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

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

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post #4

Unfortunately necessary. Essentially every girl I know has had at least one bad experience with a creepy uber driver. These are people that are entering their address and often their workplace into the app. It's a big reason why a lot of my friends are picking Waymos instead.

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

#24
post #17

If this form of discrimination is ok, can we get other filters?

This is as discriminatory as choosing strawberry ice cream over chocolate. To say, not at all.

What is your justification for that?

If an employer did the same thing, would you argue that's also not discriminatory? Or, to pick a notorious example, if a cake shop only agreed to sell to straight couples, would that be the same? If not, why not?

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

#26
post #12

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That's not even as close to as smart of a gotcha as you think it is.

Can you explain why? I am surprised this kind of discrimination is allowed, too. I know some discrimination is allowed like for hooters, etc but that is more on the hiring side not on the customer options side.

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

#27

If this form of discrimination is ok, can we get other filters?

Women's only gyms and hours exist already. If there's a need, and they feel safer this way, let them have it

> they feel safer this way,

What if somebody started a Whites-only gym because it made them feel safer?

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

#29
post #9

We are reinventing, from first principles, the discrimination we fought so hard against in the 20th century.

If there wasn't a need for this then I might agree with you, but there is a need and that's the much bigger problem here.
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