Woman bought for two cows forced to perform as one

[panzerfaust]

Hunched over a sewing machine, Jennipher Alupot is an unlikely poster girl for the women's rights movement. In fact, the young Ugandan mother is totally unaware of how her story – almost too horrific to be believed – has caused waves across the country and down the corridors of power, ultimately giving thousands of abused women the chance of justice.

For seven years, Jennipher was forced to breastfeed the puppies of her husband's hunting dogs. After drinking and smoking heavily, Nathan Alowoi would appear at the marital bed, bind his young wife's legs and hands together and force the mewling animals to her nipple.

He had handed over two cows to his father-in-law as part of the "bride price" for his new wife. So, he reasoned, if the cows were no longer around to provide milk then his new purchase would have to provide for the pups. "I had to feed them all through the night; then in the morning he would untie me," his wife, now 26, explains matter-of-factly...

...Although the particularly grim abuse that Jennipher suffered appears to be a one-off, domestic violence against women is widespread in Uganda. According to a 2006 government survey, more than two in three women have suffered some form of abuse at the hands of a spouse...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/appeals/indy-appeal/independent-appeal-jennipher-the-woman-thrown-to-the-dogs-1853937.html

Tell me again about hysterical "femi-nazis"

Here in egalitarian America, in the 21st century, it is thought that between 15% to 25% of women have been abused by their male "significant others"

Why can't the world, especially the male part of the world, grow beyond such barbarity? For myself, I blame religion and its teaching of the inferiority of women for a lot of this - but simple ignorance and "traditional values" are also to blame.

It is so sad.

[seabeyond]

1. grow beyond such barbarity?... it serves them well? and religion is not

the only group embracing patriarchy. we have a new cult like group that uses cavemanism. it is all biological and they cant help themselves. in the dna.

with that type of reasoning, dont expect it to end. and it is only about giving them power and control.

[roguevalley]

22. some men out there need hacked to death with machetes.

[seabeyond]

23. yikes....

i cant go that route.

[Maru Kitteh]

24. I can.

[roguevalley]

26. me either. tomorrow. :) I just have no patience tonight with teh stoopid.

[seabeyond]

27. lots. that is for sure. nt

[Ken Burch]

33. Is this guy worth messing up a perfectly good knife, though?

n/t.

[Orsino]

43. We need to kill the ideology...

...not the individuals deluded by it.

[seabeyond]

46. true that. nt

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[snagglepuss]

3. At this moment there are no words. I just feel utterly sick for what this

woman had to endure.

[malaise]

14. +1

Some of us don't know how lucky we are.

[FLAprogressive]

4. That's disgusting!

no excuse to treat a woman, or any other human being for that matter, like property.

[progressoid]

5. God I hate to have to rec a post like this.

but it needs to be seen.

[Jamastiene]

10. Same here.

It is disgusting, but we need to make people aware that horrible things like this still go on in this world.

[notadmblnd]

6. Send that M-F'er to my house for a week

I give him and his dogs something to suck on.

[comtec]

7. Who the hell would unrec this!?

I hit rec expecting to see +10.... it stayed at 9.
Seriously who would unrec this?

Even the least feminism-friendly person must look at this story with utter horror!

That is just...

and depending on your definition of abuse (in that some people are more 'forgiving' than others) , that 15-25% is probably low.

Sorry, I was going to quietly rec, but that really got me!

Unrc...??? really? :rant:

[Lorien]

12. DU is chock full of hate filled misogynists

hopefully the mods will someday decide to crack down on at least a FEW of them, but I won't hold my breath.

[JonQ]

50. That's a lot of inference

from little evidence.

Could be they clicked the wrong one by mistake, I've done that before. Or they view the rec/unrec as giving your opinion on the content of the article (ie they voted that this was horrible by unreccing it).

[seabeyond]

52. bah hahahaha. lol. lmao. you made me laugh jonq. lol

still grinnin.

[JonQ]

53. Glad to hear it

you seem to need some cheering up.

[seabeyond]

54. me? lol. i am a really happy person. life is pretty damn good. not a lot

to complain about, personally anyway

so no

again

you are wrong

when you assume in telling me who or what i am

but damn if you arent consistent

[JonQ]

55. Yeah you sound really happy

Certainly not harboring any bitterness there.

;-)

[seabeyond]

56. bah hahaha. ah, now the "bitter". see how consistent you are. never

disappoint

in assuming with no factual basis anyway

i dont know about disappointing in other areas. clueless

see how that works. not bright to assume

[JonQ]

57. Yep

you just ooze cheerfulness.

You seem to be a downright pleasant person.

I actually typed all that with a straight face.

[seabeyond]

58. ah, thanks. nt

[JonQ]

59. No problem

glad I could help.

[MrScorpio]

8. WTF?

I'm speechless

[left coaster]

9. The use of terms like "femi-nazis" is just one of the many ways oppresive forces..

..attempt to diminish pro-women's rights arguments and those who make them.. don't let them do it.. reject that BS!

[KakistocracyHater]

18. I heard Rush came up with that term, can't find a link yet

*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminazi
http://www.issues2000.org/Celeb/Rush_Limbaugh_Abortion.htm
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Womens%20Page/militant_feminazi.htm
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Feminazi
http://www.economicexpert.com/a/Feminazi.html

"Feminazi is a pejorative term coined by conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh to refer to the feminists that he personally finds the most obnoxious. According to Limbaugh, "a feminazi is a woman to whom the most important thing in life is seeing to it that as many abortions as possible are performed" (source: The Way Things Ought To Be , Rush Limbaugh, p. 192–93, July 2, 1992). Limbaugh also uses the "feminazi" term during discussions of feminist actions or attitudes not specifically related to abortion. According to Limbaugh, the term denotes a woman who makes radical feminism her lifestyle; it is not a term to be applied to feminists in general, but is rather a title to be earned through extremely excessive activism"....

[yowzayowzayowza]

11. Wife-swap anyone?

Disgusting.

[JonQ]

51. It's not funny at all but

when I read your post my first thought was that wife swap show on tv where they swap out wives from two radically different families. This would make for a horrific episode.

[Odin2005]

13. Uganda is in first place in Africa's descent into the Dark Ages.

[struggle4progress]

15. ... The act, however, turned disastrous when the family lost its third born child, who was sharing

his mother’s breasts with the puppies, to suspected rabies early last year. Rabies is a fatal viral disease that causes acute inflammation of the brain in humans and other mammals. According to Ms Caroline Odoi, the Country Development Initiative Coordinator of global anti-poverty agency, ActionAid International, the police have not handled the case with the seriousness it should be accorded. “This poor woman reported this case to police. The man was arrested but released in a day. No medical examination was made and neither were the puppies got as evidence,” she said. Ms Alupot, who currently lives in a grass thatched house that doubles as a counselling room for Pentecostal Revival Ministries after her husband threw her out, told Daily Monitor on Saturday that she started breastfeeding the puppies three years ago. “My husband is a hunter. When people killed his dogs, he bought five puppies but feeding them was a problem. One night I woke up and found a puppy on my breast feeding. My husband was standing nearby with a panga and threatened to cut me into pieces if I resisted,” Ms Alupot narrated ...

Man forces wife to breastfeed puppies
http://www.actionaid.org/uganda/index.aspx?PageID=4635

[bettyellen]

16. and sadly her single life is so awful she wants him back

[crikkett]

20. Maybe it has something to do with living in a Pentecostal Compound

Otherwise I can't imagine. The poor woman.

[Iggo]

17. I was with ya until the broad brush man-bashing.

:hi:

[Hello_Kitty]

41. Dear God, what about the men??!?

http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/patriarchy-blaming-the-twisty-way/

[PDJane]

19. 'Broad brush man-bashing'

is another one of those phrases that men use....and frankly, too many men deserve it. I have helped three women move out...or helped them move a spouse out...in the last three weeks. One was being used as a free room and board arrangement while said spouse pursued other interests, and two were being physically abused (one of those women had a daughter who was being abused, too, just to make life interesting).

There are wonderful, loving men out there. I know several of them. There are even more cave men.

I can't imagine why any woman would take on the job of trying to reform these men, but even I have had at least one go at it. If I have any piece of advice it's to have your own bank account, abolish bride prices as a barbaric act......although the Islamic bride price was meant to provide support for the wife if the husband divorced her or died, as far as I understand it....and make sure that the guy is at least paper trained (yes, that's a joke. Partly.)

[Brickbat]

21. If men who consider themselves allies would spend as much time telling asshole men to knock it the

fuck off as they do pointing out the obvious that "not all men are baaaaaad you broad-brusher ball-breaker!!111!!" and patting themselves on the back for not being asshole men -- well, women would have lot less work to do, that's for damn sure.

[me b zola]

29. +10000

:applause:

[proteus_lives]

31. "There are wonderful, loving men out there. I know several of them. There are even more cave men."

To be fair, not all women are angels. I've known some real vipers.

[PDJane]

45. Me too.

Fewer of them cause permanent damage with their fists. More with their mouth. Get the fists and the mouth together, and it gives their kids a real challenge.

[Number23]

25. Haven't even finished reading and already on the ActionAid donate site

Located here http://www.actionaid.org/main.aspx?PageID=44.

This is so sick and so horrible I don't have any other words. Thank God this woman was able to get out.

[mackerel]

28. She too could have contracted rabies.

[LisaL]

32. Rabies are fatal a basically 100% without vaccination.

If she contracted rabies, she would be dead.

[grahamhgreen]

30. Awful. nt

[LeftyMom]

34. Wait, that doesn't make sense.

Nothing about that story makes any sense if you know a damned thing about either dogs or human lactation.

[dustbunnie]

35. Far as I know, human milk is NOT a good option for puppies.

The nutrient content is so different, it would conceivably cause illness and death. Not sure about the veracity of this story.

[Myrina]

36. ... I don't think this dude is anywhere close to having that level of intellect ...

... to make the connection, obviously, considering his actions - people and animals are interchangeable.

:puke:

[dustbunnie]

37. Honestly, the story sounds like illiterate villager nonsense.

Baby barking like a dog and dying of rabies, while the mother is fine? Not likely is the answer to both those charges. Have you ever heard a baby bark like a dog? And it's also obvious that the villagers have a reason for not wanting to endure the man in their midst any longer, i.e. his nasty dogs.

I suppose sadism is as good a reason as any for sick behavior, but feeding puppies cow or human milk would likely sicken or kill them, so really no point in pursuing the exercise more than once, as is charged, if the man really wanted his litters to survive.

But considering the way women are treated, if it takes a lie for women to escape, then so be it. I would do it too in a heartbeat. (Edited to add - scratch that. She wants to take him back. Guess I was right about village nonsense.)

Link to "baby barks like a dog" story:

http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/12/682412

[madrchsod]

39. yes... this story does sound like "village nonsense"

[LisaL]

60. I am curious as to how the baby would contract rabies and die,

while the mother seems to be o'key.
Rabies are fatal without vaccination,so if she had rabies, she would be dead.
So how did the baby catch rabies if the mother doesn't have it?

[dustbunnie]

61. Yes, it's interesting isn't it?

Mind you, this is a land where old crones and babies can still be infected with demons that cast evil spells upon the populace, so anything's possible I guess. But normally, you'd be right. :)

I also believe that puppies need to be fed every two hours, so not sure how this woman managed to feed them during the night time hours, but they survived their daily starvings. Not to mention the incompatability of dogs/human milk that would have rendered them sick or dead.

Somehow, I'm thinking this woman suffered greatly after the loss of her child. Who knows, maybe she had post partum psychotic episodes. Maybe she hated her husband, as did the villagers. And maybe he beat her or otherwise treated her badly and the dog story was a way to escape. The details just don't really add up.

[Sherman A1]

38. Horrible

simply horrible

[Ferret Annica]

40. Heterosexuals need to get their relationships together

and deal with the abusive people in Man/women relationships before passi g laws in Uganda to jail, imprison or kill those who prefer same gender partners.

'nuf said.

[jmowreader]

42. Something else that doesn't make sense

The man claims to be a "seasoned hunter," who paid his two cows as a bride price eleven years ago. Wouldn't you...uhh...need some milk over those eleven years? I cannot imagine the bride contract he entered into prohibited him from buying more cows--and he certainly seems to have found the money to buy more puppies. So what, exactly, is going on here?

I hate to sound like an old curmudgeon, but this wouldn't be the first time activists made up a really wild, scathing story to try to sway public opinion. Two points to the first person to name this woman without clicking on the image:

[TicketyBoo]

44. Tawanna Brawley?

Al Sharpton standing next to her is a dead giveaway.

Not sure what good two points will do me, though?

[JonQ]

49. Yeah

seems less than plausible to me too.

Horrific if true obviously, but it reads like a particularly disturbing onion article.

[LWolf]

47. I'd be happy to do away with patriarchy across the globe.

As well as greed, fear, and hate.

That is certainly an atrocity.

Why were the puppies not nursed by their mother?

[JonQ]

48. Terrible story but I have to ask

what's with the diatribe about america? This is in uganda. Why are their problems fair to blame on the US?

"it is thought that between 15% to 25% of women have been abused by their male "significant others"

The "it is thought" bit doesn't really inspire confidence in those numbers. Especially for such an emotionally and politically charged subject. It reminds me of a study done that found some unbelievable high number of college women had been raped. Problem was they used a question along the lines of "have you ever felt pressured to have sex" and included everyone who answered yes as being a rape victim.

A quarter of all women being abused doesn't seem accurate to me.