Dating Web Site Kicks Out "Fatties"

Subject: Dating Web Site Kicks Out "Fatties" Thu Jan 07, 2010 6:44 pm

Dating Web Site Kicks Out "Fatties"

Is it a simple case of out-of-control elitism, or is it just the right thing to do?

The dating service BeautifulpPople.com has dumped thousands of members. The reason? Because they're too fat, reports CBS Station WCBS in New York.

Log on to the dating Web site BeautifulPeople.com and you won't find any ugly people. Now, according to the site's owners, you won't find any fat ones either.

"We especially noticed that from November - as we all know, Thanksgiving - all the way through New Year, members had been gaining weight and sort of letting themselves go," managing director Genevieve Maylam said.

So the site dumped 5,000 subscribers who, they say, overindulged.

The Web site says it received complaints from members that there were too many "fatties" roaming around, and not enough beauties.

"I just think that's horrible, it's horrible," TriBeCa resident Tobey Hayduk said.

Those members who didn't meet the beauty benchmark received an e-mail explaining that they had been expelled because of their extra pounds. The message also included some tips on working out, and an invitation to reapply when they slimmed down.

CBS 2 took the site's plan to a New York Sports Club.

"Cruel and unusual punishment, probably, is the best thing to say," Gramercy resident Beth Roberts said.

"I think it's awful - however, it's kind of what you signed up for," TriBeCa resident Tori Maisey said.

Body image expert Karen Salmansohn says the Web site's harsh rejection could be damaging even to people who aren't on it.

"I think it's kind of actually scary that they would kick off people because they packed on a couple pounds over the holidays," Salmonsohn said. "It's a wrong message. Chemistry's such a mysterious thing."

"I think the physical aspect is definitely not number one for me," Prospect Heights resident Tracy Copeland said. "It's a part of it, but I don't think I should log on to beautifulpeople.com and actually find someone to date."

Those behind BeautifulPeople.com make no apologies and say what their site lacks in political correctness, it makes up for in honesty.

More than 1,500 members from the U.S. were kicked out, nearly double any other country, because the folks who run the Web site say Americans pig out more than anyone else during the holidays.

Right or wrong what do you think?

Guest

Well.... it is kinda' what they signed up for. To be singled out on looks.

For that site... maybe called for, for about any other site, uncalled for.

Subject: Re: Dating Web Site Kicks Out "Fatties" Fri Jan 08, 2010 12:38 am

^^I couldn't agree more. Laughing

Subject: Re: Dating Web Site Kicks Out "Fatties" Fri Jan 08, 2010 1:59 am

All of the above. If (I heard about this on the radio and they say they do) they advertise that they are only for the "attractive," then it is in their right to kick out anyone who has a single extra pound to their gut. I find it distasteful and disrespectful, but then that just means that I won't sign up to that site.

Subject: Re: Dating Web Site Kicks Out "Fatties" Fri Jan 08, 2010 12:48 pm

Yeah, I saw this in the documentary America the Beautiful. The owners were trying to say that it's not all looks, it is "inner-beauty", too. Yeah, right.

Subject: Re: Dating Web Site Kicks Out "Fatties" Fri Jan 08, 2010 6:06 pm

What I want to know is....how did the site owners find out that their members gained weight? I mean, I don't think people would update their profiles to add newer, fatter pictures of themselves, nor would anyone update their profile to say, "hey, I gained 30 pounds over christmas!"

???

Subject: Re: Dating Web Site Kicks Out "Fatties" Sat Jan 09, 2010 6:56 pm

I saw this on CNN. It's pretty disgusting... they seem to be a bunch of looks-obsessed people striving to maintain an artificial and surface-only sort of beauty. In other words, conformists who work really hard at conforming. How utterly not-beautiful.

Hey, that's a good question Chelsea's got -- how would anyone know about the weight gain? Holiday weight gain usually isn't too visible, anyway. Maybe it's just a publicity stunt?

Subject: Re: Dating Web Site Kicks Out "Fatties" Sat Jan 16, 2010 9:04 pm

They signed up because they wanted to feel they belonged amongst the "beautiful people."

Things happened and the owners and operators of the site disagreed that they belonged there. Seems to me that's completely their right.

The people who got kicked got exactly what they wanted when they signed up. They were judged.

Just unfortunately for them happens they were found lacking for what the site considered a minimum standard of attractiveness.

Subject: Re: Dating Web Site Kicks Out "Fatties" Wed Sep 15, 2010 1:22 pm

sigh...it's really the BP members Rolling Eyes

who voted the "imperfect" people out...i read the beautifulpeople.com info and they SAY beauty is the the eye blah blah blah, (we know already) but it's the MEMBERS who judge the beauty status and vote out the "applicants" who are not attractive in THEIR eyes...they might as well make this a reality show! Rolling Eyes

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