if we were to follow your logical here, being under 5'8 would then be considered a very unattractive physical attribute for a man to have. it'd be the equivalent to a girl having a flat ass and average face. That kinda girl really can't make you want to **** her unless your drunk and exercise bad judgement (your beer goggles has you thinking she's a 7 when she's really a 5), or you like girls that look like her. which is far rarer than guys who like girls with sexy asses and pretty faces. in a sentence: being under 5'8 just makes thing harder, but not impossible.
I 100% agree. However, I don't think the train of logic you're following is the one I've laid out.
Being a short man is considered less attractive on a superficial level because he is believed to lack strength and dominance over other men. However, in North NJ I routinely see men of Italian ancestry who are 5'6-7 with very attractive women, because they are swole, well-dressed (high-status) and socially dominant. No one is going to tease them about their height to their faces.
Short stature can be compensated for, like any other physical shortcoming.
Yes some women are not going to care that other attributes compensate for his short stature -- if he's under 6ft, he's out.
Yes some men aren't going to consider an average-faced, flat-assed girl because she can't model her ass on Instagram.
There are some cruelly shallow people in this world, and especially on the internet. That's life.
But women can, do, and will fall in love with men who are under 5'8 -- just as I am sure most of the men on this forum have developed feelings for a woman who wasn't conventionally "hot."