Is there a setting where women can choose a bear preference?
this post was submitted on 10 Mar 2026
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Now add a "Chatty Cathy" / "Leave me the fuck alone, don't worry I'll still give you a tip as long as we don't have to talk" option.
Here in Europe we already have that, at least for comfort and above.
what if a male writer wants to avoid mail drivers
Are U ok?
They just hate the postal service
This is a good thing if you ask most women
Someone at Uber watched Bojack Horseman…
I don’t get why they don’t just make this a global option. Anyone can choose their preferred gender. Some women prefer women, some prefer men. Hell, some men prefer men.
I imagine lawyers are the biggest issue. Anti discrimination laws vary greatly by jurisdiction. This type of de jure discrimination against a privileged group to counter de facto discrimination against a marginalized one is the type of situation that is going to be thorny pretty much everywhere, with differing results everywhere.
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Came here expecting misogyny-adjacent comments.
...It met my expectations :/
Awesome, but they should also give men the option to choose to ride with a man.
There's already an app that does that.
It's called grindr.
They should make an app where you have to swipe right on your driver/passenger, and then the app notifies you and you can strike up a conversation and see whether or not you are compatible for ride-sharing.
Some sort of beautiful justice can be imagined where women just sit on corners pouting how they can't get a decent driver.
I'm a man, but I also prefer women drivers. Their cars tend to be better taken care of and cleaner. they also do a lot better at respecting and pre-empting preferences in regard to heat/music. Maybe it's just my area, but I've actually never had a "normal" experience with a male Uber driver.
Either their car is all clapped out, it's dirty and smells bad, they'll be blasting MAGA rap, or they get real weird with the dropoff. (Like, bro my legs do function and I can walk across the street or down the block a little bit, it's ok, I gave you a different address from where I'm actually going anyway). Never had any issues like that with women as drivers.
I get that they're doing this for reasons of rider safety, but they should let both men and women express a preference.
Dunno what specifically they do that's weird around the dropoff but as a former Uber driver, I was just trying to make things as convenient as possible/get a good rating and/or tip from a clean and easy drop-off
Dafuk is maga rap ?
Stadium country rap... It's awful
Hick hop
Honestly, this should be a thing.
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I don't necessarily even disagree with this feature but I can't help but imagine the outrage if that was almost literally any other group of people.
I can’t help but imagine the outrage
Literally only you can prevent that. This is something that affects 50% of the population universally. For some reason you can't comprehend this being an exception to the rule. Only you can be that change, no one can do that for you. I hope you are able to stop imagining fake outrage one day. It will be a long journey, should you wish to achieve it, but I believe in you.
Did you stop reading as soon as you hit the word outrage?
I want to ride exclusively with bilingual Mongolian ginger Zoroastrian jazz enthusiasts over 5'10" to feel safe and demand a feature for me to do so.
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