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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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> they feel safer this way, What if somebody started a Whites-only gym because it made them feel safer?

If Whites had, on average, 2.5 standard deviations lower upper-body strength than non-Whites, then maybe.

That's not why women ask for women-only gyms.

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

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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?

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

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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?

In your cake shop example, the more accurate version would be some gay couples only agreeing to buy wedding cakes from cake shops with gay bakers. On account of it's the customer choosing the service provider, albeit with the help of filters provided by an aggregator, instead of service providers denying service to customers based on their belonging to a class. edit: I missed that you can, as a woman driver, also fil…

The preference can also be set by women drivers not to accept men as riders, so I don't think your example fully covers it either.

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

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This incident is creepy enough that I would also not agree to a give a random stranger a ride home, absent any additional context or mitigations. Maybe to avoid waking up in an ice bath with my liver gone. But, to not give a ride because of some perceived idea that they would claim you assaulted them or something is a bit "this person should go touch some grass" or whatever.

Interesting One of you is afraid that YOU are going to get assaulted or worse. The other is afraid you’re going to get ACCUSED of it. What has this society become?

A low-trust society.

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

#58

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

Why does the same argument never work in reverse? When men want something for themselves then the same people say that that would be sexist.

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

#59
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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.

Not necessary and unfairly punishing working men and defacto creating a 50% quota larger market share for female drivers.

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

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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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