Out from Under Your Beds

“If you have honor and dignity as a man, come and protect me, and other girls in the protest. If you stay home, you deserve what’s being done to you, and you will be guilty before your nation and your people. Go down to the street, send SMSes, post it on the internet, make people aware.”

I heard about this woman on The Charlie Rose Show. Asmaa Mahfouz posted this video on YouTube, then went to Tahrir Square and protested in person. She told everyone who she was, how she could be contacted, and challenged her people to join her. She is credited for helping spark the Egyptian uprising. She is credited as being a revolutionary.

I very much doubt that I could be this brave. I very much doubt that I would want to be tested like she has. I think I will do everything in my power to run away from any conflict that may result in my having anything like this happen in my life. I think that I will tow the line. I think that I will not rock the boat. I think that I will remain quiet. I will internalize everything. And when my life is over, like that famous quote says, I will have regretted doing nothing.

Out from under your beds
C’mon, ye people
Stand up for your love
–“Stand Up Comedy”, U2