Users get message about sexual harassment scandal when trying to delete Uber

In other fields women are more powerful (than in engineering).

I was personally harassed twice by female doctors. Never reported it because honestly, what's the point?

Most men who are victims of sexual harassment, domestic violence, and other forms of sexism don't speak out.

It can be that the same drivers will work for Uber (black level) and for taxi companies. The taxi companies that I've encountered in the NL don't have anything comparable to an app where you can hail and pay, so for that reason alone Uber still may provide a better service even though the drivers may be the same.

So it wasn't speaking Polish or being American that hurt you - it was getting in a strangers car instead of an actual taxi.

This may be of use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_danger

Sorry to disappoint you, I've gotten a lot of bad taxis as well. My Polish taxi driver experience was stellar though.

But yeah, pay no attention when you ask for an Uber and you might get someone purporting to be an Uber driver or something else.

And that's also what makes the protest so appealing. The protestors _don't have to justify themselves_ to you; they don't have to meet your arbitrary bar of "yes, this is now real enough for me to consider it as sexism, you are permitted to complain".

They can just decide who they believe, and act accordingly. And have.

Here is now HR takes part in "the conspiracy": they take no action against a man who is in a senior position because they do not want to lose their jobs.

Here is how "all these employees" take part in "the conspiracy": they do not speak up because the issue is not affecting them personally, they don't want to rock the boat, and maybe they feel that the woman in question is just a pain in the arse because she always talks back and challenges assumptions, so why would anyone stand up for her?

Sexism is not a conspiracy, it's a learned behaviour. You can't eliminate sexism by breaking the conspiracy, you have to find ways to adjust institutionalised behaviour.

Consider the classic story about the monkeys and the electrified bananas: monkeys in captivity were shown bananas. If any monkey went to pick up the banana, the entire cage would be electified, shocking all the monkeys. Eventually the monkeys would best up any monkey trying to pick up the bananas.

Then the researchers started replacing the population, and stopped electrocuting the monkeys. The society still best up monkeys trying to get the banana. Long after there were non of the original monkeys in the group, and none of the monkeys had been electrocuted, they still beat up any monkey trying to pick up the banana.

So too, in any institution the new people learn ways and means from the incumbents. They learn that certain people are beyond reproach, long after any remaining incumbents can remember why. They learn that certain issues are smply not discussed, and do not question why.

How do you get that institutionalised behaviour back to normal?

This smells like underlying bias to me, I'm afraid. Crying wolf in many of these areas has frequent negative impact -- hell, speaking out with good cause has negative impact. Who wants to volunteer to be at the centre of the next ethics in game journalism storm?

But this specific action -- choosing to no longer use the services of a company -- does have few repercussions, which does make it a good way to protest.

> Because by default, all women are automatically part of the cause

This could have been worded more felicitously, sure. Substitute "those negatively affect by the oppression and those sympathetic to them" and the point stands.

> Regardless of her respect in SV, we can only look at the facts.

As others have said, it seems you didn't look at the facts here. But regardless, the original point is not about the author, it's rejecting the idea that people are only able to delete their Uber accounts to protest the patriarchy because the very patriarchy they're protesting doesn't exist.