Post: #1

http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-ide...7470813646

Quote:“JULIA, why do you have so many pictures of guys in your holiday photos, and no girls?”

My mum begs that question every time I put up a happy snap of me next to a fellow traveller, which happens to be men most of the time.

Quote:I’ve had the best year of my life and received the best education the world can offer, which has been instrumental to my understanding of relationships and people from all walks of life.

The most important quality to possess in doing such a crazy, insane yet exciting quest is to be open. One needs to be open to ideas, meeting new people, new places and — at times — the idea of letting others take control.

We call this a Freudian slip. Feminism abhors the idea of women not being in control. And betas don't take control of women. Guess who does?


The caption on this picture was: 'Gate crashing a stag do in Copenhagen.'

Quote:Another highlight was going to Russia by cruise and feeling completely out of my comfort zone due to the language barrier and the fact I felt so alien yet I loved the feeling at the same time. Being in Berlin for the 25th anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall was truly a humble moment with joining the celebration on the streets of what seemed like the whole population of Berlin.

I also need to include Finnish Lapland as a highlight. Besides seeing nature at its’ finest by witnessing the Northern Lights, I joined in with a favourite Finnish past time by going in a naked sauna with old Finnish men and people I’d barely known for 24 hours!

Remember and take note, gentlemen: feelings, feelings, feelings. It has nothing to do with the intellectual stimulation. There is not a moment of real or profound reflection in the whole article - it's all about the tingles.

Quote:Or the time I lugged my suitcase along a highway in the early hours due to the public transport not being operational. I tried to look poor and pathetic, hoping that someone would sympathise with my situation and offer me a lift. Thank God the Swedish are lovely people and hitchhiking is deemed safe in Europe.

Female game. Don't suck it up, get someone to suck it up for you.

Quote:I have to make mention of those moments of intoxication and getting someone later to relay my audacious activities to me. How ashamed I was.

In the West, on college campuses in particular, feminists call this "rape".

Quote:There were also the times where my indecisiveness really plagued me and I felt paralysed by the endless options I had of where to go and where to work.

Granted, I know that I am very fortunate to be able to travel and to have this much freedom however it can also be overwhelming at times and you just wished someone could take the bull by the horns and make a decision for you.

The female psyche writ large: it wants someone to tell it what to do. Freedom leads to paralysis and compliance. Does anyone now doubt why women were allowed the vote by the elites?

Quote:At times, travelling solo was a confidence boost in some lady-stricken locations as men would flock to you like seagulls. Free drinks were had, cheers lads! You want to carry my stupidly overpacked suitcase up the stairs? Please do! You want to pay for my meal? Thank you. OK I just noted the advantages of being a solo female traveller, and yes maybe the above can be deemed as sexist. But that is not why I choose to travel solo.

Yep. She actually wrote this in the article.

Quote:I’ve had people call me free-spirited and brave along the way. Never would I have viewed myself in that way, but maybe I am. I also get that it may seem like I am flimsy, flaky and confused about what I want in life as I have had no concrete plans and to the observer they may think; ‘What is that girl doing with her life? Is she lost?’. Yeah maybe I was, maybe I still am but don’t they say sometimes ‘to find yourself, you’ve got to lose yourself’?

"They" traditionally say that if you want to find yourself, what generally has to follow is a course of self-discipline and dedication to a goal. Hedonism is pretty much the opposite. The saying that you have to lose yourself to find yourself really comes from the fact life change usually follows a devastating blow to your identity - loss of job, loss of partner, loss of something you previously treasured. It does not amount to wandering around the planet looking for tingles.

The article has a number of pictures in it. And the question remains: given how few female solo travellers she says she encountered (three) and that she was lonely due to an extreme lack of female companionship at times - who's been taking the photos?

Post: #2

Relevant:

How Not to Be Elizabeth Gilbert
Jessa Crispin

It is a risk, becoming Elizabeth Gilbert. Not the international fame and money and showing up inexplicably and briefly on Project Runway All Stars. I mean being an obnoxious white lady in brown places. After all, I am (vaguely) middle class, equally blonde-haired and blue-eyed, and come from a nation with imperialistic aims.

The critique of Gilbert emerged after the publication of her massive bestseller Eat, Pray, Love (2006). She may travel to India, but she remains tucked away in an ashram, conversing almost exclusively with westerners, more interested in relaying the details of her recent breakup than noticing anything about her host country. From there, she goes to Bali and tries to rescue a poor Balinese woman by raising money to buy her a house, and then criticizes that same woman for not playing along. It gives a person the icks, and it unconsciously echoes so much literature written by missionaries, here on this island to save the savages if only they would allow it. What she is doing is not strictly travel writing—it has more in common with memoir.

Gilbert has inspired a whole niche of faux travel writing by women, from Cheryl Strayed’s bestselling Wild (2012) to more moderate offerings by Elisabeth Eaves and Kristin Newman. In this genre, the focus of attention is the self, and the beautiful locale becomes the backdrop of the real action, which is interior psychodrama.


https://www.bostonreview.net/books-ideas...=longreads


Anti-Catcalling and female travel writing - the currently acceptable ways of being racist in the west.

Post: #3

This article is a direct result of mom's implied slut-shame.

Post: #4

Yeah I bet Mum's proud. Just a leaflike pussy blowing around in a wind of dicks.

Post: #5

(08-04-2015 10:24 PM)Paracelsus Wrote:  

This guy knows what's up.