>>81807856 (OP)The "feeling protected" line is just the socially acceptable lie used in place of the more embarrassing reality where it's a sexual arousal over feeling small. Being tall and near women makes that feeling happen for women. It's similar to the feeling of being a child when adults like your parents towered over you. Being muscular doesn't really create the same effect.
And then skinny guys are attractive to women for looking aesthetically appealing, like more similar to the way men find women attractive.
So it's two separate things going on. A huge ugly fat guy could satisfy the sexual arousal from feeling small criterion, but he would be less attractive than a tall cute skinny guy. And a short cute skinny guy could be appreciated by women as cute, but because he wouldn't fulfill the first criterion he'd be rejected by a lot of women. And a muscular guy is generally going to turn off women and is a look that primarily appeals to gay men.