Dating Website Bans Fat People

anybody who actually did sign up to Beautifulpeople.com would be pretty shallow

A Danish website called Beautifulpeople.com which promotes itself as an upmarket dating portal has apparently taken the step of deleting the user accounts of 5,000 members who they said were overweight and therefore did not fit the profile of ‘beautiful people’.

The web site which prides itself on strict criteria said that after they saw new photographs posted by members showing weight gain over the holidays they were deemed to be unsuitable. The web site owner Mr. Robert Hinze said that members of beautifulpeople.com expected the “high standard of beauty” to be invoked at all time and that by letting overweight people on to the site the business model was being damaged.

Well we had a long chat about this in the Ukmedix Newsroom and the general consensus was that anybody who actually did sign up to Beautifulpeople.com would be pretty shallow and fake and therefore people that did get booted off the site only have themselves to blame for joining it in the first place.

While obviously the whole thing is just a publicity stunt to attract more shallow minded individuals to their website it does highlight how easy it is to provoke people and generate media attention by using the ‘fat’ word. Calling people fat is arguably much more offensive than using the other F-word on them. If you want to make sure that a girl never talks you again you only have to call her fat once.

There are lots of dating agencies and even nightclubs which specifically cater for overweight people and some men called Fat Admirers are very turned on by overweight women. You should never forget however that being overweight is extremely unhealthy and makes you far more likely to suffer from heart disease, cancer and a whole list of other illnesses.