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The gender you're attracted to isn't a choice or a "preference".
We're not discussing preference as in attraction, we're discussing the preference of women customers for women drivers due to the significantly greater incidence of violence and sexual assault commited by men specifically towards women, which is also not a choice
Sounds like Uber and Lyft should stop hiring drivers who sexually harass customers.
When I said "bone fide" I meant that attraction isn't a choice. In the case of an Uber driver gender preference is a choice.
Based on your "customer preference" logic could I also say my preference is race based because I found a similar statistic? Would that justify Uber allowing race selection?
We have laws that protect people from discrimination on protected grounds (race, gender, sexual orientation, age etc...) not because there are no legitimate statistical reasons for people to have a preference, but because the damage to society caused by discrimination based on characteristics you can't change about yourself far exceeds these benefits.
You keep saying "bone fide" in relation to strippers when you mean "~~bonafide~~" bonerfied.
Hey I completely agree with that!
Maybe instead of punishing their entire male driver base, 99.9% of whom have not sexually assaulted a passenger, they could adopt some screening standards, have some regular, mandatory instructional courses with scored tests at the end, do some background checks!
Preferring not to be assaulted is not a choice, the reality that men are more likely to commit these crimes is also not a choice, and the fact that the specific scenario of driver and lone passenger is much higher risk is also extremely relevant. It would be nice if Uber cared enough to try screening their employees more carefully, but offloading cost and responsibility onto someone else is more profitable so I wouldn't count on it happening any time soon. You could possibly find a statistic to support being a bigot, but it would definitely be bullshit. International crime statistics and legal & sociological analysis directly contradicts racially biased US crime stats, whereas they instead fully confirm this specific gender bias in crime stats. One is true, the others are not. Allowing women to make choices that affect their safety based on verifiable facts is entirely reasonable, I don't particularly care if men find it discriminatory.
Enjoy being a rape culture supporter I guess
Lol try harder loser