I think it's one of those "your mileage may vary" things. My vote, therefore, is for "ridiculous"
And I agree, some people are into overweight people. For me personally, I've always been into anywhere from curvy to bigger women. And it's not that I think it will be easier or anything - it isn't, everyone has to be impressed and interested and that's very hard when you're forced to be a normal person just to survive - which isn't going to impress or interest anyone. It's like you have to be two different people, living in two opposite directions, at once - but that's another topic.
I no longer think the perfect person exists. I think everyone will have some degree of pros and cons. But at the same time, I think "taking what you can get", "having no standards", and "settling" is just setting yourself up for failure and unhappiness. And feeling like you can't have any standards makes you feel bad about yourself.
If you're not dating someone you actually like as a person - even if they're hot, rich, high-status, the "type" of person you want, whatever - then you're just wasting your time, not to mention theirs as well. And lying, both to them and yourself. And life's too short for insincere things. That's what I think anyway.