Spoiler alert: Love is Blind: France has a tall woman cast member who, sight unseen, gets engaged to a not-as-tall man. Her name is Cynthia, and she’s six feet tall. Her fiancé Jonathan is a few inches shorter, perhaps five eight? Their first meeting plays out a slow-motion reveal of one of love’s longest standing taboos. Cynthia literally and figuratively embraces Jonathan, leaning down to rest her chin on his shoulder. She tells him she was nervous about her height, and he assures her it doesn’t matter.
Lies.
By episode four, we get an embattled scene about Cynthia’s choice to wear high heels on a night out to meet the other cast members. (“Why would a tall woman wear high heels?” you ask. Why not? We’re up here already.) Heels, Cynthia explains, make her feel confident and “sparkly.”
Jonathan does not take this well and begs her to wear flats. He sees Cynthia’s choice—her shoe choice—as a sign that she’s insensitive to his feelings, and the potential that he’ll be ridiculed by the other cast members. A tense battle ensues. It is clear that this couple is doomed.
As a tall woman, I am living for this representation, which we so rarely get to see explored on TV.
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