A look at the content mill, click-bait Travel Writing world, and the extraordinary bias of travel writing by and for women, with almost none by or for men travelers. With input from Grok AI.
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Hah hah-“Americans are moving to Spain in droves”
America is awful, say the story tellers, so 0.015% of the US (close to zero) has moved to Spain.
Continue readingPart 3: The “I moved abroad” “oppressed victim” stories
This week I read the worst “I moved abroad” story – and concluded it was so bad, and the genre so bad, that I will no longer waste time reading these nonsense stories from young “freelance writers”.
Continue readingMedia: Travel stories packaged as romance novels
The endless romance novel travel stories of mostly young women who move abroad, fall in love and live happily ever after are escapaism – and often as fake as the “cottage core” esthetic stories on social medial. These stories warp our world view to believe things that are not true. Most people can not just pack up and move abroad; these stories leave out enough details as to be fake news or disinformation.
Continue readingDo Men Travel Solo?
Virtually all travel stories are written by women and virtually all solo travel stories are about women. There are nearly no stories about solo male travelers.
Continue readingThe media hates America: Their bizarre fixation on untrue stories about Americans moving abroad
The media runs endless stories that “America is awful so these folkx moved to country X where everything is wonderful”. Yet few Americans actually leave the U.S., permanently.
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