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

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

There's also this picture

and this one

shes an amazon.

Wtf is a meter?

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

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.
Nah, this is about what I expected... why else would it get 600 upvotes?

Damn, she has long legs

Death by snusnu

I'm scaroused.

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

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

Can I just ogle the nice lady 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.

😳👉👈

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.

Death by SNU SNU?

Would!

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.
- 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.
- Nope.
- 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.
- She would have to put pants on, at least.

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 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!

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’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.
Man I enjoyed every bit of your info dump. Thank you.
Thank you, kind human, for all the effort.
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.
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.
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.

HER DAD'S TALLER. HOLY SHIT.

He played 7 seasons in the NBA, was kinda a journeyman playing backup center for a bunch of different teams.
genetics, right? at least one of her parents had to be similarly tall.
- 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 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. 🙃
- 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.

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

Y the dude pointed at the wrong direction?

She's 3 inches taller than me.

Step on me, giant mommy 🥺

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)

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.

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.
As a tall girl, yes it sucks. I'm not even 6' but I'm tall for a woman. Short girls love to humble brag about being smol and needing to get on stools to reach things etc... They know it's cute.
- 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.
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.
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.

Ok but who’s that guy? Hot af

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.

This begs a questions - would he?

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.
It's like a Chihuahua trying to mount a great Dane
- 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.
- He's probably optimal height for motorboating.
- This might be my new favorite phrase for something really unlikely.
Could he reach that high?
- A man can dream

She's more than half leg.

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

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.

Oh dang.

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
Because short people are real? And you also know he is 1.6m tall, you can do math too.
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.
...
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.