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Fact of the matter is, this is institutionalized discrimination. It might be beneficial, but it's discrimination. From a purely logical standpoint, if this ty
by sneak 1y ago
Fact of the matter is, this is institutionalized discrimination. It might be beneficial, but it's discrimination.
From a purely logical standpoint, if this type of discrimination is tolerated, others should likely also be tolerated.
If other types of discrimination are not tolerated, then this type of discrimination should not be tolerated either.
It's no different than white people not wanting black drivers, and Uber supporting that.
- nerdjon 1y agoI think there is a very big difference between those when personal safety is considered. It is the same as asking if you have a preference when you get a massage or go to the doctor since those are more intimate and likely involving a lack of clothes. Something that in those situations you would feel regardless of your gender. As a male I prefer a male doctor, especially when talking about certain topics. I realize logically this is stupid and they are a professional at the end of the day, but that is my reality. Unlike those however, there is not really a valid reason for a man to say they don't want a female driver/passenger from a comfort or safety standpoint. We can argue all day long about in an ideal world we would not need this, but that is not our reality.
- sneak 1y ago> Unlike those however, there is not really a valid reason for a man to say they don't want a female driver/passenger from a comfort or safety standpoint. There is no more valid reason for a woman to say she doesn't want a male driver than a white person to say they don't want a black driver. Men, as a group, are not dangerous, and there is no reason to discriminate against them. The vast majority of human beings, men included, are nonviolent.
- montjoy 1y ago> It's no different than white people not wanting black drivers, and Uber supporting that. This is a false analogy. Men tend to be 40% to 60% stronger than women and testosterone is well linked with aggressiveness. A better comparison might be people not wanting civilized chimpanzees for drivers. If my daughter or wife wants a female driver I am 100% ok with that.
- AaronAPU 1y ago> This is a false analogy. Men tend to be 40% to 60% stronger than women and testosterone is well linked with aggressiveness. I think you may not have seen many other statistics if you think this disproves the point.
- montjoy 1y agoWhich statistics? Are you talking about statistics linking poverty to crime? Or lead ingestion leading to aggressiveness? Or are you just being subtly racist?
- AaronAPU 1y agoThrowing out that word as a weapon doesn’t work anymore, let’s stay on the logical chain of the conversation. Having a proposed explanation for statistical correlations doesn’t change the amount of danger a driver or passenger is in. So why would one set of statistics be used to allow discrimination but another not?
- Mawr 1y agoAnd citing such statistics is different from citing crime statistics broken down by race how?
- montjoy 1y agoCrime statistics are heavily influenced by poverty and environmental conditions. The average man, however, is always stronger than the average woman. I invite you to ask 5 female friends how safe they feel meeting a random male and asking for help where they will be forced to share a confined space.
- lucyjojo 1y agocrime statistics is a social construct biological male/female strength difference is factual reality.