2.06 meters tall volleyball player Anna Smrek (1.60m man next to her for scale)

i welcome death by snu snu

For Americans who have the height mode of their brain stuck in "Freedom Units":

Anna Smrek is roughly 6' 9"

'Short King' is roughly 5' 3"

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For data nerds:

Going by total data for the whole globe, all people:

https://www.gigacalculator.com/calculators/height-percentile-calculator.php

Anna is ... off the charts, one of if not the actual tallest adult women in the world, literally breaks the calculator.

Anna would be at... the 99.9(8/9)% percentile of men by height, which means that if you use 8.2 billion as a world population, there are at most approximately 1.6 million men as tall or taller than her.

EDIT: I forgor to divide by two, women vs men, so uh, 800k.

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'Short King' is under the 1st percentile of men (0.77), he is shorter than 99.3%+ of adult men.

'Short King' would be at about the 25th percentile of women by height, which means he is actually still as tall or taller than 25% of women, approximately 2 billion.

EDIT: I did the same forgor /2, so, 1 billion, thanks to FundMECFSResearch for catching my error!

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Average global male height ~= 178 cm / 5' 10"

Average global female height ~= 165 cm / 5' 5"

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Possibly also relevant:

https://www.gotquestions.org/how-tall-was-Goliath.html

If you use a more reasonable and realistic measurement of cubits and spans, and go with the Septuagint version of the Old Testament/Torah...

Goliath, the mythical warrior felled by David and his sling, whose name is now just a common euphemism for 'giant'...

Yeah he was only about 6' 6", or about 198 cm.

So...Anna could probably roughly rest her nose on the top of Goliath's head, without bending her neck (or at least not much).

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Another fun addendum, for I guess dating data nerds?:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886913000020

(If someone can find a more recent study that specifically looks into this, I'd appreciate it!)

Broadly speaking, women prefer taller men more strongly than men prefer shorter women, by a factor of roughly 2.625x.

Women prefer, on average, a larger height difference between themselves and their partner (i.e. males being much taller than themselves) than men do. This effect is even more pronounced when examining satisfaction with actual partner height: women are most satisfied when their partner was 21 cm taller, whereas men are most satisfied when they were 8 cm taller than their partner.

In Freedom Units, thats roughly women being most satisfied with a man 8 inches taller than them, men being most satisfied with a woman about 3 inches shorter than them.

This means a 5' 10" average guy will tend to be well satisfied with a 5' 7" woman's height, but she will tend to not be well satisfied with the man's height, herself on average, ideally, looking for a 6' 3" man.

Even if it was a 5' 10" man and an [EDIT: Whoops, too many numbers, too fast, this would actually be a somewhat shorter than] average 5' 3" woman, she'd still tend to ideally prefer a 5' 11" man, on average.

So, to more accurately assess 'Short King's realistic dating pool, we actually need to find women who are 8 inches shorter than him.

And that works out to women 4' 7" or shorter.

Which is the 0.02 percentile... meaning that 'Short King's realistic dating pool is at worst, just as small as the number of men who are as tall or taller than Anna.

Or, perhaps both Anna and Short King need to find partners who simply accept them and are satisfied by them via being uncommonly partner-height indifferent.

Good luck to both of them!

You’re doing gods work. I googled the tallest woman alive, and she is 7 foot tall almost exactly. So this girl really is close.
- Autism is my superpower rofl.
  Also good lord, 7 foot tall woman, sheesh.
  I can only hope she doesn't have some kind of debilitating form of gigantism, I know a lot the all time world record holders for height had all kinds of horrendous health problems and died fairly young.
This effect is even more pronounced when examining satisfaction with actual partner height: women are most satisfied when their partner was 21 cm taller, whereas men are most satisfied when they were 8 cm taller than their partner.
I don't have access to the full article, but it sounds like they didn't examine the sliding scale of height preferences, by one's own height.
The article says that taller people have a taller ideal height for their partners. And it also says that on average women's preference is a partner 21cm taller than themselves, and men had a preference for 8cm shorter. But from the publicly available text, it doesn't seem to report on whether that preferred delta between one's own height and the ideal partner height changed with the absolute height of themselves.
So I'm curious: does the data support the conclusion that a 5' (1.52m) woman would prefer a 5'8" (1.73m) partner, and that a 5'8" (1.73m) woman would also still prefer that 21cm/8 inch difference, looking for a 6'4" (1.94) partner? Or is there a sliding scale where already tall people aren't exactly looking for excessively unusual outliers, and that the preference of tall women is something smaller than 21cm, such that the overall average might be that very short women prefer a big height difference but very tall women prefer a small height difference?
- I am a 5'9" woman and prefer guys around my height, anecdotally all the women I know who want tall guys are themselves short.
  It's a weak preference but yeah I think since I go through life being around the same height as most guys I meet I don't have such a strong association with height as a sex difference, if that makes sense.
- I don't have access to the full article, but it sounds like they didn't examine the sliding scale of height preferences, by one's own height.
  The 21cm vs 8cm is the mean, and their sample size was large enough to be statistically valid.
  I did specifically quote the part that includes 'best satisfied'.
  Ie, the 'ideal' partner height.
  Many people often choose partners that are ... close enough to many ideal traits, weighting them in different and complex ways, often not even entirely fully concsious of the nature of how they weight or order their preferences, but thats all way outside of the scope of this paper.
  Yep, its possible the uh preference differential changes as you approach extreme ends of height, but the problem is that, being a statistically representative sample, it doesn't include many people who are very short, or very tall.
  Anyway:
  https://annas-archive.org/md5/50413a744e4887cff238a542b59b19b2
  Here's the whole paper!
  But from the publicly available text, it doesn't seem to report on whether that preferred delta between one's own height and the ideal partner height changed with the absolute height of themselves.
  Yeah, that seems to be my take away as well, they don't go into precisely that in the paper.
  Or is there a sliding scale where already tall people aren't exactly looking for excessively unusual outliers, and that the preference of tall women is something smaller than 21cm, such that the overall average might be that very short women prefer a big height difference but very tall women prefer a small height difference?
  Apologies for shit tier resolution, I am on mobile:
  'Female' meaning, the male-preferred height of a female partner, 'Male' meaning the female-prefered height of a male partner, so that... may be backwards depending on your inution for reading graphs.
  Also these are 2 SD bounds, 95% CI, I kinda cropped out half the text that explains that, whoops.
  So, yes, this effect you mention does exist... but they do not seem to focus on it in the paper.
  Unfortunately, I am not seeing a visualization that or equation that more specifically and precisely answers your question of whether or not very tall or short men or women are less uh, height-choosy.
  Perhaps I am missing it?
  ....
  Here's another way they visualize their data:
  Now, here, 'Men' means men, 'Women' means women, and the x axis is [male height - female height].
  So, very broadly, yeah you see that the sort of mutual sweet spot of both partners being decently satisfied with the height difference is roughly a man being 13ish cm, roughly 5 inches taller than a woman.
  So, from that, maybe 'Short King' has a realistic shot with 4'10" women, not 4' 7"?
  ???
  ...
  We can also see that women's satisfaction with a male partner's height uh, nose dives as a women is asked about a man who is going from 13 cm taller than them, to the same height as them... but then does rebound once the heights are just inverted.
  This is also the only situation where the man is less satisfied with the pairing than the woman, on average, (untill you get to men being about 18cm taller than the woman, then its roughly the same gap as the height difference increases) but the men have huge CI intervals in this instance, indicating many men actually don't mind this much, and some men mind it extremely.
  Meanwhile, women generally dislike being taller than their man, with a yes, expanded CI range, but far less than that of the man, indicating that this is a less variable and more common ... anti-preference for most women, in general, than it is for men.
  ...
  Somewhat oddly, to me at least, we also have this pattern:
  The maximum gap in partner height satisfaction between men and women seems to be around a man being just about 3cm, or about 1 inch, taller than the woman.
  For women broadly, this is the least desirable possible pairing, while for men, it would basically be nice if they were about 2 inches or about 5cm taller..., but its not that big a deal to them, they are not that far from their maximum satisfaction.
  Meanwhile, this situation is the lowest scoring situation for women.
  It is actually worse than the woman being taller than the man.
  In case you have not guesed, I am a guy, and I find this ... fairly confusing/interesting.
  Basically this means there is a huge mismatch where guys are generally pretty ok with being just a bit taller than their gal, but women find this to be the worst, the lowest possible score they would broadly assign to a partner height difference situation, to such an extent that they'd actually be on average happier if her man was just actually shorter than her.
  ...
  But anyway, yeah, unless I am missing something, it doesn't look like this paper actually answers your question precisely.
  What you mention, the uh, height-choosyness tapering off for tall women and very short men does occur to some extent, but we... don't really seem to have that detailed to us, I am not seeing a way to mathematically compare the magnitude.
  Also again worth noting, my 'Short King' scenario was kind of a worst case scenario, as it assumes all women would only go for their ideal partner scenario.
  Some women do do this, but obviously not all, and some men also do this, but obviously not all... and numbers on the absolute or relative prevalence of that do not seem to be in this paper.
Man I enjoyed every bit of your info dump. Thank you.
Thanks for all that. Kind of misleading picture tbh, because i thought that guy was a normal male height. 6'9 is obviously tall as shit, but when compared to someone whose like 5"2' it's gonna look way more ridiculous.
- If he was the average male height of 5' 10"... she would be uh...
  about 7' 6".
  Which would make her the tallest woman in the world, by half a foot, as per uh, ColeSloth elsewhere in this thread showing that the tallest currently alive woman being 7' tall.
than 25% of women, approximately 2 billion.
I think you mean 1 billion there aren’t 8 billion women on earth.
- Derp!
  Yep, whoops, take those figures and divide by two, I forgot to, damnit.
- thats what they want you to think
- You forgot to factor in the hollow earth Mole Women. Or are they not considered 'people' now?
Thank you, kind human, for all the effort.
there is no way in fuck the global average height for men is 178cm.
- ~= means approximately equal.
  https://www.gigacalculator.com/calculators/height-percentile-calculator.php
  Going by this, and using 25 as the age, which is my guesstimate for the ages in the OP image, it seems to more precisely be ... 178.4cm.
  Do you have an alternate dataset you find to be more accurate?
Or even better, they defy expectations and pair up.
The burger people never go the extra mile to translate their freedom units to something reasonable, so neither should we.
- I mean, when I am talking to a non burgeroid on lemmy who makes it clear, or at least seems likely that they don't know Freedom Units, I try to go out of my way to do the conversions, present both measurement systems.
  But uh yeah, the vast majority of us don't, and I do think that is rude of us.

After copulation, the female eats the male to gain energy for her offspring.

Please🥺
- Down bad
Or, you know, just sits on my face. Like, anytime she wants...
- I don't know you, but she'd kill me if that happens. She's over 100kg in weight.
- Yeah I’d sniff her farts too.
Vore-lleyball
Death by snu-snu
She can eat me

He is a cutie, eh?

Death by SNU SNU?

Would!

There's also this picture

and this one
- Nice how the metric system of the images says its either 206cm or 207cm and the imperial system is like maybe 6'9'' maybe 6'11''.
- she's yuuuuge!

GOOD thing she isn't Trans! OTHERWISE she would have an Unfair Advantage! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

Holy cow. I thought this comment section would be filled with light hearted jokes. Some of yall need get your chronically online asses outside.

The is the most reddit esque comment section I've seen on lemmy and it's gross

There are plenty of reasonable comments. Most have more upvotes than the sexualizing ones. That said, look closely at what she is wearing in the pic. If she put shorts on, the sides of that thing would still be above the shorts. The image was designed to have sexual appeal. She is showing more skin than most people have. So of course some people are going to go in that direction. Men in general haven't evolved enough not to.
- With an image designed to have sexual appeal, is it wrong to see the sexual appeal?
- I said nothing about sex appeal. She's hot, and he's hot but that's not what im talking about
That's a light-hearted take. Why do some people like to work themselves into a froth with their imaginary scenarios?
Lemmy is pretty great compared to reddit so long as the topics stay away from anything to do with feminism or women's rights. Otherwise it starts to feel like the reddit cesspit is leaking, and it's depressing. Anyone remember the few days when "the bear" discussion took over the fediverse? Those were dark times. Or any time someone even mentions the word "mansplaining", even if it's satirical.
- She should be using Linux instead.
Nah, this is about what I expected... why else would it get 600 upvotes?
how dare people react normally!!
Lemmy is full of the worst reddit bullshit. I was genuinely surprised at first, primarily because I thought it was going to be a bit of a refuge from bottom of the barrel idiocy. Instead, it’s the worst of it.
The unbelievably pathetic trash is why I am still looking for a good reddit alternative. Seeing all of the problems we solved on reddit years ago is honestly kind of sad.
- Seeing all of the problems we solved on reddit years ago is honestly kind of sad.
  How were they solved?
- Lemmy is designed to solve only one of Reddit's problems, and by solve, I mean make it so it does not require complete abandonment of the platform when things go bad. The things you're complaining about exists because Lemmy works very similar to Reddit in a lot of things, so the discourse will also go down the same path eventually.
  The same thing will happen if you look for other Reddit alternatives unless it is not only specifically designed to avoid them but also succeed in doing so.
I'm not disagreeing with you but try using a period now and again they don't cost any money
- .
- Irony.
- Can’t tell if sarcasm or dumbfuck.
- G.o.f.u.c.k.y.o.u.r.s.e.l.f. I use proper punctuation in my work emails and thats about it. This is the best youll get

Please don’t give me new fetishes

do you know how hard it is to have a fetish for women being bigger and taller than you, when you are over 6 and a half feet tall?
😭
- Very hard?
- Yeah dont tell me im six foot which is the average where i live but women are just so much shorter... for me it actually helps that im 100kg with a pretty muscular build because I only care abou the height and from my experience taller women tend to like wider men. Idk. Still its hard out here lol
Too late
I wonder if we will ever evolve to the point where we can talk about women online without some mad lad needing to sexualise them.
- Oh noes! They're talking about s-e-x? Gross! We're not supposed to talk about that! That's naughty - we should be reading our bibles instead!
- That’s awfully presumptuous of you, perhaps the comment was made by a woman who is sexualizing short men
- You are telling me that a woman practically naked from waist below is not sexual? You might be gay.
- Nope.
- She would have to put pants on, at least.
- I'd be satisfied if women got to openly sexualize men and talk about it. That would level out the playing field and, hopefully, reduce the unnecessary sexualizing of trivial things.
- That is literally the opposite of evolution, we evolve to procreate that means more sex and sexualizing.
  TLDR: if you don't sexualize women on the Internet you are an affront to evolution and a sin against nature.

HER DAD'S TALLER. HOLY SHIT.

genetics, right? at least one of her parents had to be similarly tall.
- I once knew a married couple with the husband at 6'8" and the wife at 4'10". For years, we all joked about them having kids, and either would quip "logistics". I was part of the family gathering during the birth of their first child, and a caesarian was essential. 🙃
- You might be surprised! My uncle is 170 cm tall, his wife about 165, and two of their sons are about 170. Their third son is nearly 195 cm. Yes, he's their biological child - we've checked!
  Both my aunt and uncle had tall fathers and very short mothers. Height is polygenic (multiple genes are responsible), so my cousin won the height allele lottery and inherited a higher proportion of the height increasing traits both parents carried, making him a height outlier.
- I mean not neccesarily. Both my parents are at least 15cm shorter than me. My mum is quite tall (looking at averages she falls in the 20th percentile but still is around 175cm) but my dad is average height at 48th percentile. And yet I fall in the 1st to 2nd percentile.
  Both my brothers are about as tall as my dad and the only one even close to my height is one of my mother's cousins.
He played 7 seasons in the NBA, was kinda a journeyman playing backup center for a bunch of different teams.

What's funny is they seem to have the same size feet.

I have only wholesome thought seeing that picture.

Me too, it's the most complicated way to scratch an itchy back but if it works for them...

But it's paramount that we ban the 5'5" trans girl who has testosterone lower than cis girls from playing volleyball because....reasons.

- Spend two seconds thinking through the logistics of that before you spout such nonsense.
You clearly don't know much about the sport. Women's net is far lower because there's a significant physical power difference between men and women. It's not just about average height.
- Sure. There are differences in musculature and such. But after a period of hormone therapy, those muscular differences disappear. When this is pointed out, transphobes inevitably move the goalposts and start talking about larger bone/frame size. Or they'll spread lies about how trans women must have larger frames and thus be a danger to their cis peers. Well here's this cis woman, with a massive frame size, who could utterly stomp all over the vast majority of trans female athletes. And she's allowed to play.
  But people just make ignorant assumptions and assume that the athletic performance of trans women is anything remotely like the athletic performance of cis men. They start with that conclusion and work backwards from there.
Can I just ogle the nice lady in peace?
- I mean the trans girls just want to play volleyball in peace.
Stop making shit up to fit your narrative. It detracts from the actual issue.
- We all know you what you really meant:
  "Stop drawing conclusions from empirical data, it interferes with my prejudice and bigotry."
  Or, did you actually think you were courageously taking a stand for...what, exactly? Being a jerk?
  Did it really never occur to you that choosing to let your ignorant fear shape your perspective makes you weak??
- What am I making up? This woman almost certainly has athletic advantages far greater than the vast majority of the trans athletes people get so apoplectic about.
  Stop making shit up to fit your narrative. It detracta (sic) from the actual issue.
- Just go forcefully insert a cactus into your anus already. No one cares about you.

Legs forever mmmm-mmm

😳👉👈

That’s cool but I feel like it would be a nightmare being that tall.

The back problems will kick in early.
- Knees go quicker, especially for athletes
- Why? Height doesn't automatically equate to back problems. Uneven weight distribution (belly, boobs, etc.), poor stretching habits, lack of excerise, bad posture/form/lifting, or injury equate to back problems at ANY height.
I have one nephew at 6’10” and another that is 7’1”. They both cope well enough even when challenged with size obstacles. They are young and generally positively motivated which helps.
- Oh yeah, being young would be great. I’d dunk on everyone.
  I will clarify that being in my forties there’s no way that would be a good time.
I actually know someone who is that tall and he has a daughter who is tiny. It's really awkward talking to both of them at the same time because he stands at a normal distance which really feels far too close because of how tall he is, but if you step back you feel like you're about half a mile away from his daughter.

Poor girl. I've never met a super tall girl that liked being tall. In my teens I worked Nordstrom women's shoes. That is one of the only places with a stock of very large sizes.

Super tall women are an involuntary circus act everywhere they go. I don't envy that. All I have met have a certain sadness in their eyes. I'm sure there are exceptions, but I see sad eyes here.

Can confirm. Wife is 6 feet tall and wishes she was half a foot shorter (in height before any comedians jump in) but we visited Bergen in Norway recently and she was so delighted that she could buy clothes off the rack and pretty shoes.
- My aunt is fairly tall (about 1.9 meters) and she told me she was so thankful for men in drag becoming a thing in the zeitgeist, as she could finally find shoes and clothes her size with ease.
- I feel you, am short dude (taller than this guy but still), also sucks. Tall dudes humble bragging about reaching those things is our inverse of yours lol.
  FWIW, the first girl I dated was taller than me and was the best relationship I had by far. I did not care about her height, and she literally had to stoop a little to kiss me lmao. Tall girls are cute too!
- All the actually short girls (5'3" or less) I know complain as well. Feet too small for shops to have, boobs not accounted for in clothing, etc. Your perspective probably counts average and just below average girls as short.
- yeah, every smol girl talks about how they wish they were tall, but they have no idea how embarrassing it is, the way it invalidates your femininity and so on
Because you met us while we were buying shoes.
Which is depressing, yes. But other than shoes being sad, my depression and thousand yard stare are unrelated to my height.
But her height is actually useful. She's a starter in a sport in which height is a useful physical trait, which helped her with university admissions with a scholarship. She's apparently a professional who has been on the roster of some overseas teams, and plays for her national team (Canada).
Plus growing up in a family with tall people might make it easier to deal with. Her dad is former NBA player Mike Smrek and presumably has a social circle of very tall people and maybe even their very tall children.
So I don't doubt that a lot of tall women actively dislike their own height. But this particular woman probably has reason to like being tall.
- Useful until she needs to access anything mass-manufactured where height effects experience: cars, planes, cloths, beds, chairs, countertops, rakes, rollercoasters, etc.
  Having sports where height is an advantage does not change that the world was designed at about 4/5th the scale of what would be comfortable. It can be tiresome after a few decades.
She'll probably make tons of money as a professional athlete, so she's probably ok with it.
- Volleyball does not pay well at all.
- Most athletes make next to nothing. Like I worked with a 3 time Olympic track rider. At that level, the sport consumes your whole life just to complete at Olympics level. No one at the Olympics is making money at it. Everyone is broke and barely skating by. I worked with pro cycling teams and it was the same story for all, even many recognizable names are just poor people that love it in many cases. There are very very few big name celebrity types that actually make good money.
I also know one. I like her a lot - maybe because of that slight sadness or rather the life experience that led to it.

Death by snusnu

I'm scaroused.

She's 3 inches taller than me.

Step on me, giant mommy 🥺

shes an amazon.

female hercules: her stats show that she's 100 kgs of pure muscle.
- female hercules
  I believe the correct term for that is Xena

Oh come on now, Quentin would certainly appreciate her feet and be more excited than that.
Actually, this OP image is interesting in another way:
Despite their massive height difference... I think 'short king's feet are still larger.

Prerty sure one of her legs weighs more than me.

I’m not tall for a man, only 190 but I wish I could meet girls taller me just to know what they see

I'm 5'7" and briefly dated a woman who was 6'2". She liked that I was confident and funny despite my shortcomings. We ended things amicably as she requested a tall order from me and I didn't want to budge from my personal beliefs to accommodate (religion). Yes, multiple deaths by Snoo Snoo was amazing and even though it's been more than 10 years, I still think about her legs and ass.
I'm happily married, but damn do I miss an Amazonian.
190? If that means 190cm (6'23"), that's tall.
- The 2nd part “not for a man”
  I noticed in general zoomers are much shorter than older generations so that might be why you think that though

He has the best hair.

Damn, she has long legs

This begs a questions - would he?

It's like a Chihuahua trying to mount a great Dane
- He's probably optimal height for motorboating.
- I DNA tested my adopted dog, and it turned out that one of his grandparents was a chihuahua-husky mix. That's one larger than life chihuahua.
- This might be my new favorite phrase for something really unlikely.
OK try this instead.
If any guy here WOULDN'T, say so here.
I am going to guess we will not see anyone saying no. Tall guys, would. Short guys, would. Guessing plenty of women, would.
The only only ones who would not are the insecure guys intimidated by taller women. I know a tall dude who has a tall wife, hes got maybe two inches on her. She wore heels on a date, made her a little taller. He had to go and find a pair of boots with heels so he could be taller. Wtf dude? Their kids are assholes BTW. Tall assholes. Insecure dudes are a fucking cancer.
- I'm too fragile IRL after a broken neck and back. I'm way above average for height and build, and not fat, but barely surviving sucks. Holding posture to sit or stand is extremely limited for me. I get injured by the dumbest seemingly inconsequential nonsense, like looking in the wrong direction can get me. I don't know if I'd survive that depression fodder from the frustration of trying. So nope, I wouldn't. She would probably kill me, but so would small king for that matter.
Could he reach that high?
- A man can dream

Damn, for someone 80 times taller he looks so small.. he must be very far away

fixed :)
1.60 meters now.
no she's just 80 times smaller bc she's a woman

She's more than half leg.

I would have guessed shes from the balkans because of the height and the name but apparently shes from canada. Id still say that her family probably came from somewhere arround there.

Ok, I won’t make a callous sexual joke, but honestly as a midsize man (not short or tall) we would have literal Viking warriors for sons and daughters

You'd have rapists and looters for sons and daughters?
edit: Oh yeah downvote the vikings weren't actually good people angle, but stan the 'imagine if procreate with woman in photo' content.
- I mean being a rapist and a looter is really on trend for 2025 in America, maybe they could be president
- Lol. Great retort. Have an updoot - I thought it was funny.

Look, i'm not trying to stare at your boob all the time, it just your boob is at my eye level all the time.

(am saying this as someone exactly the same height as the dude)

not to promote cannibalism… uhh, but everytime I see this, I imagine a chicken thigh that thick would be amazing.

maybe extremely tough to cook though

Well that's where the proper marinade with bromelain and cooking it low and slow come in the picture.

Ok but who’s that guy? Hot af

Y the dude pointed at the wrong direction?

Can I keep her? She looks nice.

Oh dang.

I mean usually a person has to stand beside for comparison but I guess men really can’t handle a woman standing over them in height but totally ok to sexualize her even then.

Oh would you look at that, the misogyny has risen. What kind of garbage site do you have to become to make Reddit look like the woke one.

Wtf is a meter?

The measurement system NASA used to land on the moon, that's what.
- It’s the same measurement system NASA used to land MCO on Mars. It is, however, unfortunate that Lockheed Martin did not.
Half of the wingspan of a bald eagle, or about five and a half bananas
- Thank u fellow American
It's what the civilized world uses.
A superior unit to a foot, or yard.
Almost 630 sixteenths of an inch.
It's one point something kliks.
- .001 of a Klik, to be accurate.
One tenth of a decameter

Well, 2m height is common in southern Europe. My dad is 2.1 and his cousin (also male) is 2.5, I am 1.96 - 28 or something.

Edit: Well, if noone wants to bellive that, then don't. And 2.5 isn't an exact measurement (maybe he's 2.3 - 2.4, but probably more) I know, he had to undergo some sort of medical treatment to stunt growth and he has some health issues (both knee replacements) because of his weight (and probably his physically intensive job).

Your cousin is 2.5m tall? So he’s in the top 20 tallest humans to have ever lived?
- typical south european bullshit
- I think he meant 2.05m but he's bad at math
- Not sure, but somewhere around that.
Blatant lie. 2m is super unconnom like a tiny fraction of a percent. And your dads cousin is not 2.5m the tallest living man is 2.51m
People in north europe are taller, come on you guys live of white baguettes and meat.

How is a 1.6m man useful for scale? That height is in the lowest 1% of males. Choosing someone of that height and putting them next to the woman is purely done to exaggerate the difference. This photo is just staged to be eye catching and make her look freakish.

She is in the top percentile for women but comparing her with the bottom percentile for men is nonsense. She should be in a photo with a man of average height.

This photo was staged.
Fucking genius. Also, here is another picture of a tiny person next to a large person. Try not to get bothered.
- Here's another one for good measure
The average dude, by all global heights, not location/ethnicity specific...
Is 5' 10", 178cm.
Anna is still taller than 99.98%-99.99% of adult men.
She is literally off the charts by female metrics, she is one of the tallest women alive.
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Yes, the photo is obviously done to play up the anomaly factor, but she is still a giant, even compared to an average man, nearly a whole foot taller.
- When I was in college we had a volleyball player who was 6’ 7” and I stood by her one day, the only time I felt short next to a woman.
it's called humour. try it sometime.
Because short people are real? And you also know he is 1.6m tall, you can do math too.