This is why I always played a Nord
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It's not some ephemeral meaningless coincidence as that.
Height and strength are correlated. Manlets are looked down on by men for the same reason, that weakness is a negative survival trait. Thus shortness is indicative of an undesirable trait.
For men, to be particularly short is essentially a disability.
Good counterpoint.
I dunno about particularly short, but I think in certain environments, you survive more if you're squat. I think that's why everyone isn't 6 ft tall on average. There's a mating preference toward taller males, but there's a survivorship bias towards shorter ones. Maybe just cuz people shoot the tall ones first, IDK.
AFAIK larger people are less efficient, although I don't know exactly why.
Because after a certain point on the bell curve for height the risks of vascular, musculature, and skeletal problems begin to skyrocket. Ask a hundred guys in their 30s who range from 5' 5" to 6' 5" and see which ones already have sore knees and sore backs simply through existing. Modern medicine helps offset things a lot so outliers persist longer than they did historically, but the end result is always the same: early onset heart disease, circulatory problems, and chronic joint pains for the rest of their lives. Lives which modern medicine and culture continue to prolong.
I figured people trended toward exactly the right height for their environment. Some people just get a big head about their tall head. I'm not embarrassed to say I'm 5'9" and everything fits me, and I fit into everything. We're tool users. Sucks for anyone who thought they were going to skate by by being big.
You know what tall people don't get to do that much? Go on amusement park rides due to upper height limits.
There isn't a survivorship bias towards shorter men.
There's a race nutrition gap. Most of the world are manlets because for three or four thousand years their race ate little besides rice and vegetables.
Same reason why so many of them are lactose intolerant. Three or four thousand years without such a thing as cheese or milk.
Heck there's a fair argument to be made for a hygiene gap contributing to that too. Far east Asians and Whites know and understand hygiene but everyone else is only a couple generations removed from shitting into their own hands.
The 21st century is an anomaly.
I just figured that for every climate there is an ideal size, and people trend towards it. There must be some reason not to get bigger and bigger all the time.