Too fat for online dating - Health, Diet and Fitness Today - 04/01/10
Posted: 04/01/2010 at 08:12pm by Rich Leigh, founder of Fat Free Fitness
Today’s update is perhaps giving in to the very reason behind the story in the first place, but it’s definitely worth giving it a mention.
Dating and social network site BeautifulPeople.com has axed some 5,000 members following supposed complaints that they had gained weight.
The site has calls itself "the largest network of attractive people in the world", and has gained a huge amount of media attention today off the back of this story, helped chiefly by the following quote from site founder Robert Hintze, which may anger you:
"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."
Remember that public relations is what it is, and whether or not you agree is irrelevant – the fact that this story is undoubtedly false does not change the fact that the website, by the virtue of blogs and media outlets like this, has achieved its goal of reaching target potential members and promoting its message that it will only accept attractive people.
In my opinion, if the issue of obesity was one of aesthetic importance, you’d have to be a pretty vacuous person to be overly bothered by it. In reality though, it’s not: obesity is an issue of health. Obesity leads to fatal disease, and by jumping on the appearance bandwagon in a bid to promote their service, Beautifulpeople.com are simply pushing an agenda that loses sight of what is important.
The site allows entry to new members only if existing members vote them as sufficiently attractive to warrant it - which is enough of a warning for you to ignore the site and its ridiculous elitist sentiment!
The website which has succeeded in raising awareness of its key message by basically having a bash at obese people!
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