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Best news I’ve heard in a while 😫 thank god

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Anonymous 8w

I CANT tell you the amount of lyft and uber drivers that have been creepy. I’ve literally had to leave in the middle of a ride once and request a woman driver instead cause this guy stopped the car at the gas station and said I “could pay in other ways” AT NIGHT

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Anonymous 8w

i’m so glad this includes drivers bc this one time this lady picked me and my friends (guys) up late at night and when my friend asked if he could ride shotgun since it was a bit cramped in the back she was like sure but just don’t touch me. and we were like wtf why would he do that? and she told us how the previous ride was this couple who were fighting, and the guy, drunk af, was trying to hit on her and just grabbed her boobs out of nowhere. she ended up asking them to leave mid trip

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Anonymous 8w

i made the mistake of opening the comment section of an article announcing this. it just further proved the need for this lol.

Anonymous 8w

this took way too long

Anonymous 8w

FINALLY. i’ll never forget when i was 16 i had a driver who could tell my ethnicity (he was the same ethnicity) and continued to flirt with me even after i told him my age, then asked if my parents would mind if we dated… it was terrifying

Anonymous 8w

It’s sad though since 75% of drivers are men. We need more women to sign up! Maybe they will with this feature.

Anonymous 8w

this is very much needed i wont forget this 27 year old lyft driver flirting with me when i was literally 18 .. men are creeps!

Anonymous 8w

love this! i remember there was one time i recorded my ride bc the driver was getting into it with his gf and she kept calling him bc she thought he was with another girl (cheating) and im just in the backseat not knowing what to do. he tried to make me talk to her too to prove he wasn’t out cheating on her, but driving for uber instead. omg never again. that ride was the worst

Anonymous 8w

Yeah I had a creepy driver once and made the stupid decision to give him my number when he asked because I was drunk and nervous. Blocked him immediately after but then he found my tiktok and other apps. I was actually so scared he was stalking me for the longest time and scared to order uber again in case he was the driver.

Anonymous 8w

just in time for school woooo

Anonymous 8w

Will definitely be using this after clubs

Anonymous 8w

FINALLY

Anonymous 8w

hell yeah 🗣️‼️🙌

Anonymous 8w

My only worry is that dudes will pretend to be women on the app

Anonymous 8w

thank GOD

Anonymous 8w

Wait this is perfect bc me and my family are supposed to uber tomorrow to the airport 🥹

Anonymous 8w

This is cool. All of the guys I’ve had as uber drivers have been really nice, but it’s cool to see this being implemented

Anonymous 8w

That’ll likely get shut down real quick since it is discriminating based on gender which is illegal. Not saying that’s a good thing, but it’s what is likely to happen.

Anonymous 8w

literally my friend’s first time in an Uber our male driver asked to see her tits 😀

Anonymous 8w

i wonder how it'll hold up legally

Anonymous 8w

There was an app just for women it was like Uber and I guess it got like sued or something for discrimination… I hope the same thing doesn’t happen here… not all men but enough to worry.

Anonymous 8w

As an Uber driver, I hope it also lets us drive around only women

Anonymous 8w

YES

Anonymous

#2 8w

like she was so grateful to us for being respectful and it made me so sad bc like damn that’s just the bare minimum

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Anonymous

OP 8w

Lyft already has a feature like this in some areas

Anonymous

#10 8w

Yeah ik but there’s not enough female drivers so it doesn’t always work..?

Anonymous

OP 8w

Wait why would that not be an issue for uber too?

Anonymous

#15 8w

There shouldn’t be any legal issues, it’ll basically just be giving both parties more information when they decide if they want to accept a ride or not

Anonymous

#16 8w

Ngl it’s kinda crazy that this guy was being harassed by his gf while he was working and you made it about you 😭 like, none of that was him being creepy (unless you left something out) and could’ve 100% happened with a woman driver, though you probably would’ve helped her

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Anonymous

#19 8w

truth is, you weren’t there so no, you don’t know 100% what happened. it was weird as fuck and i felt uncomfortable being in the middle of their shit. save your personal shit for when you don’t have a stranger in the car with you maybe? at the end of the day, it’s a job for the drivers which makes me a customer. in what world is it okay to put someone in your drama like that who’s just trying to get from point A to point B?

Anonymous

#23 8w

They’ll take advantage of anything we have

Anonymous

#23 8w

i wonder if they’ll do the same thing the “tea” app does. where you take a selfie in the app (you can’t upload a picture, so it can’t be edited) and a human has to review it for you to access the option. idk tho. as a masculine looking woman, i wonder the same thing

Anonymous

#1 8w

😭

Anonymous 8w

Ohh ok that makes sense thank you!

Anonymous

#15 8w

It’s no different than requesting a female doctor at a hospital

Anonymous

#19 8w

that's incorrect. it's giving them an option to exclude a gender from their queries for drivers or riders. it's not just showing ppl more info about the genders of said riders and drivers

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Anonymous

#21 8w

hospitals aren't required to fulfill that request doctors also can't refuse to treat somebody within their relevant field on the basis of gender alone. gender would have to be some sort of inhibiting factor it's also very different considering one of these is the service industry and the other is the medical field. rules and regulations aren't 1 to 1 between the two

Anonymous

#15 8w

Safety is more important than feelings. This could help prevent horrible things happening to women who just need a ride. Sorry a guy driver might lose a few customers and get his feelings hurt for “being excluded” but there are plenty of other male customers he can have.

Anonymous

#11 8w

i agree? i fully support it. my curiosity about the legality of this in actual practice ≠ opposition. i'm just painfully aware of how the patriarchy coddles men and doesn't care about women's safety. sadly, plenty of ppl care more about that guy driver losing customers than they do about women drivers being harassed and attacked

Anonymous

#11 8w

downvoting me correcting misinformation won't change the fact that this is adding an option that excludes a gender which is a weak point legally. if it is challenged that'll likely be the core argument

Anonymous

#15 8w

Oh okay I thought you were one of those people caring more about the guys losing customers. I also was not whoever downvoted you.

Anonymous

#15 8w

It’s giving an option to query women drivers, and if there aren’t any close enough they can choose to open it up If Lyft’s feature to prioritize women drivers for women who want them hasn’t been challenged I don’t see why Uber’s would be

Anonymous

#19 8w

Yeah this is a disgusting response and terrible view of how socializing works/should work.

Anonymous

#19 8w

maybe bc uber is more popular than lyft so more drivers both male and female in assuming

Anonymous

#15 8w

It likely won’t since discrimination based on gender is grounds for termination for any business in America.