Dating? That's turning out to be a tall order for shorter folks
Dating? That's turning out to be a tall order for shorter folks
Ketaki Desai
TNN
Jun 21, 2025, 18:37 IST IST
The arranged marriage market was always skewed against short men and tall women. Now, height filters are taking biases into the app age
Carl Sagan once described the depth of love as something that 'can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship'. But what about the height of love? How does one measure that? According to some modern Indian daters, it's somewhere around 6 feet tall.
Height has long played a role in dating and attraction. But with apps ruling dating and shaadi prospects alike, this preference is starting to feel more like a requirement for some daters. Tinder recently announced that they're testing a height filter, which allows premium users to only see matches in the height range of their choosing. Other apps, like Bumble and Hinge , have similar filters for paid users.
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