• Lemminary@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    And I told you that they don’t apply because it’s disingenuous. They’re your contrived examples that you’re trying to force to subvert what I’m saying and frame me in some light with historical baggage that doesn’t apply.

    But even if we look at statistics,

    Yup, looking at your link, it says so right there: “the majority of offenders are male”. Then it lists a whole bunch of other factors that have nothing to do with gendered violence in the context that we’re talking about.

    the majority of sexual assault cases are between people who know each other, not random strangers.

    We’re talking about upwards of 2,300 lawsuits between strangers in a cab as a result of 400k other reports submitted at a rate of about 1 per 8 minutes for two years. Do you see how what you’re saying doesn’t fit here either?

    This isn’t about protecting anyone.

    Of course not, this is about Uber covering its ass for doing absolutely nothing about sexual assault and trying to come up with a corporate solution.

    It’s about Uber selling women on the concept of safety and charging a premium for it

    Are they charging extra for this feature?

    and they are leveraging a culture war in the process.

    The fact of the matter is that these men suing Uber for discrimination are pearl-clutching and are the ones fueling the culture war. These self-described men in the comments arguing against letting women choose the gender of their driver are pretending this is somehow comparable to racism, and are making fake comparisons to drive a narrative. You did that.