Anecdotes frm women who are privileged enough to travel telling you it's no big deal

What You Missed At Our First Ever Zafigo Talk With Amazing Women Travellers

hat challenges do women face when travelling? How do we make travel safer and better for women? Zafigo was founded on this premise - to serve as a medium and platform where women can connect with each other, share tips and advice, and encourage more interesting ways to see the world.

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I find the whole thing generally valuable, even if quite white feminism-y, in kulit sawo matang flavour. That's my general feeling about all of Zafigo tbqh, so I find the whole endeavour of providing a travel resource for women to be generally a missed opportunity in practice. And I say this as someone who is only slightly less privileged as these women when it comes to travel and comporting myself in foreign situations. But the editorial board itself doesn't seem to really want to examine and unpack what comes easy and what doesn't when they travel, especially as a third worlder or obviously non-Westerners, and how much of that can they generalise for others, aside from just saying, 'just do it!'. As such, I find it useful as a general travel resource for upwardly mobile urban English-speaking women, tailored for the Malaysian context, but lord what a missed trick.

But that ties in with a more general observation I've found about the kinds of people who'd just go out and do it, whom I call the Entrepreneurs, and the ones who'd lag or stay behind entirely. The latter group can be further divided, but for Entrepreneurs I have learnt not to expect too much reflection, because their motivation and will can indeed overcome a lot of statistically probable concerns. That's your secret hook to success to be quite honest. You can assess the risks and dangers as much as you like, but what Entrepreneurs understand innately is avoiding the pitfall of analysis paralysis and just take that leap. But it does mean that their success and continued wellbeing isn't really that instructive in my opinion. But they sure as hell have great anecdotes.

Sometimes I do feel Entrepreneurial but honestly I've too many Second and Third Thoughts to be a successful one. Ah well, how about y'all?