The author Ralph Keyes, in his book The Height of Your Life wrote that while the world acts as if it owned very tall people’s bodies, by constantly intruding on talls’ privacy to make remarks about their height, it acts as if it owns the short man’s psyche by perpetually attributing to him, and analyzing, his “inferiority complex.”
There’s a good book on this whole subject, called The Height of Your Life by Ralph Keyes, in which he talks about the role that height plays in American society. One chapter goes over how height and romance mix (or don’t mix, as the case may be). Interesting reading.
I’m currently reading The Height of Your Life by Ralph Keyes, which I’d recommend as a compelling and fun read for anyone interested in the subject of human height …