'Why did white men get all the fun?': the long road to diverse travel writing

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As a young Asian female travel writer, Jini Reddy entered a genre that was mostly white and male. But new and emerging voices give her hope for a different future

was born in London, to Indian parents who grew up in apartheid-era South Africa. When I was seven we left Wimbledon for a tiny village in the Laurentian mountains, in Quebec, where our back garden was a wilderness. A year and a half later, we moved again to Montreal and the St Lawrence river flowed at the end of our suburban street. As a child, there was never a moment when I didn’t dream of becoming a writer, or of travelling abroad.

 

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Why is the author classifying men by the color of their skin?

Because the white men in question had private incomes that enabled them be travel writers instead of working for a living? And which Jini must have as well if she is also a travel writer instead of working for a living?

white people in historical white countries write all the travel guides, white men are more likely to take risks and go to strange places with more conservative values towards women. Places perhaps without full on tourism industries. why historically tiny handful of TW endup men

I ignore travel writers of both sexes , make your own adventures , its a bit like when someone recommends a good restaurant that's ends up being shit .

😂 I'm not even going to read an article with that title.

What are racists at the whinging about now?

If this article had the colours reversed, would it be thought of as racist?

How are we ever going to rid ourselves of racism and sexism when EVERYONE is emphasising race and/or gender?

because they were in the majority and they can strike you.

Dafuq?

Women are too picky.

White men bond better with women of colour. White women kind of have a colonial definition..bossy, overbearing, unfeminine. Thus white women have no real protectors. We get less than white men, gay white men, gay men and other women.

annamburtt this ☝️

Because papers know their audience.

Because they're more interesting?🤔

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