I’m sure anyone using this would be thrilled to get my hairy non-binary ass pulling up

  • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    I’m assuming this would ideally be used by women who want woman Lyft drivers because there always is a concern that comes with male drivers. It doesn’t look like it filters out male users and that probably opens it up for easy exploitation by men.

    • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      I am sympathetic as I remember that case where a male taxi driver was picking up, assulting, and murdering young women

      obviously this company is going to fuck up its implementation

    • KobaCumTribute [she/her]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      Fuck that was literally a side plot on the sad horse show, that they founded an alternative to Uber with only female drivers after one of the characters complains about being harassed by a male driver. Then men start using the app to creep on the drivers, they replace all the drivers with strippers, and they sell the company for a huge profit and a feeling of guilt at having completely and utterly failed at what they set out to do in the first place.

    • Dolores [love/loves]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      yeah why would the app have the passengers’ gender listed? drivers can (and do) make assumptions about the names but letting either party filter for it is just a harassment tool