Lyft is introducing a new feature that lets women and non-binary riders choose a preference to match with drivers of the same gender.
The ride-hailing company said it was a “highly requested feature” in a blog post Tuesday, saying the new feature allows women and non-binary people to “feel that much more confident” in using Lyft and also hopefully encourage more women to sign up to be drivers to access its “flexible earning opportunities.”
The service, called “Women+ Connect,” is rolling out in the coming months. Riders can turn on the option in the Lyft app, however the company warns that it’s not a guarantee that they’ll be matched with a women or non-binary person if one of those people aren’t nearby. Both the riders and drivers will need to opt-in to the feature for it work and riders must chose a gender for it to work.
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Cool, now do rape, assault, and sexual harassment like the person you’re responding to was talking about. Your response is tone deaf whataboutism.
In other words, male on male crime. What’s wrong with men’s culture to be causing this problem? 🤔🙄
Most people, even most men, acknowledge that men are more violent.
When are we going to take the next step and acknowledge that didn’t happen by accident, and it’s due to the conditions men live under.
What’s the feminist explanation for why so many men turn out this way and not women? I’ve never heard a good theory for this from that perspective, just that men choose to be bad, for unspecified reasons and the conversation ends there.
Men have pressures and expectations on them to compete and provide for those around them in a way that pushes them to this. Those same pressures aren’t on women, and if they were they would turn out just the same.
Any ideology that demonizes someone based on their gender, and uses dehumanizing ideas like “this gender just choose to be bad, while the other choose to be good” is oversimplifying it and ignoring the actual causes for these outcomes.