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“WHY ARENT WOMEN ADVENTUROUS?!”
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We ARE! Men are the ones who keep trying to rape us every time we step outside.
This is what I also hate about the type of YouTuber who travels around the world and proclaims that everyone should do it and that it's just a question of "going out of your comfort zone".
Sure, doing that as a man - and not only that, but a young, healthy, strong man - seems relatively easy. As a woman on the other hand...
Like these men do not realize how tone deaf they sound to half of the population. I’m very much a risk taker. I have and will continue to travel around as much as I can, because I am deeply curious.
That being said, I refuse to go to the Middle East (a little sad for me because my family is from the Middle East, and I’d love to see their old village), the Indian subcontinent, and certain parts of Eastern Europe.
There are many place I would probably go to, but only with someone with me.
I lived in Germany as an au pair in my early 20s and did a lot of solo traveling. There were some situations I got myself in which I look back on and realize how stupid and risky I was being. I would bar hop with strangers. Even groups of men I had JUST MET that evening. In my 30s I look back and I’m shocked. I’m so lucky that nothing horrible happened to me.
I watch some of these male travelers. I am always amazed how they can just exist and float on through. Going into the most sketchy areas and be just fine. If they do find something like a hidden camera somewhere, they just laugh about it.
It’s insane to see how the world could be if I wasn’t female. These male travelers simply do not recognize how much of their experience is influenced by their sex.
but then you have women who will shame other women for not being risk takers and for being "afraid" --
my fave is when they trot out the "stat" that more women are attacked by men they know than by strangers. OK, but it's still a risk?? I think it's like 55-45% anyway, so it's not like strangers never attack women.
And what they don't get is that women are attacked by men known to them because women limit their mobility! Because we know what could happen doing risky behavior alone, at night, etc.
Yep, same for me. I travel alone a lot, but staying away from the places you mentioned as well. It’s just not worth the risk, even though I would love to visit some Middle Eastern countries in particular.