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gynoidgearhead · 1 year ago

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More reasons this is shitty:

As a survivor of domestic abuse by a cis woman ex-metamour with anger issues and terrifying driving habits, which culminated in an attempted kidnapping in a motor vehicle, I must cosign the statement that women are not inherently safer than men.

If the idea is that you will always be paired with a safe driver, the answer to that is to start a goddamn traditional taxi service with vetted and certified drivers - you know, the precise thing Uber and Lyft were created to destroy, making everything worse.

The entire idea of "women plus" as a political category literally lays the groundwork for viewing trans women's womanhood as less than cis women's womanhood.

You literally cannot create the category of "women plus" without necessarily implying the existence of "men plus".

Or maybe "men minus"? The imagery of the phrase "women plus" has some deeply weird connotations, and seems to imply a scarcity or endangerment of masculinity as the hordes of "women plus" "encroach" on "men's territory". Like, "men minus" sounds like a category designed to "fortify" masculinity by purging "insufficient men". I think it's pretty obvious why that's patriarchal.

Hey uhh Lyft what the fuck

#i'm also not sure whom the term ''women+'' is supposed to be for? like who identifies as a woman+ but not a woman? (genuinely)#really the thing that bugs me is that ''women+'' seems to be a fig leaf over an attempt to manufacture consent and speak for others #like a lot of writers seem to love to make generalities about ''women'' to create the appearance of uniform agreement #(especially white writers about woc. cis women about trans/nb people. USians about the world. non-SWers about SWers. etc)#and it seems like ''women+'' is a category buzzfeed regina georg keeps trying to make happen #to be able to write shitty journalism or scholarship with listicle-tier takes about everything #and be able to completely duck responsibility for misgendering someone by saying ''well they are a Woman Plus tm so i can't be wrong!''#to quote an article title by devon price: stop trying to make ''womxn'' happen #lyft #uber #transphobic fauxminism #transphobic fauxminists #prejudice against men #gender essentialism #sex essentialism #biological essentialism #fauxminism #fauxminists #misgendering #transphobia #cissexism #gender policing

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