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Why Oh Why

Andrea Silenzi

Personal Journals, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2017

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

When determining your criteria for a date, how much should height matter? We'll talk to one woman who has always known exactly what she's looking for in a partner. Anna Goldfarb is a journalist and author of the book "Clearly I Didn't Think This Through." She has also written about her relationship for the New York Times. Our sponsors for this episode are Casper (code: WHY) and Squarespace (code: WHY). Go to casper.com/WHY or squarespace.com and use the promo code for special offers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Panoply.
0:05.0	The following podcast contains explicit language. When I'm swiping as a straight lady on tender, guys there can seem obsessed with their height.
0:22.0	The app does never ask you about your height and you can't use
0:24.5	height to narrow down your search so the community of users started organically
0:28.3	adding it to their bios. It often appears like punctuation at the end of a sentence.
0:33.4	Here's a guy I saw today. It says,
0:36.0	looking for a confident intelligent woman, six foot two.
0:39.8	So now we know what he's looking for, a confident intelligent woman, but all he wants to offer
0:45.9	about himself is, and I'm tall.
0:49.8	And here's another guy I saw today.
0:51.5	His bio is just, taller than you think. Great, I'm wrong already.
0:57.0	It can feel like looking at a menu in a restaurant that's all photos.
1:02.8	And then when you go look at the caption under each dish,
1:05.9	it only describes the size of the plate.
1:08.6	But wait, is it, chicken or pork?
1:11.2	Doesn't matter.
1:12.3	The plate's huge.
1:14.0	This is why I'm Andre Selenzi.
1:20.0	5 foot 2. So'm Andre Selenzi.
1:22.8	Five foot two.
1:24.1	So that's a personal pet peeve of mine
1:25.9	when a guy's height is used as filler
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