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Come to Transformers fandom. Our size difference ships rarely have parent-child or sibling dynamics. Just sexy robots all around. :D

You also say robots that resemble female humans shouldn't exist, then draw robot dick on every character you see.

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Because we don't want robots who are worthless whores

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Re: Because we don't want robots who are worthless whores

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i don't really see how height difference = automatic familial relationships, personally

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I could understand if the secret was about age differences, but height..??

Seriously. And height =/= age either. One of my original character couples are five years apart, and the older man is about five or six inches shorter than the other, and they DEFINITELY don't act like family (bar the snarking, but fighting is usually foreplay to them).

Yeah. I'm very tiny, and as a result, most people I date are significantly taller than I am. It's not a weird familial thing at all, it's a "so you're really short" thing.

No kidding. My first boyfriend was a foot and four inches taller than I was -- and younger by six months. My third boyfriend (six years later) was a foot and two inches taller than me, and older by seven years.

I like taller guys, and that can often translate into my writing. *shrugs* It doesn't necessarily indicate an age difference.

i think OP is projecting something here

As a tall, jog on and etc.

Then again, I did have a short ex ask me if the way I was teasing her was the way I teased my little sister, and realised it was, which was uncomfortably freudian.

Pfft, Freud didn't care about siblings. Aaaaaall about the parents with Freud. (I think.)

[Picture is Ryuuji Takasu and Taiga Aisaka from the anime "Toradora!". Ryuuji is a teenager with light skin and short blue hair. He is wearing a dark gray dress jacket from a school uniform. Taiga is a teenager, shorter than Ryuuji and has light skin and long light brown hair reaching her waist or maybe even beyond. She is wearing a white shirt and a red dress jacket over that with a dark string-type of ribbon around the neck of her shirt. It seems to be a school uniform too. Ryuuji has a hand on her head and is pinching her cheek, while she is punching him or pushing him away with a fist and reaching for her head to take off his hand. They both look sort of annoyed and she is blushing in anger or embarrassment.]

Extreme height difference ships and their fans always weird me out. The dynamic is almost exclusively that of a father/daughter or older brother/(petulant) little sister. And it gets reflected in real life and is just unbelievably gross.

Really? Sherlock and John have a pretty big height difference (for two guys) but there isn't any familial feelings when they are paired. Except for fics with daddy kink, but those are the exception.

How does height difference have anything to do with family dynamics? And reflected in real life, what? Are you saying that a tall person should have a height requirement (you must be at least this tall to date me)? What do you mean by extreme - one foot, two feet? At what point does it become unacceptable?

As a woman on the short side (5'1"), I'm wondering this too because everyone I've dated has been at least eight inches taller than me.

Re: What?

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I'm wondering if OP didn't mean that RL relationships with a large height distance tend to result in the smaller partner taking on an infantile role. I know I've definitely seen it happen, but I have no idea if it has anything to do with height. :/

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I kind of agree, but for completely different reasons. Years of reading CLAMP and terrible yaoi has really put me off couples with extreme height/size differences.

It also reminds me of the creepy trend in animation/comics to have the women all like half the size of the men. Ugh, I hate that shit so much.

To be honest, this opinion really pisses me off. As a 4'9" adult woman, I can't help my height. I'm always being mistaken for a child on looks alone. It really disturbs me to think that strangers will assume I'm a minor in a "gross" relationship if they see me in public with an adult man. Is it that the dynamic of extreme height difference relationships is usually that of a father/daughter, older brother/little sister or is it your perception of those relationships that colors how you see them? More often than not, I find it's the latter.

I don't know if it's because:

1) my first OTP was Mulder/Scully
2)I myself am under 5' tall
or
3)I love extreme body type differences in pairings

that I can't disagree more with this secret. Sorry OP. Your opinion is yours alone.

This is some serious projection on your end.

that sounds more like an anime kind of clichéd dynamic, actually

http://youtu.be/rwo-F1m6A54

Honestly, I feel the same way. Don't get me wrong, being under 5' myself, I love height differences in real life. It's just that age doesn't come across very well in anime, plus the fact that there's this strange fascination with prepubescent-looking girls. Hell, the whole Rie Kugimiya tsundere stereotype is basically childlike petulance stuffed into a 4'-something body (as pictured with Taiga). So I get exactly where you're coming from.

Eh, I don't know. There's at least a foot difference between the two members of one of my favourite ships, and it's DEFINITELY not a familial relationship.

If this is the way height reads to you, OP, then I'll not try to change your mind but I have to say I think it's a bad idea to use someones height (or a height difference) as an indicator of what they like/enjoy/feel/etc.