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Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US (www.uber.com)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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When women riders and drivers told us they wanted more control over how they ride and earn, we listened. That feedback led to Women Preferences, features designed to give women the choice to ride with other women. Since our first pilots last summer, we’ve heard just how much that choice matters—from feeling more comfortable in the back seat to more confident behind the wheel.

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[+] -20 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Many women want to ride with other women for safety reasons. Men would only choose their riders gender for bigotry reasons. There is little reason to enable their bigotry. If fewer bigots ride it's a bug not a feature.

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  • [–] 17 points 5 months ago

    Men would only choose their riders gender for bigotry reasons

    That's not necessarily true though. Many men also feel more comfortable with another man in a variety of situations. Prostate exam, counseling, and barber are all good examples. Some guys are just super awkward with women and might not want to feel awkward while paying for a ride. Hell with the severity an accusation of wrong doing can have some men might not want to ride solo with a woman they don't know.

    The same goes for women, not all women choosing this setting are doing so for safety, sometimes people have a preference. Uber is organizing willing independent contractors to the preference of paying customers. If the customer states they want a specific gender as their driver I don't see why that would be a problem so long as both parties are fine with that.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Citation needed. Back up those claims cuz that's sounding like pure emotional projection.

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  • [–] -2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    You need a citation for many women being unsafe with random men in a car but the reverse not being true. OK buddy.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago

    Hold on a second. Did you honestly think you were coming across as unemotional when you said that?

    Keep your emotions out of it, I learned to manage that, takes a lot of work but it's a good skill to have.

    Tell me what facts you think you know that makes you claim 100% of men who would use that feature would be doing it for bigotry reasons.

    You don't even need to do citations, I'll go do the research for us.

    The only thing I humbly beg you to tell me is what fact you know that I don't, I'm not seeing the missing puzzle piece.

    If you know something I'm missing I genuinely want to know, cuz I'm not afraid of changing my mind when proven wrong. I just genuinely think you're just making some unfair assumptions that's all. There's no shame in it, most people do it. But it might surprise you to learn that a lot of people would rather die than be wrong about something.

    Don't get mad at me. TALK to me.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    and this right here is why I cant stand a lot of other liberals. you guys make me ashamed to be one.. smh

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    How hard is this to understand. Women frequently feel unsafe with strange men in uncontrolled situations like alone in a car because men who are commonly bigger and stronger commonly beat and rape women. Men who are on average bigger and stronger are very rarely assaulted or raped by strange women because women are both less physically imposing and are less prone to violence and most specifically sexual violence. Whereas its not impossible or unheard for a woman to be so this is so uncommon it is rarely something people are reasonably concerned about either factually or culturally.

    Did I really need to tell you any of that or did you in fact already know that. The whiners here do NOT want men to be equal and have the ability to chose men drivers they want women not to have a path to discriminate against them because THEY believe they aren't the problem. Hell the guys who ARE the problem are also sure they aren't the problem.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    nothing about this is hard to understand, I just don't want to perpetuate hate and inequality, or create division. letting both sexes choose their own sex if they want to wouldn't leave anyone feeling slighted. its a simple solution that wouldn't leave anyone room to complain.

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