not denying it may make you less attractive, just like certain features on women make us less attractive, and it's pretty much our job on earth and a serious measure of our worth as human beings to be pleasing to look at- and it really shouldn't be this way, not for men or for women. never said you did things to try and compensate for being short, I don't know you personally, you asked if women find short men repulsive and you got some genuine answers from women. I used audie Murphy as an example because he's an interesting dude and I vaguely remember that he happened to be short. Nothing wrong with working out and all that, even if it's to compensate for what's considered a physical flaw, that's not what I was referring to. I was referring to certain guys who are, not gonna mince words, huge sexist assholes to women because they think that doing that will offset some flaw, it happens, and there's a fairly equal and opposite reaction for most other demographics if you switch the words and signifiers around a bit, this is not just a man/woman problem. You have every right to be bitter! Going by what you've said your fiancé was a jackass, and it would be unreasonable to ask for you not to be pissed off about that
I'm sorry you went through a lot of shit that you shouldn't have gone through; my comments were not downplaying the social importance of height for men which is a thing, as the edit to my post says, just saying that height in and of itself isn't "good" and you aren't a "bad" or "unnatural" man if you happen to be short, it's a culture bound problem and not a problem with shortness in and of itself.
any significant deviation from a mental or physical norm can be a really shitty thing to deal with, and I get it, and I guarantee a bunch of the women in here get it as well although it can be hard to see that. I don't think being too tall is the same as being too short; I guess it would be like comparing women with hourglass figures to women built stocky or broad shouldered or whatever, one is clearly preferred over the other and claiming otherwise is disingenuous (as you point out); I'm not going to come out and say one is intrinsically better than the other because one type is beloved on Instagram or whatever. There's nothing intrinsically "wrong" with stocky "unfeminine" women just like there's nothing wrong with short men, or men with baby faces, or men who don't like manly things, or men who are short with baby faces who fucking love manly things. If you want me to lie and say that tallness is always just intrinsically good and that there aren't major cultural factors at play in terms of the preference for tall people in the West, im not going to do that because that would be lying. Tall dudes aren't better. They just aren't. Just like women with cute lil button noses are not better than women with big honkin noses. One is preferred over the other, but you are not worth intrinsically less as a human being because you are closer to the ground than other men.
if you are looking for women to tell you that they find you repulsive for being short, then you should have phrased the question that way. if you're looking for the opinions of women who may have dealt with their own deviations from the norm, then you may get a variety of answers