The same way we trust that it’s really painful for men to get kicked in the junk without having to experience it ourselves.
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minorkeys@lemmy.world 8 hours agoIf men can never know. How can men ever trust women’s calls to action on the issues are fair, just or worthwhile?
GiantChickDicks@lemmy.ml 8 hours ago
minorkeys@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
And how do we accomplish that?
GiantChickDicks@lemmy.ml 6 hours ago
If I knew how to make everyone empathetic we wouldn’t even need to be discussing this in the first place. What a vapid question.
minorkeys@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Sounds like it an incredibly important question if you want more empathy in the world.
ChadGPT2@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
You answered your own question. The task for men is to trust women when they describe their experiences, even if it’s completely invisible and alien to their own experiences. Reading detailed firsthand accounts is a good way to build understanding.
minorkeys@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
That is not a task for men. That is a demand from women. If men can only decide to believe based on the trust they have with the speaker then the speaker must earn their trust. It is not men’s responsibility to become trusting of women, just because women want it. If women want men to trust their words then it’s women’s responsibility to gain men’s trust. It would be profoundly unwise of men to believe without either trust or safety. How often do you ever concern yourself with the safety of men?
ChadGPT2@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I think we all need to do the work to understand the problems faced by different groups. Women need to be doing this too. This isn’t a thread about problems men face, however.
minorkeys@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Few of them ever are…
MerryJaneDoe@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
This is kind of an insane take.
Women have always been vulnerable. Women get raped and sexually assaulted at rates far beyond men. Women are easy targets because they are, on average, physically weaker than males. 50% of women will suffer a sexual assault of some kind in their life. Just 3% of men report a sexual assault.
minorkeys@lemmy.world 39 minutes ago
What’s so insane about it?
I agree that women have and will likely continue to be, physically vulnerable to larger people, most often from those whom are men, because they more often bigger. Women suffer from this vulnerability in a variety of ways, including sexual assault. That risk, and the severity of the consequences, deserves community effort to mitigate.
Where’s the insane part?
TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
The introduced it first in saudi arabia in 2019, after women were given the right to drive, turns out they found it good so they used this setting in the US (2025) and elsewhere (2025 - 2026). The feature is a priority queue for women
When requesting a trip, women will receive a new option called ‘Women Drivers.’ If the wait time is longer than they want, though, they’ll still have the option to receive other rides with faster pickup times.
In other words, if you’re a guy and the area is poorly covered, you get your uber driver all the same.
BrilliantantTurd4361@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
Your retort is that because you lack empathy women are somehow suspect?
minorkeys@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
It is because I have empathy for both women and men. It also means those who don’t understand ,or get offended, may lack the empathy for both needed to understand the point made. Do you empathize with men’s experience of women?