Choke-full
I get so royally pissed when I hear that they’ve somehow finagled domestic partner benefits for straight people. The whole point of introducing them was so that gay couples could get some scraps of health insurance since we can’t get them by virtue of marrying. It is totally unfair and despicable that straight people should get to have some middle step in between being single and married, and simply get to live together as a couple, and have health insurance.
Once at a new employee orientation, I actually had some girl come up to me because she didn’t qualify for the opposite-sex domestic partner benefits and complain that we talk a lot about culture diversity, but yet didn’t openly offer benefits for opposite-sex couples. All I could think was, "Well, you could fucking get married, couldn’t ya?! I sure the fuck can’t!"
It’s a movement to reach some semblance of fairness and equality for gay people. It shouldn’t be snatched up in its path as a perk for heterosexuals as well.
