I love how far Americans have come as a society. 50-50 gender representation wow. Oppressing the poor and crushing the middle class no longer has a glass ceiling!
Hacksaw
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Enjoy being a rape culture supporter I guess
Those stats literally exist.
https://www.theglobalstatistics.com/united-states-crime-statistics-by-race/
I could easily justify asking for a different race driver to prevent the high same race victimisation rate. Unless I was Asian then I would prefer an Asian driver.
Actually Asian crimes are so low everyone who l should just pick Asian drivers to significantly reduce their risk of being victimised.
Also your framing of this gendered violence as caused by "male sexual drive" is dangerous misandry. Male on female violence is a cultural issue caused by people like you accepting that male sexual violence is an inherent and unavoidable part of being male (i.e. rape culture). In reality it's exactly like speeding, as long as we treat it as unavoidable and natural it's going to be prevalent everywhere. Yet many countries have almost eliminated speeding and the pedestrian and cyclists deaths it causes through cultural and structural changes. Same goes for countries that have a fraction of north american rape statistics.
We need to stop accepting sexual violence by anyone against anyone. One of those steps is to actually screen and punish drivers who sexually harass customers. That's what the 2300 lawsuits are about, ride share companies routinely ignore sexual assault reporting and empower sexual victimization of their clients. The other is to stop accepting that "boys will be boys" includes rape and sexual assault. None of those steps is acting like the only way to stop rape is to hide women from men.
Your logic empowers rapists. The "what was she wearing" defense will soon become the "what was her driver sex preference" defense and lawyers will start arguing that women who don't select "female driver" are being promiscuous and looking to have sex with a male driver. Why else would they not pick "female driver" after all?
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.
The gender you're attracted to isn't a choice or a "preference".
If you replace sex with race you'll realise that you're completely wrong. There is no legal reason to choose your driver's gender, just like there is no reason to choose your driver's race. The fact that some drivers harass women is because Uber and Lyft don't screen drivers sufficiently to protect passengers.
Gender is a bone fide job requirement for strippers. That's not the case for taxi drivers.
Oh no, you see they're "not rich enough to make a difference", so they're allowed to do nothing. Since the definition is intrinsic to them they'll never be "rich enough" to help and they'll always "help when I'm rich enough to make a difference". So they can always be good people while doing nothing and they can always chastise the rich for "not doing enough" no matter how much they're helping because "if they were that rich they'd help more"
It's really beautiful actually how perfect the system is.
Journalism shouldn't "try to be neutral" they should pursue the truth. The truth is that the IDF is a genocidal force. To try to frame that in a neutral way is to give aid to the genocide.
The truth isn't neutral.
She's wearing leather pants so she reminds him of a couch.
Not to support communism as a plausible solution, but all "communist" countries were what we call "state capitalist". Communism is "worker control of the means of production" not "state control of the means of production". Communism ideologically doesn't have the "centralised" ownership of everything that you are referring to. But all "Actually Existing Socialist" countries like Soviet Russia, Cuba, China, etc... did have that centralisation.
All I'm saying is that when you see people advocating for leftist, progressive, social democratic, or "communist" ideas none of them are talking about state ownership of all industry.
They used to have similar studies to show that black people had lower IQ.
Sexual assault is a crime. Criminals commit crimes. This isn't supposed to be a "Men against Women" thing. It's criminals vs. victims. Of course men will commit more VIOLENT crimes like SA than women, men have a biological strength advantage which really helps commit violent crimes. I don't deny biology.
But if we act like it's more than that, that men are inherently going to sexually assault women and there is nothing we can do about it other than hide women, we're accepting that sexual assault as an unavoidable part of everyday life instead of treating it like the unacceptable crime it is.