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

• PhoenixDog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  If you’re a male driver trying to avoid women clients, you don’t have to worry as the women are likely already avoiding you.

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• epicthundercat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  … Do you also have to walk down the street at night and worry about being raped or grabbed?

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  • JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yes, they have to. Maybe not rape, but if you take a look at statistics of street violence, nearly in every country, you will see that men are victims, too. In many countries they are all so quite overrepresented here. In my country, men are over twice as often victims of violence on the streets as women.

    So yes, you have to worry as a men when you’re out there at night. And it’s one of the most infuriating things about this debate that people are totally denying that half of the population can be victims of violence and accusing others of being misogynistic incels. Talk to the men in your life and they will tell you about sketchy and violent situations out there.

    You might also think about what we are talking about here: A billion dollar company is not vetting their drivers correctly. They are talking the sketchiest people, are not doing any form of interview process and are therefore having a problem with their employees hurting, abusing, raping their customers. Their solution is not to increase the safety for everybody, but to accuse one gender of being generally abusive. And if people critic that, they are flamed as incels here? That’s stupid.

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