Trish’s Reviews > The Wilder Way: The Inspiring Travel Memoir of Adventure, Freedom and an Uncharted Life > Status Update

More bullshit. This time about her dog, a working line US German Shepherd. It's simply not true that they are not recommended for first-time dog owners. Yes, you need to be well prepared and can't not train them but that is true for any dog, even though people don't wanna admit it. The puppy phase she's describing is also standard for most breeds. But this way, it sounds more "badass", I guess. *rolls eyes*

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So let me get this straight: she walks on trails in bear country with no bear spray but when a kind woman gives her a can (as a gift), she makes a sarcastic remark about it having expired, despite that stuff not REALLY expiring and it being better than nothing. I can't even with this person!

The amount of wrongful statements in this book is staggering!

There are bears and wolves all over Europe, even in the western countries like Italy, Germany etc (the author claimed the Carpathians were the home of the last of these animals in Europe).

Sooo ... at first her family doesn't understand her and it's all a VERY big deal but all of a sudden, without another word on it, she spends the remainder of the pandemic with them like it was a matter of course, instead making ANOTHER big deal of leaving the Catholic Church after never having mentioned religion before?! Oh but it's all so she can tie it back to her former marriage. Riiiight. 🙄

This "woman" ... I swear (literally)!

Now she's trying to make the point that women only shave for men. Honey, I got news for you: some of us do NOT think of men 100% of the time and we just like hygiene. I'm also the one deciding whether I want to brush my hair or not, and I DO like washing, thank you VERY much. That, too, is freedom / emancipation. Maybe she should have tried THAT.

What is getting to ...

If she doesn't stop calling misogynistic places "conservative", I'm gonna scream!

Yes, if you go certain places, you know what you're getting yourself into - especially as a woman traveling solo. The landscapes can still be breathtaking etc, but making excuses while constantly being on a guilt trip for being European is not just ridiculous but misogynistic in and of itself, ironically enough!

And oh, the irony ...

Urgh!

Now white/western guilt. The accusations of a guy the author met were mostly factually incorrect, by the way. Not to mention how the author downplays serious issues in favor of flat platitudes.

I'm THIS close to abandoning the book.

I don't know what annoys me more: the "love" affair or how naive she is - in places like Pakistan at that! And let me tell you: I'm so over her styling herself as this awesome feminist breaking ground for female travelers and whatnot while also making horrible excuses for women-oppressing regimes / cultures!

Hopefully, we'll move away from that corner of the world and soon!

Three chapters in and ... well ... I'm here for the adventure and not the adventurer. I knew that going in after watching a number of her YouTube videos, but these first chapters really brought the idea home.

You see, it's one thing to succumb to this stupid sociatal dream of what success and happiness look like, it's another entirely to talk about mememememe when there is another, innocent, person you're hurting.