Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 3 weeks agoSince a small number of men are creeps, we give you the option to avoid all men". Which seems to be counterproductive.
Speaking as a man, the majority of men are creeps, but even if they weren’t, it wouldn’t be counterproductive. If it was, say, a 5% chance, one in twenty, that would be far and away high enough of a risk to make a move like this worthwhile. Hell even 1%. And we know the proportion is far greater than that.
They know how many drives a customer has provisioned without incident.
No they don’t, single digit percentages of sexual harassment are ever even reported let alone followed up because almost nobody gives a shit about it. Someone’s squeaky clean history is basically indistinguishable from that of a serial creep.
How is that OK?
Sadly, lots of things in the world aren’t ok. It’s tough out there.
mcv@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I wouldn’t mind if they’d implemented this the opposite way: if a woman, driver or passenger, encounters a creep, they could report that in the app and then the creep would automatically be banned from riding with women. That way decent men aren’t affected and women keep more choice in drivers/passengers, and only the creeps are singled out.
sneakypersimmon@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
You’d prefer that women are assaulted or harassed first?
mcv@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Quite the opposite.
sneakypersimmon@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
How else do you think women would be identifying creeps in your scenario?