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You can thank conservatives for this needing to occur. And when I say conservatives, I'm not simply talking about white, christian males either. I'm talking about ALL conservatives.
Edit: To be truly blunt, I am referring to the child rapists in America, the goat fuckers from the middle east, the child murderers from Israel, the rapists from India, and so on. The vast majority of everyone I listed is right wing.
I dunno I suspect left leaning Nice Guys have rapists amongst them as well.
I don’t get why they don’t just make this a global option. Anyone can choose their preferred gender. Some women prefer women, some prefer men. Hell, some men prefer men.
I imagine lawyers are the biggest issue. Anti discrimination laws very greatly by jurisdiction. This type of de jure discrimination against a privileged group to counter de facto discrimination against a marginalized one is the type of situation that is going to be thorny pretty much everywhere, with differing results everywhere.
Awesome, but they should also give men the option to choose to ride with a man.
I'm a man, but I also prefer women drivers. Their cars tend to be better taken care of and cleaner. they also do a lot better at respecting and pre-empting preferences in regard to heat/music. Maybe it's just my area, but I've actually never had a "normal" experience with a male Uber driver.
Either their car is all clapped out, it's dirty and smells bad, they'll be blasting MAGA rap, or they get real weird with the dropoff. (Like, bro my legs do function and I can walk across the street or down the block a little bit, it's ok, I gave you a different address from where I'm actually going anyway). Never had any issues like that with women as drivers.
I get that they're doing this for reasons of rider safety, but they should let both men and women express a preference.
Dafuk is maga rap ?
Honestly, this should be a thing.
There's already an app that does that.
It's called grindr.
What if I’ve only been using Uber Black?
Grindr does have ethnicity options, not sure if it's behind a paywall though.
So what happens when the rider can't find a ride because 99% of drivers are men and it's the middle of the night? We never ask the hard questions, do we? Should sex discrimination in employment be legal? I've always felt bad for male masseuses, nurses and childcare providers having to deal with additional scrutiny and having money taken out of their pocket not because of merit but because of gender.
Maybe you should not be allowed to choose a lady gyno or any other dr too? Or massage therapist? Or therapist in general. Or hair dresser. Or fucking anything else, huh?
Come on…
Maybe we as a society need to be a little more understanding to those working to survive.
If everyone treated each other better, this entire post and thread would not be necessary.
Yeah I like it, men drive faster and better usually. And if you are really late you can ask to speed a little bit. Can we also choose who will cook our food? I find mens cooking much better. Win win overall.
Well they'll just show the no drivers available screen and give the rider option to widen the search criteria?
That's not how UberBlack/SUV worked for a while but maybe they're caught up technologically.
Lyft has been doing it for a while and it seems to work out.
This also boosts demand for women drivers
You can't make women want to drive. I get why they wouldn't want to. Lots of creeps.
I don't necessarily even disagree with this feature but I can't help but imagine the outrage if that was almost literally any other group of people.
I want to ride exclusively with bilingual Mongolian ginger Zoroastrian jazz enthusiasts over 5'10" to feel safe and demand a feature for me to do so.
God damn it. I'm 5'9
Great! We just happen to have a driver matching your requirements. Unfortunately, demand for bilingual Mongolian ginger Zoroastrian jazz enthusiasts over 5’10" is off the charts! Fares have increased to get more bilingual Mongolian ginger Zoroastrian jazz enthusiasts over 5’10" Ubers on the road: 9001.0x the normal fare
It's sad this even needs to be a thing.
Now can we also get the option of getting a driver that won't speak to me while driving?
I don't think anyone worth listening about anything would find this problematic. It ain't women casually raping and killing, we all know that.
