At 5’7 I have had zero, 0, problems dating on regular basis for the past 15 years.
Sorry, but this is BS.
What's important about both your perspective and for instance that of
@Hamurabimbi is that
both of you don't make an issue of your height.
The problem with the 'height incels' is that they care
so much about other people's opinions and their own shortcomings that they
turn it into a focal point by paying too much attention. Any woman interacting with them will know their height obsession within minutes and reject them for their obsession with height (not the height itself) because this type of crippling anxiety/insecurity is extremely unattractive.
Why is Tom Cruise 'mocked' with his height and Joe Pesci isn't?
Because Cruise is clearly frustrated and deep insecurity, wanting lifts in his shoes or even walking on platform shoes in order not to appear his real height and compensating for his diminutive size with extremely masculine stunts on motorcycles, airplanes and running down Burj Khalifa. And trying to play roles like Jack Reacher.
Pesci doesn't have to resort to that. He's not pretending to be taller, his smaller size makes him even more threatening in his gangster roles. That's why everyone is scared of the volatile Nicky Santoro in
Casino and violent Tommy DeVito in
Goodfellas. But you can see his same c0cksure confidence in humorous non-violent roles like the main character in
My Cousin Vinny. Pesci clearly doesn't care he's not as tall as the other actors.
I started going noticeably bald around the same time as Andre Agassi, who shaved his head in 1995 at 25 years old. I was a few years older and not as bald, but that gave me the impetus to shave my head as well. I got positive feedback from lovers and I never looked back. Since I don't care about being bald, I never made an issue out of it and I don't get any negative reactions or rejections on my lack of hair. If I had been frustrated about having to shave my head before I was thirty, I'm sure I would've been sensitive about (hiding) my baldness, which would've shown insecurity and made my shortcomings into a focal point.
If you're short, you're just short. When you're bald, you're just bald. Doesn't make you less of a man, unless you feel that way and allow your frustration to take the wheel.