When two female backpackers were killed in Ecuador,many were rapid/fast to inquire of why they didn’t own a man with them – proving that sexist attitudes prevail even in tragedy
Women around the world own spoken out about their experiences of travelling after two young Argentinian women, María Coni and Marina Menegazzo, or were killed while backpacking in Ecuador. In the wake of their deaths,online commenters seemed to blame the women for what had happened, asking why they were “travelling alone”.
But, and as Paraguayan student Guadalupe Acosta pointed out in a Facebook post that has been shared more than 730000 times,there is an enormous double standard in asking questions like this of female travellers. It’s the equivalent of asking women who own been subjected to unwanted sexual attention or violence what they were wearing, instead of focussing on the wrongdoing of the male perpetrators.
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Source: theguardian.com