So imagine you get up the nerve to go on a dating site, sign up and reach out and hope for the best. Perhaps you are divorced, separated, widowed or too busy to meet people any other way.
You peruse the various sites to see what might suit your needs and wishes.There is a a dating site for everyone; people who are married who want to have an affair, people who are obese, people who eat a minimal amount, people who are Jewish, Mormon, Catholic, vegan,gay, transgendered, love animals, people who are rich, modest, into swapping and swinging and cross dressing, people who have fetishes, people who are kinky, people who are asexual. But perhaps the spookiest of all is the site for beautiful people (BeautifulPeople.com).
Try to imagine a person feeling their own beauty, finding courage and signing up with their very very best picture.
The members rank one another and the website will delete you if you are not voted beautiful enough.
It gets more sinister. Apparently a disgruntled past employee polluted the site with a virus which allowed some “ugly” or less than beautiful people onto their site.
The company quickly booted over 30,000 people off the site because, as they put it, “We can’t just sweep 30,000 ugly people under the carpet” and apologized to the “unfortunate people who were wrongly admitted to the site and believed, albeit for a short time, that they were beautiful.”
We wouldn’t want that kind of anarchy.
Last year about 5,000 members were booted off for gaining weight over Christmas. The company founder unapologetically referred to them as “fatties”.
Let’s say you did not get voted off and got matched and went on that first date. Would both of you be arm wrestling for the seat at the restaurant facing the mirror?
(I just heard “beauty is in the eye of the beer holder”. Now that is funny)