Okay, so I hope writing two blogs in one day doesn't constitute me as being pathetic, or even worse a "blogger," but I simply had to write this one down. My recent trip to Paradise Island, Bahamas has ignited some kind of traveling bug in me, which I just cannot shake. To fuel the fire, I went to my local library and got as many travel books on all the exotic locales that I wish to (I mean will) go someday. While most offer tips for lone female travelers noting the usual common-sense stuff like don't hitchhike or go off the beaten path, the book I picked up on "hidden" Cancun and the Yucatan offered the most hysterical (and sexist) advice I have ever heard, travel or elsewhere. It goes like this:
"Finally, women travelers agree that away from beaches and major resorts, a lot of unwelcome advances and gropes can be avoided by wearing a brassiere. In the macho Mexican male mind, this particular undergarment is a clue to distinguishing between 'good' women (mothers, the Virgin Mary, et al.) and 'bad' women (mistresses, streetwalkers, gringo soap opera stars and the like)." (Harris, Richard. Cancun and the Yucatan, second edition. Ulysses Press, Berkeley, ca 1999.)
Hilarious right? I didn't know it was that easy to be the Virgin Mary, all I have to do is where a bra! Forget my actual sexual status. There's hope for us--I mean you-- sluts! Just keep your chest securely fastened in the latest fashion of female chastity, your "brassiere!" Don't even get me started on the soap opera stuff, that is hilarious on its own! Plus, did you note the footnote? I would have thought, and you too, that backward writing/thinking like this was published somewhere, well, backward. But my lovely notation says it all-- published in 1999, yes good 'ole '99 when every lady who wore a bra was Santa Maria herself, and in Berkeley, Ca, feminist capital of the world--where no hippy, organic tofu-eating female I've ever meet even comes near a bra, let alone wears it. So I say this to you Richard Harris, are you serious? Have you ever been around any women? How did the editors let that through? But, thanks. Yes, thanks for the laugh. And, don't worry, I'll keep my girls under lock and key next time I go down Mexico Way, so as I don't seduce any of the macho men there. Wouldn't want to cause my own rape or anything! I'll also advise my female readers-hell, all my readers- to do the same. Adios!
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Some women disguised themselves as boys/men when they traveled in the early days.
HA HA HA HA HA you might be on to something here Al, this is a funny blog and bloggers can make money if they get enough traffic, love D
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