We Are The Lions
Transcript excerpt:
... if there's a
connection between the things I don't have
a problem with and the things that I do
then perhaps I need to rethink my views
and the way we view women and how many
views sexually exploited images get on
YouTube.
My best friends have beautiful
children and if what I have to do to keep
their daughters from getting raped or
harassed or abused is choose to accept
domestic violence is a man's issue too,
then I'll do that. And if their sons grow
to be like the men that they see, so it's
on me to live like the men I want them to
be, then I will do that too.
And when they're of a certain age, I will tell them
the story I heard when I was young, about
this village being terrorized by lions. So
every so often in this village, the
villagers would wake to find beds
ransacked, bodies torn. And for some odd
reason, the bodies were always female.
Panicked, the men of the village started
sleeping in shifts to make sure at least
one man was always watching.
Despite that,
the lions came. Too worried to sleep now, the
mothers crept to the beds of their babies
and there watching over them they learned
why the victims were never men. Because on
random nights for unknown reasons, as the
fog crept in and the moon caught in the
branches, the boys and men of the village
became the very thing the women they love
feared most. When I was young, I thought that
story was about lions. It's not....
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