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Dating site for "beautiful people" bans holiday fatties

Aragorn said:
So you can send e-mails to people on Match.com if you're a paying member, but you may never hear back from them because there's no way of knowing if they're paying members or not.

That must work well for Match.com.

I remember going onto some second-tier dating site -- don't remember what it was called since there are so many of them out there -- but I saw that someone had posted a fake profile using a picture of some young actress. So I told the site about the fake profile, and the person who responded actually had the nerve to tell me that they carefully screen all their profiles and that she just happened to look like said actress. That told me all I needed to know about that site.
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I have a very, very difficult time believing people have met their now spouse on a dating web site. I've been conducting an experiment on Match.com for a while and routinely get "matched" with profiles that have a picture that is an obvious fake, meaning the picture is some type of stock footage, etc. and I routinely report those profiles as fakes. About a month ago, I reported a profile that was sporting pictures of Kim Kardashian :lol:
 
Mr. Laser Beam said:
Robert Maxwell said:
Mr. Laser Beam said:
How could they be forced? As Alpha pointed out they are a privately owned site.

(Don't misunderstand, I'm glad they were forced, I'm just wondering how.)
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They were sued. A court decided they were in violation of anti-discrimination laws. Thus, they have been forced to offer their services to gays.
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I know they were sued, I'm just wondering *how* a privately owned, entirely optional website can be sued. If it's legal for the Boy Scouts, for example, to discriminate, then why is eHarmony being targeted?

And again: Don't confuse my question with an advocacy of discrimination. Like I said, I'm glad eHarmony was forced to do this. I'm just wondering how the legal maneuvering worked here.
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You can sue a privately owned company.
 
Alpha Romeo said:
Mr. Laser Beam said:
Robert Maxwell said:
They were sued. A court decided they were in violation of anti-discrimination laws. Thus, they have been forced to offer their services to gays.
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I know they were sued, I'm just wondering *how* a privately owned, entirely optional website can be sued. If it's legal for the Boy Scouts, for example, to discriminate, then why is eHarmony being targeted?

And again: Don't confuse my question with an advocacy of discrimination. Like I said, I'm glad eHarmony was forced to do this. I'm just wondering how the legal maneuvering worked here.
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You can sue a privately owned company.
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You can sue anybody if you can afford it, but on what grounds? If eHarmony only wants to hook up straight people, why shouldn't they be able to? Could I sue an all-gay dating site for not having any heterosexual women for me to pursue?
 
^ Probably. But I am one of those gays that could care less about that kind of thing. If you don't want my money than I am perfectly happy giving it to someone who does. I will fight for my rights if I need to (marriage, adoption, etc) but I don't see the need to stomp on someone else's rights to further my own. That makes me no better than them.
 
AstroSmurf said:
^ Probably. But I am one of those gays that could care less about that kind of thing. If you don't want my money than I am perfectly happy giving it to someone who does. I will fight for my rights if I need to (marriage, adoption, etc) but I don't see the need to stomp on someone else's rights to further my own. That makes me no better than them.
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I would also think a site dedicated to Gay/Lesbian online dating would be better than just a site with a drop down menu or tab.

But then again, I don't know.

I'm still hoping for an online dating site dedicated to Fantastical/extravagant/awesome/semi-crazy people. That will be the site for me.
 
JonathonWally said:
I'm still hoping for an online dating site dedicated to Fantastical/extravagant/awesome/semi-crazy people. That will be the site for me.
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Ditto. I have never been able to find that one person that doesn't stare at me like I am off my beam when I go nuts over a something cool I found on the ground or in the woods or in a sale bin or at a garage sale. I also don't want someone to walk away like they don't know me when I press my face against the glass of a shop window because I saw shoes I liked. I also have never found someone who will sing with me in the car on road trips, play Hungry, Hungry Hippos like they did when they were seven, eat jam out of the jar for kicks or call in sick for work to watch cartoons in their jammies with me. But the true test for my perfect mate is going along with things when I pretend I am foreign in restaurants just to see what the waiter will do. Life should be FUN but almost everyone I have dated recently has been like dating a Ken doll with a stock portfolio shoved up their butt. (I guess I cover the "fantastical, semi-crazy" part but I am not sure about the rest.)
 
AstroSmurf said:
JonathonWally said:
I'm still hoping for an online dating site dedicated to Fantastical/extravagant/awesome/semi-crazy people. That will be the site for me.
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Ditto. I have never been able to find that one person that doesn't stare at me like I am off my beam when I go nuts over a something cool I found on the ground or in the woods or in a sale bin or at a garage sale. I also don't want someone to walk away like they don't know me when I press my face against the glass of a shop window because I saw shoes I liked. I also have never found someone who will sing with me in the car on road trips, play Hungry, Hungry Hippos like they did when they were seven, eat jam out of the jar for kicks or call in sick for work to watch cartoons in their jammies with me. But the true test for my perfect mate is going along with things when I pretend I am foreign in restaurants just to see what the waiter will do. Life should be FUN but almost everyone I have dated recently has been like dating a Ken doll with a stock portfolio shoved up their butt. (I guess I cover the "fantastical, semi-crazy" part but I am not sure about the rest.)
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You fit the membership qualifications :techman:
 
The only difference between that description and myself is that these days I would turn Hungry, Hungry Hippos into a drinking game.
 
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