Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US - Dexerto
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Uber now lets women in the U.S. choose to avoid being paired with male drivers during rides through the platform.
  • Golfnbrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33·
    3 days ago

    The shame is that this option is needed. Toxic masculinity is so prevalent and infiltrates everything. Boys not raised well. Sad.

    • arnitbier@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      3 days ago

      Boys not able to be raised well

      They’re all broken out there, you helping or just doing holier then thou shtuff for fun?

      • curiousaur@reddthat.comEnglish
        10·
        2 days ago

        I have a real issue with you adding not able to be raised well. As a father of a boy. Let me tell you it’s absolutely the parents. You can raise boys well.

        • arnitbier@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          1 day ago

          And if you are the only person in the world that would be enough, but selfish assholes like you are why the world is so broken cause its not and never will be

          Assuming what youre doing is enough cause in your little emotional ass world it is (according to you, the world disagrees but to you other people don’t even exist based on your “logic”)

          The rest of people are fucked up and your doing exactly nothing to change it and your guilty ass conscience brought you to the comment section to pretend your above everyone to feed the need to be better without actual reality to back you up

          Fuck your shitclown attempt at playing for a crowd here dude instead of any kind of nuanced understanding of the issues

          Edit: Good luck when their friend/girlfriend/coworkers/whoever the fuck influencers, grifters, do badders get them all fucked up cause they get better at manipulating them then you do a job of raising them so-called ‘right’, or they’ll just isolate away from others the same cowardly way and the world will stay perpetually fucked up cause you arent gonna be who they need you to be to help fix them, so you come on here and state the obvious, to applause you know is coming, instead of actually doing the hard work to be done.

          Time to reach out (read: engage with in any way, shame, witness, intend to understand and help. Not just sit and pretend that your winning some game) but reach out to the quote unquote, ‘bad’ parents, even if its “unsafe” or “hazardous” or not good for your “mental state” cause they also got left behind by their last generation, now you would actually be doing something about it rather than cowering behind the indulgences of self appreciation all about you by not directly being an ‘actively participating’ part of the problem and instead just indirectly by fucking off from the cause. Lucky you then cause that’s all luck and no real work on your part other then maintaining or growing what is already easy for you to handle, understand and witness. You probably had life on easy street. Its not like that for them and they know that shit.

          Deal with the problem directly to self aggrandize this much, on purpose, to get some self validation for something you already know is right and should be enough just to do it, cause doing that shit actually needs that help and justifies itself.

          The actual problem is, that you don’t know how easy it is to be like them given their chemical norms, their witnessing and THEIR experiences. Its so simple to believe that macho shit from birth(its “natural” and thus justified in some way (if you never learned critical thinking skills by being born “right”), violence is the underpinning to all ownership and that makes you stronger and more able to protect yours, it works so fucking well and is entirely justified sometimes no matter your personal philosophy, its so powerful and it makes others feel more powerful/secure by proximity to it, and you seem pretty dumb to people like them for not all “getting that” by ‘instinct’ alone. Feeds right into the nature thing, see how easy it is to do (now imagine its crazy liberating and empowering all thoughout inside your brainspace) (‘Instinct’: read: built in, innate. Cause there are plenty of advantages to being prepped for violence, pray you never have to need it and not have it type idea))

          So deal with it or get out of the way/get fucked up by its not having being dealt with by stronger men and women. Spent time and effort here today you would be likely ill equipped to handle. So thesis is that toxicity is not an inherent wrong or a truely “bad thing”, it depends how and why, where its directed and why its being used at all, you might see this as toxic, but you need it or something like it (to get through your superiority complex bulit right in to your self esteem) its healthy to your “body” at this time (that its not right about something and this is how to get the info understood/digested)

          Welcome to the toxic paradox mfers 😎👍

                • arnitbier@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                  1·
                  20 hours ago

                  Hope your kids see you for what you are 👍

                  A cowardly little man hoping to insulate them from the real world and act like he’s a hero for doing it cause he’s a just a big ol lame asshole and he’s afraid of them so now they have to be too to justify him doing it (and so the cycle repeats itself)

            • arnitbier@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              1·
              1 day ago

              I’m just sorry for you clowns more then anyone, you didn’t even read anything just came in to make a shit jab at someone because youre in some social grace to hurt people for kicks and you think your the good person?

              Uh huh 🤡

  • Echo (they/them)@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    In the Lyft app it even specifically mentions this feature’s availability for non-binary people along with women - which I very much so appreciate

  • Peffse@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    3 days ago

    please tell me there is no penalty to those women taking this option. It would be so easy for Uber to pull a “only $5 more” to get a ride or “5% less” to avoid a rider.

  • kibiz0r@midwest.socialEnglish
    11·
    3 days ago

    Just to be clear: this is not about protecting people.

    This is just another squeeze, wringing the next few drops of accountability out of their sector.

    They’re not really employing the drivers, so they’re not responsible for vetting them. And they’re not really selling rides, so they’re not responsible for what happens during one.

    So what’s next? “Oh, we told drivers to get interior cameras, we told riders to be careful, we gave them checkboxes!”

    Anything at all that they can spin as a value-add to shareholders, rather than allowing for any amount of responsibility towards the well-being of people who interact with their systems.

  • endless_nameless@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    3 days ago

    We should cut the nation in half down the middle, male side and female side. We’ll have gender embassies to coordinate economic matters. Every 10 years we’ll all send our most fit and fertile to meet in the gender demilitarized zone for breeding. Better yet, maybe we can establish a reproductive material trade so we never have to see each other.