Remind me what it is we want again?
I'm rubbish at the gay 'cause'. I'm never honestly really sure what it is we actually want.
This week, Facebook added ‘in a civil partnership’ to its list of relationship status options. You’d be forgiven for thinking that’s a good thing, after all, now we can tell everyone on Facebook that we’ve done the gay version of marriage. But hang on, isn’t the point of being able to get married to make us the same as the straights, and in that case who wants to show how different they are with our own status option?!
What will happen when we’re granted those equal rights to marriage? Mark Zuckerberg had better be prepared to take ‘in a civil partnership’ right back off again, cos now we’re equal and who wants a status that highlights our difference anyway, again.
So, if you’re in a ‘civil partnership’ click ‘civil partnership’ or ‘married’ or whatever you like because to me, if we go around calling our other half our wife, why aren’t we happy to just be ‘married’ on Facebook?
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To sum it up, they has a "status" box on their HR software which was self-service, but with no option to recognise anything other than a marriage, or some sort of singledom.
I took this up with them, for some bright spark to come up with something that I felt (at the time) to be a very reasonable proposal. They suggested simply removing the status option.
Upon coming to try and understand why they even asked the relationship question in the first place, it boiled down to the fact that there were tax breaks in place for married couples, and therefore they *had* to ask. As this was (is?) no longer the case, withdrawing it seemed the most straightforward solution, especially when you considered the alternative pick-list of relationship statuses that comes with being so damned PC.
