I spent 10 years happily married to a man who was shorter than me, and I am not a tall woman. 5foot3. I certainly never cared about his height nor was it every a factor in our relationship. Currently I am in lesbian relationships, and so far all of my partners have been taller than me (6 foot, 6 foot 3). I do enjoy tall women, it's nice to be held by someone taller than me. However, I also enjoyed holding a man shorter than me just as much. Both are great, apples and oranges. I'm sure people have their preferences, but for me there is some misogyny and some gender-role weirdness in expecting heterosexual relationships to be a tall man short woman. It feels more like "I need my partner to conform to gender norms so I can feel more secure in my masculinity/femininity because that is the basis of my attractiveness." I mean people have their preferences and that's fine, but maybe we should question where they come from, because I've found some of them are really patriarchal norms forced onto me with out my consent. And I don't have to take it. Good article articulating that.