Dating Apps Are Leaving 5'11" Men Behind

As the online dating landscape has adopted height filters, some men suspect the algorithm is giving them the short end of the stick.
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Illustration by Michael Houtz

A few years back, Nathanael Fletcher, a 29-year-old software engineer living in Springfield, Missouri, hit it off with someone on a dating app. The pair had been going out for a little while when she abruptly popped the question: “Are you really five-eleven”?

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