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Originally Posted by FireFly
I call BS. I'm curvy. I'm bigger than average, have a few extra pounds, and I would still conventionally be called attractive. I prefer the term voluptuous, but dating websites don't have such a term, so I'm stuck with curvy. I wear pants that fit and I have a waist. In fact, I'm pretty hot.
So you're saying you'd pass me by because I clicked off curvy? You're missing a lot of good women that way.
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Then in a way using that particular filter statistically speaking creates false negatives (the people who actually are honest). There's always those who slip between the cracks (Unfortunate but reality). Whenever generalizations are made a straw man arguement exists when and where statistical outliers are found. When making choices of search results in the hundreds things like perception bias must be taken into consideration. If I took the time to evaluate every submission to find out if a person was really 'curvy and attractive' and not 'fat and disguisting but using that word as a ephanism' it would defeat the purpose of filtering by criteria. The subjectivity of such terms ruins descriptive words (Which was the point of my arguement). I'm sure if you found the term 'voluptuous' as a descriptor on one of those sites there would be plenty of physically unappealing people who are not 'conventionally attractive' using that to describe themselves dishonestly, thus spreading that negative connotation.