When women riders and drivers told us they wanted more control over how they ride and earn, we listened. That feedback led to Women Preferences, features designed to give women the choice to ride with other women. Since our first pilots last summer, we’ve heard just how much that choice matters—from feeling more comfortable in the back seat to more confident behind the wheel.

  • Iconoclast@feddit.ukEnglish
    474·
    7 days ago

    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.

    • Pudutr0n@lemmy.worldEnglish
      162·
      6 days ago

      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.

    • paultimate14@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      6 days ago

      I can’t help but I imagine JK Rowling tweeting some day about how she used this feature and was appalled to be driven by a trans-woman.

      A lot of white people are afraid of black people. Should we let people choose their driver by the color of their skin? Their ethnicity? The language they speak? Their sexual orientation? Their religion?

      Discrimination is bad for everyone else, but somehow for men we just say “eh they have it coming”.

    • dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      27·
      6 days ago

      I can’t help but imagine the outrage

      Literally only you can prevent that. This is something that affects 50% of the population universally. For some reason you can’t comprehend this being an exception to the rule. Only you can be that change, no one can do that for you. I hope you are able to stop imagining fake outrage one day. It will be a long journey, should you wish to achieve it, but I believe in you.