Turns out, eHarmony.com decided to loop-hole their way out of this. I quite frankly don’t understand the big deal. Every other personals website out there categorizes people. When you log in, you pick your preference, m4m, m4w, w4w. Then during the process, you only get matched up with people in your own category. You can go on www.match.com and look for any gender and still be under the match.com umbrella.
What eHarmany.com is doing is to allow you to plug in m4m when you start to join. THEN, here comes the kicker. If you’re gay, the prompt carries you away to an entirely different site called www.compatiblepartners.net. You can tell how serious they are about this site, if they’re picking a “.net” domain name.
So then you end up joining this second site, while eHarmony.com is allowed to exclude gay people.
When you go through the “compatiblepartners.net” series of questions, many of them weren’t even customized for the gay market. I remember seeing one entire page just about children. I get that there are gay people with children, but this could be covered with 2 questions. It should bring up adoption, rather than seeming to be a copy of a straight person’s questionnaire.
It sickens me that eHarmony took such extreme measures to keep gay people off their site. I have a hunch that if “compatiblepartners.net” ever gets up and running, they’ll probably start to get used to dealing with gay people. Then they’ll wonder why they worked so hard to keep them away.
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