Nihilism Award To Linda Carlson: She's Here, She's Queer & She's In eHarmony's Face

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.

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From Information Week The popular online dating service eHarmony was sued Thursday for refusing to offer its services to gays, lesbians, and bisexuals...A lawsuit alleging discrimination based on sexual orientation was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on behalf of Linda Carlson, who was denied access to eHarmony because she is gay....Carlson, who lives in the San Francisco Bay area, tried to use the site's dating services in February 2007. When she was denied access, she wrote to eHarmony explaining its anti-gay policy was discriminatory under California law but the company refused to change it...

Even if internet sites are legally required to strictly adhere to California's civil rights statutes, this inane suit defies common sense.

• Sites like Womanline discriminate against heterosexual women looking for men. The same holds true for many other gay-only websites.
• To the best of my knowledge, eHarmony's questionnaire contains no references to flannel, the WNBA, lipstick, Barbie, billiards or Ani DiFranco.
• 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.

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.