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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  3438 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Riots in Paris as Uber Undercuts Taxis

Just to be clear:

You think:

1) The women pictured are Uber drivers.

2) The women pictured came up with this promotion.

3) Uber is accommodating the initiative of these self-starting entrepreneurs.

'cuz I think it's more likely that Uber got some cheesecake stock photos in response to a sexist idea from a sexist company looking to advance a sexist agenda for profit.





user-inactivated  ·  3438 days ago  ·  link  ·  

No. And I never said anything of that nature. Assuming that women in an ad copy are the same women doing the driving is not reasonable. But assuming that the women who do drive in that program are paid more is reasonable. All I said was that it's a well established business model to charge more for a service simply because attractive women are performing said service. Clearly you don't like that model. That's fine. But you're just putting words in my mouth and it's silly.