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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.

  • Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca
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    7 hours ago

    can males avoid women drivers or is that considered sexist? what if a male wants to mitigate the chance of being falsely accused of assault/rape? I hope people have the choice regardless of gender

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      It might be considered sexist, depending on who you ask.

      The amount of males being falsely accused of sexual assault is much lower than the amount of females being exposed to sexual assault. Hence why there has been provided a measure for women at this scale, and not for men.

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        But the fear of sexual assault is why women prefer women, so ain’t the fear of accusations a justifiable reason? Why does it have to be equal to matter?

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        As a penis haver who has been falsely accused of sexual assault, it’s far more common than you think.

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        The amount of males being falsely accused of sexual assault is much lower than the amount of females being exposed to sexual assault.

        And you know this because… vibes?

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      As a domestic abuser survivor (of a woman), a lot of us men are just not taken seriously. It is a lot like how people diminish one person’s pain/suffering just because it “isn’t as bad” as someone else’s pain. Men are absolutely abused, raped, and falsely accused. But because it happens to women more, we have to bear our suffering in silence.

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        No one is saying that men cannot be victims of harassment or assault.

        However it is objectively true that women deal with this problem in much higher quantities than men do.

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          However it is objectively true that women deal with this problem in much higher quantities than men do.

          How do you know that it is objectively true, if you also know these statistics are based around a culture that discourages men from reporting this problem?

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            Per RAINN, 57% of perpetrators are white. I’ll charitably imagine you’re attempting to point out perceived hypocrisy in gender vs race selection, but you’re perpetuating racist and xenophobic stereotypes. White men commit rape at more than twice the rate of black men, and naturally born citizens commit crimes at rates higher than both documented and undocumented immigrants.

            If you want to make the case that it’s a discriminatory policy, you’re welcome to do so, but tying it to false perceptions of race is probably not the best move. It’s coming off as reactionary at best.

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              The actual argument is that it’s acceptable to discriminate against people of color because data shows they are considerably more violent than whites.

              The same thing applies to discriminating against men because data shows they are considerably more violent than women.

              Sexism and racism are okay if you have the data to back it up. Unless… this is a double standard and we’re allowing discrimination based on sex but not discrimination based on race?

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        4 hours ago

        You ever tried taking a little girl to the park when you identified as a man?

        It gets really weird when complete strangers go up to her and ask her if she knows you.

        They don’t do that when you present as a woman.

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          This has never happened to me, and I take my daughter, and her friends to the park all the time…

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        I never understood this fear.

        Always seems weird when people are more worried about accusations than sexual assault/harassement. The latter seems far more common ime, even if you are seen as a guy.

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          I think it’s a perspective thing.

          Men are less likely to perceive themselves as potential SA victims (regardless of actual numbers): so the relative subjective “chance” of false accusations against them vs being victims themselves impacts their priorities.

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        I have never been afraid of being falsely accused of assault or rape because I have never done anything even close to anything that can be defined as assault or rape, or shown any behavior or tendencies to do so.

        I think you’re missing the basic definition of what a false accusation is, here. The whole point of it is that you didn’t do the thing that you’re being accused of.

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      The amount of falsely accused is less than 5% of all the rape cases.

      So a women getting actually raped is about 20 times more likely than a man being falsely accused of rape.

      And that is only counting all the instances where the rape got reported.

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        The amount of falsely accused is less than 5% of all the rape cases.

        LOL how could you possibly know that?

        So a women getting actually raped is about 20 times more likely than a man being falsely accused of rape.

        Not sure what you’re getting at here. Do you think this is some sort of competition for who is the biggest victim? And only the victor should be granted “equality”?

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        This is the shit that makes men look bad.

        Men absolutely do not experience sexual harassment at the same level that women do.

        It’s not close at all.

        Why can’t we just let the women have a dub without being all “buhhh what about da men???”

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          And women don’t experience accusations of sexual harrassment at the same level that men do.

          Men also experience plain physical assault at ~5x the rate of women.

          Why can’t we just support equality for everyone? Why is that so hard?

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            As much as you want to try to paint men as the victims, they’re just not.

            Yes, it happens. No it does not happen nearly as frequently.

            This issue is extremely skewed toward women.

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                  It’s not that complicated roflcopter. I don’t know how to break it down any further.

                  Why would you think anyone wants to be a victim?

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                    Because you’re bending over backwards to try to show men as the victims of rampant sexual harassment when it overwhelmingly occurs to women.

                    Men are not being victimized here, women are just getting relief

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            Why can’t we just support equality for everyone? Why is that so hard?

            At least part of it is because of people like you who get upset whenever someone challenges the grossly inequitous status quo.