Re-enforcing Stereotypes

Although I’m all for women’s travel sites, ones like this one make me mad. Although I think their hearts are in the right place, I find a few of the things they write about very distressing. The travel tips for women seem to re-enforce the ideas that females need constant protection, such as this line:
“Ask the concierge to book your restaurants and say “please take care of her, she is coming alone and will need a taxi home.”
Their recommendations on what to pack is also a bit of a laugh: for a two week leisure trip a woman should take, among other things, 3 pairs colored pantyhose, one rubber door stop for great security, and a few bargaining chips for Third World countries: cheap lipsticks, plastic sunglasses, T shirts with your city name, anything electronic, barrettes and hair accessories, old jewelry worth under $50.
I don’t know how these women would ever have the opportunity to barter in the third world: all of their tour nights are spent in four or five star hotels .
Maybe I’m just bitter because you have to pay to join their club.

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