Originally Posted by
ro-monster
And just the other day our local paper featured this front-page headline: "Uber offers tips to prevent **** by its drivers." There's no excuse for telling customers it's up to them to prevent sexual assault by a hired driver.
I can't confirm or deny any specific claims of **** by specific individuals, but I have noticed a trend in media of associating sexual assault or harassment with institutions instead of individuals in order to hold the institutions accountable for 'allowing' individuals working within their network to perpetrate such actions.
The issue raised is really about whether victims can file civil lawsuits against a wealthy organization in order to get a more lucrative settlement than they could from the individual perpetrator. On a less cynical level, it is about whether institutions can be pushed to do more to protect potential victims from assault.
At the level of business competition, publishing instances of sexual assault and other terrifying prospects can be used to deter the public from patronizing a demonized business. While sexual assault in itself is a horrendous problem worth taking action against in every way, it is worth questioning when certain interests are using the severity, offensiveness, and potential to terrorize as an instrument for manipulating public opinion, which would be extremely disrespectful toward those who are more concerned with sexual assault than with business competition tactics.