Is it “stati”? Because it should be — statuses is so boring.
Either way, Facebook’s added a couple more of them, including “In a civil union” and “In a domestic partnership.”
As you may have guessed, these are not business relationships. Nope, they’re for members of the LGTB community.
“As LGBT people face a pathwork of relationship recognition laws, this gives people more tools to adequately describe their relationship,” said Michael Cole, spokesperson for the Human Rights Campaign. “Facebook has been a company that has tried to be inclusive of the LGBT community and this just one sign of it.”
As anyone who’s read anything that I’ve ever written knows, I like to make jokes. But now isn’t the time for those, because this is actually a really cool step that Facebook — an online corporate entity — is taking, whether you disagree with their stance or not.
See, for some silly reason, a lot of this people in this country can’t grasp the fact that people in love, who happen to be of the same sexuality want to — GASP — live together. And it’s illegal in a bunch of places for people of the same sex to get married.
Which is just ridiculous, frankly. Look, it’s not my cup of tea to swing the other way, and if you’re reading this site and you’re a dude, it’s probably not yours either. But who cares?
As you can see above, I’m about to get married myself. (Why thank you, that’s very nice of you to compliment me. Now go friend me on Facebook or follow me on Twitter and find out how to send me presents or yell at me for tak’n er jerb because you hate this post.) And while I very much love the Future Mrs. Brinson, it’s also totally fair that we subject EVERYONE to the process of getting married.
Plus, if Facebook (a freaking internet community, people!) can be open enough to welcome a logical step in human rights, the rest of the world and/or country should be to.