Catpaw – diary of an angry cat

Oh what a silly world this is. We are inundated with the myth that looks are everything and beauty is a high goal. Talent, hardwork character? They are often thought of as a by-word for “ugly”. The fashion industry, Hollywood, magazines, advertising – I believed those who ran these industries had plumbed the depths of narrow minded shallowness, but along comes a dating website called “Beautiful People” that proves, no matter how low society goes, there’s always another group willing to pick up the shovel and burrow even deeper.

Beautiful People touts itself as a dating service for the the good looking. Look up the words shallow, vain and idiotic and you will see this website as the entry. Here is a snippet from their website:

• Do looks matter to you, when it comes to selecting a partner?
• Do you want to guarantee your dates will always be beautiful?
• No more filtering through unattractive people on mainstream sites
• Meet beautiful people locally and from around the world – now

Oh and in case you think you are “Too ugly to sign up” the owners will let you ‘browse” the beautiful people, I guess to rub our collective noses in what we are missing. What noblesse oblige! I couldn’t help but break out in spasms of laughter over the incredibly juvenile attitude of the site. Nice to know some people think high school cliques are the height of social evolution! Now I have no problem with the notion that looks influence our choices, but to base an entire relationship on being “beautiful” is begging for disaster.

But the last laugh came today. Evidently far too many of the beautiful folks gained a bit of weight over the holidays and were purged from the the site. Approximately 5,000 former perfect people were turfed because they had the nerve to “let themselves go” over the holidays. Now… I can’t help wondering how the owners of the site knew this already. Christmas decorations have barely been put away yet, the gods of Beautiful People were able to peer in their crystal ball and see how much weight each person has gained. Did the offenders boast about their Christmas fat? Are they being spied upon? Or is this just another bit of silly headline grabbing on the part of the desperately shallow?

I think all the “ugly” people in the world should flood the site with applications. Keep the silly gits busy filtering out we imperfect sorts. Maybe we can sign up with the same pictures and see if they even notice. Now that would be fun.

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