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People lie about lots of things on dating profiles. Or they let their pictures do it for them.

After Tinder said it would be introducing height verifications for men on their apps to make sure they were being honest about it, one man was not pleased.

He said there ought to be a weight setting for women, then, if men had to be upfront about their height.

The folks at Tinder claimed they wanted men to send in screenshots of them standing next to tall buildings which they will use with their ‘state-of-the-art’ equipment to figure out whether it’s a lie or not.




Those who claim to be six feet, for example, and are verified to be such will then receive a badge on the profile.

Feeling that the new implementation is unfair, the man posted on Reddit to say women need to disclose details of their proportions too.

But, unlike the rest of the internet who clocked on that it was an early April Fool’s joke, the poster did not get the memo.

So all that sexist energy for nothing.

‘Tinder just announced a setting for men to show their height, under the reasoning that too many men lie about their height on the app and as they put it, are “height fishing” women,’ the angry man posted.

‘I can just about guarantee they won’t do a f*cking thing about weight for women. I have friends who have been fat fished. That’s essentially the same damn thing. Why the hell should guys show their height if women won’t show their weight?

‘It annoys the living f*ck out of me that women aren’t held to the same societal standards regarding attraction that men are.’

He reassured everyone that he doesn’t hate fat women nor does he begrudge anyone for not finding him attractive due to being 5 ft 9.

He just thinks there are societal double standards when it comes to attraction to the opposing sex.

Tinder has yet to confirm whether they’re joking (we’ve asked and they’ve said they’re keeping schtum. We’re certain that it is a joke though).

Their press release was very tongue-in-cheek which made people immediately question the announcement.

Also interestingly, we picked up that in their promo video where they showed how it all works, their sliding scale of height options goes straight from 5 ft 9 to 6 feet when everyone knows there are 12 inches in a foot.

So according to the scale, there’s no option for the 5’11ers.

What did Tinder say? It’s come to our attention that most of you 5’10ers out there are actually 5’6. The charade must stop. This type of dishonestly doesn’t just hurt your matches — it hurts us, too. Did it ever occur to you that we’re 5’6 and actually love our medium height? Did it ever occur to you that honesty is what separates humans from sinister monsters? Of course not. Introducing Tinder’s Height Verification Badge (HVB), because yes — sometimes it matters Simply input your true, accurate height with a screenshot of you standing next to any commercial building. We’ll do some state-of-the-art verifying and you’ll receive your badge directly on your profile. Oh, and by the way? Only 14.5% of the U.S. male population is actually 6’ and beyond. So, we’re expecting to see a huge decline in the 80% of males on Tinder who are claiming that they are well over 6 feet. That’s fine by us — as long as we’re all living our truths.

Redditors commented in their droves, most of them calling out the joke while some people worryingly agreed with the poster that women should stop lying about their weight.

Many of them didn’t share the poster’s sentiments.

One person wrote: ‘Just say you have a fragile ego and hate women and move on. Fat fished isn’t a thing, it’s literally just catfishing except you’re singling our fat people.



‘And wow, saying women are not held to the same standards of attraction as men….bold of you to say something so wrong.’

Bold indeed.

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