Shallow is not always shallow, but stupidity is always stupidity.

Okay, let's get something straight. If a person does not want to date a person because they are overweight, it is a legitimate excuse and not a shallow one. Why? Because if you are looking to date, it's to find someone for the long haul. Being overweight puts a person in a high health risk category, and if we want someone around for the long haul, why would we want someone we have a higher chance to live a shorter life with? If we have a choice between healthy and unhealthy, why wouldn't we choose someone who is healthy?

After all, look at a group of 80 or 90 somethings and tell me how many overweight ones you see, especially in the later years.  Not many, IF any.  Why?  Because that weight was too much for their heart.  You can't live a full life if the primary thing keeping you going has to work double or triple or more of what it usually has to work.  It's simple logic.  

 But yet people are perpetually ostracized by not choosing those who are in that category, making them feel like they're somehow shallow. I don't think they should be condemned for that choice, because if we want someone around for the long haul, those people have less of a chance to make the whole journey with us.

Yet, when a woman won't date a man because he's the same height as her or shorter, that's considered okay in our society? Why is that? If a person is shorter or the same height as the woman but he's super healthy, wouldn't that make him fair game?

Yes, I'm still on this rant. I just can't believe how many women won't date men unless they're significantly taller than them, by at least 4 inches. It is SO ridiculous!!! I mean, at 5 ft 8 it's not like I'm Yoda or anything, but in the eyes of many women today, since it's under 5 ft 10 I seem to be.

Now, my mom is 5 ft 7 and my dad is 5 ft 2...been married 44 years. My Grandpa is 5 ft 4 and my Step-Grandma is 5 ft 8...been married 53 years. So, if there's anyone who knows that the whole "the guy must be taller" idea is CRAP, that would have to be me. :)

Anyway, I just find it interesting. How if we do ONE thing we're considered shallow when we shouldn't be because we're just protecting ourselves from having a short life with someone, but when people do something SERIOUSLY shallow America thinks it's perfectly okay to do. It just doesn't make any sense to me.