Status Updates From The Elephant Chaser's Daughter

The fact he even had to say it !?!?! The fact it still needs said today! “If you are allowing men to make sexual advances towards your children , I will have you arrested. You are responsible for looking after your children , and these sorts of things can’t go on. This has to stop”

This whole page - not upset that the person you made your daughter marry beats her but proud she listened to you and that you don’t abandon her when she comes to you beaten but you comfort her because she listened to you ….. I cannot I cannot I cannot

The way talking about marrying your uncle is presented as normal / expected ….. and marrying at 15 /after 10th grade ?!?!?!

“Wife was his property”
“…not love but possessiveness “
“…this is the fare of a women. We have to learn to live with our husbands”
“Women’s place is always in service of her man”

“It is hard to truly transform poor people. Money can feed them for a while, but beliefs and mind-sets are very difficult to change “

“From a young age, I was conditioned to think that men knew more about life in general, that they had good reasons for whatever they did, and that a women’s opinion didn’t count for much “