eHarmony Decides to Gay it Up

01 Dec 2008 By

So some guy in New Jersey was mad because eHarmony only offers hetero pairings, he sued, and eHarmony decided to settle. They’re now offering homo pairings at a new site, compatiblepartners.net.

Stupid. And not just because of that domain name.

Warren had said in past interviews that he didn’t want to feature same-sex services on EHarmony — which matches people based on long questionnaires concerning personality traits, relationship history and interests — because he felt he didn’t know enough about gay relationships.

I believe him.

So, dude that was angry at being made to feel like a “second-class citizen”? Now you’re getting a second-class product. Are you happy?

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  • http://mysocalledblog.com Lachlan

    A fucking men! We had a lengthy, pretty involved thread about this at work on our GLBT list. It just makes NO SENSE. I can’t understand why this made it through the courts. Don’t we, and by extension the plaintiff, have better things to do?

    And what a crap URL.

  • http://swirlspice.com Erica

    If we were talking about match.com or some other site whose algorithm is probably similar to how this WordPress plugin picks related posts, it might be different.

    Hello, eHarmony’s point of differentiation is its psychology/research-based methodology!

  • http://www.blueroomlounge.com brent

    “Separate but equal is inherently unequal”

  • http://doniree.com doniree

    I’ve heard from a number of people that if the answers to questions on their little survey doesn’t tip the religious scales just so according to the eHarmony formula, then they were denied. If God’s reviewing the apps, that might explain why it offered no gay pairings.