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“Library (Second Floor). Male, brown hair. Green t-shirt, looks a bit like Channing Tatum, I would!” Don’t believe me? Come have a look for yourselves.
Way back when I was a sixth-former and higher education was still on my to-do list, I found a methodical way of deliberating which university to attend: I’d find the one which housed the most attractive men. If I knew then about the glory that is Fit Finder I would have saved myself a lot of time and forgone a lot of open-days. For those of you unfamiliar with this little gem allow me to educate you in the newest form of online seduction.
Step one relies on spotting a hottie; the difficulty level of this task I am sure is largely dependant on which university you attend. Brighton, for example, reveals a lot about its calibre of students as it hasn’t felt the need to set up a page, leaving me to assume there is no fitness to witness. Fear not students of UKC, not only are we up and running but our universal interest in ‘eye-candy’ has united our campus in its biggest hunt to date.
Once you have noticed someone that is worthy of a mention, you simply log on and add them to the fit feed. Comfortingly enough the website is completely anonymous so you can rest assured the object of your desire won’t notice your comment and spend the rest of the year calling you “that weird stalker girl”. The best part is, if you’re bored anywhere on campus and decide to take a little walk, you know exactly where the nearest babe pool is.
For those affronted by this newfound obsession with external beauty, I challenge you to deny having ever lusted after someone purely because they have a face like Jessica Alba or a six-pack that has nothing to do with beers. Fit finder is a bit of harmless fun with a saucy twist: when essay boredom is about to drive you to eating the entire contents of the library vending machine, perhaps refrain and instead log on to www.thefitfinder.co.uk.
cool article. students will surely enjoy hanging around the library because of this. lol.
It's a real shame that thefitfinder is down but I've found a pretty cool alternative called http://www.spotacutie.co.uk which even allows pictures.
By Melodee Anne on 9.11.2010
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It's always lovely to see a well-written, balanced piece of amateur journalism from inQuire Live.
Where is the counter argument in this article? Where is the argument that this 'fit feed' objectifies people and encourages people to view each other as simply pieces of meat to be ogled?
Perhaps it is a bit of harmless fun, but I find it incredibly creepy that someone can post details of another human being on a website, to explain how they find them 'hot'. It's one thing to comment to a friend, if someone passes you and you find them attractive, and completely another to post that comment on the internet for the whole world to see.
The writer even acknowledges that this must be a little off, given that the website must be anonymous to save contributors being branded "that weird stalker girl" - Here's a hint: if it seems weird, creepy, and stalker-esque, then that's probably because it is.
I'm comforted by the page which greeted me upon following the link to 'FitFinder' -
"...we have been placed under increasing pressure to take the website offline by Universities. Subsequently we have decided to remove FitFinder..."
Well, good. So Universities should be putting pressure on websites like this to shut down - they're despicable. Universities are academies of learning, not academies of perving on every piece of meat that walks by.
I notice, also, that the tagline under the title on the page is "Making Britain a better place to live" - How is that, exactly? By pointing out 'attractive' people, how are you making anyone's life better, let alone the lives of an entire nation?
The implication in this tagline is that Britain is better off with only attractive people - now, I must have missed the bit about the mass genocide of all the uglies, but I can safely say, I'm appalled.
"Making Britain a better place to live"?! By posting comments locating the whereabouts of a 'fittie'? Seriously?
If this is your idea of making the country a better place, then the politics of tomorrow have got some serious worrying to do.
Come on people, you're better than this. Stop objectifying each other, stop making a website to air every inane little thing you think about during your day, and for the love of God, stop arguing back to people who disagree with your ideas with "but it's just a bit of harmless fun".
Oh, and stop writing one-sided articles.
Thank you.
-Zoe Scandrett
Kent Union Women's Officer, 10/11
By Zoe Scandrett on 7.6.2010
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