Dating site: No ugly people

[HejiraNYC]

Originally Posted by wild-heart

"beauty fades, dumb is forever"

I have never understood this old adage. What does being beautiful have to do with being dumb? Are beauty and brains mutually exclusive? Aren't people allowed to have both?

Although I think this is a douchey concept on its face (pun intended), I think there is a certain practicality about this approach. I think we can all agree that more attractive people are the most likely to garner attention, wanted or not, on a dating website. That's just the nature of the game. Accordingly, an exceptionally attractive person will probably have many, many replies- mostly from people who are probably aspiring out of their own leagues physically. Not that I would know what it's like personally, but I would imagine that it's rather stressful being in a position of rejecting so many perfectly decent people because they are physically incompatible. Just because someone is attractive, it doesn't automatically mean he/she is also callous and indifferent to the feelings of others. And anyone who claims that they have never rejected someone on the basis of physical appearance is an out and out LIAR. A website like this helps to narrow the field and increases the ratio of hits (i.e., physical compatibility) vs. misses, which thereby reduces the stress level associated with rejecting people.