Is it normal to have an irrational fear of men

I'm pretty much the same. Even when I go to see a doctor about something, I feel nervous enough seeing a male doctor (apart from one) but if I have to get an examination on more personal body-parts, I'd ask for a female doctor every time. And I even find it awful having a male dentist too. As for other situations, I feel nervous around all males who aren't family. I guess its just the way some people are. Although sometimes the person is afraid of males because of an unpleasant past experience concerning a male. But it doesn't matter either way, because there are loads of people who feel afraid or nervous around males, even more than you think. So you're not alone, I can assure you.

You're not petite

5'5" for a woman is not petite, it is actually above average.

I've never felt nervous or afraid around any men unless they had extenuating reasons I should be like walking on my heels or anything. Actually, big scary guys make me feel a little safer as long as they seem nice. My dad is huge and scary to others so maybe I just assume there all nice. And if there nasty seeming, oh well, I carry a gun or mace wherever I go. Maybe it would ease your mind a little to take a self defence class and/or gun and gun safety courses. I'm 5'3" but I can flip a man twice my size with no effort thanks to self defence :)

I'm not extremely afraid of men, I have a very masculine boyfriend whom I love and trust, but if I'm alone somewhere. Say a bowling alley, ans theres like 5 guys there, and just me. I get my "I'mma get raped" face on lol I feel like it's irrational to, but I still want to GTFO outta there :P

It's called anthrophobia. You can get help to get over that fear.

Yup. I'm a misogynist. It's no different than sexuality, I think, in that sometimes it's just innate.

It isn't a problem to be afraid of men... although being afraid of men that beat you up is nothing to worry about either. You feel intimidated when around larger men and you can't stop yourself from shaking when your not around familiarity in people. I wouldn't say it is a majorly normal thing to actually avoid dating larger men because of it, every women i think is scared of larger men bar those who have taken up some form of martial arts, and even then they aren't completely unafraid of men. Just don't think about it spend some time with your mates around larger males get to know a couple perhaps maybe spend some time wheres theres only 3 of you so you get used to being around a larger person with a person of similar heights to you. Intimidation is something to be tackled as you can actually find a fair amount of large aswell as smaller men are quite nice friendly and would not wish to harm a female. I mean im around 6ft in total rather quite bulky large chested with a nice set of muscles, but i couldn't think about harming another male, let alone harming a defenceless female put it to one side and dont think about it much chuck go out and firnd some nice guys who may or may not be large :) enjoy yourself :)
Frank...:)