Suffering a Thousand Cuts | Taboo: Skin Deep

most boys do want to do the initiation
it’s not about looking beautiful it’s an
initiation process it’s about becoming
part of the community and it’s about
becoming a real saving man yourself as I
said I’m not really sure what will
happen when I go inside the man house no
matter what happens I will be strong and
I will go through it yourself in cities
let me see I will change when you wait
gnomes now I am only a little bit of an
adult funding clinics new stuff in but
after I go inside I will be a whole man
people is beaten I know anything
obviously scared they’re nervous they
also know that they are not going to see
their family their mother’s two younger
sisters their younger brothers for a
very long time so they just don’t really
know what’s going to happen to them
you’re on the bottom line is that the
initiates are treated as females even in
their own language dare refer to as
wives the women are obviously worried
about their kids they know what’s going
to happen to their boys they have seen
this initiation process every year and
they know that their boys are going to
be cut to pieces
okay I wonder if our boys are going to
be okay when they cut the skin and I
know only listen light blonde noise
would be bad if they lose their lives
our find it very hard in there I’ll
worry about that the men might tell us
that they’re okay on the man house I
cannot go and see it with my own eyes
they cut my skin and then I got up and
they washed me I felt very weak and I
had to lie down on the ground
because the boys are cut all over their
body they cut on their arms on their
chest on their backs down their legs
there’s not really much they can do and
the only time they really get up is to
go to the bathroom or to eat three times
a day
nope that was in Italy Benson now that
it’s done
it hurts to sit down when you lie down
to sleep your chest and your belly hurt
the initiation process is actually quite
a long process it will go over weeks the
humiliation is part of this process and
is repeatedly done to these boys almost
on a daily basis it’s to remind them of
authority it’s to put them into their
place
latias idioms in there was a lot of
blood but I tried to stay strong during
the cutting the initiation is finished
now and I have become a new man