Where you sit in US / Western men
171
cm(5'7")What she actually reads in the 1.2-second first impression
171 cm (5'7") is 6 cm under the US / Western men mean — within the band where height is almost completely neutral to perceived attractiveness. What women actually read at this height is not 'too short', it's whatever your jawline, shoulder width, and stance say. Behavioural data from dating-platform pulls puts the height-only PAS penalty at this band at less than 2 points — well within what styling, body fat, and photo selection can fully offset.
What the discourse says vs. what the data says
Online discourse will frame 171 cm as 'manlet'. The real-world signal is closer to 'mostly neutral, slightly soft baseline' — your hair, jaw, and photo set carry far more weight than the height number. The myth survives because the people most loudly complaining about height also tend to have the weakest compositional photos.
The highest-leverage moves at 171 cm
At 171 cm, the biggest perceived-attractiveness lever is no longer the height number — it's the body composition and shoulder ratio. Train for a V-taper (shoulder-to-waist ≥ 1.45×), keep body fat in the 12–15% band so the jawline lands cleanly in photos, and choose photo crops that show you full-body, alone, with a neutral camera height — those three together neutralize most of the residual height gap.
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Also see body-fat data
Height is only half of the equation — the same height reads very differently across body-fat percentages. See what each percent actually looks like on the male reference panel.
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