《网易TED 我母亲对女性自主的奇怪理解》英中字幕.docxVIP

Hi.Today Im going to sharemy personal journeywith female genital mutilation, FGM.Feel free to cry, laugh, cross your legs,or do anything your body feels like doing.Im not going to namethe things your body does.I was born in Sierra Leone.Did anybody watch Blood Diamond?If you have any thoughts --I dont have any diamondson me, by the way.If you have heard of Ebola,well, thats in Sierra Leone as well.I dont have Ebola. Youre all safe.Dont rush to the door.Be seated. Youre fine.I was checked before I got here.My grandfather had three wives.Dont ask me why a manneeds more than one wife.Men, do you need more than one wife?I dont think so. There you go.He was looking for a heart attack,thats what I say.Oh yeah, he was.When I was three, war broke outin Sierra Leone in 1991.I remember literally going to bedone night, everything was good.The next day, I woke up,bombs were dropping everywhere,and people were tryingto kill me and my family.We escaped the war and ended upin Gambia, in West Africa.Ebola is there as well. Stay away from it.While we were there as refugees,we didnt know whatwas going to become of us.My mom applied for refugee status.Shes a wonderful, smart woman, that one,and we were lucky.Australia said, we will take you in.Good job, Aussies.Before we were meant to travel,my mom came home one day, and said,Were going ona little holiday, a little trip.She put us in a car,and we drove for hoursand ended up in a bushin a remote area in Gambia.In this bush, we found two huts.An old lady came towards us.She was ethnic-looking, very old.She had a chat with my mom, and went back.Then she came back and walkedaway from us into a second hut.Im standing there thinking,This is very confusing.I dont know whats going on.The next thing I knew,my mom took me into this hut.She took my clothes off,and then she pinned me down on the floor.I struggled and triedto get her off me, but I couldnt.Then the old lady came towards mewith a rusty-looking knife,one of the sharp knives,orange-lo