Exclusive dating site BeautifulPeople.com is 5,000 members lighter after kicking out users who gained holiday weight.
The site, which apparently operates under a middle-school mentality, only lets people into the beautiful club after a sufficient number of existing members deem them attractive enough. Members can also kick off people if they let themselves go. After some users uploaded pics from the holidays, the pretty people police began to complain that some among them had packed on some pounds. Thus, 5,000 members were cut (I'm a little surprised there were 5,000 people to kick out. . . that means people actually use this site!).
The founder doesn't worry extreme exclusivity will hurt the bottom line, saying: "Letting fatties roam the site is a direct threat to our business model and the very concept for which BeautifulPeople.com was founded."
They should change the site name to AreYouSerious?.com.
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I don't think what they did was right, but I'm guessing whoever joins this site knows that if they let themselves go they will get the boot. In a way this is kind of what people are trying to do to models who are too skinny, of course the models are actually hurting themselves but it's still discrimination based on body type
1I don't know the name of it, but isn't there a dating site that matches women with rich men? Wouldn't they lose their membership if they went broke? I would never join this site, but I understand the logic.
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3If you're vain enough to join, you shall suffer the consequences...
4exactly, pop.
If this is all that's important to you (the general YOU), then you too clearly want "the fatties" gone.
5They join, it's their problem. The website is Beautiful People, not It's What's Inside That Counts People. If a man or woman joins, he or she should understand that looks obviously matter.
6The members of this site only care about appearances and shouldn't be upset once someone judges them based by their same standards.
7i think it's funny. haha. that site is so ridiculous.
8Haha. Too bad when you get kicked out, you're not permanently deleted from the universe for signing up to such a ridiculous site.
9You reap what you sow.
10If that's what they want to do, that's what they want to do. It's alittle bit funny, though, because they take the pictures/profiles so seriously. I've never dated off the internet. But I have a few friends that have. And from what they've shared, it seems the pictures and biographies seldom match up with the realities. So to see people on a site feel that they need to be so diligent about members when no one can really verify how beautiful any of them is is dopey. It's the internet. Parents' basements all over the world are occupied by esthetically/socially/employment challenged individuals who present stellar internet personas. If these people are really all so beautiful, how do they even have time to visit an internet dating site? I would imagine they get flocked on their way to their cars everyday by hopeful admirers. Surely there are good enough looking folks among their real life fans, no? Perhaps this site is a fantasy or second life type thing where people get to pretend.
Hey, didn't e-harmony get into trouble because they didn't have a segregated section for gay people to participate? Seems odd that one type of discrimination deserves intervention from authority and another doesn't.
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