Filed under: Web, Social Networking
You may remember awful Net clique BeautifulPeople.com and its purge of overweight members back in January. To refresh your memory, Beautiful People is a social network that votes members in (and out) based on their attractiveness, as determined by other members. When those allegedly svelte surfers got rid of 5,000 “fatties” who were deemed too un-sexable to remain on the site, they were met with no small amount of criticism.
But, fine, it’s a vapid network of self-obsessed jerk-holes that, besides bruising the egos of members who were obviously so emotionally wrecked by their body image that they would join the site in the first place, has otherwise done no harm. Now, though, Beautiful People is launching an egg and sperm donation bank to be filled with its members’ statuesque genetic material for furthering a race of chiseled chins and pore-less skin. Hey, you guys ever heard of this thing called eugenics?
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BeautifulPeople.com’s Final Solution: Breed Out the Uglies originally appeared on Switched on Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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