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In today's Guardian, Zoe Williams writes about tall women and short men. "There are all sorts of inequalities within relationships," argues Williams, "but nothing so unfailingly tickles the world as the woman being taller." Williams herself is 5'10" and admits that "some men have, tragically, been off limits because I worried that I might scare them." When it comes to women earning more money, or being smarter or thinner, we don't really blink anymore. But why do we feel that a man has to be taller than a woman, even if just by an inch? Is there something hardwired inside of us from ancient, primal days, in which we'd expect a cave-gentleman to leap in front of a woolly mammoth on our behalf? More »
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