When women riders and drivers told us they wanted more control over how they ride and earn, we listened. That feedback led to Women Preferences, features designed to give women the choice to ride with other women. Since our first pilots last summer, we’ve heard just how much that choice matters—from feeling more comfortable in the back seat to more confident behind the wheel.
give men the option to ride with men as well, and nobody will have an issue with this
Many women want to ride with other women for safety reasons. Men would only choose their riders gender for bigotry reasons. There is little reason to enable their bigotry. If fewer bigots ride it’s a bug not a feature.
That’s not necessarily true though. Many men also feel more comfortable with another man in a variety of situations. Prostate exam, counseling, and barber are all good examples. Some guys are just super awkward with women and might not want to feel awkward while paying for a ride. Hell with the severity an accusation of wrong doing can have some men might not want to ride solo with a woman they don’t know.
The same goes for women, not all women choosing this setting are doing so for safety, sometimes people have a preference. Uber is organizing willing independent contractors to the preference of paying customers. If the customer states they want a specific gender as their driver I don’t see why that would be a problem so long as both parties are fine with that.
Citation needed. Back up those claims cuz that’s sounding like pure emotional projection.
You need a citation for many women being unsafe with random men in a car but the reverse not being true. OK buddy.
Hold on a second. Did you honestly think you were coming across as unemotional when you said that?
Keep your emotions out of it, I learned to manage that, takes a lot of work but it’s a good skill to have.
Tell me what facts you think you know that makes you claim 100% of men who would use that feature would be doing it for bigotry reasons.
You don’t even need to do citations, I’ll go do the research for us.
The only thing I humbly beg you to tell me is what fact you know that I don’t, I’m not seeing the missing puzzle piece.
If you know something I’m missing I genuinely want to know, cuz I’m not afraid of changing my mind when proven wrong. I just genuinely think you’re just making some unfair assumptions that’s all. There’s no shame in it, most people do it. But it might surprise you to learn that a lot of people would rather die than be wrong about something.
Don’t get mad at me. TALK to me.
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Yes. Won’t somebody think of the men… 🙄
Oh no, equality! How horrific!
You think empathy is bad?