A dating website has come under attack for discriminating against its calorically challenged members.
According to the NY Post, the website owner abruptly canceled the accounts of over 5,000 members who committed the sin of gaining extra pounds over the holidays.
Beautifulpeople.com — a meet-up site with a strict “no ugly people policy” — announced that it has had to trim the fat to the bone for 2010 by banning 5,000 members who packed on too much weight during the holidays.
“We were getting a lot of complaints from members who were meeting with people who gained a lot of weight or who gained weight in their photo albums,” said the Denmark-based free site’s managing director, Greg Hodge.
Beautifulpeople.com has about 500,000 members from around the world. Each has to go through a rigorous entry process, only getting voted in if their fellow members find them sexy enough.
The site now only lets members of the opposite sex vote members out because, Hodge noted, lots of women were voting other women out to simply cut down on the competition.
WHATEVER!!!! There is somebody for everybody….
That’s what’s wrong with society today…too much emphasis on looks.
That’s why we have those plastic surgery debacles (is that how you spell it? LOL)….people with eating disorders….and so forth.
And how much weight is too much for this site? 5 or 10lbs? Cuz I know I gained some over the holidays….
Wow, these people might be physically beautiful but they’re definitely ugly on the inside for judging people based on their weight, appearance, etc. I guess you get what you pay for, thank goodness it’s a free site.
I gained about 8lbs over the holidays and since I’m only 5’2″ that means a whole lot, my jeans feel like tourniquets
LaTechGrad02 Says:
Wow, these people might be physically beautiful but they’re definitely ugly on the inside for judging people based on their weight, appearance, etc. I guess you get what you pay for, thank goodness it’s a free site.
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It’s called “shallow”.
well dang…harsh much?
Wow. I didn’t even know people really used those sites like that. But my questions is if these people are so beautiful and dang near perfect (since the site only selects the best people to join) then why are they still single in the first place, why the need for an online dating service?
@Al-Ameera
You on point with that one!!!
This is just sad. How could you only judge ppl from thier physical attributes? PPl can be so stupid and ignorant.
A-HA!
that is…hilarious…he’s the site owner, so he can do whatever he wants…it’s not like his policies weren’t clear lol..those ppl set them up for disappointment..they should have signed up for bbwlove.com
BEING FAT ISN’T CUTE!
IT’S A HEALTH RISK.
YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE SKINNY BUT YOU CAN BE SLIM.
BEING FAT ISN’T CUTE.