It’s my last day in Warsaw, and I decided to go to the National Museum. It’s only like a 10 minute walk from the hotel, which is why I decided to leave it till the last day.

I don’t know what I was expecting, but it was a lot bigger than what I thought it would be. I only had like an hour and a half, so I didn’t get to see as much as I would have liked to.

One of the pieces that stuck with me was this one called Stzuka by an artist whose name I accidentally cut off when I took the photo.

I texted the photo to my friend with the caption – actual footage of me trying to date in Berlin as a short king.

I’m sure in every country and every city around the world, there’s this bias for tall men. In fact my friend Al and I used to have this joke when someone mentions someone being hot, we say – “Is he hot or is he just tall?”

There’s this line I’ve seen often dating app bios that goes something like – I’m Xcm tall, please be taller.

And I’ve always found the “please be taller” comment funny because it sounds like a request. And I imagine someone going,

“Oh, I’m usually 166 cm, but since you asked nicely, I’ll be 180 for you.”

“I don’t understand why women won’t just date men their height,” my friend Jo said.

But I think wanting someone your height and wanting someone taller comes from the same feeling, just cutting off the mark at different points.

The truly radical thing would be to not consider height at all.

It is radical because even I, certifiably short in Europe, will not date someone significantly taller. Or shorter. I’m 166, and I’ve dated someone 175 with no issues from either side. It may be possible to date some 180, but I don’t think I can handle someone 190 and above even if she were totally cool with it.

And whatever feeling it is I have that makes me averse to that, I know it’s the same feeling that exists in the minds of tall and taller women.

“Yes, the tall guy is drinking from her goblet,” my friend Millie said of the photo of the painting I sent, “but she’s still looking at you.”

I think she’s looking at the goblet, but I guess it’s a matter of perspective.