You might have heard about the ultra vain, attention-hungry dating site for beautiful people. They have been known kick members out for as much as putting on a little weight. I won’t mention their name here as that would tantamount to giving them exactly what they seem to seek, free publicity.  Now a new dating site has recently launched for… well, ugly people. More on A New Dating Site: For Ugly People

Vanity. It's all vanity. Vanity of vanities. I am not a very religious person but I remember those words from Ecclesiastes (that's in the Bible for those who don't know) though not in that order (if my recall is right). The (online) dictionary defines vanity as "excessive pride in one's appearance, qualities, abilities, achievements, etc." There is a dating site lives up to that definition (at least the appearance part), BeautifulPeople.com, a dating site that claims to be for... you guessed it, beautiful people.

I am not sure whether it's about attention getting, free media publicity or both. But the site appears to get quite a bit of all that. It seems to have started when the site kicked out 5000 people in January of 2010 because they had put on some weight during the holiday season (see our post). Now the same site has been in the news again, having kicked out 30,000 people from the site:

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Many have take issue with the dating site Beautifulpeople.com for kicking out 5000 of its members simply because they had put on a few extra pounds over the holidays. And as if this is not ugly enough by itself, the owner of this site had the audacity to support this ugly action by uttering even uglier words.

This guy by the name Robert Hintze was quoted as saying, ""Letting fatties roam the site is a direct threat to our business model". Who said that "fatties" can't be beautiful? And whose standard of beauty is this nut referring to? But perhaps Mr. Hintze is not so much a nut as he is an astute business person: the site has been getting lots of free publicity. I'm pretty sure there many knocking on the door in attempt to belong in this exclusive club (not everybody who thinks they are beautiful gets accepted). More on BeautifulPeople.com Showed the Ugly Side of “Beauty”