Someone’s got sand in their vagina. We all know there’s not enough real discrimination that needs to be addressed. Linda Carlson feels it necessary to keep her California attorneys busy by suing eHarmony for not offering their internet match-making services to gays and lesbians.
Even if internet sites are legally required to strictly adhere to California’s civil rights statutes, this inane suit defies common sense.[ul]
[li]Sites like Womanline discriminate against heterosexual women looking for men. The same holds true for many other gay-only websites. [/li][li]To the best of my knowledge, eHarmony’s questionnaire contains no references to flannel, the WNBA, lipstick, Barbie, billiards or Ani DiFranco. [/li][*]Analogies to 1950s lunch counters in the deep south are lame. This is a URL, not a discount variety store - or the back of a bus for that matter.[/ul]Is the internet the best venue to find a life-long mate? Probably not. Has eHarmony brought injury or harm to Linda Carlson? No. Will others join this class action? Probably. Is this the stupidest fucking news story I’ve seen all week? Definitely.
Someone write me a memo on how the doctrine of World-Wide Volkswagen applies to this case.
Appearing as rebuttal witnesses for the defense, a pack of three thousand 13-year old boys, whose testimony at deposition can be summarized as, “Internet dating? That’s so GAY!”
I have never been so proud to be doing general liability defense in CA as I am right this minute.
She obviously has no real interest in eHarmony. She’s doing this to make a point. If she does win, she will have opened up a nasty can o’ worms. As was noted in the OP, gay only dating sites will have to open their doors to straights. What a tool she is.
Now if eHamony isn’t hiring gay people she would have a point. Is there any evidence of that?
Interesting…I saw a commercial this evening on TBS where a young man was looking through an issue of Penthouse. He seemed “interested” enough - even paused to look at the centerfold - but when he was done he said, “nope…still gay.” The words “Rejected by eHarmony” splashed on the screen, and it turned out to be an ad for an alternative dating site that caters to both teams, as it were.
Psst…Mr. Schneider, you omitted the trans-gendered community. Karma dictates they should sue your bored and/or greedy ass for discriminating (i.e. neglecting / overlooking) their community in your legal crusade to earn a buck.
I’m all but certain this lawsuit has absolutely nothing to do with the fact eHarmony’s estimated annual earnings are over $50 million.
Rest assured: Esq. Schneider & Ms. Carlson aren’t the at the head of the retard parade. That honor belongs to John Claassen
I’m happy for her… she has found one of the many routes to the American Dream – sue your way to wealth! And she was clever enough not to have to get scalded by hot coffee or mashed up in a car wreck.
Not that I’m real big into the Internet dating scene (hi, honey!), but everything I’ve heard or read about that site makes them come off like a bunch of judgemental, intolerant assholes. Other than their own advertising, that is. Natch.
That you don’t like someone is reason for them to lose millions in a frivolous lawsuit? Especially when you don’t like them because of something you read somewhere?
That’s stupid. I don’t like you. Give me all your money.
Hmm, liberals, hippies, lawyers. Who scores a point in the rankings? Lawyers. Again. We have too many fucking lawyers and only so much money to pay them. So they come up with this type of shit. Anything to earn the buck.
If anyone here thinks the lawyer is trying to right some injustice…nah, nobody could turn on a computer if they thought that.
Is there a “gay only” website that allows for heteros to hook up? No. That’s why it’s “gay only”. Nobody is suing gay sites that cater to gays. It discriminates against heteros, but we figured out a way around your discrimination. We came up with and clicked links that led to non-gay dating sites.
I like you Miller, I do. But you’re wrong on this one if you think the suit is valid.
Which gay-oriented dating sites don’t allow straight people? I just checked Gay.com personals, Bgay.com and Truespice.com all of which are advertised as gay dating sites and they all allow and come up with matches for male seeking female. I really don’t know of others as I haven’t needed a date in years now.
I hope she loses. The entire point of the internet is exclusionary content. The ability to cater to a target market is exactly what internet sites are designed to do. If this woman had any virtue whatsoever she’d go and get the startup capital to start a lesbian version of eHarmony, instead she’s just a social parasite playing the discrimination card in a very socially destructive way for personal gain.
The kind of long, but not too bad mediocre march to the middle continues as planned.
A heterosexual friend of mine got turned away from eHarmony for not quite fitting the profile.
I can’t get excited about a hetero website catering only to heteros, or a gay website catering only to gays, or a Catholic website catering only to Catholics, or a recovering alcoholic website catering only to recovering alcoholics, or whatever (pick a specialty)…it’s a business model. If the business doesn’t offer what you are looking for, and there is demand, someone will start a similar business that does offer what you are looking for, which clearly people have. What difference does it make if eharmony provides the service, if someone else is doing so?
