Lock up your daughters!

[dolorous_ett]

I feel deeply sorry for poor Lucie Blackman and her family. Nobody deserves to have that happen to them.

I also agree that when you're away from home you should take sensible precautions over your personal safety and be sensitive to local sensibilties.

But am I alone in finding this article, with its strong implications that women are too fragile to be let out alone in Foreign Parts, patronising, scaremongering and annoying?

And why the emphasis on women? Men need to be careful too. When I lived overseas a few of my foreign friends got involved in very nasty fights. With one exception they were all male.

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[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

She was fine – it was about 18 months ago. Threw up in toilets, taken home by friends, spent next day in hospital on a drip. Too late to test, but staff were pretty convinced by symptoms, and there was a suspicious timing of her partner (who would otherwise have been there) being away. She was off work for a couple of days, and did spread the story around the office, albeit as "a stranger must have got my drink when no-one was looking, we must all be very careful". She had already been planning to leave for other reasons, but this hardly encouraged her to change her mind, and I think there were a couple of non-immediate colleagues that she wondered about as possible suspects.

For a certain value of "fine"...

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

I'm glad no permanent harm was done, but having to spend a day in hospital on a drip still seems pretty serious to me!

I'm glad she's out of that job. It doesn't sound like a good place to be.