“We tell women what not to do to avoid being attacked instead of telling men not to attack women.” -the NYT Also, we tell children how to avoid being abducted, instead of telling strangers not to abduct children, right? Because society embraces both rapists and child abductors.
The way I am reading this article subjectively is, "Travel all you want but please use common sense"—which might not be a bad idea for a potential traveler with focus on Instagram. Do you read it differently? By the way, I agree that fear-driven life is a miserable thing.