Confirmed: Beautiful People Dating Site Full of Terrible People
So I was scanning my RSS feeds and came upon this story by CNN talking about how this dating website called Beautiful People booted 5,000 people for gaining weight over the holidays. Upon entering the website, it asks “Do looks matter to you…No more filtering through unattractive people on mainstream sites…”
This web site struck me as incredibly vain. Maybe I’m applying my values to them so I will state that I am expressing an opinion. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Their standards for beauty have most likely been established by mainstream media outlets with no regard for the intangible factors that will make the relationship actually work.
I’ll be honest. I do evaluate the attractiveness of people, but I have never closed the door based only upon that. Personality is very important in my evaluative process and takes precedence over the physical factors. In all likelihood, some relationships that are created from that site may end up being real–but I believe that most of them will end within a short timespan.
Why do I say it’s full of terrible people? I say it because the people were booted based on votes by the membership. The offending parties were presented to the membership to be voted upon. The US suffered the worst with over 1,500 users removed. The managing director blatantly stated that “The USA has been grossly over-indulging since Thanksgiving…We hope they will be back after shedding the festive pounds.”
For those people who were expelled, I hope they reevaluate their expectations out of life. There is much more to it than what you can see.
Read the story at CNN.