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

TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Whenever something like this happens where women speak out or something is done to benefit their safety, men just love showing up to give opinions that nobody asked for.

You could paste this article link in the most progressive-minded group you can think of and, like clockwork, a significant amount of men will be like “Ok great, but…” and drop some turd of a comment that beautifully highlights just how ignorant they are as to how unsafe woman actually feel.

Hannah Gadsby did a fantastic show called Nannette which heavily goes into these topics and her own personal experiences. I can’t remember the exact quote but she said something like “If this is all surprising to you then you’re not talking with the women in your life.”

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sveltecider@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Suddenly the concern trolls love pretending like they care about their local ride-sharing economy because a few women will be more selective sometimes.

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brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

“If this is all surprising to you then you’re not talking with the women in your life.”

To be fair, maybe Lemmy is less social than “average”? I’m certainly contributing to that statistic.

…Still, though, it’s kind of my experience everywhere. The longer I live, even as isolated as I am, the more I’m bewildered by other men being incapable of following the “don’t be a jerk” rule, incapable of shutting up and listening to women, or doing/saying straight up terrible, sexist things.

I can’t even imagine being a woman using Uber in that context, and it’s mind boggling that so many male commenters wag their fingers like they somehow know better.

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WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
The women in my life are annoyingly oblivious. Irritatingly clueless, I hate this backwards country. I hate recognizing dangerous situations, and them not seeing it.

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