There are so many posts in this thread that are answering the question "Does my height of 5'3" matter?" when what you're really asking about is (and I quote)
"Title: I Feel Like My Height (5'3") puts a serious cap on my Alphaness
As an extremly short male, the more "alpha" I get the more shit I get from everyone, men and women, but mostly other men.
It's extremely disheartening for me. I get the vibe that everyone wants me to accept "my place," and like the article says I am endlessly shit tested for it.
I feel my height is a serious detriment to my potential, and do not see a way around this."
There is so much going on in what you've written.
I could write a lot, but to cut to the chase, you're asking clear questions.
"A Cap on My Alphaness." You can't really measure Alphaness. Is that what you want? More Alphaness?
People treat you bad - Do you want them to not treat you bad? Or do you want more Alphaness?
Your height is capping your potential? - Your potential for what? Alphaness?
The reason I'm bring all of this up is what you want is all over the map.
Here's a news flash: being short sucks. I don't mean that short people suck, but that people treat you worse the shorter you are and better the taller you are. For the most part, that's generally true. It's incredibly unfair and the sad thing is, you can't even complain about it because people just don't want to hear it.
So being in a position that sucks, you have a few options: 1. Pretend it's not true 2. Ruin your life over it 3. Play your hand as best as you can 4. Play your hand better than anyone could possibly imagine
I suggest number 4.
Now you can get jacked (which talls guys don't have to do), you can learn to fight (which tall guys don't have to do), you can get rich (which tall guys don't have to do), you can approach 10x more than average (which tall guys don't have to do), you can get famous (which tall guys don't have to do), or you could genuinly give up what people think of you 100% full stop (which tall guys don't have to do).
Yes tall people have problems too. They can be alcoholics, gang bangers, have low IQ, get cheated on, get dumped, be forever alone, die in combat, have horrible childhoods, deal with diseases, go broke, deal with financial ruin, get fired, be born ugly, etc.
But anyone who says that a guy who is 6'4" has the same dating challenges ON AVERAGE as a guy who is 5'3" is a. Incorrect b. Probably hates being made aware of his advantage because then it means he didn't truly earn the things he enjoys in life and it hurts his ego A LOT.
Imagine you're a man, you work hard in life to accomplish things, you feel proud of yourself because you worked hard and made it happen....
And then someone on the internet states the obvious, which having the genetics to be a tall male is very much hitting the genetic lottery and a lot of the things and people you enjoy might not be there if you had drawn a different genetic lottery number, oh and by the way that also means that that feeling of accomplishment you have... yeah, this information threatens that as well.
That's why tall guys don' like admitting this and will throw all sorts of ANECDOTAL evidence like "Bro, I know ONE GUY that's really short and is jacked and does MMA and is rich, and everyone respects them, and you don't even realize that he's short, and his wife is hot, and he gets mad hot girls on the side...."
Yeah.... That's ONE GUY.
Is it possible? Yes. Is it easy? No.
What do you have to get the same results being tall? Dress well, go out, open, vibe, escalate.
The point I'm trying to make is that this is the reality and this is (to the best of my knowledge) why no one wants to own up to it.
The best thing you can do is accept the reality, NEVER expect anyone else to ever admit it, DECIDE to just let it go, run your game, and live your life.
One of the hardest parts of my life was just accepting that things were going to be harder for me, especially when people doing well we're telling me it was a level playing field.
Accepting that it wasn't really a level playing field, deciding to let it go, deciding to play my hand to the absolute max, and letting guys with better hands have their successes without feeling anymore jealousy was one of the best decisions I ever made.
If I was 5'3", I would stop comparing myself to anyone, accept that "God" or the Universe made me 5'3", remember that other people have it worse than me, and then find guys that had similar height to myself that were getting results in life and model them.
I think if you stop trying to prove yourself to people by being Alpha, and instead decide to focus 24/7 on maximizing the hand you have while not pretending that other people out there have BOTH better and worse hands than you, I think at the very least, you'll stop having interactions where you feel people are trying to put you in your place.