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Many women want to ride with other women for safety reasons. Men would only choose their riders gender for bigotry reasons. There is little reason to enable their bigotry. If fewer bigots ride it's a bug not a feature.
That's not necessarily true though. Many men also feel more comfortable with another man in a variety of situations. Prostate exam, counseling, and barber are all good examples. Some guys are just super awkward with women and might not want to feel awkward while paying for a ride. Hell with the severity an accusation of wrong doing can have some men might not want to ride solo with a woman they don't know.
The same goes for women, not all women choosing this setting are doing so for safety, sometimes people have a preference. Uber is organizing willing independent contractors to the preference of paying customers. If the customer states they want a specific gender as their driver I don't see why that would be a problem so long as both parties are fine with that.
and this right here is why I cant stand a lot of other liberals. you guys make me ashamed to be one.. smh
How hard is this to understand. Women frequently feel unsafe with strange men in uncontrolled situations like alone in a car because men who are commonly bigger and stronger commonly beat and rape women. Men who are on average bigger and stronger are very rarely assaulted or raped by strange women because women are both less physically imposing and are less prone to violence and most specifically sexual violence. Whereas its not impossible or unheard for a woman to be so this is so uncommon it is rarely something people are reasonably concerned about either factually or culturally.
Did I really need to tell you any of that or did you in fact already know that. The whiners here do NOT want men to be equal and have the ability to chose men drivers they want women not to have a path to discriminate against them because THEY believe they aren't the problem. Hell the guys who ARE the problem are also sure they aren't the problem.
nothing about this is hard to understand, I just don't want to perpetuate hate and inequality, or create division. letting both sexes choose their own sex if they want to wouldn't leave anyone feeling slighted. its a simple solution that wouldn't leave anyone room to complain.
Why do we care if anyone has room to complain?
why not just let both sexes choose their own if they want to? when we have an easy way to be as inclusive as possible why not be?