Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US

• atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  As a penis haver who has been falsely accused of sexual assault, it’s far more common than you think.

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  • Havatra@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I’m sorry that you had to go through that, and I must emphasize that I do not wish to “let” anyone be exposed to this. However, I remain unconvinced that it’s “more common than I think”. The amount of sexual assault that women are exposed to is unfortunately far, far more common, and a bigger problem that should take precedence in being dealt with.

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    • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      So how does fucking men out of that option help women? It’s not a zero-sum game. You must have a certain ulterior motive, the subtext is that you want innocent men to be accused of rape to take revenge for the innocent women who were raped.

      Not hard to read that sort of thing, and I don’t care how many downvotes or anger this will provoke, I know you self-righteous folk, I know the truth.

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      • Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        It’s not zero sum, but I agree that it’s going to negatively impact others.

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• yucandu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  The amount of males being falsely accused of sexual assault is much lower than the amount of females being exposed to sexual assault.

  And you know this because… vibes?

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  • Havatra@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Don’t take my word for it; look it up. But here, I’ll save you some time by spending my own:

    worldmetrics.org/false-rape-allegations-statistic…

    statista.com/…/reported-forcible-rape-cases-in-th…

    www.cdc.gov/nisvs/…/sexualviolence-brief.pdf

    Say out of 140 000 reports of rape in one year, 4% are false. That leaves us with 5600 false accusations. And according to the survey shown by CDC, there’s an estimated 1.4 million women raped in 12 months.

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• minorkeys@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  But the fear of sexual assault is why women prefer women, so ain’t the fear of accusations a justifiable reason? Why does it have to be equal to matter?

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  • Havatra@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Here: www.cdc.gov/nisvs/…/sexualviolence-brief.pdf

    Men have so much less reason to fear compared to women. This is not saying they have nothing to fear, but the measures taken by uber is an attempt to protect those who are MUCH more prone to sexual assault and harassment.

    The fear of accusations is not covered in this survey, nevertheless, if men feel fearful of accusations, imagine what women feel when they fear actually being sexually assaulted.

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    • minorkeys@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Men have so much less reason to fear compared to women.

      I do not agree this can be assumed.

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