Fat people kicked off dating website

[Liberal_in_LA]

A dating website which only allows beautiful members has booted off thousands of people for piling on the pounds over Christmas

More than 5,000 people were kicked off BeautifulPeople.com for losing their looks over the holiday season.

The online dating site, which has a strict ban on ''ugly people'', said it had thrown out more than 5,000 members from around the world who had put on weight.

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Robert Hintze, founder of BeautifulPeople.com, said: ''As a business, we mourn the loss of any member, but the fact remains that our members demand the high standard of beauty be upheld.

''Letting fatties roam the site is a direct threat to our business model and the very concept for which BeautifulPeople.com was founded.''

According to the site, managers have been kind in breaking the news to former members.

Each is said to have received an email encouraging them to re-apply when they are back to looking their best. They have also been sent details of recommended boot camps.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/relationships/6931387/Fat-people-kicked-off-dating-website.html

[tblue]

1. Oh now that is cold.

[Cronus Protagonist]

2. Publicity stunt

Seems to be working well.

[tblue]

3. Ohhh. And they don't care if they make people cry.

C'est la vie, je pense.

[Berry Cool]

16. I suspect the same.

Especially because, look at the timing--a time of year when many unimaginative people are "making New Year's resolutions to find that special someone."

I mean, how do they know who's gained weight recently? Are their members actually saying to the group, "Oh dear, I porked out over the holidays! Here's a picture just taken of me for everyone to vote on to decide whether or not I deserve to stay here"? Duh.

Unless the site has a policy that everyone has to submit a brand-new photo of him/herself to the site for voting purposes every week or so, and can actually confirm that the photos submitted are those of members and not of someone else, its policy of "only allowing beautiful people" membership is impossible to enforce to begin with.

[jberryhill]

26. Agreed - How many DU'ers are hitting the site right now just to look

This is like using "Going out of business" to launch your business.

[Toasterlad]

33. I'm Sure You're Correct.

Nonetheless, if Robert Hintze had any balls, he'd post a picture of himself in a speedo on his fucking nazi website and let people vote on whether he should stay or go.

[aikoaiko]

4. Just like the power of the red velvet rope -- now more people will try to get in.

beautiful people indeed.

[Canuckistanian]

5. What a fucked up concept

From their website:

* Do looks matter to you, when it comes to selecting a partner?
* Do you want to guarantee your dates will always be beautiful?
* No more filtering through unattractive people on mainstream sites
* Meet beautiful people locally and from around the world - now
* Attend exclusive events and private parties

and:

BeautifulPeople is the first community of its kind. To become a member, applicants are required to be voted in by existing members of the opposite sex. Members rate all new applicants over a 48 hour period based on whether or not they find the applicant ‘beautiful’. Should applicants secure enough positive votes from members, they will be granted a full membership to the BeautifulPeople Network.

The vote is fair and democratic.
BeautifulPeople does not define beauty it simply gives an accurate representation of what society's ideal of beauty is.


This latest move sure sounds like THEY'RE defining "beauty".

[debbierlus]

6. Who would want to date anyone who would sign up for this site, anyway?

Pathetic.

[polly7]

7. That is just f'd up.

[AlphaCentauri]

8. Are they trying to build a new race?

I think the Nazis were the ones that used to required that every Nazi has to be beautiful or metro sexual

[DainBramaged]

9. "Fat people" is a terrible misnomer and crude to boot

As with some news networks, headlines that bleed always get the most attention here.


"''We responded to complaints by moving the newly chubby members back to the rating stage. This is the same as having them re-apply."

[T Wolf]

10. Reminds me of a Barney Miller episode where Det. Harris and Barney were eligible to become

members of a club that catered to the beautiful people. Played for laughs, which is only way to approach something like this.

But how much weight did those people put on to get thrown out?

[FedUpWithIt All]

11. Let the "beautiful people" eat their own. They deserve what they get.

The truly beautiful people, meanwhile, will go about their richer and more meaningful lives.

[Lex]

12. Wow, I bet you can meet some really great people at that site!

:puke:

[The2ndWheel]

13. Their money, their time

[tonysam]

14. "I am bigot. Hear me ROAR."

It might as well be the name of the site.

[Uncle Joe]

15. "Beauty" never looked so ugly. n/t

[Berry Cool]

17. Oh, look at how they "explain" this. I call bullshit.

According to BeautifulPeople.com, "vigilant members" called for drastic action after users posted photos of themselves celebrating Christmas and the New Year--revealing they had "let themselves go".

Uh, yeah, right. Because everyone knows that if you're thin and you go to a party and really chow down on all the food, and someone takes a picture of you at the party, the picture will come out showing you many pounds heavier from all the food you are eating. :sarcasm:

[Tailormyst]

18. I have a hard time feeling sorry for them

They aren't actual people with a weight problem. They are shallow, horrid little people who put on a few pounds and now their shallow horrid little peers are turning them away.

[CakeGrrl]

19. Who cares if you're a neurotic psycho...are you HAWT?

People who hang out here deserve whatever or whomever they end up with.

:crazy:

[patricia92243]

20. This is a bunch of silliness. How would they know if their clients were fat? Nobody is going to

volunteer that information. People lie about everything on dating sites - they would not hesitate to just keep quiet about their weight.

[SallyMander]

21. I think this website is an excellent idea

Here in Columbus, we have an area we like to call the "Asshole District," where all the meat-market bars are clustered. It serves perfectly to keep all the shallow, narcissistic, boring people in one place. This website appears to be the electronic version. ;)

[SoCalDem]

22. Does the website dispatch people house-to-house, for weigh-ins?

how would they "know" who had "gained"?

BS monitor level---------> off-the-chart

[superduperfarleft]

23. LOL.

Anyone who is such a narcissist that they'd even consider joining a site like this deserves to get knocked down a peg or two, whether they're overweight or not.

[WI_DEM]

24. Beauty is skin deep it's the inner beauty that lasts a life time and my guess is that the people

on this beautiful people dating website are a mainly a bunch of self centered jerks. The people knocked off should consider themselves lucky.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

25. Well, what goes around comes around.

You join an asshole-y group...you can't really be shocked when they act asshole-y.

[KillCapitalism]

27. Should rename the site.

How about anorexicpeople.com?

[Blasphemer]

28. Disgusting concept but anyone who signed up knew what they were getting into. nt

[no limit]

29. Really smart marketing. Thanks to this their site will be viral

thanks for playing their game.

[gopwacker_455]

30. useless bigots

[treestar]

31. Are they trying to make money at this?

Entrepreneurial types now run off to start a Fat People's Dating Site.

[dustbunnie]

32. There are already a gazillion of them.

http://www.fat-friends.com/index.htm

There are many more dating sites for large people than there are for "beautiful" horny people.

[NikolaC]

34. They were in the documentary

America the Beautiful. They were very up front about their discrimination policy, full of themselves and brutal. They encouraged the filmmaker of the documentary to apply and I believe that he was voted down and rejected by their "members". They are pretty despicable and I cannot believe that they even have that many members.

[Kablooie]

35. Couldn't they just go over to the lardlove.com website?