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<p>Kay Steiger&#0160;<a href="http://kaysteiger.blogspot.com/2011/04/dating-tall-men.html" target="_self">calls</a> not dating a man because he&#39;s too short a form of bigotry:</p>
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<p>Height discrimination seems to be one of the last  socially accepted irrational dating biases. If you’re short, there’s  literally nothing you can do about that. When I say that I think women  who refuse to date a man simply because of his height I usually get a  litany of reasons defending this position—pretty much all of which are  irrational.</p>
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<p>But all attraction is irrational. That&#39;s part of the point. The idea that we should somehow stigmatize this, that people should refer to non-discrimination rules in their romantic and sex lives, seems absurdly over-wrought. Maybe it&#39;s stupid in terms of electing presidents; but not in the world of love, which is entirely about discrimination. And must be.</p>
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