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Lyft is introducing a new feature that lets women and non-binary riders choose a preference to match with drivers of the same gender.

Lyft is introducing a new feature that lets women and non-binary riders choose a preference to match with drivers of the same gender.

The ride-hailing company said it was a “highly requested feature” in a blog post Tuesday, saying the new feature allows women and non-binary people to “feel that much more confident” in using Lyft and also hopefully encourage more women to sign up to be drivers to access its “flexible earning opportunities.”

The service, called “Women+ Connect,” is rolling out in the coming months. Riders can turn on the option in the Lyft app, however the company warns that it’s not a guarantee that they’ll be matched with a women or non-binary person if one of those people aren’t nearby. Both the riders and drivers will need to opt-in to the feature for it work and riders must chose a gender for it to work.

  • @ParsnipWitch@feddit.de
    5•1 year ago

    Women and non-binary people gain more safety from this. What are men going to gain from a feature letting them have only male drivers?

    It’s such an incredible dumb thing to be mad about.

    • @schmidtster@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10•1 year ago

      Arguably where is the harm in making it allowable to all for it to be equal?

      Arguably, men can gain more safety too, or are you claiming the same can’t happen to men?

      What an incredibly narrow sighted view point.

            • @schmidtster@lemmy.worldEnglish
              8•1 year ago

              Do you not think traumatized men might not? Me personally no, there’s also women who don’t fear for their life around men.

              So… what’s your point? It applies to both sexes as I hopefully just helped you with.

              Or of you the group that think the same can’t apply to men?

              • @SeducingCamel@lemm.ee
                3•1 year ago

                There’s a big difference in the amount of traumatized men and the systemic oppression of women. Have you ever thought that maybe everything isn’t about you? Do you actually listen to women when they talk to you or do you just go “but but men this men that!”

                • @schmidtster@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  4•1 year ago

                  Of course there is, I never claimed otherwise.

                  We are just pointing out that the same can apply to men, if men aren’t included it’s not about equality, which is what EVERYONE should strive for.

                  I would be making these exact same arguments regardless of gender or races, as most people here probably would to. But there’s always a group of people (you, this is about you) that seem to think people fighting for overall rights are “men’s rights activists”. I’m sorry that you seem to have some bias in your life that all men are bad, but I myself am fighting for equal rights, not men’s, not women’s, equal rights.

                  • @SeducingCamel@lemm.ee
                    1•1 year ago

                    I certainly don’t think all men are bad but just putting fingers in your ears and going “I fight for equal rights for everyone!” extremely downplays real issues that a significant amount of women are facing. This feature isn’t an “equal rights” issue, men don’t need it because men don’t face this problem like women do

                • transigence
                  1•1 year ago

                  There is no systemic oppression of women and there never has been.

            • transigence
              5•1 year ago

              Fearing for your safety from relational aggression from women is completely rational. Women are just as aggressive as men — it just takes a different form.

        • @Soulg@lemmy.world
          5•1 year ago

          The exact same way women and nb people get more safety. You’re not that special. It goes both ways, the rate may be much higher one way, but it exists the other way too.