Dating Site for Beautiful People

[guywithashovel]

http://www.darwindating.com/

It's Darwin Dating.

Apparently, the people responsible for this site were tired of other dating sites that were (presumably) filled with "unattractive, desperate fatsos" (the site's words, not mine), so they created this site.

A local radio station that I follow on Facebook posted this on their status the other day. I've looked at it, and as far as I can tell, it's real. I was wondering if maybe it was a joke.

From what I understand, you can't join this site if you aren't beautiful. Before you can join Darwin Dating, you have to submit your picture and have the members of the site vote on it on a scale of 1-5, with 1 being "monkey" and 5 being "highly evolved." They also have a list of features that are banned on the site.

http://www.darwindating.com/content?page=rules

I've been reading through that list to see if I have any attributes that would get me banned (I'm not planning on applying, though!). I suspect I might get banned for "nerdy glasses." I do wear glasses, but I dunno if they'd be considered "nerdy" or not. I also have reddish hair, and red hair is on the banned list, too. I might also get chucked out for "pasty skin," since that's on the list and I'm pretty fair skinned.

What do you think of this? Would you try to join this site?

I'll be honest. Part of me wants to submit my picture just to see what would happen, but I don't know if I'm thick-skinned enough to take the verdict.

[Ladeeda]

Yeah, I think it's just a joke. Also tempted to submit my photo, just to see.

Odds are you'd get an email scolding you for being a shallow jerk. XD

[Kaylyn]

If it isn't a joke, I take issue with the 'recently joined' profile pictures. While some may consider them gorgeous, I found at least two of them kinda ugly. I hope it is a joke, because how can their panel say who is beautiful and who is not? Everyone's definition is so different.

[blas87]

That's pretty lowball, but I still think the most disgusting dating site is the one created specifically to cheat on your spouse/SO. I can't remember the specific name of the site, but I saw something about it on the Tyra show a couple of years ago. I was disgusted.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I think I'd rank far below monkey. If I'm lucky I might be an amoeba in the primordial stew.

Assuming the site's real--if a bunch of pretty people want to broadcast their shallowness by creating a dating site just for them, whatever. Looks ain't everything, even if our society seems to think they are.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

On one hand, I got to think it's a joke.

On the other, well, there are some people out there with fucked up priorities.

If it's not a joke, I guess the "beautiful people" on there will get exactly what they deserve: Someone who is just like them.



And anyways, no matter what I looked like, I'd never join a dating site that would reject a man that looked like Rick Mora. (long black hair, center part, ski jump nose. That's three, at least.) Or Gabriel Aubry (who's hair looks kind of red to me)

[Greenday]

That's pretty lowball, but I still think the most disgusting dating site is the one created specifically to cheat on your spouse/SO. I can't remember the specific name of the site, but I saw something about it on the Tyra show a couple of years ago. I was disgusted.

Ashley Madison. I was actually just reading an article on it on MSN the other day. Someone was figuring out why people cheat by posting a profile and chatting with people and even meeting people. Seems like about half are on there because there's no spark in their relationship and their SO doesn't seem to put effort into it anymore. The other half just kinda got married to someone even though they knew they weren't really sexually compatible anyway.

[guywithashovel]

Let's consider some of the things they have on their "banned" list.

Anyone with a middle part.
Red hair and/or freckles
Small jaw (men)
Teeth that aren't straight
Crooked and/or webbed toes
Webbed fingers or toes

What exactly is so hideous about these things? Seriously?

I've seen some very cute girls with crooked teeth, and so what if the fingers and toes are webbed or crooked? And a small jaw on men? Why is that such a disqualification?

[Ginger Tea]

Ginger. check
Half of teeth missing and still can't be bothered getting measured for dentures over a year since final extractions. check
Crooked toes? hell I've got too many things 'wrong' with my legs.

[Nyoibo]

Funnily enough, I don't have a single thing on their banned list...

[Cazzi]

A little googling reveals that it may have originally been set up as a "jokey" website http://www.22michaels.com/2010/06/fo...in-dating.html

But I agree with others, their list of banned features to me are more charming quirks especially paired up with the right personality. And the Miss Blonde Bimbo that came up on the "hot or not" type quiz when I first looked at that page just looked artificial & emptyheaded!

[Andara Bledin]

I have 6 things on their list, all related to my weight and teeth.

You can totally tell by the way the rules are written in that the whole thing is by popular consensus based on the livejournal account discussions.

I feel like going over there and judging every single applicant with a 5 for a few hours... >_>

^-.-^

[Lace Neil Singer]

Well, rats, guess I can't join; I have seven things on that list, maybe eight or nine due to the fact that I don't dress in high fashion and also wear glasses. I'm like totally crushed. XD

[Cazzi]

Lace, me too

But going down the list I discovered one that should ensure nobody gets to join!

Non-symmetrical faces or bodies

I've yet to see a symmetrical person!

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Let's consider some of the things they have on their "banned" list.


Teeth that aren't straight

My husband's teeth are slightly wonky and he has a diastema. he's self conscious about. Well, he used to be. He's thought about getting braces, but frankly I think that little gap between the front teeth is hot.

Remember Morten Harket (spelling) from Aha? (really dated myself there). Beautiful young man. To beautiful, really. Had a diastema. Madonna has one. Oh, and doesn't she have a center part these days? Guess she's not hot enough for The Chosen Ones. Oh, man, Owen Wilson. Huge crooked nose. Too ugly for this site.

It's okay, Owen. Come sit next to me.