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I’m not exactly up to date on my news, I under­stand.  I’d recently read that fat peo­ple, or those who had gained weight, were kicked off the pop­u­lar beautifulpeople.com web­site.  You can read the story here.

A beautifulpeople.com rep­re­sen­ta­tive was quoted as say­ing “Let­ting fat­ties roam the site is a direct threat to our busi­ness model and the very con­cept for which BeautifulPeople.com was founded.”  Wow.

I would hon­estly say that I’m not the biggest eye catcher of all the times (yes, I said ALL the times), I don’t have a one pack or gar­gan­tuan biceps, but what biceps I do have can admin­is­ter a wicked tight head lock if you get out of line! The point is that I prob­a­bly wouldn’t qual­ify for that site and I’m good with that because I’m good with “me.”

Con­fi­dence goes a long way, too.  I’ve dated women of, um, var­i­ous shapes, shades and sizes in my dat­ing adven­tures.  I’m friends with a good num­ber of them still and I think too much value is placed on looks, for sure.  I’m not going to tell you that looks aren’t impor­tant.  They are, it’s what get’s to the front door typ­i­cally.  How­ever, once you peel that sparkly wrap­per from your “gift” you know you’re hop­ing for some­thing awe­some inside.  That’s how I see it and I know I’m not alone there.

Really, it’s the loss of the other mem­bers on that crap web­site that plays into what’s wrong with dat­ing any­way.  I’d encour­age peo­ple to try a ser­vice like My Blind Cupid, which, as of this writ­ing, is still in Beta, I believe.

Any­way, that’s my ran­dom two cents today.  What do you guys think about sites like this and what they did?