Ahhh, progress.
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Andrea adds: “But what if he still doesn’t like me?” I’ve taken to suing gentlemen callers who don’t ask me out on a second or third date. It’s expensive, but I expect it to come to a happy, lifelong relationship soon enough.
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Let’s get the facts here: eHarmony was not forced to do anything. They settled out of court. If they had let the matter go to court, the law would have been in their favor.
Maybe. Or maybe not: http://www.onlinedatingmagazine.com/news2008/eharmonyclassacrtionlawsuit.html. But that’s not what really bugs me anyway. I believe private groups and individuals ought to be allowed to discriminate as they wish (we all do it every day), and cases like this one bother me no end. These people are like the annoying younger sister who insists on following you everywhere you go, even when you’re going someplace she doesn’t like. I’m sure there are online dating services out there that are exclusively for gays (heck, there’s a gay bar in Montreal that refused for a long time to have women of either orientation on its premises). That’s fine – if I’m not in the market for a same-sex relationship, why should I care? And if you do care, raise a ruckus in the marketplace; get like-minded folks to boycott the place, or write letters, or show up with signs on the street, whatever. Just don’t go whining to the courts that you’ve been left behind.