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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[tree_and_leaf]

A remarkably silly article, I agree.

Oddly enough, the only 'foreigners in Japan' story that I've heard from an acquaintance involved a young man being run out of town by the mafia after a row about a minor traffic accident. Stay away from cars, people!

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

Driving in Japan seems to be a surprisingly hazardous occupation - I know of a similar case in which someone ended up in a lot of trouble with the police! OMG stay away from cars!