Still, at your height or my height the situation is not tragic. I mean let's be real. Our height might not be "omg you are so tall" but it is nowhere near "sorry too short".
I highly doubt that the majority of women reject you on your height. They might prefer you to be taller but they don't reject you for being 5'8-5'9
Tibike you live in denial about how important is for the majority of good looking women, who can have almost any man they want, to be with someone who is tall or at least completely average (which in my country is 1.78cm for a man).
And yes, I have been rejected for my (current) height and I've heard many times some from bad (not insulting however) to just funny comments about my height.
And only from women. Men respect me a lot due to my built body and my character and noone ever told that I'm short after LL.
But for women not being tall is something that you can't get easily away with, especially if you have the alpha male attitude I have due to my relatively big muscles and the big experience I have with the opposite gender.
Maybe they bash me because I seem like I feel very confident with my self and I'm sure that no one ever could understand that I have a height insecurity because my behaviour shows that I am completely ok with myself. And generally I am but my height that is less than average still bothers me, not because I don't like my body but because it doesn't give me the social benefits with women that a tall man has. And I don't like that at all because men keep praising me about my body but women seem to care about my height much more than they should, taken in mind that I have a good face, a muscular body and a good style generally.
Maybe if my attitude was more, lets say, low key, I could attract more women, not the hottest ones though.
But I can't be something that I am not only because my height doesn't correspond to my attitude for many women's logic.
At your age I had a lot of success with some very good looking and with a good character girls although I was 5.65 but I was just very lucky and I can see it now when my experience with women is much much more.
So when you reach almost 30 and all this time you keep having many successes with women despite your 5.7 height, then I would take your opinion much more serious in this subject.
But now you are just too young to have complete knowledge of the importance of height for a man in dating.
ps I am writing all these to you in a very friendly way. You are a respectable discussant and I don't have any intention to insult you.