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I'm 5'11, I'm mostly just arguing for the sake of truth. I do that sometimes.
About you not noticing your height, some guys and I yesterday were discussing the cost of haircuts. One guy said that he hates haircuts, I told him that he should get good haircuts as in twenty years he might be bald (he's young). He has great hair, excellent hair. He told me that he looks forward to going bald as he won't need to spend time taking care of his hair. So there you go, a good example from real life, people don't notice hat they have.
As for 5'5 versus 6'1, we can just look at real life. The average height is 5'9, and the distribution is probably Gaussian, so there are roughly as many 5'5 men as there are 6'1 men, maybe 6'2 men if you want to assume a kew-Gaussian distribution. How many 6'1/6'2 men are sex symbols? A disproportionate number. How many 5'5/5'6 men are sex symbols? Virtually none. That's because height (with a proportional frame) pushes people up a point or two or three on the ladder.
Meanwhile, in the real world, tall men are more likely to get married. Here's a report: shorter men marry less frequently, they marry later, they marry less educated women, and they marry less wealthy women, as in the short men need to earn a high income to compensate:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/28/link-between-mens-height-divorce-_n_5731688.html
It is interesting that shorter husbands do less housework. Perhaps it's because short men marry lower-quality women who have lesser careers, or because they can only get married if they're very masculine (compensatory), or have an extremely time-consuming career themselves.
Don't just go by what you want to believe, stick to what women say and what women do.
I was all in on the article until I saw huff "poo"-st