"Sorry Short Kings" - Tinder Has Introduced A Height Filter

"Sorry Short Kings" - Tinder Has Introduced A Height Filter

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Speaker 1 (00:10):
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Aleen and I don't haven't had a chance to use
the dating apps because we've both been in relationships the
whole way through.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Such a shame. We would have had so much fun
on there. I really would have. I would have posted
a picture of myself holding a fish.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
I know you would have, And you would have posted
a picture of yourself in amongst four other girls, and
we would have been like, which one is she?

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Which one is she?

Speaker 1 (00:35):
That's exactly what happens on the dating apps. But there
is a new filter on Tinder that is causing a
bit of controversy. They've introduced a new filter for premium users,
so people that have paid for this experience, and the
filter is height. So you can go on there and
you already have the filters of age, distance, and sexual orientation,

(00:57):
which all makes sense to me. You can now choose
to only have matches in a certain height band.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
Which I like because as a tall woman, I'm five
foot nine and a half nine.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
Ish point seven five.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
Yeah, I would not like to be chatting to something.
This sounds very shallow. But if I'm chatting to someone
they look great, I've seen their photo. But then I
meet them and they come up to my boobs.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
It's a hard No. You couldn't data short. I couldn't.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
I couldn't date a short one, even though even if
they're really nice and funny and beautiful, I have to
be their friend because I would feel like a behemoth.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
I don't want to feel like I'm a behemoth just
because you're a little bit taller than it. No, just
a little bit a lot taller.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
I think it's a good thing because then they also
know how tall I am. If they're short, they go, well,
I don't want to date her she's a whole foot
taller than me.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
Yeah, do you know what I mean?

Speaker 3 (01:48):
I don't want to have bigger feet than my partner.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
I'm also here for it, but for different reasons. I'm
here for it for those short kings who previously have
just been out there and they've been wondering if I'm
going to disappoint someone. Now they're in a position where
you could be a five foot two guy. You could
set your age range ya heart range for six foot six?

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Are you saying you lie.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
And you know that every match you get is like
this Amazonian center basketballer wants to be with short guys,
and I want to be with someone who's a foot
and a half.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
Tall than me. You know, do you reckon people would
lie there? No, this isn't lying.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
This is the short guy saying I want someone tall,
and it's the tall woman saying I want someone short.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
But do you think that's fairly rare? Is that a
little bit of a fetish?

Speaker 2 (02:36):
Now they've got a chance.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
Because you also see, I think you've got to leave
the tall women for the tall men and the little
men for the little women.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
Not everyone feels the same way. No, there are plenty
of tall men with little bit.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
I know that.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
But then you're taking away the pool of people for
the tall women because we don't have a pool that's
as big as the short women.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
You're saying tall women should only be allowed to date
tall men.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
Yes, it's not fast small No, not allowed to It's
like it's it's what we probably want to But the
short women you get to date.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
Whoever you want to.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
No, see, women can date anyone they want because most
of the men are taller than them. The other way around.
If you're a short bloke. In you by your logic,
you're only allowed to date short women. There's nothing wrong
with short men. Let the short men have a crack
at tall women.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
Short men can jump as well, quite high. You can
still play basketball. There's still a place for you.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
Where have you pulled that from.

Speaker 3 (03:32):
My husband's not a tall, tall man.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
He's just six. He's just like when I where the
average e.

Speaker 3 (03:39):
Yeah, but I liked women.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
I don't know. I like to feel like I'm a
little bit smaller.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
You just want to be cuddled up in cradle, yeah,
I don't want to be the big spoon. Yeah. So
here's the thing. Maybe there are some men that feel
the same way. And now you can jump on tinder.
You can find your six foot six snow snow woman
and she can cradle you around the house. And I
think it's a good thing. For that reason, all the
behemoths