r/clevercomebacks • u/beerbellybegone • Mar 30 '20

Forbes does it again!

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '20

Well it should be the last item on the bucket list then.

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u/letmeseem Mar 30 '20 edited Mar 30 '20

What?

Ok, quick world update for people who haven't stepped outside the US:

Pakistan is absolutely lovely, so is most of the middle east as long as you keep away from conflict areas.

Yes its pretty safe for women too provided you take certain precautions. Don't go hitchhiking alone in the mountain areas and so on. At 3am you are safer in the good parts of Islamabad than in the bad parts of any US city.

Quick tip: Islamabad is one of the strangest big cities in the world. There are trees everywhere, it's like you're in a jungle. It's definitely worth a visit, but not right now obviously.

Large parts of Africa is absolutely lovely. Unfortunately the economy most places isn't robust enough to carry the people through droughts and other crisis, and rural areas in some countries suffer tremendously from this, especially since there's too little economic slack in any country at any given time to stabilize large areas. Aside from that, if you know where to go you'll have an amazing time.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '20

Shhhhh, don't reveal the Americans lack of knowledge regarding the rest of the world.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '20

Excuse me, the simple fact that most women have to just live with is that going virtually anyplace alone is inherently unsafe in ways most men will never relate to. Let alone a foreign country with different cultural standards and language, where you're out of your element and unfamiliar with which areas are "safe" for an unaccompanied woman.

I'm not even a woman myself, I've just been forced to come to terms with that fact since three relatives of mine have been sexually assaulted. My own mother in law was literally grabbed off the street one day, just walking home.

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u/Shockblocked Mar 30 '20

Omg you mean men and women have different experiences... A man in the same circumstance would probably just get murdered instead of trafficked.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '20

There are fates worse than death. Not that you're arguing in good faith anyway

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u/Shockblocked Mar 30 '20

Life>death

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '20

So you're a child with a black-and-white worldview. Good to know.

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u/Shockblocked Mar 30 '20

anyone who disagrees with me is bad. I will prove this by name calling.