'm 5 feet 4 1/2 inches tall. Don't forget the one-half inch".
Coolest short guy! :D

Title: Re: Guys who are short & popular (and often hot)
Post by: Green_Tony on November 08, 2012, 12:00:04 PM
I'm happy to be in the UK where average height is 5'9" :) I'm 5'7" and funnily enough, end up the tallest guy in the room at times.
Title: Re: Guys who are short & popular (and often hot)
Post by: FullThrottleMalehem on November 26, 2012, 09:52:56 PM
I actually did not realize 5'7 - 5'8" was considered short. Probably because so many of the men I've known have been under 6'. I feel so short now at only 5'1". For some reason it's often considered cute for females/female identified people to be short, but not males, at least from what I've experienced. If only T could make you grow taller.
Title: Re: Guys who are short & popular (and often hot)
Post by: DriftingCrow on November 26, 2012, 10:24:00 PM
Quote from: FullThrottleMalehem on November 26, 2012, 09:52:56 PM
I actually did not realize 5'7 - 5'8" was considered short. Probably because so many of the men I've known have been under 6'. I feel so short now at only 5'1". For some reason it's often considered cute for females/female identified people to be short, but not males, at least from what I've experienced. If only T could make you grow taller.

Yeah, I thought average for males was 5'7" to 5'10". I am short at 5'2".

I think it's considered cute for girls to be short, since girls are supposed to be dainty and delicate. So, when you're small and need help reaching stuff and lifting things, it's just cute for non-short people. Since guys are supposed to be strong and tough, being short would make them seem weaker in comparison to taller guys and less desirable to our cavewoman ancestors. I am sure some find short guys to be cute.   
Title: Re: Guys who are short & popular (and often hot)
Post by: dalebert on November 26, 2012, 11:00:23 PM
For similar reasons, it seems to be less of an issue for gay guys to be short. Some gay guys think there is some inherent cuteness to shorter guys. I've had at least two guys I dated express an appreciation for the fact I was shorter than them.
Title: Re: Guys who are short & popular (and often hot)
Post by: FullThrottleMalehem on November 26, 2012, 11:37:16 PM
Quote from: LearnedHand on November 26, 2012, 10:24:00 PM
I think it's considered cute for girls to be short, since girls are supposed to be dainty and delicate. So, when you're small and need help reaching stuff and lifting things, it's just cute for non-short people. Since guys are supposed to be strong and tough, being short would make them seem weaker in comparison to taller guys and less desirable to our cavewoman ancestors. I am sure some find short guys to be cute.

Hmm good point. That's probably what it is. Curse gender stereotypes.

Quote from: dalebert on November 26, 2012, 11:00:23 PM
For similar reasons, it seems to be less of an issue for gay guys to be short. Some gay guys think there is some inherent cuteness to shorter guys. I've had at least two guys I dated express an appreciation for the fact I was shorter than them.

Interesting, I didn't know this.
Title: Re: Guys who are short & popular (and often hot)
Post by: Simon on November 26, 2012, 11:51:05 PM
I'm 5'8" and a lot of the time I feel much shorter than older cis males but have noticed younger guys tend to be on the shorter side (in their 20's). Maybe we're all getting shorter as time goes on from all of the environmental pollutants.
Title: Re: Guys who are short & popular (and often hot)
Post by: jossef-ftm on November 27, 2012, 08:45:07 AM
i'am 1.70 cm and i think i'am  so short cause guys in my age are 1.80 cm and more  >:(
Title: Re: Guys who are short & popular (and often hot)
Post by: PixieBoy on November 27, 2012, 09:58:05 AM
Quote from: jossef-ftm on November 27, 2012, 08:45:07 AM
i'am 1.70 cm and i think i'am  so short cause guys in my age are 1.80 cm and more  >:(
It's the same for me. Just remember that height isn't everything in this world, you are really handsome so you got that sorted out for you :)
Title: Re: Guys who are short & popular (and often hot)
Post by: dalebert on November 27, 2012, 10:32:16 AM
Quote from: jossef-ftm on November 27, 2012, 08:45:07 AM
i'am 1.70 cm and i think i'am  so short cause guys in my age are 1.80 cm and more  >:(

Either you mean 1.70 m or 170 cm or my metric is really rusty. :) I had to Google that to make it mean something and it comes out to about 5'7". Not all that short. Only a little under average.

Also, yes. You are cute.

An interesting bit of trivia: you are also about one fathom tall.