Is your view that their career is the only thing men can work on in an attempt to improve their reproductive succeess?
Ha, what is this fixation with 5'4? Why wouldn't they reproduce? Anyway, you may be interested to learn that hunter gatherers were of similar height as people today. Agriculture resulted in a temporary dip in the average height, from which we are only now recovering:
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In most societies height has hardly any influence at all regarding one's reproductive success, discounting the extreme ends. Short men breed and have sex all the time. If you are from the states, I understand your point of view. America has a peculiar cultural obsession with height.
Consider the possibility that you might be over-emphasizing the influence of genetics when it comes to determining the desirable traits in the context of reproduction and pair-bonding. Biologically, reproduction takes place within a context that is charactericized by nature & nurture alike. That is to say, the individual's innate ability (potential to succeed within the environment) and demonstrated ability (proven success within the environment) determine the desirability of the individual somewhat equally. The lookism-oriented framework you are using has a disproportionate emphasis on the innate ability of the individual, to the point of being, if not exceedingly black-and-white in its modality, at least sufficiently biased to fail to accurately describe the reality.
No. The best way for a 5'4 man to improve his reproductive success would be wearing shoe lifts. For an ugly man, getting plastic surgery etc. For a bald man, wear a wig. Basically fraud your genetic value. Of course we are nowhere near a point where being successful, intelligent, nice, high status does not help. It helps. But the tradeoffs for not being genetically gifted are huge:
Insta/tik tok etc are just making it worse.
In most societes height might have not been a biggie, but those societes were not sexually/economically liberated.
your last point is good but consider we are living in a society of abundance then. your points are good but not related to the sexual liberated society at all. you have boomer tier arguments to be honest
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