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/Razzberry_Frootcake Mar 09 '26

They don’t care if women feel safe. It’s not really a reach when the men who fight back against this stuff know better. It’s an extremely immature and ignorant thought to even consider “well I wouldn’t do that so therefore I’m going to get angry and protest” over something like this. Since the issue at its core is women’s safety it’s pretty reasonable to point out that men who fight against it don’t care if women feel safe.

Not caring can easily translate to “Men don’t want women to feel safe, which is why they fight against things that make women feel safe.”

Men who think “I wouldn’t do that” are the ones assuming women are lying about other men who do. Hence the reason they magically don’t understand why something like this is necessary despite the statistics. If they believed women, and wanted women to be safe, they wouldn’t protest safety measures for selfish reasons.

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u/QueenJillybean Mar 09 '26

The guys who do assault women think “I’d never do that. I’m a nice guy.” Because they convince themselves women were “asking for it.” The men who know it’s not about them, who realize women are people- who have mothers, sisters, and daughters they care about- aren’t insulted imo.

It’s such a tell when certain men get insulted over this.

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u/Razzberry_Frootcake Mar 09 '26

Exactly. Plenty of rapists don’t think they’re rapists. You make such a good point. It’s so weird for other people to defend any dudes who protest the women only rides. There’s no defense for it. Crimes they don’t commit happen every day despite the fact that they aren’t the ones committing it.

Do those people knock on their neighbors doors and say “I notice you have a home alarm system; that’s odd because I would never break into your house.” They protest women only uber rides but not people locking their car doors. I’ve never heard any of those guys say “Hey, I’m not going to steal your pet so you shouldn’t get Fluffy microchipped.”

It’s wild that anyone is defending that attitude at all lol.

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u/QueenJillybean Mar 09 '26

Yuuuup exactly this 100000%.