The company's wealthy shareholders claim they were the real victims harmed by Lyft's sexual assault scandals. Gang rape survivor Alison Turkos begs to differ.
“Shareholders quite literally profited off of my kidnapping, off of my multiple rapes, off of the violent crime that was committed against me,” Turkos said. She notes that the company was “making money until stock prices fell” amid the backlash against Lyft for the sexual assault lawsuit, and only then began to take issue with the company’s actions—not for its treatment of women like her, but their loss of money.
in 2019, essentially writing off sexual assault as inevitable. “The unfortunate fact remains that one in six women will face some form of sexual violence in their lives—behavior that’s unacceptable for our society and on our platform,” the statement read. But, because her driver had “passed the New York City TLC’s background check and was permitted to drive,” the company seemed to shrug off any and all responsibility.
The small glimpses of language from Lyft’s millionaire shareholders celebrating the settlement, framing themselves as the company’s actual victims, and relegating rape survivors to a footnote—nameless, faceless women on the receiving end of those unfortunate “safety concerns”—dehumanizes survivors like Turkos, she says. The term “safety concerns” in itself, being used to describe her gang rape, is infuriating, but predictable coming from Lyft and its shareholders.
Shareholders will move on with their lives, $25 million richer. But survivors will forever have to live with the consequences of the company’s stunning failures to protect its customers and its willful refusal to acknowledge the existence of rape victims, let alone offer them an ounce of support or compensation.
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