The options thing is double sided. There's the attention side and the thirst side. Men know women will do anything to get some attention and women know men will sleep with just about anything too out of thirst, but I think as a society, in part due to social media, we've finally reached a point where women know that a mans propensity to sleep with anything greatly outweighs the amount of effort they need to expend to get attention. Which is why it kills me when guys in this forum act like women over 30 or single mothers are no good. They don't have to be attractive, young, paid, or even a good person, some man will commit to her, cuff her, and sleep with her, and odds are he'll probably be a decent looking well paid man because the women on his level are all sharing the upper echelon guy.
A 5'7 guy is getting overlooked regardless of where he is unless the woman is desperate or knows he's got stacks and will trick off. I rarely ever see short dudes with good looking women. But if they do have one, the guy is GQ'd from head to toe, in top shape, top of his game/field, funny/witty/popular, everything, and I've still had their women chase me and when I ask about thier man they tell me "yeah i'm with him and hes nice but he's just too short"

Them little nikkas can conquer the world but can't overcome that challenge.

If you're short, like under 5'8, then you really have no lane, you need to take what you can get, come to grips with the fact you're going to share that from time to time, and get out of the game.