Female
97 Years Old
California
United States Of Diarrhea
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Music:
Punk, Crust, Oi, Hardcore, D-Beat, Ska
Movies:
Star Wars, Harry Potter, Forrest Gump, The Big Lebowski, 500 Days of Summer, Saving Private Ryan, The Pianist, The Departed, Knocked Up, Inception, American History X,Trainspotting, Dumb and Dumber, Pineapple Express
Television:
It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, Futurama, Conan O'Brian, Friends, Sons of Anarchy, The Simpsons, Mad Men, Supernatural, Tmz
Books:
Harry Potter
Hereoes:
Peggy Bundy
killxatty's Details
Status:
Taken
Ethnicity:
Mexican/Iranian
Hometown:
Montreal, Quebec
killxatty's Crap
About Me:
•Taken• Mexican//Iranian فارسی
SoCal//Montreal
♡No Gods No Masters♡
The reality is the world is an extremely dangerous place for women because men continue to feel entitled to rape, murder and attack us especially when alone.
M’y boyfriend went on a week long solo backpacking trip through Montana and Idaho. I told him I wish that I could do something like that. To which he replied « the only thing stopping you is experience » (I am admittedly an inexperienced backpacker). No, no it’s not just experience. It’s never about just experience.
A college friend of mine started travelling the world after he graduated and when I said I wished I could do that he gave me the same speech about “what’s stopping you, you have nothing to be afraid of”. They just don’t understand how different the world is for women.
I did it. I backpacked to 8 countries around the world solo in the course of a year. But my experience was much different than that of men who do it. I knew not only where I would be sleeping every night, but made sure they were well rated hostels (usually female only rooms) or families. In New Zealand I also slept in a car but only at official sites. I took cabs rather than hitchhike. I made sure my flights arrived in my next country early in the day so I didn’t have to rush about for any reason. When I went hiking in NZ and Switzerland people always knew where I was and when I expected to be back or they were trails popular with families.
It takes extra vigilance and extra money to solo backpack as a woman.
The amount of men who have questioned why I can’t just backpack through vietnam or bribe my way across borders like they did is astounding. How do they not know what it’s like?
I always thought how dumb that dude who got his arm trapped in a rock and had to cut it off was for not telling anyone where he was going or where he would be. Then I realized the socialization really jumped out there. Women are forever having to take precautions to make sure we don’t get murdered or some other horrific ending and that everyone knows where we are in case we go missing. Men do whatever tf they want, often carelessly, because they’ve never had to experience the reality of being female in this world.
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It takes extra vigilance and extra money to solo backpack as a woman.
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