By Colin Stewart
The Orange County Register
BeautifulPeople.com, a dating and social-networking site that only accepts members who are attractive to the opposite sex, has ousted about 5,000 members for allegedly gaining weight during the holidays.
“Letting fatties roam the site is a direct threat to our business model and the very concept for which BeautifulPeople.com was founded,” site founder Robert Hintze said in a release.
The site benefits from the fact that laws against discrimination typically cover personal characteristics such as gender, age, ethnicity, religion and sometimes sexual orientation but not weight or appearance.