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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[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

Fascinating... who'd have thought attitudes could be so different in two places with a common language?

Mind you, I suspect that my understanding of the US has been heavily coloured by the people who I've met over here and who are - by the sound of it - far from typical.

It's sad, really, to think that the outside world worries Americans. I'd always assumed that a lot of people just weren't interested.

[a-t-rain.livejournal.com]

Mind you, I suspect that my understanding of the US has been heavily coloured by the people who I've met over here and who are - by the sound of it - far from typical.

Heh, I'm not sure there is such a thing as a "typical" American -- we are a country of many cultures, and people's attitudes toward travel depend hugely on class, education, and what part of the country they're from.