APF Newswire: Canton, MA — Bisexual postal worker Luisita Genova, 63, of Massachussets sued eHarmony today for damages and injury because neither of its two sites eHarmony.com and recently-opened sister site Compatible Partners have a “woman seeking both sexes” option.
When she inquired with the site about this, a company customer service representative told her to “register on both sites” thereby paying dual fees. The first 10,000 registrants of Compatible Partners receive a free 6-month subscription to the same-sex matching service.
This antagonized the plaintiff moreso. She filed a complaint today with the Canton Massachussets Regional Trial court.
In a statement she said, “I heard their advertisement for a Free Communication Weekend around Thanksgiving and thought ‘Hey, this could work for me.’ So I went to their websites but couldn’t pass the initial screen.
“There was no option for woman seeking either sexes,” she said. “It made me feel angry, mad, and sad. . . a whole range of emotions.”
Liberal groups criticized eHarmony’s “separate but equal” policy to run separate sites for same-sex pairings and opposite-sex pairings, and called for a boycott of the “hypocritical” Compatible Partners service. Conservative groups criticized eHarmony’s for conceding “significant moral ground, opening the door to a wave of attacks on other dating sites” and “invite more kinds of this kind of opportunistic litigation.”
Meanwhile, heterosexuals in the main eHarmony site also do not have the option to be matched with bisexuals or not.
A spokesman for eHarmony did not immediately return calls.
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