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(09-26-2014 11:06 AM)Renzy Wrote:  

The ironic part of all of this is how common-sense advice suddenly becomes outrageous victim-blaming when women are asked to follow it in order to exercise some responsibility for their own safety.

For instance, take the following exert from Fodor's travel guides on FIVE SIMPLE RULES FOR TRAVEL SAFETY

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FIVE SIMPLE RULES FOR TRAVEL SAFETY

By exercising the slightest amount of common sense, you can greatly reduce the chance that you will experience any serious incident, whether at home or abroad.

And what, pray tell, is number one on their list?

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1. Don't drink to excess. Most vacation incidents involve alcohol abuse. Drunk travelers fall off cruise ships. They get mugged on dark streets. They crash their car. They decide to jump off their hotel balcony. Whether it's crime or accidents, drinking too much is very likely a contributing factor, if not the root cause."

Replace "falling off cruise ships" and "jumping off hotel balconies" with "falling out frat-house windows" and it's nearly the exact same advice that gets journalists vilified for victim-blaming.

If feminists controlled the travel industry the way the want to control frats, the above advice would be to ban cruise-ships and hotel balconies so chicks can't fall or jump off of them, and "DON'T TELL ME NOT TO DRINK, TEACH MUGGERS NOT TO MUG!"

This is gold.