AIN'T BORN TYPICAL

shin8shin:

catamite:

I want to graffiti that headline EVERYWHERE.

“18.3% of women over 18 reported being sexual assaulted in their lifetime while 17.4% of women reported smoking. Let’s consider this as we set health priorities.” yes, let’s.

This is such a fucking harsh reality. I say this as someone who works in tobacco policy. The reason why tobacco (smoking, cessation, cancer research) gets so much funding is because smoking is profitable and upholds capitalism. Smoking is government regulated and taxed. The profit of cigarettes allows for jobs to be created. My job is one of them! Reading this has allowed me to question the work that I am doing and the way that I am doing it. I was at a meeting yesterday and someone said that cancer research now has the second biggest budget in the US. So the Federal Budget is 1st and Cancer research is not far behind it because of funding through tobacco taxes, federal aid, and donations. Obviously, cancer research is important, but what happens with a lot with cancer funding is not going directly to “finding a cure”. It goes to things like building new labs. In order for research to get federal or state funding, job creation needs to be shown. So companies and researches will say they are building new labs and providing x amount of (short term) jobs in order to get the funding it needs. Work related to tobacco upholds capitalism.

It is in the benefit of capitalism to continue this cycle. Keep taking money by taxing cigarette companies and people who smoke, funnel that into cancer research, charge people for cancer treatment when they get cancer from smoking. It frustrates me because a lot of this money could be used more efficiently to help people NOW by helping with the cost of health care or helping sustain social services programs, cessation programs, helping people pay for patches or other aids to quit. In California, there is a new proposition on the ballot that is called the California Tobacco Tax for Cancer Research. It is asking for even more money (it will tax the buyer $1) to go into research while little money is going into direct and immediate needs of populations that are affected.

IDK, maybe I should find some statistics about the prevalence of smoking among people who have been raped. So that way the anti-tobacco community I work with can recognize that their issue isn’t a singular one. It’s a bullshit thing to have to do though. Tobacco advocates I have come to learn are ridiculously selfish, short-sided, and only think in singular issue terms (stop smoking, find a cure). The government needs to get it’s shit together too.

(via athousandpens)

sheiswolf:

Hey everyone, just wanted to give a signal boost to my petition about bringing attention to and trying to take down Encyclopedia Dramatica’s rape condoning page.

If you didn’t see my post a few days ago, I’ll link you to it here.

Trigger Warning: If you find that your mind gets the best of…

anglophonic:

(Trigger Warning for “my friends and I were victims of this kind of shit, and I am angry as fuck.” Don’t read this if you can’t handle a rant.)

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“The biological mother of a boy adopted by Jerry Sandusky said Thursday that she had contacted authorities because she was afraid…

I may possibly be derailing here and I’m fine with a call out but I really need to say the following:

Stop bring in gay people and their rights as an argument against the morality of straight people. These types of arguments are not logical at all.

“Sandusky rapes little boys and so do other grown men THEREFORE, gay couples should adopt” MAKES ZERO FUCKING SENSE. I’m tired of having the lives of the queer community having to be made relevant, having rights that we deserve, be put in a context of the wrongs of straight people. Gay couples should adopt because they are competent, NOT because some straight people aren’t. Pedophile men shouldn’t adopt because they are pedophiles!

It’s that simple ! When people are trying to make arguments against something throwing around “… Straight people are failing at x and gays would make it better” doesn’t validate your argument more and it sure as fuck doesn’t do much of anything for “gay rights”.

(Source: thedailybeast.com, via bad-dominicana)

nuestrahermana:

(TW: Rape, Sexual assault)

You made a joke about Brittany being raped today. Nobody addressed it. Her entire group of Glee friends somehow looked over it and she was used as the center of the joke. That somehow, because she is seen as “dumb” this was the reason her being raped at camp at who knows what young age, is supposed to be just another stupid-britt LOL moment.

Or as you so hilariously put it, “alien invasion”.

Today’s episode was around virginity and I’m sure there were so many eager teenagers and even preteens sitting around watching this show.

Regardless of age, there were also victims of rape and sexual assault who watched this.

What do you think you do when you send out a message like this?

Being raped is never acceptable.

Being raped is not a joke.

When you use a show that is extremely popular to reinforce misogynist and victim blaming tactics on to rape victims you are part of the problem.

Whether you like to think about it or not, rapists were also watching this show. It has been proven that the more normative rape is made out to be (jokes, eluding that it isn’t a big deal, victim blaming, slut shaming) the more rapists are likely to carry out sexual assaults.

Let Ryan Murphy who defended tonight’s episode know exactly how you feel about this through Glee’s twitter HERE.

Reblogging with fixed twitter link.