This is a great change!
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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Do you have any compelling ideas on how to do that? I don't think it's 'wild' that people criticizing a company action aren't starting their comments with "here's how I'd fix society".
I'm fine with the fix. My point is to those who aren't. Suggest something better.
This isn't a fix, this is a workaround.
It would be cool if people have better ideas, but someone criticizing this workaround doesn't need to suggest something better, and it's not weird for them to lack better ideas but still post. It's a hard problem. And "better than nothing" might get an idea approved but doesn't let it escape criticism.
Re: Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US
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Fully agree and am pretty disappointed reading replies on here. Anyone familiar with the demographics of this forum? What % male is it? If you have women in your life, ask their thoughts on this. It’s easy to not understand problems that don’t exist for us.
Yeah. You sure learn a whole lot of horrible shit about the world in gender-integrated social spaces. (Like how many women start getting unwanted adult male attention when they turn 12.)
If they use any social media like Instagram or TikTok, just ask them to show their DMs as well. I was a douchebag when I was younger, and that was the first step into realizing that I was not aware of the women experience as I thought as I was at the time.
Re: Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US
#135Unfortunately 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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Happy that you were honest about it, but paranoia is not healthy.
Re: Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US
#136Absolutely wild that none of the dissenting comments suggest a means of lowering or eliminating sexual harassment of women passengers. Why not start there? Get creative.
You could put up a divider separating the drivers from the passengers... like in a taxi
Re: Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US
#137I think this is blatant sexual discrimination. I appreciate the sentiment behind it, but it's discriminatory. Maybe if someone can request a male driver instead of female it MIGHT eventually balance out, but I don't see this surviving judicial scrutiny.
Re: Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US
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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.
Because it's a legit safety concern not based on racism or bigotry.
Which are you referring to? /hj
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?
Your average woman subjects themselves to a spectrum of sexual harassment ranging from cat calling to approaches - or even worse - by just leaving the house. Imagine them in gyms in workout clothing, or night club dresses in locked vehicles. If the solution is to limit what they wear, we're part of the problem