The height memes write themselves

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Serious question here. I’m new and I’m not sure I understand all of this.

What does it matter if she’s showing off? Isn’t everybody showing something off every day? Why worry about what other people choose to show off? I don’t understand why it matters.

Because the women in the picture are showing off things that other people have no control over. It'd be like them bragging that their boyfriend is white, since they're perceived to be the best (which also happen unfortunately). It's essentially socially accepted discrimination. A stark contrast to the status quo, where most people in life believe / say that people, especially women, care the most about other's good character rather than pure attractiveness based off of things that are not easily changed (i.e. bone structure, height, race). This is in stark contrast to women who, unless they are extremely disfigured from an unfortunate event or birth, have many options to improve their perceived physical attractiveness through means of fashion and makeup. Of course men do have the option to spend a lot of time to improve their muscles as well (which every man should in 2019 to have a higher chance, especially if they lack conventional attractive features if they still have any hope of finding a woman).

Is that really what’s happening there? It looks to me like a guy was worried that the height discrepancy would be off-putting, and she was merely saying that she’s with a much taller guy and it’s fine. Then she said that others do find it to be weird, but that she likes it.

How is it showing off by answering a question about a situation in which you have experience? When people ask questions in the Legal Advice subreddit, are the lawyers showing off by answering?

It'd be innocent in of itself, but people here are mostly just posting more validation for existing realities. If you look around you, you'll notice that people casually slipping in the height of their spouse (almost always over 6') into situations where it's not completely necessary. There's almost no situation in which the reverse happens. It's a sort of humble bragging that is apparent everywhere, but most men don't realize it happens so often until they're called into attention to pay attention to it. The post isn't to show off how much discrimination there is in the world, but to highlight that social signaling that occurs in random situations. Especially note how the one girl states that she finds the attention from the height difference awesome. A fair equivalent wouldn't be lawyers showing off by answering, but something like someone on a financial subreddit asking if it'd be good idea to diversify their 5 million dollars, and people with 4, 5, and 10 million all said how awesome it was to do that. It's not the answers themselves. It's the power they're signifying by responding in a way that also diverts attention to themselves.