Tamilmatrimony ...

Of course, we have all heard of how a popular US website, eharmony.com does not allow same-sex matching.

A friend of mine (Srikanth), alerted me to a subtle kind of selective-admission that he observed at tamilmatrimony.com.

For the uninitiated, Tamilmatrimony.com is one of the more popular marriage websites used by Tamilians around the world to find a mate.

In the Search section within the website, when a male is trying to find a female - The first selection criteria is "Marital Status" with the options being Any, Unmarried, Widow/Widower, Divorcee and Seperated.

The second criteria is "Have Children" where the options are "Does not matter", "No", "Yes. Living Together" and "Yes. Not living together"



The interesting thing is that when a user selects the Marital Status as being Single, the second criteria cannot be modified ! The website automatically assumes that an unmarried woman cannot have a child :-)

Dear Tamilmatrimony.com, when are you going to join the rest of us in the 21st Century ?