Dating Site Expels Fatties

[Slayer_2]

Who cares? Let them figure out that 99.9% of their customers are fat-asses. And the system sounds flawed to me. It's called google, and it allows you to search "sexy people" with a few key-presses.

I don't have anything against fat people, it's just liars that I despise. And frankly, these kind of sites are full of them, no matter how "exclusive" they think they are.

 

[Klepa]

Their site owns: "Too ugly to sign up? Click here to browse BeautifulPeople as guest."

I'm hideous, but I don't see anything wrong with this. Like some people have said already, they want to uphold the quality of their service. Sure, their business might be directed at superficial assholes, but how is that news? Look at the fashion industry, it revolves around morons. Look at Reality TV, idiots are it's lifeline! Look at McDonalds! Look at Apple!

 

[Spiner909]

Eh, the world sucks.
Moving on to a relevant subject, how about some pie?

Sure! Got a plate?

 

[Space Spoons]

If it's a website specifically for people looking to date based on standards of physical beauty (and as I understand it, that's exactly what this website is), they're perfectly within their rights to expel users who don't meet those standards. We might not agree with their philosophies, but then, no one's really asking us to. That's the beauty of the free market.

 

[Pegghead]

I don't see the problem...Honestly, how can anyone be surprised at how vain and judgmental people (myself included) are? Do you honestly think most people would be looking to date a porker? I sure as fuck wouldn't, while I don't go out of my way to upset overweight people, I have not motivation to date them.

If I was to subscribe to a dating service (however unlikely that may be) I wouldn't want it full of people I've no physical interest in.

Bunch of snobby assholes. If they're apparently so beautiful then why do they have to resort to such a desperate dating method.

They may be beautiful people, but they have ugly souls.

Ugly souls, really? That's probably the weakest thing I've ever heard... If you were spending hours a week working out in a gym so as to make yourself look pleasing, surely you wouldn't think it unreasonable to find a partner who is also willing to put in the effort to be attractive.

Yeah I 'spose that was an overstatement on my part. It would be like if my neighbour planted bombs in my house because I was playing games too loud. But you aren't being forced to date any particular group of people (Unless you have pushy parents) so if somebody on a dating site was openly overweight (I.E not making their profile picture that of some European body-builder) and you weren't interested you could just avoid them right? I know they're trying to make a living, but that doesn't mean they can dismiss peoples rights.

 

[Tdc2182]

Is it bad that I laughed at that?

No and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

 

[BillyShakes]

Eh, the world sucks.
Moving on to a relevant subject, how about some pie?

Sure! Got a plate?

But, of course!
What kind of pie would you like?

 

[Dys]

I don't see the problem...Honestly, how can anyone be surprised at how vain and judgmental people (myself included) are? Do you honestly think most people would be looking to date a porker? I sure as fuck wouldn't, while I don't go out of my way to upset overweight people, I have not motivation to date them.

If I was to subscribe to a dating service (however unlikely that may be) I wouldn't want it full of people I've no physical interest in.

Bunch of snobby assholes. If they're apparently so beautiful then why do they have to resort to such a desperate dating method.

They may be beautiful people, but they have ugly souls.

Ugly souls, really? That's probably the weakest thing I've ever heard... If you were spending hours a week working out in a gym so as to make yourself look pleasing, surely you wouldn't think it unreasonable to find a partner who is also willing to put in the effort to be attractive.

Yeah I 'spose that was an overstatement on my part. It would be like if my neighbour planted bombs in my house because I was playing games too loud. But you aren't being forced to date any particular group of people (Unless you have pushy parents) so if somebody on a dating site was openly overweight (I.E not making their profile picture that of some European body-builder) and you weren't interested you could just avoid them right? I know they're trying to make a living, but that doesn't mean they can dismiss peoples rights.

It may be a dick move, but I'm not convinced they are dismissing peoples rights. If gentlemens clubs are allowed to only extend memberships to males, if clubs are only allowed to let in attractive (and well dressed) people and if venues are allowed to reject people below a certain age (but still of legal age) I don't see why a dating website aiming to create a similar feel of exclusiveness can't restrict themselves to 'beautiful' people.

 

[Ancientgamer]

Well, since their whole business model is based on the membership of physically pretty people, I'd say they're perfectly justified

 

[MuddShark6]

I like the chubbies. Is there a site to keep skeletor-type folks out?

 

[YoUnG205]

Haha that is so funny, if a little bit mean, btw do they get their memberships back if they lose the wieght again?

 

[Lavi]

The girls on there must be pretty plain then >.> I like mine with meat, thanks.

 

[asinann]

Who cares, match.com and eharmony both exclude people that don't fit their parameters.

 

[jpoon]

Hilarious and mean. However it's their site so let them do whatever they want. Not like there isn't 50 other dating websites these lonely fatties can go to.

 

[Danpascooch]

LOL! thats funny. Mean and harsh and hurtful but funny lol. If you can't laugh at yourself who can you laugh at?

YOU!

Well yeah but thats cause im hilarious.

Well played.

I'll be watching you.

 

[Danpascooch]

Oh no! A DATING WEBSITE not holding up to moral standards? STOP THE FUCKING PRESSES!

Seriously, what do you expect? I guess they wanted to make sure the pedophiles who use their site would be able to run fast to avoid the cops, so they could never get connected to their site.

Paedophiles...
On a dating site for (I assume) consenting adults...
I can't help but think they're wasting their time.

For the record what moral standards is the site not "holding up to" as you say?
Its a site for people looking for attractive partners, people will be doing that regardless of whether there is a website devoted to it or not.
If it were just a general dating site then I agree it would be wrong. But it was advertised very specifically as being exclusively for beautiful people, and in our culture, fat is generally not considered beautiful.

Hell there's probably websites out there devoted to matchmaking for overweight people, do you really think they would hesitate to refuse service to some stick insect supermodel?

The whole concept of "A website only for beautiful people" pretty much breaks every moral standard I can possibly think of. It is fine if you only search and interact with people you find attractive on the site, but for a website to say "you don't deserve to find a partner with our site because you are fat" is just awful, think about what that does to a person's self esteem.

Especially people who can't help it because of glandular problems, even if they wouldn't get any attention on the site, saying they aren't good enough to use their service (if it was a safety thing, like a weight limit on an amusement park ride it'd be ok, but they are saying these people aren't good enough for their website purely based on aesthetics) because they weigh a certain amount is awful.

For people with glandular problems, obesity is as much of a disability that they cannot help as someone who is blind or deaf, could you imagine if this site banned 5000 people because they were blind? Or deaf? It would be a fucking uproar.

There are plenty of websites around for anyone to use, just general dating sites. Then there are websites for people looking for something specific. Furry dating websites, inter-racial dating websites, hell there are probably websites specifically for people with disabilities.
Its not immoral its common sense, there are large numbers of people who will not under any circumstance, consider dating someone who doesn't meet a certain standard of beauty. Rather than having to sort through piles of "plain" people's profiles on a normal dating service they have their own community which caters exclusively to their desires.

People have different wants and needs and there are websites that cater to these people. Sure we could let a heterosexual man join a lesbian dating service, but he's not gonna have much luck, much like an "ugly person" on a site for beautiful people.

I can understand your argument, and you made me look at this in a different light, but I still disagree because of the name and advertised function of the site.

if it was a self proclaimed "dating service for people looking for someone of a certain weight" I would be fine with it.

but instead it calls itself "a dating service for beautiful people looking for beautiful people" and they go so far as to attach a weight number to the criteria and basically say "you are ugly" if you are above that number.

If it called itself what I mentioned above, it would be a normal niche dating site, that would be fine, but imposing a number of pounds on the category of "beauty" is just fucking wrong, it just is.

 

[Danpascooch]

Sounds right to me. Fat people don't come to mind when you say the word "beautiful". Discriminatory but they have a right to be, just like the mods would ban me if I started posting Hentai and naked fat people.

Now I know some people have a fat fetish, but this is different in so much as it relies on physical appearances as a whole rather than hair, ethnic/race, accent, or dress code. It's like a porno with nothing but 80 year olds. Noone wants to see that, besides a "disturbed" (by society's measure and most people's) few.

Is it snobby? Is it being an asshole? Yeah, but there's nothing really wrong with it in this scenario.

1.) How is letting overweight people use your dating service ANYTHING like posting pictures of naked fat people and hentai on The Escapist forum? Seriously, explain to me how this makes any fucking sense at all.
2.) That last statement I bolded is a massive contradiction, you say it is snobby and it is an assholish thing to do, but that there is nothing wrong with it, did you hit your head? If not, you should, maybe it will help.

1)It's just inappropriate for the site.
2)My point is you can consider it assholish and snobby, and it may be, but in context their actions make perfect sense.

My point was that YOU called it assholish and snobby, but then said (not that it made sense in context) that it was not wrong. I find that to be a massive contradiction.

Also, do you really need an analogy to say that fat people are "inappropriate" for a site self proclaimed to be for "beautiful people". Also, posting Hentai and Naked Fat People is lude and horribly disgusting to expose unsuspecting people to, if you say, "yeah that's the same, these fat people are lude and horribly disgusting to expose unsuspecting people to" Then I will punch you in the face, yes, I know this is the internet, but I WILL find a way to punch you over the internet.

*shrug* So I made a mistake in conveying my point. Look at it this way:Some guy has private property. Some other guy wants to walk in, and has never done anything wrong or deserving of not been allowed in. He tries to go in, guy who owns the house says "No, get out, go away". Could the guy who owns the house be called an asshole or a douchebag? Yeah, but there's nothing wrong about what he did. It's his property. It's their site.

And honestly I was going to come back with that line as a troll after reading the sentence, but you got all ITG. Simmer down. Sad as it is, that is honestly what some people would say, and not of all of those people are trolls. Maybe you have a problem with fat not being considered beautiful. But that's a personal issue of individual perception. If the owners of the site say "fuck off", it's within their right to do so, and no wrong was committed. If say the site didn't want redheads, or blondes, or such they're within their right.

Sorry, it's hard to get outraged about an action like this when *fucking white supremacists (Stormfront)* have a website on the Internet.

I think I understand what is going wrong here.

You mean it's "not wrong" as in: "they have every legal right to do it" and I completely agree with that assertion, much like the guy owning a house, he does completely have every legal right to do so.

What I mean was, it is ethically and morally wrong, and I do stick by that, who the hell is this site to attach a number of pounds to beauty?