...except that many women actually feel safer in Uber rides. At least there, the passage is logged by the company; the driver's name, phone number and vehicle are emailed to you; and there's an accountability system that addresses a problem with taxi drivers - that they have no interest in customer service because…

It's a risk anytime a woman steps into a taxi, too. I've been a victims of predatory taxi drivers many times.

I don't feel safe in taxis. I've been violently assaulted, sexually assaulted, and verbally harassed - the latter about 50% of the time I took DC taxis. Taxi companies show little interest in regulating their drivers' conduct.

No, they don't. I've been met with total indifference and no follow up. Cab companies historically - and currently - try to avoid legal culpability by claiming that drivers are independent contractors, and attempt to limit their financial responsibilities through corporate fictions. For example, the famous corporate…

On thing to consider: background checks, training, and the like helps establish Uber as an employer, rather than as a company dealing digitally connecting independent contractors and passengers. There's something of a legal disincentive there for that reason.

Well...what's a taxi company? My last taxi driver and I didn't go for drinks afterwards.

I am so sorry. That sounds terrifying. For years, I have tried avoiding taking taxi alone, but sometimes it just isn't possible. You're put in this situation where you are a captive audience, so when the driver starts making sexual advances, it is fucking terrifying. Will this escalate? How do I get out? What do I say…

I am so sorry for your experience. It's really a terrifying thing to get into somebody's car. Even when the comments are "innocuous," it's frightening. You are captive with this person who is inappropriately, unprofessionally treating you in a sexual manner. It's far worse than street harassment.

That is my experience, too. At least Uber followed up with this woman, informed her in general terms about what actions they were taking, and spontaneously offered some form of reimbursement. I'm not saying Uber is the good guy here - it seems they are developing a very checkered history in a rapid period of time, and…

I'm so sorry for your experience.

I was sexually assaulted by a London cabbie while visiting my friend during her summer abroad. I was sexually harassed half the time I took a cab during the three years I lived in DC. It sounds like the objection here is that Uber didn't offer a large financial compensation? I'm curious about people's experiences with…

It's not your story to tell and it's not Barry's story to tell. This is Lena Dunham's story to tell, and it's not your right to gloss over her experiences, dismiss her pain, and paint her in a handful of judging, sexist cliches. I'm am really sick of victims' voices being silenced in this way. This is her memoir, her…

And I respond with my earlier point: Victim's don't owe a duty to the larger society because they have been victimized. They especially don't owe that duty when it comes with an implicit punishment: exposure, humiliation, shame, remote chance of conviction, and all of the frustration, time impositions, inconvenience,…

And if you try and fight every consumer protection battle, you wind up turning into this guy:

Again, for the final time, I have not stated that classifying taxi drivers as independent contractors affords "automatic lack of liability." However, as I have shown you through citations from court cases and respected newspaper publications, cab companies consistently raise this claim to avoid vicarious liability.…

Even if you think more work needed to be done to investigate whether a given pseudonym could be used to identify an individual, that error is on Dunham's editors. She doesn't have the resources to do so. She didn't screw up.

How about we focus on dealing with well-funded awareness and outreach programs, reforming the justice system and the way that institutions handle violations and the victims who report them instead of putting all the onus on the victim (who's in a lose-lose situation).

Have you been a victim of crime and reported it? Because I've found that even in the most civil circumstances, at times when you are turning to the government for help, that involving the police or the government in your life leaves you feeling powerless. It is never a pleasant experience.

I don't really understand the point of this statement at all. Dunham didn't press charges. She is not interested in pursuing this individual for justice.

Does mass even go that long? Jewish weddings: 30 minutes tops or the guests are going to start complaining that they're hungry.