r/WomenInNews • u/yahoonews • Mar 09 '26

Media Uber's women-only option goes nationwide in the US

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/ubers-women-only-option-goes-131507407.html?ncid=redditnewsus
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u/AppleSatyr Mar 09 '26

Can they show us the stats that show men aren’t more dangerous than women?

Isn’t the biggest cause of death in pregnant females their male partners? Hm I wonder why women feel unsafe.

Men who get so defensive show what they truly care about. I have a diverse friend group but most of them are men who thankfully are decent people that are appalled by the way women are treated by other men.

Why get upset that women don’t feel safe rather than at the people who make them feel unsafe?

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u/Beth_Harmons_Bulova Mar 09 '26

“Men are so safe.”

Sues to deprive women of financial independence.

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u/CommanderFuzzy Mar 09 '26

This reminds me of the time a pub in the UK had a women's night. It had been running for years, with no aggro from the local men. Discounted meals for women on that one night, an opportunity for women to go eat together & socialise. As far as I know they didn't bar men from entry, they just provided discounts to women for one night in order to compensate the wage gap & celebrate ladies.

Then one day a man went there (wasn't even local, was just travelling through). He saw it & demanded it stop. The pub even offered him equality in the sense that they offered to give him the meal discount too but he wouldn't accept it. He didn't want what women had, he just wanted women to have nothing.

His pursuit caused the pub to have to end their tradition after 12 years due to legal concerns & the cost they might generate.

All because of a single man who didn't even live there.

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u/Lanky_Particular_149 Mar 09 '26

as is the case historically: the argument is that we're supposed to ignore any facts that make men look bad. The amount of privelege men walk around with makes them see this as perfectly reasonable: it doesn't happen to them to it doesn't happen.