00:00Like all little girls, I was taught to keep my head down, stay on the path.
00:05I was freaking Little Red Riding Hood.
00:07If I could go back and tell my younger self one thing, it would be this.
00:12Abby, you were never Little Red Riding Hood.
00:16You were always the wolf.
00:19In 1995, wolves were reintroduced into Yellowstone National Park after being absent for 70 years.
00:26In those years, the number of deer had skyrocketed because they were unchallenged, alone at the top of the food
00:33chain.
00:34The wolves, who were feared as a threat to the system, turned out to be its salvation.
00:41Our landscape is overrun with archaic ways of thinking about women.
00:46These ways of thinking are destroying us.
00:49We will not Little Red Riding Hood our way through life.
00:52We will unite our pack, storm the valley together, and be our salvation.
