Female solo travelers are FINE, GUYS.
I promise this isn’t a direct response to the weird “badass solo travelin ladies” post from a few days ago, but it has been on my mind and then some shit happened today that made me re-annoyed by the concept of women being “damsels in distress” when we travel, so here I am.
I’m headed to Amsterdam tonight and the ONLY responses I’ve gotten from family and friends are along the lines of, “Be careful. Someone was raped there a few months ago” or “Are you traveling alone? I feel like that could be asking for trouble”. Those are two REAL LIFE responses I’ve received to my Amsterdam trip. Not a single person has said “Omg have so much fun!” or anything along those lines.
On the contrary, my cousin (a 6’4 250 pound dude) headed to Germany last night and posted about it on social media. He is also going solo. Responses to his travels? “Jealous! Have so much fun!”, “Omg you’re gonna have a BLAST, can’t wait to hear about it”, and my personal favorite, “YES BROTHER, GET DRUNK AF”
WHY? Like why are people not excited when a female decides to take charge and do her own thing? I’m SO excited for my Amsterdam trip, and I feel like my friends and family’s responses, while well-intentioned, put a bit of a damper on it.
As much as I love my solo adventures and certainly don’t need anyone’s approval for them, it’s also nice to know that friends and family are excited for me too. But I honestly sometimes feel like they’re just waiting for something bad to happen. Like that just HAS to be the end result for a solo female traveler.
Anyways, I’ll enjoy this trip no matter what. Just needed to get that off my chest.
Thank you for listening to my Ted Talk.
Submitted December 31, 2018 at 01:53PM by spacegurl2021 http://bit.ly/2VhQtq5
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