Tall men are very sensitive about height/ their height

  From many interactions with men over 6 feet, an observation i've made is that they are the ones who care about height and are much more bothered by being labeled as a number shorter than their real height, not short/ average heighted people. As the first example, when I didn't know about heightism, I talked to a man  who was probably 6'4" or 5 and when I said he was 6'3" he had to declare that he "was not 6'3" in an annoyed tone. In another instance, someone jokingly called a 6'2" ish guy "short" and said "you're so short" and the guy got very defensive and said semi-seriously  "I'm not short, I'm taller than you!Oh wait, you were joking.." , and it's obvious that even a harmless joke about how "short" he was made him have a mini temper tantrum. As the final example, another time when height came up someone else called a proclaimed 6'2" man "6'1" and he almost interrupted them to correct them only a second after him being downgraded.

  All these instances show me that tall men are so sensitive about their height that they can't even take a joke about them being short and will quickly correct you/ get hostile if you suggest they are shorter than they are or not tall. No one would ever label a 6'0",1, or 2" short or even average but they seem to be the ones who are the most sensitive about being regarded as short, even though 6'0"-6'2" men will never be thought of that way, clearly not by any stretch of the imagination. How are we the ones who "are too sensitive about our height" when they can't even take being called short as a one- liner joke or being thought of as 1-2 inches shorter without having micro temper tantrums?