Dating Outrage!
A Current Affair featured a story this week that completely outraged not only the dating community but the entire Australian society.
It involved a dating site called ‘Beautiful People’ – check it out at http://au.beautifulpeople.net
As they describe themselves they are ‘an online community whose purpose is to create relationships, both private and professional, between people who because of their attractive appearance and personal qualities stand out from the majority.’ In laymen’s terms it is a dating site for ONLY beautiful people!
But who decides if you’re beautiful or not? Basically to apply to this dating site, you have to submit of photo of yourself. Over a 72 hour period the members of the site vote on whether you are good looking enough to be part of the site. If not, you’re basically branded ugly and not allowed to meet fellow daters.
What sort of message is this sending to people – if you’re ugly don’t bother applying? It’s as shallow as Posh Spice!
It’s also bullying - it’s like being back in the school yard and if you don’t make the cut, you get a mocking!!!
Dating is suppose to be about having fun and MOST dating sites provide this but what on earth does Beautiful People provide – bullying, mockery, discrimination, shallowness?
Considering 60,000 people in the world are connected to this website perhaps we are turning into shallow and vein people only wanting to meet and date those of our own standards?
But aren’t we all beautiful in our own way?
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Dont think I would be accepted to that site,lol, not that Id even want to be a part of something so discriminatory.
Check out the site! Be interesting to pop a photo on the site and see the remarks?
I think you would have more fun checking out other dating sites like Yahoo Personals.
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I shall submit a photo for a laugh and inform you of the comments, should be interesting,lol.
A lot of them do look like they have got their pics of a website or fashion catalogue!
Gross!
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Just submitted a pic, not a very good one mind you, so should know by this time tomorrow.
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By the time everyone is fifty they''ll have the face they deserve.
You're right - they do deserve each other
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I love how pretentious that site is. The guys are jerk-offs and the women show cleavage and are considered "beautiful". I'm no oil painting myself, but I haven't got a head like a half-chewed Mintie like some of the ones displayed on the front page.
You guys should do a little experiment and see if you get on the site!
Perhaps we should start a REAL & FABULOUS wesbite!
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btw, it doesn't work with Firefox...
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Seriously, these people are not beautiful in the classic or elegant sense. They are plastic and cosmetic and general embodiments of crass commercial "hotsexiness."
Thanks for your comments!
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Lately I've been saddened by airbrushed photos in magazines. I saw a before and after airbrush photo once, and the two girls looked so different they might as well have made a completely new 3D image of her!
So now, you get all these young girls struggling to be people that technically, aren't actually real.
Okay I'm going off topic...
The bpn site sucks!
Imagine if you thought that you were gorgeous only to be told by people who don't know you at all that you're not! What a knock to the self esteem?
Or would you really care about the opinion of a shallow person?
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Besides, beauty is so subjective. Who is to say what's beautiful and what isn't???
It doesn't say anything about society as a whole that 6000 people have signed up to this site!
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Kylie W - I looked at the site and was not remotely interested in any of them! They look so plastic - helps when you're been air brushed!
And what does it say about their personality to put themselves on a site like that!
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And yes Im not vein or shallow, least I like to think Im not
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At least the people on the hotornot site are having a laugh at themselves......unlike our friends on this dating site.
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Ah, to have the day off today.......oh that's right, I'm at work and still sitting on the pc surfing sites and putting my two cents into these conversations (so it's hardly like I'm working).
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he he!!!
Perhaps you should swap digits!
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Perhaps you can start some kind of matchmaking service DateGal........that in no way resembles that hopelessly idiotic one listed in the post.
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Thought Id let you both know my photo was approved on hot or not,lol still waiting to hear back from that other site
cheers
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Yes love matchmaking! Perhaps that can be a new patr of my site!
Wow - TonyK - you need to put your photo on my site too and we'll have some fun! Congrats!!!
I am sure you will do well on the Beautiful People as well!
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Maybe we can all do it! he he!
Just kidding around! Glad you could entertain yourself today!
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People are shallow, deal with it.
Atleast their voting system is good, let the beautiful people judge themselves to death, it isn't like its easy getting beautiful.
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http://au.beautifulpeople.net/not_supported.htm
So I guess Firefox isn't beautiful enough for Beautiful People either?! I think it is pretty cute though...
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I am a cube, and I am beautiful!
I think they are assuming anyone who doesn't use IE is a geek, such as us firefox users...
I don't think I'd last on that site. If you all push me hard enough, I'd go for it. Fuck them if they can't take a joke.
This kind of website reinforce the West nowadays' society philosophy. We live in a age of body and beauty worship.
Great post!!!
Have you uploaded ur picture there?
Jay and Ahmed - you're probably too cute for the site hence why you got the error!
Questionable - you should defiantly try and get on the site and link it back to Slurred Words! Would be a cracker!
Fabrizio - sorry, I couldn't steep that low to put myself on there even if it was a joke or for research purposes! Would hate to think of the kind of people I would be chatting too!
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For the sake of discussion, the dictionary defintion of beauty is as follows:
i) "a combination of qualities such as shape, colour" (which i think is what this site is basing itself on, purely face value stuff) ii) a combination of qualities that pleases the intellect or moral sense.
Like the Bible, it is open to interpretation.
It is also possible these beautiful people really aren't putting photos of themselves up there. Have you heard of the second self created from too much time on the net?
Good find Date Gal.
i have a profile on the bp website for australia and italy.
i originally put my photo up for approval just to see if i would make it, but got voted out the first time. the second time was to show persistence in the face of adversity. this time i was accepted.
Now i can honestly say after a few weeks of being on this site my mind had changed. i have made new friends as well as some interesting contacts regarding furthering business plans and implimenting differnet statergies in my own life.
yes there are definatley people who enter this site with just a nice photo but no interaction....and these are the ones who get no benefit out of it.
as for the italian website....i am on there to further my linguistic skills in both writing and understanding a language i have a passion for.
if this is the definition of someone who is just vain and beautiful with no substance then i am more than happy to be called that. but by judging people before you have any idea about who they are or what they are about shows that you have a trait that would never be accepted on this site so i recommend you do not bother applying.
i hope this provides some clarity and understanding. this just goes to show how the media can control the way of thinking. and also what people can write without seeing both sides of the coin.[/B][/B]
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The base is 'beautiful people', that is, you have to look good to get it, now, the personalities of beautiful people (so called) is something else all together, the site itself is discriminatory to us old and ugly crocks. put simply, it is based on superficiality, it won't be any more than superficial, your friendships are based with other people who are superficial, skin deep, that is all, that is why they are there, and no matter what you say, it isnt going to magically change the basic system of the site.
and I'm an ugly old crock and proud of it. Heck, I might not ever get accepted on that crappy site, I sure as hell am not going to use internet explorer just to.
and you cannot base an argument with out knowing the full story. As you are not in there you obviously have no understanding of the facts on the other side of the fence.
it is circulated in the site to vote people in not primarily on there photo but on what they write in there profile about themselves. people with no text explaining what type of person they are do not genaerally get voted in. we are looking for substance to a person, otherwise they really are not truely beautiful.
for me the fact that you have judged these people makes you ugly....and i have not even see your picture.....which proves my point.
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Yes I have judged these 'people', I see them as shallow and superficial through and through, I dont need to know them, much less do I need to know paris hilton before judging her.
Besides, any website that doesn't accept firefox is a baised websites imo, call me a tech freak, but that is discrimination enough. I don't accept it on this one fact alone, it is irnoic they withold people using firefox, I hazzard to guess its because the stereotype behind peope who use alternative browsers is that they are geeks, hence blocking everything save IE. Maybe I'm crazy, but last I checked everywebsite supported firefox, not once have I been blocked off because the wbeiste did not support firefox, firefox is more complaint to protcoles than friggin IE is anyway!
and i am not sure why you have placed inverted commas around 'people'. 'does' 'this' 'get' 'your' 'point' 'across' 'better' 'because' 'if' 'so' 'maybe' 'i' 'should' 'write' 'like' 'this' 'all' 'the' 'time'.
i have said my piece and it is for you to put forward your own opinion which i respect but do not necessarily have to agree with. as you do not with min. that is the beauty of the world. imagine if we all had the same opinion.....would be pretty boring hey?
have a good day....and good luck witht the firefox problem.
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Yes, I put 'people' in quotes becuase I don't want to call them that, save the english language doesn't have a word to replace 'super shallow jerks'.
If we all had the same opinion, there'd be world peace, and there wouldn't be 'beautiful people', or Paris Hilton for that matter (who quite frankly, like all those people on that site, is an ugly old hag).
'nuff said really, the base of it is superficial, and you can't, despite your best efforts say the rest is good, like 'oh don't worry, sure it sucks and is as shallow as a puddle right now, but give it a day or two and you'll make friends and find the substance', pfft, you wish, you can't get any further than crap, because it is based on superficiality. And you know it.
the fact that your entire argument is based on putting people down continuously without one solid point relating to the topic (other than your web browser) makes me wonder if you are not just a jaded person looking to always argue the other side just for the sake of doing it. i just cannot coprehend your lack of abilitly to dicuss a matter without using profanities.
i believe you should maybe start taking a look at yourself before judging others because you definately are not someone to be judging others.
i have put my point across and really have nothing further to say. i hope this has not effected your blood pressure too much, as i wish harm on no one.
communque, voglio dire qualcosa. tu sei una grande bicile. devi trovare un altro cervello perche il tuo non funzione gusto. secondo me....sei 40 anni e ancora vivi con la tua mama. metti la tua volpe di fuoco in tuo culo scemo.
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Thats pretty much it.
Oh and no luck wiht 'my' firefox problem, the problem isn't on my end, it's on theirs selectively keeping out all browsers save the one 'beautiful people' use, called 'Internet Explorer'
But I can easily work around it apparently, just take a chunk of my ass and inject it into my cheeks and replace 98% of my brain with gas, now upload my picture and hope I'm shallow enough for people to accpet me.
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You don't see me using computer code to get points accross
No one wants to be branded ugly.
The members of BP havent done anything wrong to any of you guys here (besides rating some of pics not worthy of joining).
Get Over It....
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You think I even bothered trying? I don't want acceptance into sucha group of nitwits, but as the saying goes 'beauty is only skin deep', and the skin aint deep is it?
Do I want a bunch of self reightous jerks say I'm beautiful? Does there word have any meaning to me? Or to anyone who has any character? Might come as a surprise to you but I, like many other people am not about following the herd.
And who said no one wants to be branded ugly? Some people make a profit out of the fact.
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So long as I'm not like paris hilton though, the other extreme (so-called), the very essence of butt ugly (in a very literal sense mind you).
Then theres those who consider themselves beautfiful, wlel they dont so much so they want to be seen as such, so they upload their pictures on the web hoping people aprove. Sure thing they might, but it creates a network of shallowness, full of people who only want to be seen as beautiful by their compatriats, ironically these people tend to be like paris hilton, butt ugly, save for the fact they can't usually afford to take chunks of their arse and shove it up their cheeks.
IM SURE PEOPLE OVER AT THE BP SITE ARE HAVING MUCH MORE FUN THAN YOU LOT!
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Anyway, maybe to you I don't, but I can tell you beauty is skin deep, hence I don't really give a damn what I look like on the inside or out.
Maybe I am being crazily over the top, but that simply is my opinoin.
I mean really, they litereally take chunks of their rear ends and inject it in their cheeks and say thats beauty. I call that BUTT UGLY, and I say it in every meaning of the phrase.
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anon one, about the fare ladies comment, erm... no comment. Sorry, but whatever I say it will either make me look like a self reigthous jerk or a a hopeless geek, needless to sa if it were up to me I'd choose the latter of the two. though neither applies.
anon 2, I am having the best time on date gal mocking these so-callled beautfiul people, especially the concept of taking chunks out of your ass and putting it on your face, thats just wonderful satire (if I do say so myself).
I am just going to get straight to the point of expressing my opinion after reading you remarks here.
You are one poor soul carrying a great burden and luggage as the result of your own prejudices and lack of open mind. If you cannot enter the gate so to wonder about from the front to the rear in someone's space of mind and appearance, than you are one great pitiful soul.
Who are you to say so much cynical criticisms about BP (beautifulpeople.net)? I bet by heaven and earth that you are not a member of BP. Since you don't know the inner layer of BP, I advise you kindly that it's only for your own good if you don't linger around in places like this and spill stuffs about which you have hardly knowledge of. Stay home or go for a walk and try to think about many different matters from different perspectives. It is the least you can do, inexpensive thing to do but I am sure it you'll give yourself better chance of getting out of such prejudice attitude.
I am a great fan of beauty. I appreciate beauty and on BP site, the people will for sure be turned off by people like you. You are someone who have plenty to say out of presumptions but has not much to weigh and contribute to being a beautiful like minded people as in BP. I surely would like to add here that there are plenty more people who are good looking out there and are totally happy to not join BP.
BP isn't a dating site if you must know for sure. There is no statement on BP website about finding a soul mate in there. Media mistook it and stated as a dating site. Surely there is the chance that people find each other through their interactions on BP. There are single people and there are happily married people who are members of BP. And people with shallow interpretation like you Ahmed will surely pleased the media, because it is so easy for them to feed you anything and you'll just swallow it all.
With consideration,
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You cannot in all honesty expect me to believe otherwise? You can't expect me to think 'hey, ok, so sure thing only goodl ookers are accepeted, but once they are they make deep and meaningful friendships and aydayadyaya', sure they do, but only with other people just as superficial as them. I can be friends with the ugliest guy alive and he could be my best friend ever, like wise if he is the best looking guy on earth it could mean the same to me friendship wise.
But to base that friendship on the fact he/she has to look good for him/her to even come into consideratin shows how superficial and shallow I am, and shows the same for the person trying tob e my friend for even considering my opinion to be worth anything whatsoever.
Far as I'm concerned it seems the epitome of beauty is about taking a piece of your ass and shoving it in your face, and I dont accept that, but you guys do. Not in a literal sense but it appears the founding base of that little website festers likewise minded opinions on beauty.
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For the record too, if you must know, Today Tonight is the epitome of crappy journalism, so whateer they say about you I don't really care. What I know about you is what I'm basing my completely unfounded and ill-informed opions on.
I know social communities, don't take me for a fool, I know them better than you, the ins and outs,the way they work. But never have I seen one that recquires you have good looks to join.
Anyway, I will endeavour to join BP some point down the line, I will take up several jobs so I can afford a plastic surgeon who can take bits and pieces of my rear end and put it all over my face, then I'll put my pciture on BP and be accepted for sure. Hey, if I was desperate, I'd do that.
so you can judge for yourself about me and so called beauty.......
just remember ahmed that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. there are people on bp that i do not necessarily find attractive.....but they are definately beautiful people in the way they carry themselves and approach conversational topics and interact with others. so beauty is not only skin deep.
there are also ways to debate a topic without a high level of negetivity.
in the end......the people who want to apply for this site do so by there own free will......if you do not feel like being on it then do not apply.
to work yourself up over such a small thing only takes time out of your life that could be spent doing something fun....or something you enjoy and love. it's wasteful.
i hope you find your peace with this topic ahmed.
ciao
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So its all a matter of a simpel game of 'hot or not' that defines wether or not you get in.
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I'm pretty cute, I think. I dont describe myself as "beautiful" or "striking", but I do aiight. Anyhow, 3 days later, I was accepted.
I couldn't decide if I was ashamed or excited. I mean, I'd been accepted in a place that prides itself on ONLY allowing the Beautiful People! And then again, I was a part of a place that ONLY allowed Beautiful People.
Then I made my way into the forums. And there, I have met some of the most amazing friends I've had my entire life. Sure, there are some losers there who think too highly of themselves, but for the most part, I've met truly amazing people.
I didn't join this site to date. I've never used it for "dating". Its a social networking site. And I've used it as such. I've made great friends who I am proud to say I know... "beautiful" or not.
I find it highly hypocritical that you guys are judging the members of this site as "stupid brainless bimbos and jocks". The site is full of doctors, professors, financial advisors, attorneys, even a woman who founded and runs a charity for children with a rare gastrointestinal disorder. She's lobbying in Washington while you're complaining on the internet.
Proud BP Member -
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It's true that the media puts a lot of ideals in front of us a la paris hilton and tells us how we should define beauty. If you don't look like those ideals it's only natural to doubt your attractiveness. For people who question "am i good enough, am i pretty enough, smart enough" there are few ways to get answers. What's so wrong about asking your peers if you are attractive? Your mother will likely tell you that you are, and your friends most likely will as well. But if you want to know what the world at large thinks, applying for Beautifulpeople.net or hotornot.com is a way to guage.
obviously if you're not prepared to deal with the results then it's not for you.
There are tons of groups that limit their membership based on different qualifications. You're not comfortable with this one because you don't believe that to base a group on physical attractiveness has any value. That's your right. But there's no reason to judge those that find merit in the site, for whatever reasons.
You clearly fancy yourself as better than the people on the site, which is honestly just as shallow of a judgment.
P.S. flying high, you rock, i'll see you in the forums. ~ jessie
I thought the same thing before I became a member. I didn't get in the first time, but my brother did- so I reapplied, got in and found some amazing new friends.
No matter where I go in the entire world, I know somebody there who I "know" thanks to this web site.
How easy it is for you all to judge from upon high.
While the premise of the site might put you off, and I admittedly joined on a lark myself. Most of the members are all active in their professional and community-based lives. Just because the site set itself apart in its own way does not make it a bad thing. Did it occur to any of you geniuses that it is a BUSINESS? If the business is successful, so be it, and may they grow rich in their endeavors.... they thought of it and you didn't.
Did you know there are web sites now for everything in the world? Take a peek at Sugardaddyforme.com if you want something to judge and sneer at.
These people aren't turning their noses up at you. Quite often the profile text wins over the photo anyway- oh, but none of you would know that because you would never deign to apply- or would you?
But then! If perchance you were accepted, would you give it the rightful opportunity to be something more than you prejudge it to be? Would you admit to being wrong about BP right here where you passed judgment?
Doubtful.
Seems UGLY to me.
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I thought the same thing before I became a member. I didn't get in the first time, but my brother did- so I reapplied, got in and found some amazing new friends.
No matter where I go in the entire world, I know somebody there who I "know" thanks to this web site.
How easy it is for you all to judge from upon high.
While the premise of the site might put you off, and I admittedly joined on a lark myself. Most of the members are all active in their professional and community-based lives. Just because the site set itself apart in its own way does not make it a bad thing. Did it occur to any of you geniuses that it is a BUSINESS? If the business is successful, so be it, and may they grow rich in their endeavors.... they thought of it and you didn't.
Did you know there are web sites now for everything in the world? Take a peek at Sugardaddyforme.com if you want something to judge and sneer at.
These people aren't turning their noses up at you. Quite often the profile text wins over the photo anyway- oh, but none of you would know that because you would never deign to apply- or would you?
But then! If perchance you were accepted, would you give it the rightful opportunity to be something more than you prejudge it to be? Would you admit to being wrong about BP right here where you passed judgment?
Doubtful.
Seems UGLY to me.
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For example. there's a tall people club. Do they discriminate against short people? Certainly not. They have similar experiences which they share during their meetings.
Mensa is restricting access to its community - and that test is certainly harder to pass than the BP.net challenge. But would anyone regard the Mensa guys as acting discriminatory against lower IQs? Of course not.
In fact, access to many (maybe most) groups is restricted. Every SPORTS TEAM requires you to pass a test (or try-out) to join, but to they discriminate against worse athletes? And would anyone write a whining article and swing the "discrimination" hammer at the club members if the world's uglier fellows formed a group called uglypeople.net and gave access only to the worst-looking people they can find? Probably not.
Apparently, the rant above is not about discrimination. It's about disappointment. It's about being rejected. And while I feel sorry for anyone who cannot reach their defined goals I still expect everyone to be fair and stick with the realities. Yes, I would have liked to be a pilot. However, my three-dimensional vision is limited, so I needed to swallow the disappointment, adjust to the realities and create new goals and move on. Calling the medical committe "discriminatory" wouldn't have helped meanyway. It's a similar thing with BP.net. Maybe, if you don't get access, instead of accusing the current members of being shallow, you might want to adjust to realities, give your profile text a make-over and try to find a hair-dresser who doesn't have a reputation of cutting the greatest mullets before taking a new picture - and try again. Or move on. But unfunded accusations against the BP-members will neither get you access nor will it make you a better (aka more beautiful inside) person.
So, here is the actual and only discrimination I can find reading that above article: It's pretty much a discriminatory act against the great-looking minority to allow anyone BUT the attractive people to form communities with restricted access. And the author of that badly researched article (BP.net is not a dating site) might want to consider this: BP.net is a in fact a very small community consisting of a tiny minority of the people in the world. However, this tiny little fraction of 60,000 out of those 6 billion people living on this planet can hardly act discrimatory against the rest of the world in the first place. Per definition "discrimination" has to be executed by a MAJORITY.Otherwise it isn't even close to "discrimination" but it's just a choice of who one wants to communicate with on a particular platform. No more or less than that.
Oh, and one more remark: Apparently none of those people posting comments in this blog have gotten access to BP.net. All of you judging the BP-members as "shallow" and "superficial" are acting just like that: To me it seems exceptionally shallow and superficial and unfair to judge those fine people of BP.net without having accessed the community.
<sarcasm> Well, you gotta excuse me now - I need to get ready for my three-hour work-out and I also need to get my carrot-and-celery-dinner prepared before meeting with the ladies in my photoshop-and-airbrush class. We need to edit some more of our pictures before uploading them to BP.net. </sarcasm>
Have a great one!
As someone above also mentioned.. it is a small community. Many of "us" have met in person, have events in different states... so we know when someone is "real". I there is a fake noted, they are deleted. If there is someone that poses as threatening or dangerous they are deleted too. How many sites offer that?
As far as "who would want to be on a site like that"...I joined the site after seeing a story about it on TV. To be honest, I joined for the sole purpose of seeing if I would get in and also to see how my outside appearance was judged by men. A lot of people join for those reasons... not because we think we are better than anyone else, or because we are shallow.
The site isn't all cleavage bearing, self rightous, vain and shallow people. In fact, I have only met a few on there that have any of those qualities. And those people are everywhere, not just on a site for the "beautiful".
Like the few people above that spoke on behalf of BP, I too have met some wonderful friends that are beautiful on the inside as well... that I never would have met if I hadn't joined that site.
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I think the general message you all are trying to send is to not judge a book by its cover. Can I judge a porno mag by its cover? I think I can, can I judge a book written by Tim O'Brian from its cover? Yes I can, can I judge a website that only accepts 'beautiful people' by its cover? Like hell I can't.
I'm not saying the people aren't 'oh so nice', and I'm not accusing it of being one of those porn exchange networks, but I know, just as wel as you, it is a site infested with people who joined wiht the sole intent of feeling good about the way they look and to mingle with other people at their own standards.
I don't like blanket judging here, but thats the way it comes across, really comes across, right down to the very fact they don't allow web browsers other than IIE (and now netscape) to get into the site, I mean damn, what are they basing that one on? It makes no sense whatsoever.
> is to not judge a book by its cover. Can I judge a
> porno mag by its cover?
Come on, get over it and face it: Yes, it is tough to be rejected by anyone. Even by a community. And if comparing that community with the porn industry makes you happy - keep comparing. A number of those comments up there as well as dategal's badly researched article were posted in a BP forum, and, believe me, we have been laughing our gorgeous butts off since. You guys are hilarious in your outrage and prejudice. It's drop-dead funny, really. You guys act like a 3-year old that has been refused candy.
> but I know, just as wel as you, it is a site infested
> with people who joined wiht the sole intent of feeling
> good about the way they look
Wrong. As explained above by six or so BP members.
Let me ask this: Can you read? And if you are indeed able to decipher the words, can you understand what you read?
> and to mingle with
> other people at their own standards.
Okay, and WHAT's wrong about that again? That's what clubs and communities and groups in general are all about. I am a member of a variety of groups. A biking group, a backgammon club, a horseback-riding club, a running club, five different professional networks, a writing club, my college alumni, an extreme sports community that teams up for fun stuff like skating down bobsledge runs, Mensa, and BP-net. ALL of the above are clubs or groups that give access only to those who fulfill certain standards. Everywhere in life we mingle with people meeting our standards in the various activities. So why - in your eyes - is it allowed to have tall people or athletic or intelligent people to form exclusive groups while you refuse thatsame right to beautfiful people. Why, if you indeed find it so shallow, does it matter such a big deal to you? I think that's terribly shallow of YOU who, in fact, does worse judging by the