These days, people are looking for love in so many different places. There are dating sites for everyone, whether you want to cheat on your spouse or date trailer park trash, there’s a dating site for you. There’s even a dating site for those of us who are too good looking to date common ugly folk.
You may have heard of BeautifulPeople.com, the dating and networking community exclusively for good-looking people. The site was recently hit with what has been termed as an “Ugly Virus” or “Shrek Virus” which allowed 30,000 “ugly” people with hopes of overachieving, to invade the site.
But how do you know if you’re eye candy or not?
Under normal protocol, members of the site must pass a rating stage, where existing members vote on whether new applicants are beautiful enough to join the site. The virus caused the rating module to be shut down last month, allowing anyone – the hideous included, to be accepted.
According to CNET and various other publications, Greg Hodge, managing director of BeautifulPeople.com, said, “We got suspicious when tens of thousands of new members were accepted over a six-week period, many of whom were no oil painting…We responded immediately, repairing the damage from the ‘Shrek Virus’ and putting every new member back into the rating module for a legitimate and democratic vote. The result is that we have lost over 30,000 recent members.”
30,000! Wow.
30,000 people who once believed they were good looking just had their hopes dashed. At least they can take solace in knowing that true beauty is on the inside and beauty is in the eye of the beholder and whatever other phrases ugly people use to get by.
Seems to me, there’s more ugly people in the world than there “beautiful people” anyway. Why not make a new website, “uglypeople.com” where members rate applicants and reject all of those who are not ugly enough?
That’ll teach those high cheek-boned, perfect bodied losers a lesson right?
The thing about beauty in our society is that no one knows if they beautiful or not unless someone else says so. Apparently, you can’t just look in the mirror and say I’m good looking. Well you can, but you’re right only until someone comes along and tells you different. 30000 people learned that lesson.
If I have it right, the way it works is that, other good looking people who have had their good looks confirmed by other good looking people with confirmed good looks, must approve you. Once approved, you can then go ahead and make judgement calls on whether other people are good looking or not. Do I have it right?
I suppose the situation must go to a good looking arbitrator if two good looking people disagree on whether a third person is good looking or not.
There’s so many cultural and social factors that now go into what is considered pleasing to the eye.
Perceptions on beauty in society have morphed over-time into skinny girls with silicone breasts and plastic, plastic, plastic. For men, the skinny man is the odd man out, they get paid less too. Whatever happened to the child bearing hips for women and a big package for a man being the mark of beauty?
Kudos to those who remain on the outside, and like their thick girls with no teeth. Bravo to the women who love that fat guy with a beer belly just because he makes you laugh.
Like a wilting rose, beauty fades.
Here’s a thought that might blow your mind, without ugly people, would the beautiful people know that they are beautiful?
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