Why are supermodels usually tall but it feels like most men like short women?

I feel way more attracted by tall women on average but that remains one parameter among others.

Tall women represent the most attractive type for men who put a high value on the safety/protection factor because of the confidence and the authority that such a feminine body representation naturally emanates, whether that corresponds to an actual personality or psychological configuration or not.

Of course, most men do reject the value of maternal safety and protection in favour of those inherent to the cultural representation of virility, namely freedom, independence, self-reliance, enterprise, ambition, competition etc., the reason for this having been repeatedly explained by cultural studies and directly showing up in this comment section too. So they tend to prefer short women in relation to the way in which the formal attributes conveyed by the idea of shortness most suitably conform to the modes of cultural representation of the idea of masculinity in our society.