Excuses, Excuses …
While the title might well put you in mind of the tired, trite and torpid excuses our society keeps trotting out for misogyny, the mainstreaming of porn, rape and god knows what else, this is actually a quick post to make my own excuses.I’m sorry I haven’t posted for months and months, even though I’ve been back in the country since the beginning of the year. I have been job-hunting and house-hunting, and I’ve taken on far too much in the way of studies which, now I’m working full time, are taking their toll on my free time. But I know hundreds of people who do far more than me, so it is actually my lack of discipline that is to blame.
Well I have finished my trip of a lifetime and I want more! There are so many places I want to see … sigh. Anyway the trip was fantastic – it’s an incredibly diverse continent and we saw glaciers, salt deserts, alligator- and capybara- infested wetlands and British-style coasts as well as the expected Amazon jungle and Andes mountain range. The wildlife, history and people were all amazing to experience. We worked in an orphanage while in Bolivia and the kids were great - I wanted to adopt them all.
With regard to feminism, there were sad signs that Brazil, Argentina and Chile, being more westernised, are adopting Western advertising – i.e. flesh everywhere. On the other hand, I saw more female police than male in Argentina and plenty of businesswomen in all three countries. In some parts of Peru and Bolivia, it was interesting to see that the women were keen to preserve their traditional dress, while their husbands would be wearing jeans. Signs of Catholicism were rife, however – nearly every other woman seemed to be pregnant!
posted by Growlergirl @ 4:36 pm
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