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

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• Wammityblam@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Probably gonna get flak for this, but as a man, I have no issues if women want to stick with other women and I don’t particularly care if I have the option to pick whatever driver I want.

  Obviously weirdness and sexual misconduct can occur to both men and women from both men and women, but it’s naive as hell to pretend that men being weird or sexual towards women isn’t the most common.

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  • Shirasho@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No flak. I was gonna post the same thing. Women deserve to feel safe too.

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    • NatakuNox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The relationship between men and women (and generally all human interactions) in America has gotten so fucking weird. I agree that people should be able to take personal steps to keep themselves safe. My point is we are so rightfully fearful of each other here because we’ve completely abandoned the sense of unity in America. Our social safety net, sense of humanity, belief in the good in the world, justice system, and education is so poor it’s literally statistically unsafe to be alone with a stranger. It’s what happens to your society when hyper individualism takes hold and you end up with a nation of people thinking they are the main character.

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    • PhoenixDog@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Two people literally disagree with you that women should feel safe.

      This is why these options are now available to women.

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  • Viceversa@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Probably gonna get flak for this

    Oh please.
    You know perfectly well it’s not a controversial opinion.

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    • Wammityblam@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I only added it because I wasn’t sure if there was a population of man-children who feel slighted every time women get anything even remotely positive on Lemmy like there was on Reddit

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    • GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Lemmy is filled with men right activists and misogynists that don’t hide.

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    • Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If it wasn’t controversial MRA wouldn’t exist lol

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  • BassTurd@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    As a burley man with lots of facial hair, when I’m out for a run, if I’m passing a woman in an isolated area or if I’m passing someone, I do everything I can to look not threatening and alert people of my presence to not startle them. It’s unfortunate that it’s something I feel I need to do, but I’m not out there trying to scare anyone, but when I do on accident it feels like getting kicked in the nuts.

    I’m very for women being able to make choices to protect themselves, especially when it’s something like this Uber stuff where it doesn’t hurt someone else. One could argue it could hurt a males revenue, but that would be a weak argument.

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  • Canconda@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Fuck uber / lyft / skip / dash anyways.

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  • dhork@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I understand why women feel this is necessary, but I also understands that a policy like this paints all men with the same brush. It’s like they are saying “Since a small number of men are creeps, we give you the option to avoid all men”. Which seems to be counterproductive.

    Meanwhile, Uber has invasive tracking, where they know everyone’s history. They know how many drives a customer has provisioned without incident. And I have always considered these rideshare things to be particularly safe, because all parties are consenting to the tracking.

    If Uber had rolled this out and said “you have the option to avoid rides with the opposite gender without an established history in our files”, then I think I would have less of a problem with it. But it seems like I can do everything right, and be respectful of everyone, and give Uber shitloads of money, and still be potentially waiting longer for a ride, just because of my parts. How is that OK?

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    • Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Large numbers of men are creeps, and I say that as a man. That’s the issue, that’s why they’re doing this.

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    • daychilde@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s not about you. Repeat after me: It’s not about you. It’s about women who feel unsafe.

      Most sexual assault is not reported.

      And you will not be waiting longer, women who choose this service will be. So cut the pity party. You lose absolutely nothing.

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    • porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Since 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.

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  • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yup, I’m also squarely in the “good for them, it doesn’t really affect me in the slightest and they deserve to feel safe” boat. But I also have a sneaking suspicion that the guys like us aren’t the ones who would be upset about this. The Venn diagram of “men who care about this” and “fucking creeps” is probably close to being two separate circles.

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    • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Wouldn’t it be a single circle?

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  • Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    100%. I feel better knowing that the women in my life have the ability to not ride around with some random dude. I have done Uber to make ends meet a number of times, and I’d happily accept the decrease in ridership if it means women are less scared.

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  • new_world_odor@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    As a smaller guy with a slightly feminine appearance (that I try to lean away from but how much can I do), I also fear men I don’t know (bad experiences) and wish that somehow I could choose too. But any sort of ‘qualified selection’ would guarantee someone slips through eventually, and that’s obviously not worth it. I’m not going to let jealousy and whataboutism get in the way of progress. On that note, I do worry slightly about how they’re verifying gender? If it’s by DL, this will affect trans folks in some states much more than others. If it’s not, then verification becomes a very big question mark.

    I also can’t help but notice all the language is very passive, on one hand it makes sense they wouldn’t be able to guarantee anything but at the same time I find it so hard to trust passive language from any tech company, they’ve all abused my good faith of it into the ground. But I digress.

    No flak just thoughts, concerns notwithstanding this is good to see overall. I’m sure Lyft will have to deploy something equivalent to stay competetive.

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    • searabbit@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Lyft already has this feature, it’s called women+

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  • yucandu@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    it’s disingenuous as hell to pretend that men being weird or sexual towards women isn’t the most common by a colossal margin.

    I’m not convinced. Every guy I know has a story about women being creeps to them, but ask them if they reported it, every single one of them will say no.

    And for the very few that do try to report it? They’re usually laughed out of the room. My own mother said “oh but it’s cute when older women do it to younger guys”. That’s not a rare opinion, that’s the default in our culture.

    So we don’t show up in any official statistics, because our culture discourages us from reporting, and is less likely to take us seriously if we do.

    So no, I’m not convinced that men being weird to women is the most common by any margin. We haven’t even asked men.

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    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Hello. You now know me. I have none of those stories. Women have been nothing but respectful to me.

      But if you’re comfortable sharing, I would love to hear your story about how you were harassed by a female Uber driver.

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    • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Man, that is not my experience at all.

      I’m a guy. And even some of the things my (former) guy friends said about women and their relationships dropped my jaw. Same with some family.

      The longer I love, the more I think “man… can my sex just not be such pricks? Please?” And is not even close to so prominant with women I’ve known, especially when I dive into the issues.

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  • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think women drivers only wanting to pick up women is fine if thats what they want to do. That won’t negatively effect everyone else who is working. It only negatively effects your own potential at making your money.

    But riders being able to select women drivers really takes a hard monetary hit against male drivers for the sake of being sexist.

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  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Right, every single woman on the planet has had multiple uncomfortable, or even dangerous or violent, interactions with men, but people in this thread are pretending that it’s outrageous that someone is acknowledging that very obvious and well-known fact.

    I’m a man, and I don’t blame women at all for avoiding us. I don’t know why every woman isn’t a lesbian. Men are generally awful.

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  • dil@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The issue is they feel safer, yet woman are used to traffick other woman because they feel safer around them.

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  • HalfSalesman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think the issue people are taking is with collective punishment and validating prejudice.

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    • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t care as a man if women hate us anymore. So be it, I just want anyone who does not like me, as far the fuck away from me. I don’t trust other people, so why should other people trust me?

      I expect other people to not trust me as much as I don’t trust them, and I act like it. I hate walking behind other people, I keep a distance from them as if they have corona, I detest bus rides, because I am crammed and forced into contact with other people. It is a horrific torture every day. I got my co-worker nothing for 8th march, because it can be misconstrued as something else, and I don’t want to risk that, would rather be seen as uncaring or a prick.

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  • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Well said, complete and concise.

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• rImITywR@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Maybe Uber should be responsible for background checks of their drivers and hold them accountable for their actions and be able to fire them for misconduct. But that might require hiring drivers as actual employees. And then Uber could issue company vehicles.

  Oh wait, I’m describing taxi companies that already existed before Uber.

  The fact that we allow Uber/Lyft to operate as a way to skirt regulations that were put in place to keep people safe, and then trust Uber will implement work around solutions like this is ridiculous.

  Same goes to AirBnB

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  • fuzzzerd@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    While I agree with this, and I’m not defending skirting regulations, before rideshare apps, taking taxis was an awful experience. At least half the time, if you try to pay with a credit card, the machine was “broken”, if you wanted to get a ride at a specific time you had to call ahead and hope that a taxi would show up.

    Rideshsre apps forced regular taxis to up their game and provide better service, some did and now have their own apps.

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    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t even know what regulations they are skirting. You can’t just sign up to become a driver without submitting information just like any other job. Background checks are required, licenses and what not. People are also supposed to leave feedback if they had a bad experience so I could only imagine what the complaints would be surrounding the idea that Uber isn’t following up on the feedback enough. That said it 500 people ride with that driver and rate them well, and 1 person says they were a perv, and Uber looks at it and finds that person has called several male drivers pervs while they get good ratings from everyone else, there could be a problem that those people have a type, or Uber could be thinking the issue is the rider at that point

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  • NGram@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That also only solves half of the problem. Female drivers also want to be safe and doing background checks on everyone who has an Uber account isn’t very practical.

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    • Tiresia@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The article says Uber lets women avoid male drivers, which implies that at the very least the Uber account is registered as female, which means female drivers could choose to only accept jobs offered through this system.

      That raises the question how Uber is deciding that drivers and clients are women. Could a prospective rapist make a “female” burner account to ambush women? Are trans women who are unrecognized by the state excluded even if they’re at far higher risk than cis women?

      Of course the real solution is public transit. Uber is dangerous because it means leaving two strangers together for every single journey. For the vast majority of people taking public transit, there will be many strangers in the same cabin who can all help keep each other in line.

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    • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It wouldn’t even solve the half of the problem, though. Men stop harassing women as soon as they are full time employees, what? Background checks are going to prevent harassment, what?

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  • MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Agreed. Contract work that isn’t actually contract work should be illegal.

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  • fizzle@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I dont think that this is really the problem uber is solving here.

    I dont think women passengers or drivers are being physically assaulted during an uber ride, they just feel uncomfortable with men. Maybe its flirting, maybe its a fertive glance, maybe its nothing. It doesn’t really matter whether male drivers have ever done anything to deserve being avoided, the point is that women want to avoid them.

    Im a guy. I feel a bit awkward about this, as if someone had said to me “I dont want to interact with you because you might rape me”. Its not a nice feeling but its a misconception of what’s really happening.

    Ultimately in any specific instance where a woman chooses not to interact with a man, I absolutely believe its her right to do so. However, I do hope that society doesn’t reach a point where women in general make that choice as a matter of routine.

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    • paultimate14@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Uber stopped doing then, but their own data through 2022 claims that 99.9998% of rides ended without a safety incident.

      Most sexual assault is committed by abusers who know their victims, not random strangers.

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  • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I also think they should be employees. That is however another matter. Being a full time employee has never stopped anyone from engaging in sexual harassment. Workplace harassment is quite common. Let’s not mix up our issues. Hiring them as employees will not protect women.

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• ZebulonP@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  As a man, this makes me sad. As a man, I also understand.

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  • LadyButterfly@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Thank you

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• vantablack@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  unless you’ve actually literally lived as a woman you cannot know the monumental amount of sexual harassment we face and fear on a day-to-day basis. doubly so for trans women. every single moment i am alone in public i am deathly anxious that i could be harassed (sexually or otherwise) or hate-crimed or whatever. and the worst part is, there’s nothing i could do about it. the perpetrator would get away scot-free. the cops do not fucking care

  however bad you think it is, it’s worse. whatever you’re imagining, it is exponentially more horrendous

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  • innermachine@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I have twice been in public with my fiance and some random twat in a pickup truck yells cat calls while driving by slowly in a parking lot. Wish the fuckers would stop so I can pull them through the window. God knows what she’s delt with when I’m NOT standing next to her holding her hand. Sick as a society we are, that’s why we have trump as pedophile in cheif. Smh.

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    • TheBenCommandments@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Since you said they’re a she, it’s fiancée. Congrats on the nups!

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  • eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is the thing as a former white man.

    Authority to touch others flows down the privilege hierarchy.

    Trans women are always judged as the aggressor, always. Our bodies are considered public property.

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  • Allero@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    As a man, I genuinely wonder how much actual harassment women face vs how much they hear about it.

    I get to feel that a lot of these fears are real, but many are manufactured. But I can be wrong.

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    • Beebabe@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Anecdotally, last week I (middle aged lady) was approached by two strange men. One tried to grab me outside my work site, and one told me how lovely I was and asked for my number (in target). It’s much, much worse for young women. It’s not manufactured, unlike the doubt of women’s lived experience seems to be.

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    • JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I have yet to meet a woman I’m close enough friends with who doesn’t have a personal sexual assault story. Not a harrassment story, an SA story. Could just be bad luck but i don’t think it is. It also lines right up with the statistic that 3/4 women get sexually assaulted before 30 (that stat is from memory, but I’ll try and track it down in a bit.)

      I believe It is much worse than you think.

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    • mcv@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m pretty sure it’s much, much worse than you think. In fact, I’m fairly sure it’s much worse than I think. Men don’t experience it, women are reluctant to talk about it because some men react aggressively to claims that men react aggressively.

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    • vantablack@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      i didn’t speak in detail about the very many numerous times i’ve been sexually harassed in public only because it’s too depressing to think about lmao

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    • sneakypersimmon@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      1 in 6 women in the US have experienced either an attempt or complete rape attempt.

      rainn.org/…/facts-statistics-the-scope-of-the-pro…

      That’s not even touching on sexual harassment or assault.

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    • balsoft@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I get your point, but if you actually go out and speak with women who trust you, chances are they will all have multiple stories of harassment and/or SA that will make your hair stand up. It’s not just fearmongering, there are a lot of awful men out there (in absolute terms)

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  • minorkeys@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If men can never know. How can men ever trust women’s calls to action on the issues are fair, just or worthwhile?

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    • BrilliantantTurd4361@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Your retort is that because you lack empathy women are somehow suspect?

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    • GiantChickDicks@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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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    • ChadGPT2@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • dude@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It depends where you live really. It’s a problem in the US indeed but for instance in many countries in Europe they don’t sexually harass their females on a “day-to-day basis”

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  • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I faced some as a man, so…yeah. Most of my trouble is from other men, and my attitude towards dating (not wanting to) is from trust issues that were actually caused by other men treating me awfully, so I don’t want to let ANY human treat me the same way.

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• Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  can males avoid women drivers or is that considered sexist? what if a male wants to mitigate the chance of being falsely accused of assault/rape? I hope people have the choice regardless of gender

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  • Havatra@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It might be considered sexist, depending on who you ask.

    The amount of males being falsely accused of sexual assault is much lower than the amount of females being exposed to sexual assault. Hence why there has been provided a measure for women at this scale, and not for men.

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    • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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    • yucandu@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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    • minorkeys@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • EmpatheticTeddyBear@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    As a domestic abuser survivor (of a woman), a lot of us men are just not taken seriously. It is a lot like how people diminish one person’s pain/suffering just because it “isn’t as bad” as someone else’s pain. Men are absolutely abused, raped, and falsely accused. But because it happens to women more, we have to bear our suffering in silence.

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  • Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The amount of falsely accused is less than 5% of all the rape cases.

    So a women getting raped is about 20 times more likely than a man being falsely accused of rape.

    And that is only counting all the instances where the rape got reported.

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  • artyom@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    LOL of course not. Equality for me, not for thee.

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• Iconoclast@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t necessarily even disagree with this feature but I can’t help but imagine the outrage if that was almost literally any other group of people.

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• quips@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Totally cool, but they should also give men the option to choose to ride with a man.

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• militaryintelligence@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  These fucking comments. Anytime anything is done to make women safer men get up in arms and upset. “What about me?” cries the incel.

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• ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t think anyone worth listening about anything would find this problematic. It ain’t women casually raping and killing, we all know that.

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• YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Said it yesterday about this on a post on my instance.

  I drive for Uber occasionally, I am a guy, and got offered this option to only accept women riders. That doesn’t seem right…

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• Matriks404@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I get it, but it’s sad that society have come to this.

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• KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t get why they don’t just make this a global option. Anyone can choose their preferred gender. Some women prefer women, some prefer men. Hell, some men prefer men.

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• brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Came here expecting misogyny-adjacent comments.

  …It met my expectations :/

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• randomname@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  give men the option to ride with men as well, and nobody will have an issue with this

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• Turret3857@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Most of the comments here seem to be talking about the politics of the gender roles, but no one really seems to be mentioning that Uber should only be used as a very last resort. Call a Taxi, a friend, take public transit. Do not support the VC startup trash that doesn’t pay their employees “contractors” living wage.

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• BillMurray@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Now add a “Chatty Cathy” / “Leave me the fuck alone, don’t worry I’ll still give you a tip as long as we don’t have to talk” option.

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• TwilitSky@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So what happens when the rider can’t find a ride because 99% of drivers are men and it’s the middle of the night? We never ask the hard questions, do we? Should sex discrimination in employment be legal? I’ve always felt bad for male masseuses, nurses and childcare providers having to deal with additional scrutiny.

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• frog_brawler@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I get it, but it’s discrimination and someone is going to sue them for it.

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• TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Don’t read the reddit comments, thank me later.

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• tackleberry@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Alhamdulillah, the women are imposing Sharia upon themselves.

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• OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The internet is never not a shitshow when it comes to women.

  Except when it comes to a country like India or Japan. Then it’s all like nodding and agreement that men are creeps who need to be restrained.

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• sveltecider@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is a good thing if you ask most women

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• vantablack@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  i have only ever been sexually harassed by male uber drivers. this is a nice feature

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• epicthundercat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Men being triggered by this is so cringe. Ew.

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• baggachipz@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Is there a setting where women can choose a bear preference?

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• billwashere@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So does this mean there is going to gender verification to go along with age verification?

  Seems like something that would happen in this timeline.

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• yermaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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• nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  what if a male writer wants to avoid mail drivers

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• minorkeys@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Women’s fears of men seem like it will naturally encourage gender segregation in society, leasing to privileges and advantages exclusive to women.

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• SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  As a man I also want to select a female driver only. Seriously here in the Netherlands if you get a male driver good chance it’s some agro 20 year old high on NOx who also hates queers.

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